The Portrait Players

A new trio focussed on presenting small-scale 'portraits' of baroque chamber music in a portable and flexible format.

Handel Hendrix House

Experience intimate concerts and recitals at Handel Hendrix House

The Portrait Players - Les Femmes Illustres

A Monday Matinee

This programme tells the story of some of Handel’s favourite soloists through the music he composed for them and music they themselves composed.

Sooth'd to Pleasures

Julian Perkins

As of December 2022, Julian Perkins is Artistic Director of the Portland Baroque Orchestra in Oregon, USA

Diana Moore and Julian Perkins - Handel’s Harem: "A Fiddler" and His Muses

Handel’s Harem: "A Fiddler" and His Muses

Classical DJ - The Hallelujah House Party!

The Hallelujah House Party!

Zsombor Tóth-Vajna and Gabriella Ács - Love, Loss and Redemption: An Evening with Handel

Love, Loss and Redemption: An Evening with Handel

Nathaniel Mander

Nathaniel Mander is a harpsichordist whose deep love of music and passion for the 18th century have led him to devote himself to the instruments of the time.

Olwen Foulkes

Olwen founded Ensemble Augelletti in 2019 and has a deep love of chamber music playing

Sophia Prodanova

Bulgarian violinist Sophia Prodanova is a recent graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she studied with David Takeno and Pavlo Beznosiuk

Guy Cuttings, Olwen Foulkes, Sophia Prodanova and Nathaniel Mander - Waft Her, Angels, Through the Skies

Waft Her, Angels, Through the Skies

Chantefable - Heaven & Hell

Heaven & Hell

London Handel Players

The London Handel Players appear regularly at Wigmore Hall and at leading festivals in the UK, Europe and N. America, performing baroque chamber music.

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.

Helen Charlston

Mezzo soprano Helen Charlston was recently a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist (2021-23), and won both Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine awards for her album 'Battle Cry'.

Helen Charlston, The Brook Street Band & The London Handel Players - Celebrating 25 Years of Handel House

Celebrating 25 Years of Handel House

Literary Music with Rosie Lomas and Katarzyna Kowalik - Jane Austen's Mr Handel

Jane Austen's Mr Handel

York Early Music Christmas Festival 2026

York Early Music Christmas Festival

The Festival was created in 1997 to introduce audiences to the immense wealth of music associated with Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, from the Medieval to the Baroque, intertwined with the sagas, stories and tales of the north.

The Portrait Players

Sooth'd to Pleasures

A Monday Matinee

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