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Academy of Ancient Music

Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) is an orchestra with a worldwide reputation for excellence in baroque and classical music.

Alternative History

Alternative History Quartet

Alternative History is a quartet creating unique new repertoires from historical performance practice. 

Apollo's Cabinet

Apollo’s Cabinet are an early music ensemble founded at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2018. Since then they have grown in size and perform with a flexible lineup to offer versatility and variety in programming.

Baroque In The North

Baroque In The North is a Manchester-based performing arts charity specialising in music from 16th-18th centuries, played on period instruments.

Bellot Ensemble

Bellot Ensemble is a London-based early music group established in 2014 at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in Greenwich. It is formed of alumni and current students from all of the London music conservatoires.

Blondel

Blondel performs medieval and renaissance music on shawms, bagpipes, curtals and recorders.

Brook Street Band

Since its formation in 1996 by baroque cellist Tatty Theo, the award-winning Brook Street Band has established itself as one of the country’s foremost interpreters of Handel’s music.

Chelys

Chelys Consort of Viols

Described by Gramophone as having released 'unquestionably the most beautiful recording of the Lachrimae', Chelys have garnered a reputation for their faithful yet fresh interpretations of the consort repertoire.

Consone Quartet

The first period instrument string quartet to be selected as BBC New Generation Artists, the Consone Quartet are fast making a name for themselves with their honest and expressive interpretations of classical and romantic repertoire.

Ensemble OrQuesta Baroque

Ensemble OrQuesta was founded in 2013 by Marcio da Silva.

Flauguissimo

Flauguissimo was founded by flautist Yu-Wei Hu and guitarist / theorbo-player Johan Löfving. Their imaginative programmes have dazzled audiences across the UK, and their keen interest in early and contemporary music has made them sought-after teachers.

Galliarda

The acclaimed musicians of ensemble Galliarda specialise in the performance of instrumental and vocal chamber music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Istante Collective

Istante is a versatile musical collective committed to reaching out to new audiences through innovative concert experiences.

Linarol Consort of Viols

The Linarol Consort of Renaissance Viols draws together players who are leading exponents of the viol as both a consort and solo instrument, and focuses uniquely on their love of the instrument’s very earliest sound and repertoire.

Liturina

Liturina is an intimate chamber group specialising in baroque repertoire, and exploring historical performance through high-quality ensemble playing.

Lowe Ensemble

Lowe Ensemble, a British/Spanish musical ensemble comprised of five siblings, aged 19 to 26, specialising in historically informed performance.

Manchester Baroque (photo credit - Claudia Terpstra)

Manchester Baroque

Since our launch in 2019, Manchester Baroque has built a reputation for engaging and vibrant performances of historical music on period instruments.

Music for Awhile 2

Music for Awhile

Chamber ensemble founded by Artistic Director Margaret Faultless. 

Musical & Amicable Society

The original Musical and Amicable Society was founded in 1762 by James Kempson, who directed the choir at St Bartholomew’s Chapel, Birmingham.

Newe Vialles

Viol consort, specialising in English repertoire of the 16th and 17th centuries, and innovative projects for viols and continuo

The Hampstead Collective

Players of The Hampstead Collective

We put on a wide variety of concerts in Hampstead Parish Church on Monday evenings once a month.

Queen Victoria's Consort

Queen Victoria's Consort is an ensemble made of some of the country's leading brass musicians, it specialises in bringing to life a museum quality collection of original 19th century musical instruments.

Rose Consort of Viols

The Rose Consort of Viols takes its name from a famous family of sixteenth-century viol makers, whose instruments coincided with the growth of English consort music.

Rune

Rune is an ensemble of five musicians dedicated to sharing their joint passion for medieval music with deeply researched programmes and engaging outreach

Serpentine Trio

Trio of two viols & keyboard, named after the Serpentine.

Sounds Historical

Sounds Historical are a group of musicians specialising in early music.

The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble

The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble is a virtuoso period instrument group with a host of distinguished recordings to its name.

The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen

Taking its name from the musicians who played in one of the the first public concert series in London, the Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen have focussed on bringing neglected masterpieces to the public.

The Mozartists

The Mozartists specialise in the music of Mozart and his contemporaries, and have established themselves among the most exciting period-instrument ensembles in Europe.

The Telling

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.

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