Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum was founded in 1979 by Max Pommer and Walter Heinz Bernstein.
[3] The name refers to the Collegium Musicum [de] which Georg Philipp Telemann founded in 1701 at the Leipzig University, and which Bach directed from 1729.
From 2003 to 2013, the violinist and academic Albrecht Winter directed the NBCM, returning to the Baroque repertory, including works by Vivaldi, Corelli, Telemann, Bach's sons, and composers from the early days of the Gewandhaus.
In a concert series from 2009 to 2011, the NBCM played the Gewandhaus programs which had been given 225 years earlier in the same hall, based on historic Programmzettel.
[6] From 2013, the NBCM has had no single artistic director, but has worked with conductors such as Georg Kallweit and Stephan Mai (Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin) and Nadja Zwiener[7] (The English Concert).