Parnassus Ensemble is a flexible early music collective that brings together some of Europe's finest young historically informed musicians to collaborate with a wide range of artistic disciplines on interdisciplinary projects that aim to reach out to all corners of society and advocate for the power of the arts.

They take their name from Johann Joseph Fux‘s Gradus ad Parnassum (1725), a seminal book on counterpoint that was revered by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn. The group was founded by Oscar Holch, Xeniga Gogu and Victor García García in 2022 as result of participating in several young artist programmes throughout the UK and Europe including: the Monteverdi Apprenticeship Scheme with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and at the Collegium Vocale Gent Academy with Philippe Herreweghe with the aim of creating a network where practitioners of early music could share their unique perspective and latest research, to further the development of historically informed performance. As part of their performance practice they aim to inhabit the performative mindset of the musicians of the time whilst also harnessing the eclectic variety of musician personalities of their members, to create impactful performances that honour the past but speak to the future. Their members perform together throughout Europe with leading historical ensemble‘s such as Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre de Champs Elysées, Balthasar Neumann Orchestra and Utopia. 

They were privileged to make their debut at the renowned St Martin-in-the-Fields in London in March 2022 and in August 2022 they participated in the prestigious International Young Artist’s Platform as part of the Laus Polyphoniae festival in Amuz, Antwerp and in 2023 received funding from the UK based Continuo Foundation. They perform regularly in the UK and Europe as part of festivals, most notably the social action chamber music festival, Festival Impulso on La Palma, Canary Islands (2023+2024) which aims to bring the power of music to disadvantaged communities throughout the island. In 2025, they will appear at the Podium Auxesis Festival in Groningen performing works by Haydn, Fanny Mendelssohn and Purcell and hold masterclasses for students of historically informed performance.