The young musi­cians of Les Salonnières met in Berlin at the University of the Arts in 2017 where they imme­di­ate­ly con­nect­ed through a fas­ci­na­tion with the salon cul­ture of the 18^th and ear­ly 19^th cen­turies. The com­mu­ni­ca­tion of philo­soph­i­cal ideas through music, art, and poet­ry inspired them to cre­ate their own salon in Berlin. Liane Sadler, Sophie Longmuir, and Mirjam Münzel per­form on his­tor­i­cal instru­ments, pre­sent­ing con­certs which com­bine 18^th and 19^th cen­tu­ry music with read­ings of lit­er­a­ture from the peri­od, and are often held in inti­mate set­tings sur­round­ed by
art­works. They strive for open and hon­est con­ver­sa­tion, where the lis­ten­ers and per­form­ers alike can expe­ri­ence a deep­er under­stand­ing of the ideas pre­sent­ed by the music and lit­er­a­ture. They also endeav­our to cel­e­brate the role of women in the salons of the 18^th and ear­ly 19^th cen­turies, which, in a time when intel­lec­tu­al spheres were tra­di­tion­al­ly dom­i­nat­ed by men, allowed women greater free­dom to express them­selves both intel­lec­tu­al­ly and cre­ative­ly, and
be at the fore­front of cul­tur­al development.