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The En­sem­ble

Los Tem­pera­men­tos, found­ed in 2009, em­braces the mu­sic of the 17th and 18th cen­turies. Un­der the di­rec­tion of Colom­bian cel­list and arranger Nés­tor Fabián Cortés Garzón, the en­sem­ble spe­cial­izes in re­dis­cov­er­ing and res­onat­ing the re­la­tion­ships be­tween the seem­ing­ly op­pos­ing worlds of baroque mu­sic in Latin Amer­i­ca and Eu­rope. In their the­mat­i­cal­ly di­verse pro­grams, the artists blend dif­fer­ent styles, com­posers and cul­tures, thus re­peat­ed­ly demon­strat­ing the live­li­ness and im­mense rich­ness of col­ors of what is now sim­ply called “ear­ly mu­sic”.

Pre­vi­ous en­gage­ments in­clude the con­cert hall Glocke (Bre­men), Bach­fest Stuttgart, Hamburg’s Elbphil­har­monie, the Ho­hen­lo­her Kul­tur­som­mer (Schwäbisch Hall), Alte Musik in Fürsten­feld (Mu­nich), the Barock­fes­ti­val St.Pölten (Aus­tria), Juil­let Mu­si­cal de Saint Hu­bert, Mubafa, Au­tomne Mu­si­cal de Spa (Bel­gium), the Col­lège des Ber­nar­dins Paris, the Fes­ti­val Em­baro­que­ment Im­mé­di­at (France), the Mon­tever­di Fes­ti­val and the Mer­an­er Musik­wochen (Italy). The en­sem­ble has al­so per­formed at the Kas­teel­con­certen (Nether­lands), the Fes­ti­val Cis­ter­mu­si­ca, Fes­ti­val des Artes (Por­tu­gal), Fes­ti­val In­ter­na­cional de Mu­si­ca An­tigua (Pe­ru), Fes­ti­val In­ter­na­cional de Mu­si­ca An­tigua (Chile) and Fes­ti­val de Mu­si­ca Sacra Quito (Ecua­dor), as well as Fes­ti­val In­ter­na­cional de Músi­ca Re­na­cen­tista y Bar­ro­ca Mi­siones de Chiq­ui­tos in Bo­livia, the fes­ti­val IM­PUL­SO and Fes­ti­val de Músi­ca An­tigua y Bar­ro­ca Los Fun­dadores (Mex­i­co).

Five al­bums doc­u­ment the work of this in­ter­na­tion­al en­sem­ble, all of which have re­ceived ex­cel­lent re­views from na­tion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al me­dia, in­clud­ing Fono Fo­rum, NDR Kul­tur, WDR 3, HR 2, and Ra­dio Stephans­dom Vi­en­na. Sev­er­al CDs have al­so been nom­i­nat­ed for the In­ter­na­tion­al Clas­si­cal Mu­sic Award.
With Fes­te­jo Pe­ru­ano, Los Tem­pera­men­tos re­cent­ly re­leased a com­plete record­ing of the Codex Martínez Com­pañón in arrange­ments by Nés­tor F. Cortés Garzón. In a pro­duc­tion fea­tur­ing chore­og­ra­phy by Pe­ru­vian dancer and chore­o­g­ra­ph­er Fabri­cio Rav­ela Trav­esí, the en­sem­ble de­buted this Pe­ru­vian pro­gram to a sold-out au­di­ence in the cham­ber mu­sic hall of Hamburg’s Elbphil­har­monie.
In the 2024/25 sea­son, Los Tem­pera­men­tos was se­lect­ed for a res­i­den­cy at the new Bre­men venue Zen­trum für Kun­st (Cen­ter for the Arts), where they re­al­ized a brand-new project called Colom­bia re:mixed com­bin­ing baroque mu­sic with the tra­di­tion­al Colom­bian gai­ta and elec­tron­ic sounds.

