PIVA - The Renaissance Collective

About PIVA – The Renaissance Collective:

Since forming in 2002, PIVA have established themselves as one of the UK’s leading early music ensembles and they specialise in the popular dance and ballad music of the late renaissance.

Rachel Podger

“Rachel Podger, the unsurpassed British glory of the baroque violin,” (The Times) has established herself as a leading interpreter of the Baroque and Classical

Hex was formed in 2022 and had its inaugural performance at Brixworth Music Festival. The group was set up to explore the otherworldly sounds of violas da gamba with continuo.

Parnassus

Parnassus is collaborative flexible ensemble made up of 4 core members. They are committed to exploring a wide range of repertoire through the prism of historical informed performance with the values of chamber music at the heart of everything they do.

Dowland's Foundry

Lute & vocal ensemble specialising in Elizabethan song

Vache Baroque

We are Vache Baroque: a group of musicians intent on connecting a younger and more diverse range of people to the power of high-quality Baroque-era music and drama.

Ensemble Molière

Ensemble Molière have gained a reputation as an established early music ensemble.

Spiritato

Spiritato is a period instrument ensemble with a love for little-known composers.

Fretwork

"Fretwork is the finest viol consort on the planet" - Stephen Pettitt, The London Evening Standard.

Saraband

Saraband is an ensemble that expands from just two violins to a larger group including:
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Sarah Bealby-Wright - violin
Henrietta Wayne - violin ​
​Johan Löfving - theorbo/guitar
Jacob Garside -cello/viola da gamba

Saraband specialise in music that...

Devon Baroque

Devon Baroque was founded 23 years ago by Margaret Faultless (currently co-leader of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, amongst other posts) with support from a number of local baroque music enthusiasts.

The Hanover Band

The Hanover Band was formed in 1980 by the late Caroline Brown. The orchestra was the first orchestra to record the complete Beethoven Symphonies for NIMBUS.

La Tirana

La Tirana is a new historical performance ensemble based in London. Founded by Pablo Tejedor Gutiérrez, La Tirana is devoted to the exploration of 18th and early 19th-century music.

Ceruleo - Voices of Longing

Ceruleo

Taking communication, collaboration and experimentation as the basis to grow as a group, Ceruleo create dramatic programmes using spoken text alongside music for two sopranos and continuo.

Sounds Baroque

Helen Charlston

Sounds Baroque delights in conveying the thrilling theatricality and intense passion of music in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Ensemble Molière - Foundling Museum - The Dancing Star

Catriona McDermid

Continuo Connect meets the bassoonist of Ensemble Molière

Continuo Connect meets Catriona McDermid, a versatile bassoonist equally at home in period and modern groups, and a member of Ensemble Molière.

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