Mojca Gal & Ensemble Ad Fontes
Biography Mojca Gal & Ensemble Ad Fontes
Mojca Gal
is currently living in Switzerland and working as a performing artist in the field of early music and dance.
She graduated with distinction both at the Academy of music in Ljubljana in the violin class of Primoz Novsak (2008) and at the Hochschule der Kuenste Bern (2011), where she studied with Monika Urbaniak and Monika Baer. Already during her studies in Bern she showed particular interest for early music on period instruments, which later on changed her musical path. Thus she pursued her studies in form of a Master of Music Performance in Early music at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel ( violin in the early measure) in the class of Amandine Beyer.
She reguraly plays in Ensemble Ad Fontes (former Les Elemens), Arabesque, Musica cubicularis (Slovenia), Grenzklang, Freitagsakademie Bern, and others.
Ensemble Ad Fontes runs its own concert season in Kartäuserkirche in Basel since september 2017, with particular interest in less known national styles of early music, early traditional music, but also contemporary music.
Ensemble Ad Fontes
Our passion is creation of unconventional concert programmes: we are constantly in search for less known early music of different countries, collaborating with actors, dancers, contemporary composers and musicians from other music genres. This mission nurtures our concert season in Basel (running from 2017, currently under the title 'Horizons'), as well as other projects, for example our CD 'Prègon del cantante vagabundo 2020 (ARS Production), collaboration with dance company Chorea Basileae (Potsdamer Festspiele Sanssouci 2019, Freunde Alter Musik Basel 2018).
The group participated in few competitions and presentations, such as international Telemann Wettbewerb 2013 (Bärenreiter Urtext Award) and International Early Music Competition in l'Acquila (1st award and audience's award)), as well as IYAP presentation 2014.
