Alma Rosé Chamber Orchestra



Pays homage to a women's band, which came into being in the Spring of 1943 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and to its conductor Alma Rosé, who was Gustav Mahler´s niece. Apart from having to play by the camp's gate and perform for the SS-men in terrible conditions and regardless of weather, the orcherstra would sometimes perform also for the ill women in the camp. After the decease of Alma Rosé the orchestra was disbanded and most of its members were transported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
 
Alma Rosé orchestra is a group of artists, graduates of the Prague master school, who are not only members of prominent chamber ensembles, but are also outstanding soloists. They got together on the basis of their genuine interest in Jewish music.