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Similar Orchestra Mozart, Geneva Camerata, European Union Youth Orc, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Camerata Bern | ||
Spira Mirabilis is a European classical symphony orchestra founded in 2007 and based in the town of Formigine in Italy. Their name means Marvelous Spiral which is the name the 17th-century Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli, gave the mathematical curve (present under many guises in nature) called logarithmic spiral because of the property of self-similarity of that curve.
As of May 2013, the orchestra is composed of 42 musicians, mostly from European countries (Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Italy, Germany, Sweden, France, Switzerland, Spain, Slovakia, Slovenia) but also, for a few of them, from non-European countries (United States, Australia, New Zealand, Colombia, Panama).
Spira Mirabilis perform orchestral repertoire but also chamber music and they play part of their repertoire on period instruments. They are also distinguished, among other things, by the fact that they work out interpretations, rehearse them and perform them collectively without a conductor and so implement a model of music making which breaks to some extent with prevailing patterns.
To date (May 2013) they've performed orchestral works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Dvořák, Ravel, and chamber music by Mozart, Schubert, Schönberg, Bartok, Tomasi. They will be performing Richard Strauss's Metamorphosen in June 2013 and Igor Stravinsky's Pulcinella in September 2013.