The ENSEMBLE ESPERANZA was founded in the winter of 2015 by the International Academy of Music in Liechtenstein in an effort to provide training that appeals to the personality as a whole. The members are scholarship holders of the Music Academy aged between 15 and 28, come from all over the world and are among the most promising musicians of their generation. The ensemble is led by its concertmaster Chouchane Siranossian. The repertoire ranges from baroque works to contemporary music.
The young ensemble celebrated its debut in February 2015 at the 5th FESTIVAL NEXT GENERATION in Bad Ragaz, where its performances delighted audiences and international press alike. In the meantime, the ENSEMBLE ESPERANZA has given further successful concerts in Germany, Croatia, Liechtenstein, Austria and Switzerland and has performed with renowned soloists, including violinists Anne-Sophie Mutter, Chouchane Siranossian, Marc Bouchkov and Sara Domjanic, recorder player Maurice Steger, cellists István Várdai, Jens Peter Maintz and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, violist Adrien Boisseau and saxophonist/composer Daniel Schnyder.
The ensemble is a regular guest at festivals such as the “VP Bank Classic Festival” – formerly FESTIVAL NEXT GENERATION – and at MusicConnects in Bad Ragaz in Switzerland, the Samobor Music Festival and the Festival Olive Classic in Croatia, the Mozartfest Würzburg in Germany and the Festival VADUZ CLASSIC in Liechtenstein. In 2017, the ENSEMBLE ESPERANZA
received the “Special Achievement Award” at the “International Classical Music Awards”. In 2018, it received the “Prize for the Promotion of Young Musicians of the Year” at “OPUS KLASSIK”, the new prize for classical music in Germany. A short time later, the ENSEMBLE ESPERANZA made its debut at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie with four sold-out concerts as part of a mini-festival.
In February 2017, the ensemble’s first CD – “Nordic Suites” – was released by ARS Produktion with works by Edvard Grieg, Frank Bridge, Carl Nielsen and Gustav Holst. The CD “Southern Tunes”, released in January 2018 on the same label, with works by Eduard Toldrà, Ottorino Respighi, Komitas and Nino Rota, also received excellent reviews. At the center of the since the beginning
2019 available CD “Western Moods” stands the musical West. All CDs were recorded in the Angelika Kauffmann Hall in Schwarzenberg, Austria, where the recording of the fourth CD will also take place in February 2021.