WE BUILD BRIDGES.

“Rostislav Krimer and the East-West Chamber Orchestra deliver exceptionally fine performances of these two works. I was particularly impressed by the quality of string playing in the extremely taxing Second Chamber Symphony, not least the capacity of these performers to create a real sense of mystery in the many passages which Weinberg marks to be played treble pianissimo.” – Gramophone

“The 2nd and 4th chamber symphonies, urgently performed here by Rotislav Krimer’s East-West Chamber Orchestra, judder with nervous energy and frustrated ambition… The 4th, from 1992, is damn-near irresistible.” – Norman Lebrecht. The critic

The Orchestra-For-Peace East-West Chamber Orchestra (EWCO) brings together outstanding performers in their own right – winners of the most prestigious competitions worldwide, including the Tchaikovsky, ARD, Queen Elisabeth, Long-Thibaud, Paganini and concertmasters and leaders of renowned orchestras, who hold in their hands most rare instruments including Stradivari, Guarneri-del-Gesu, Guadagnini and Goffriller. This rare combination gives the East-West Chamber Orchestra its distinguished sound.

Residing in the Beethoven-City Bonn in Germany it was founded by Rostislav Krimer in 2015 and was for more than 5 years the orchestra-in-residence of the Yuri Bashmet International Music Festival. Since 2023 EWCO named the orchestra-in-residence at the East-West-Festival in Germany.

The Orchestra understands itself as an ambassador for transnational collaboration, Peace and cultural interaction across Europe and beyond.

The pool of the East-West Chamber Orchestra include best soloists from Germany, Italy, France, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Spain, Croatia, UK, USA as well as Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Israel, Japan, China, Turkey, Australia and many others in order to strengthen the bonds and cultural co-operations between Eastern- and Western Europe and all over the world.

East-West Chamber Orchestra takes part regularly in charity events for children, collecting funds for medical equipment in hospitals and working closely with UNICEF. It was the first orchestra in the history to play by Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, who admitted the work of the orchestra as Ambassador of Peace.

Patrons of the orchestra include such great names as Sofia Gubaidulina, Evgeny Kissin, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Julian Rachlin, John Axelrod, Mihai Constantinescu among others.

The East-West Chamber Orchestra is an active promoter of contemporary music and new
repertoire. Recently, the releases of M. Weinberg all 4 Chamber Symphonies by Naxos collected best critics from all over the world as well as was nominated among others for International Classical Music Awards and Opus Classic. EWCO also committed pieces by renowned composers for world premieres. Their performances were broadcasted by Medici.TV as well as numerous TV channels and radio around the globe.

The orchestra collaborated with best soloists like Paul Badura-Skoda, Fazil Say, David Geringas, Julian Rachlin, Yuri Bashmet, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Sergey Krylov, Alexander Knyazev, Ksenija Sidorova, Vivian Hagner, Leticia Moreno among many others. In 2021 EWCO also successfully made debut at the Enescu Festival what resulted re-invitation in 2023.

They are also experts in creating new exceptional projects such as for example “The Classical Night in Underground”, when a metro station transforming into a real concert hall with stage, lights, lasers and projection only in couple of hours which became an annual event crossing with fashion, sport, art, ballet on one stage. Also, regular collaboration of the orchestra with winners of Worldand Europe- Championships of rhythmic gymnastics is an example of such exclusive activities.