All About L’viv

INSO Lemberg shows what can be achieved when passion, emotion and virtuosity set the tone. When the Swiss conductor Gunhard Mattes founded the orchestra in the cultural city of Lemberg in 1998, he had no way of anticipating the overwhelming response his young musicians would elicit.

Gunhard Mattes, born in Zurich and now at home Bremgarten, founded his own chamber orchestra at the age of fifteen. Before dedicating himself to his conducting career, Mattes studied oboe in Zurich under André Raoult and in Freiburg in the Breisgau under Heinz Holliger.