Born in Leipzig in 1963; Bernhard Forck has played the violin since the age of five. He studied with Eberhard Feltz at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin and in 1986 was engaged by the Berliner Sinfonie Orchester; his interest in early music took him, among others, to Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Mozarteum Salzburg. He is a co-founder of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Akamus) and has been its concertmaster since 1985; the ensemble was founded in 1982. Since 1996 he has worked with the Berliner Barock Solisten; from 2007 to 2019 he was musical director of the Händelfestspielorchester Halle, where he devised a concert series and directed operas and oratorios. He holds a teaching post at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin and appears as a guest with modern orchestras both as a violinist and as a conductor. For hd-klassik he recorded the album Bäche – Orchestral Works of the Bach Family in 2023 with the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen as violinist and director.
Bernhard Forck
Conductor / Violin
