Reinhard Goebel was born in 1952 and studied violin from the age of twelve. His teachers included Franzjosef Maier, Eduard Melkus, Marie Leonhardt and Saschko Gawriloff.

With the formation of Musica Antiqua Köln in 1973, an ensemble which was given an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon’s Archiv label in 1978, Reinhard Goebel became one of the most important leaders of the continental early music scene, especially as an undisputed authority in the area of German baroque music. His recordings with Musica Antiqua Köln set new standards for which he was inundated with international prizes and awards, including a number of Gramophone Awards, as well as the Siemens-Förderpreis, the Telemann-Preis of the city of Magdeburg and the Förder-Preis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen. In 2007 Reinhard Goebel was honoured with the IAMA Award in London.

Reinhard Goebel remains today the leading outsider in the world of Early Music, due to his permanent quest for aesthetically enriching territory, his controversial readings of standard repertoire and programmes that never conform to fashion.

Nowadays Reinhard Goebel performs as a guest conductor of “modern” orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic, Zürich Tonhalle, Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Dresden Philharmonic, the Munich and Zürich Chamber Orchestras and all the major German radio orchestras.

He has directed opera in Hannover (the complete Monteverdi operas), Freiburg and Copenhagen (both Handel) as well as in Mannheim (Piccini’s Catone in Utica) and Kiel (Dido and Aeneas).

Reinhard Goebel regards it as a special challenge to promote seventeenth and eighteenth century repertoire and is particularly keen to restore Bach and his contemporaries to the programmes of the big orchestras, from which he believes they have disappeared due to the competence of specialised period instrument ensembles.

Goebel’s goal as a conductor is the same as his goal as a violinist: enriching the repertoire through his interpretation of noteworthy discoveries. As before with Musica Antique Köln, Reinhard Goebel collaborates as a conductor with some world famous soloists such as Anne Sofie von Otter, Christine Schäfer, Leonidas Kavakos, Kim Kashkashian, Jan Vogler and the Labèque sisters.

Forthcoming plans include concerts with major orchestras in Augsburg, Berlin, Darmstadt, Dresden, Essen, Frankfurt, Kassel, Leipzig, Munich, Breda, Den Haag, Eindhoven, Winterthur, Zürich, Padova, Genoa and Paris.

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