We are Fortuna Canta, an ensemble that focuses on the music of the late Middle Ages and the beginning Renaissance: Stefanie Brijoux (soprano and harp), Katrin Krauß-Brandi (recorder), Ute Faust (fiddle and recorder) and Holger Faust-Peters (fiddle and organetto). Since 1998 we have regularly performed this repertoire throughout Germany. It is important to us to make the listeners understand the peculiarities of early polyphony through lively moderations. The love songs of the Codex Chantilly appear like a foreign language, both in content and in the Pythagorean tone system, which immediately fascinates onomatopoetically and whose deeper meaning gradually opens up (and never lets go of us...).
We all studied our instruments and singing in the field of early music. The following special training with luminaries in the Middle Ages we received in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Our teachers include Maurice van Lieshout, Pedro Memelsdorff, Maria Jonas, Randall Cook, Marc Lewon and Uri Smilansky.
With Fortuna Canta we interpret the works individually and with our personal handwriting - sound variety and richness of color are just as important to us as self-developed virtuoso diminutions in the style of the time.
Fortuna Canta - the blind goddess of fate sings, and mostly it's about love!
We are a member of the Centre for Early Music Cologne zamus
