Bernhard Forck has devoted himself to the violin since the age of five. He studied at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin with Professor Eberhard Feltz and in 1986 joined the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Alongside these activities, he developed a strong interest in early music, which led him, among others, to work with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

His membership in the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Akamus), founded in 1982, where he is one of the concertmasters, is a natural continuation of his intensive engagement with historically informed performance practice. With Akamus, Bernhard Forck performs regularly in Europe’s major musical centers. Concert tours have taken him to the Middle East, Japan, Southeast Asia, Australia, and North and South America. More than 60 CD recordings, along with numerous awards and prizes, bear witness to the ensemble’s successful work.

From 2007 to 2019, Bernhard Forck also served as Musical Director of the Handel Festival Orchestra Halle. During this time, he conceived his own concert series and directed Handel’s oratorios and operas at the festival, including Jephtha, Alcina, Orlando, and Arminio.

As a specialist in the Baroque and Classical repertoire, Bernhard Forck is also a sought-after guest with symphony orchestras. He has conducted concerts with, among others, the orchestra of La Monnaie in Brussels, the Komische Oper Berlin, and the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. In addition to his teaching duties at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, his pedagogical activities include summer academies in Germany, Italy, Norway, and Romania.

Bernhard Forck is increasingly dedicating himself to conducting. He has led opera productions at the National Theatre Mannheim, the Theatre Münster, the Schwetzingen SWR Festival, and the summer festival of the Kammeroper Rheinsberg. In 2026, he will conduct Rameau’s Castor et Pollux at the Graz Opera.