When Maximianno Cobra founded the EUROPA PHILHARMONIA Orchestra & Choir in 1999, his idea was to create an ensemble which could make recordings using all the new possibilities of 21st century audiovisual technology. The Orchestra takes much pride in bringing together the elite of orchestra musicians and choir singers in Hungary, Austria and Germany. Thanks to its long-term, elaborate artistic policy, EUROPA PHILHARMONIA is able to promote young instrumentalists and singers within an international environment of the highest standard.

Our choice of the name EUROPA conveys our deepest aspirations, i.e. a full understanding of the wide range of our European cultural heritage, and an attempt to show that its variety is rooted in a same universal ideal : mankind.

Among the many reasons which prompted HODIE™ to back Maximianno Cobra’s project, the major one was his multidisciplinary approach to make classical music easily accessible to a larger audience.

For its first production, the Orchestra has made use of the latest and finest audiovisual technology, specially conceived and designed for the new DVD-AUDIO/VIDEO and DVD-ROM media by HODIE™.