At home in Salzburg and around the world for over 70 years: Camerata has shaped the city of music with its own concert series and as a regular ensemble at the Salzburg Festival and Mozart Week. Musicians from more than 20 nations form the orchestra’s sound that is particularly representative of Viennese classical music, in particular the music of its hometown’s famous son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The orchestra also discovers the works of the Romantic period in the form of new chamber orchestral transparency and spans the repertoire from the Baroque to the modern era. Under the artistic direction of the “primi inter pares”, Camerata has since 2016 performed under its own leadership and with a democratic self-image with its concertmasters Gregory Ahss and Giovanni Guzzo and, depending on the repertoire, in collaboration with guest conductors.

Gregory Ahss has been the concertmaster of the Camerata Salzburg since 2012. Before that, he held the same position with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. He is also the concertmaster today of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and has been a guest concertmaster with major orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.