ENSEMBLE TOURBILLON, founded in 1998 by Petr Wagner, brings together outstanding musicians from various parts of Europe who specialize in baroque and early classical performance practice on period instruments and are devoted to chamber music. Through its members the Ensemble Tourbillon combines the very best of European early music schools with outstanding musicianship, which lends the ensemble distinctively virtuosic style and refined sound colours.

Ensemble Tourbillon‘s repertoire spans a period from the seventeenth century up to C. F. Abel, C. Ph. E. Bach, with works of virtually unknown composers to familiar masterpieces of the baroque and early classical periods. Its formation ranging from 4 musicians (2 violins, viola da gamba, theorboe or harpsichord) to large instrumental and vocal forces enables the ensemble to perform major secular and sacred vocal repertoire.

Recent engagements of the Ensemble Tourbillon included numerous appearances in the Czech Republic and abroad (St Wenceslas Feast, Haydn Festival in Dolní Lukavice, re-invitations to the Mitte Europa Festival, Early Music Festival in Český Krumlov , Early Music Series of the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the National Gallery).

n 15 February 2004 Ensemble Tourbillon with Petr Wagner as its leader participated as the only Czech ensemble in the “Euroradio Special Day“ to the 300th death annniversary of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, which was broadcasted by Czech Radio and the EBU radio stations in the whole Europe.