About us

 
Néstor Cortés Garzón

Artistic direction

Nés­tor Fabián Cortés Garzón dis­cov­ered his pas­sion for mu­sic through learn­ing to play the var­i­ous per­cus­sion and gui­tar in­stru­ments of the tra­di­tion­al mu­sic of his na­tive Colom­bia as a child and pro­ceed­ed to study clas­si­cal cel­lo at the Con­ser­va­to­rio de la Uni­ver­si­dad Na­cional de Colom­bia in Bo­gotá, grad­u­at­ing with hon­ors. Cortés sub­se­quent­ly spe­cial­ized in his­tor­i­cal­ly in­formed per­for­mance prac­tice by study­ing with the in­ter­na­tion­al­ly renowned baroque cel­list Vi­o­la de Hoog at the Bre­men Uni­ver­si­ty of the Arts.

For many years, in ad­di­tion to his con­cert life, Cortés has con­duct­ed in­ten­sive re­search in­to the baroque mu­sic of South and Cen­tral Amer­i­ca. He has re­con­struct­ed and arranged nu­mer­ous works from var­i­ous codices and tra­di­tions, which he presents with Los Tem­pera­men­tos at in­ter­na­tion­al fes­ti­vals. Five al­bums, all of which re­ceived ex­cel­lent re­views and have been nom­i­nat­ed for mul­ti­ple in­ter­na­tion­al awards, are tes­ta­ment to this work. Con­cert tours have tak­en Cortés Garzón to nu­mer­ous coun­tries in Eu­rope, the Amer­i­c­as, and Asia, in­clud­ing Ger­many, Italy, Por­tu­gal, the Czech Re­pub­lic, Aus­tria, France, Bel­gium, the Nether­lands, Chi­na, Ecua­dor, Bo­livia, Pe­ru, Chile, and Mex­i­co.

Fur­ther­more, as co-founder and artis­tic di­rec­tor of the Bre­men Baroque Or­ches­tra, found­ed in 2015, Cortés is in­ten­sive­ly in­volved with the or­ches­tral reper­toire of the Baroque and Clas­si­cal pe­ri­ods. In­ter­na­tion­al pro­duc­tions have brought him to­geth­er with renowned artists such as Dorothee Ober­linger, Sigiswald Kuijken, Ryo Ter­aka­do, Leonar­do Gar­cía Alar­cón, Mi­dori Seil­er, Al­fre­do Bernar­di­ni, and Gio­van­ni Sol­li­ma.
Thanks to Cortés’ cre­ative in­spi­ra­tion, the Bre­men Baroque Or­ches­tra has gained wide­spread au­di­ences and in­ter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion in re­cent years with three high­ly re­viewed al­bums and high-qual­i­ty video pro­duc­tions on YouTube. The stream­ing chan­nel re­cent­ly reached 11 mil­lion views world­wide. In 2024, the or­ches­tra al­so cel­e­brat­ed its Asian de­but; on a mul­ti-week tour, the Bre­men en­sem­ble per­formed in a to­tal of 19 Chi­nese cities. Their lat­est re­lease, “And every lit­tle star,” was nom­i­nat­ed for the longlist of the Ger­man Record Crit­ics’ Award (Preis der Deutschen Schallplat­tenkri­tik) in 2025.


 
Swantje Tams-Freier

Recorder, Voice, Management

The Ham­burg-born so­pra­no Swan­t­je Tams Freier stud­ied voice with Prof. Har­ry van der Kamp, Prof. Stephen Stubbs, Nele Gramß and Clemens Löschmann, as well as choral con­duct­ing with Prof. Friederike Woe­bck­en at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the Arts in Bre­men. She re­ceived fur­ther train­ing from Rosa Dominguez, Wil­fried Jochens, Su­sanne Schlegel, Howard Crook and Bet­ti­na Pahn.

