Ensemble Contrechamps is a Swiss new music group, established in 1977 and based at Studio Ernest Ansermet, RSR in Geneva.
Contrechamps has premiered works by George Benjamin, Unsuk Chin, Hugues Dufourt, Beat Furrer, Stefano Gervasoni, Heinz Holliger, Michael Jarrell, György Kurtág, Martin Matalon, Tristan Murail, Isabel Mundry, Rebecca Saunders, Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Harvey, Klaus Huber, Helmut Lachenmann, Matthias Pintscher, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Stefan Wirth and other contemporary composers.
Many prominent conductors performed with the Ensemble, such as Peter Eötvös, Stefan Asbury, Pascal Rophé, Jurjen Hempel, Peter Hirsch, Jean Deroyer, Clement Power, François-Xavier Roth, Peter Rundel and Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Notable international soloists who appeared with Contrechamps throughout the years include Teodoro Anzellotti, Luisa Castellani, Hedwig Fassbender, Isabelle Faust, Rosemary Hardy, Nicolas Hodges, Salome Kammer, Christoph Prégardien, Yeree Suh and Kai Wessel.
Artistic Director
Brice Pauset – since 2013
Music Director
Michael Wendeberg – since 2011
Ensemble Contrechamps Members
Laurent Bruttin – clarinet
Gérard Métrailler – trumpet
Olivier Darbellay, Charles Pierron – horn
Alberto Guerra – bassoon
Pierre-Stéphane Meugé – saxophone
Sébastian Jacot – flute
Jean-Marc Daviet – trombone
Serge Bonvalot – tuba
Antoine Françoise, Stefan Wirth – piano
Sébastien Cordier, Thierry Debons – percussion
Simon Aeschimann – guitar
Maximilian Haft, Sabine Ahrendt – violin
Hans Egidi, Tomoko Akasaka – alto
Olivier Marron – cello
Noëlle Reymond, Jonathan Haskell – double bass
Anne Bassand – harp
2025
bastille musique
CD, Album + Box
2025
Speckled Toshe
LP, tra
2023
Cave12
LP
2023
Speckled Toshe
LP, blu
2023
Speckled Toshe
2xLP, red
2022
Firework Edition Records
CD, Album
2021
Megadisc Classics
CD, Album
2019
Kairos
CD
2018
Kairos
CD
2014
NEOS
CD, Album
2003
Musiques Suisses, Musikszene Schweiz
CD, Album
1999
hat[now]ART
CD, Album, Ltd
1998
Accord
CD
1997
Stradivarius
CD
1997
Musique Française D'Aujourd'hui
CD, Album
1996
Accord
CD, Album
1994
Accord
CD, Album
1988
2023
iDEAL Recordings, The Celestial Fire
Box + 10xCD
2020
Neu Records / Neu Música Contemporània SL
CD
2014
Musiques Suisses
2xCD, Album
2012
FANCYMUSIC
4xFile, FLAC, Album
2011
G. Ricordi & Co.
CD, Album
2009
Musiques Suisses, Grammont Portrait
2xCD, Album
2008
Musiques Suisses, Grammont Portrait, Musiques Suisses, Grammont Portrait
2xCD
2003
2002
Ilkhom XX
2xCD, Comp
1997
Stradivarius
CD
1996
Phono Suecia
CD, Album
1996
Stradivarius
CD
1995
1992
Accord
CD, Album
2013
Musiques Suisses
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