Since its first season, the Geneva Camerata's mission has been to open the classical music world to wider and younger audiences and to create unusual projects that bring together different styles, genres, and forms of art.
Since it was founded in 2013, the Geneva Camerata has collaborated with the flutist Emmanuel Pahud,[1] the violinists Viktoria Mullova,[2] Patricia Kopatchinskaja,[3] Daniel Hope,[4] Christian Tetzlaff,[5] and Nemanja Radulovic,[6] the cellists Steven Isserlis,[7] Jean-Guihen Queyras,[8] Gautier Capuçon and Johannes Moser,[9] the mandolin player Avi Avital,[10] the clarinettist Gilad Harel, and with the singers Anne Sofie von Otter, Sandrine Piau,[11] Véronique Gens,[12] and Marie-Nicole Lemieux.
[19] In the field of contemporary dance, the Geneva Camerata has collaborated with the choreographers Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola, Nicolas Cantillon,[20] Laurence Yadi,[20] Cindy van Acker,[21] and Kirsten Debrock.
Since 2013, the orchestra has given world premieres of new symphonic works by Martin Jaggi, Núria Giménez-Comas, Jannik Giger,[28] Ofer Pelz,[29] Jonathan Keren,[30] Massimo Pinca,[31] Cécile Marti,[32] Marcos Balter,[33] Nicolas von Ritter-Zahony,[34] Francesco Tristano,[35] Sergei Abir,[36] and Michael Pelzel.
[39] The programme of this album, which received its live world premiere at the Berliner Philharmonie[40] on 8 September 2016, also features Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major, played and conducted by David Greilsammer.