For many young ensembles, the renowned and long-standing Göttingen Historical Music Series junior competition served as a platform and launchpad from which to step into the professional world of music.

The göttingen händel competition targets ensembles whose repertoire focuses on baroque music and historical performance practice. The competition forms part of the European ‘eeemerging’ project, which offers emerging ensembles first-rate working conditions and prepares them for the music market by organising workshops on programme design as well as management and marketing.

• Maurice Steger | Recorder, Conductor & Professor Gstaad Baroque Acaemy
• Kai Wessel | Countertenor and Professor for Voice and Historical Performance Practice at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln
• Anne Röhrig | Professor of Baroque Violin at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg, Artistic Director of Hannoversche Hofkapelle
• Gabriele Hertz-Eichenrode | Programme editor @ NDR Kultur
• Angela Brünjes | Department Kultur, Göttinger Tageblatt
• Tobias Wolff | Managing Director of the Göttingen International Handel Festival