Swan­t­je Tams Freier re­ceived schol­ar­ships from the Tesdorpf’schen gemein­nützi­gen Stiftung, the Os­car und Ve­ra Rit­ter-Stiftung, the Ro­tary Club Ham­burg­Stein­tor and the Ed­uard-Witt-Stiftung. In 2015 she was hon­ored with the ti­tle of “Ideen­macherin” (Cre­ator of Ideas) from the Ideen­losten in Bre­men for her in­no­v­a­tive man­age­ment of Los Tem­pera­men­tos.

As a soloist, in ad­di­tion to an en­sem­ble and choir singer, she has giv­en con­certs in coun­tries such as Bel­gium, Den­mark, France, Italy, Aus­tria, Poland, Rus­sia, Switzer­land, Slove­nia, Is­rael, Chi­na, Japan, Bo­livia, Ecua­dor, Colom­bia, Chile and the USA, among oth­ers. She has sung with the Son­der­jyl­lands Sin­fonieorch­ester, the Phil­har­monie Novosi­birsk,the Bre­mer Barock­o­rch­ester, En­sem­ble El­bipo­lis, La Strav­a­gan­za Cologne, Con­cer­to Farinel­li, En­sem­ble Weser-Re­nais­sance, the Bre­mer Barock Con­sort and the WorldY­outh­Choir. Baroque opera pro­duc­tions in­clude per­for­mances at the fes­ti­val Im­pul­so in Mex­i­co, the Dahlheimer Som­mer fes­ti­val and in Cavalli’s La Di­done at The­ater Bre­men.


 

Harpsichord, Organ

Harp­si­chordist and or­gan­ist Na­dine Rem­mert was born in North­ern Ger­many in 1985 and be­gan her mu­si­cal ca­reer as a choir singer at the age of five. She al­so learned to play the pi­ano, or­gan, and trum­pet, and per­formed as a cho­ris­ter, vo­cal soloist, and or­gan­ist through­out her teenage years. She then stud­ied church mu­sic at the Ham­burg School of Mu­sic and The­atre be­fore de­vot­ing her­self en­tire­ly to his­tor­i­cal per­for­mance prac­tice, earn­ing a diplo­ma from the Bre­men Uni­ver­si­ty of the Arts in so­lo harp­si­chord and con­tin­uo play­ing (Prof. Carsten Lo­hff and Ludger Rémy).

She fur­thered her stud­ies of ear­ly mu­sic with Prof. Pieter van Dijk at the Am­s­ter­dam Con­ser­va­to­ry and in nu­mer­ous mas­ter­class­es (in­clud­ing those with J. Chris­tensen, W. Zer­er, E. Be­lot­ti, S. Sem­pé, and F. Haas).

To­day, the harp­si­chordist and or­gan­ist per­forms na­tion­al­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly with var­i­ous or­ches­tras and en­sem­bles. As a found­ing mem­ber of the cham­ber mu­sic en­sem­ble Los Tem­pera­men­tos and the Bre­men Baroque Or­ches­tra, Na­dine Rem­mert has toured many coun­tries in Eu­rope, Asia, and Latin Amer­i­ca. She has per­formed with artists such as Gio­van­ni Sol­li­ma, Christi­na Pluhar, Ryo Ter­aka­do, Dmit­ry Sinkovsky, Dorothee Ober­linger, Al­fre­do Bernar­di­ni, Mi­dori Seil­er, and Rolan­do Vil­lazón, among oth­ers.

She has al­so par­tic­i­pat­ed in nu­mer­ous ra­dio record­ings and CD record­ings for Deutsch­land­funk, Ra­dio Bre­men, and ORF, among oth­ers. Two al­bums by the en­sem­ble “Los Tem­pera­men­tos” and the Bre­men Baroque Orchestra’s de­but al­bum, “BACH to the Roots!” (2020), were nom­i­nat­ed for the “In­ter­na­tion­al Clas­si­cal Mu­sic Award.”

Since 2014, Na­dine Rem­mert has been teach­ing con­tin­uo, harp­si­chord and cham­ber mu­sic at the Ham­burg School of Mu­sic and The­atre.