Harmony music was the most popular form of chamber music for winds during the classical and early romantic periods. The harmony ensemble is one of the predecessors of todays military bands and symphonic wind ensembles. Both well-known and lesser known composers have written for harmony ensemble. These ensembles played serenades and divertimentos at the castles and other high-society events. On several occasions, well-known orchestral works and operas were transcribed for harmony ensemble such that the music  could be made accessible for a larger audience. Sometimes composers wrote these transcriptions themselves.

The classical ideals of harmony were expressed in many ways throughout art and architecture. In music, it was the establishment of harmony music groups and philharmonic orchestras. The original instrumentation was for two oboes, two clarinets, two horns, two bassoons and contrabassoon or contrabass. After a while, composers varied the instrumentation, including flute, several horns, trumpets and string instruments.

David Friedemann Strunck is the artistic leader of Oslo Kammerakademi. He began as solo oboist in the Oslo Philharmonic in 2004. He came to Oslo from a similar position in the Bochumer Syphoniker in Germany. He studied at the music academy in Detmold and Stuttgart with Gernot Schmalfuss and Ingo Gortizki. He has received soloist prizes from wind competitions in Mannheim and Bayreuth in 1999 and won first prize in the Mendelsohn-Bartholdy competition 2002 in Berlin with his "Cambini Quintet". He has been a soloist and chamber musician at the chamber music festivals in Bodø and the Festspillene in Bergen. He teaches at the Baratt-Due Music Institute.