Imke David

Imke David started to learn viola da gamba at the age of five. Later she studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis/Switzerland and made her solo diploma with Jordi Savall in 1992.

She is giving concerts all over Europe and is regularly invited to international festivals, CD, radio and TV recordings - as soloist as well as as member of Hespèrion XXI, Concerto Vocale, Cantus Cölln, and many others.

In 1994 she founded the Consort of Seaverall Friends together with her brother Gebhard David. The ensemble focuses on European music of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Imke David published her scientific works on the Lira da gamba. She is especially interested in performances of works for solo gamba and therefor was awarded as laureate at the "Concours musica antiqua" within the "Festival van Vlaanderen Brugge 1996". In 1997 she was awarded with the "Orpheuspreis für junge Musiker" in Zurich.

She recorded two solo CDs: "Singen, weinen, trauern und lachen" with Early Music and contemporary works. Since 2006 she has been lecturer at the Franz Liszt Hochschule in Weimar.

Imke David, viola da gamba
Gebhard David, cornett & viola da gamba
Bork-Frithjof Smith, cornett
Enrique Solinis, baroque guitar & theorba
Michael Behringer, harpsichord & organ