The ENSEMBLE ESPERANZA was founded in the winter of 2015 by the Academy of Music in Liechtenstein, in an effort to provide an education that appeals to the personality as a whole. The members are young European scholarship holders of the Academy of Music and are among the most promising musicians of their generation. The repertoire ranges from baroque works to contemporary music, and much emphasis is placed on a broad spectrum of musical literature. The result is an up-and-coming ensemble of soloists made up of highly gifted individual talents full of refreshing joy in playing, who together blend into a homogeneous, expressive and brilliant body of sound.
In 2017, the ENSEMBLE ESPERANZA made its debut with four sold-out concerts as part of a mini-festival at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. In the same year, the young musicians received their first award, namely the "Special Achievement Award" at the "International Classical Music Awards". In 2018, the soloist ensemble received the renowned German music prize for classical music, the "OPUS KLASSIK" for the "best promotion of young musicians of the year".
The young ensemble celebrated special successes with its CD productions, which are dedicated to the four cardinal points. In February 2017, the first CD "Nordic Suites" was released by ARS Produktion. On the same label, the second CD "Southern Tunes" was released in January 2018, and in early 2019, the third CD "Western Moods" was already released. The fourth and last CD closes the circle with the "East" and is expected to be recorded in the summer of 2024.
The ENSEMBLE ESPERANZA has already made guest appearances in Germany, Croatia, Liechtenstein Austria, the Czech Republic and Switzerland and performs with renowned soloists, including Anne-Sophie Mutter, Marc Bouchkov, Maurice Steger, István Várdai, Jens Peter Maintz, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Adrien Boisseau and Daniel Schnyder. The ensemble was led by Chouchane Siranossian until 2022. Since 2022, the orchestra has worked with well-known soloists as concertmasters. The generous support of VP Bank as main sponsor as well as the municipality of Vaduz as domicile sponsor offers the ENSEMBLE ESPERANZA the opportunity to develop freely and with high quality as well as to establish itself in the European musical landscape.