Christoph Dangel

Christoph Dangel is principal cellist of the Basel Chamber Orchestra and of the Balthasar Neumann Orchestra. He also collaborates with renowned ensembles such as Il Giardino Armonico and the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées. Early music and engagement with historically informed performance practice play a central role in his artistic work. In addition to his long-standing chamber music involvement with the ensemble Camerata Variabile, he has performed with distinguished artists including Isabelle Faust, Rachel Podger, Riccardo Minasi, Mayumi Hirasaki, and Kristian Bezuidenhout. In 2012, his album »Viaggio italiano« was released, featuring Baroque cello sonatas from the collection of the Count of Schönborn-Wiesentheid. His 2021 album »1824« presents early Romantic cello music in various instrumentations and, complemented by historical research, brings that year back to life. As a lecturer in historical cello, Dangel teaches at the Freiburg University of Music. He is also involved in the European Academy Program NOVA and directs the Academy of the Basel Chamber Orchestra. He plays a baroque cello (a replica of an Andrea Guarneri, 1692) belonging to his sister, Friederike Sophie Dangel.