Aoede Consort Competitors

“Sorrell and her dazzling period band… are incandescent.” – The Sunday Times, London Named for the classical god of music, healing and the sun, Apollo’s Fire is a GRAMMY®-winning ensemble. The period-instrument orchestra was founded by award-winning harpsichordist and conductor Jeannette Sorrell, and is dedicated to the baroque ideal that music should evoke the various Affekts or passions in the listeners. Apollo’s Fire is a collection of creative artists who share Sorrell’s passion for drama and rhetoric.

The OAE is one of the world’s leading orchestras giving performances characterised by energy, insight and vitality on period instruments, challenging existing ideas and exciting audiences and musicians alike. It works with world-renowned artists, including the Orchestra’s Principal Artists: John Butt, Sir Mark Elder, Iván Fischer, Vladimir Jurowski, Sir Andras Schiff and Sir Simon Rattle. The OAE aims to bring the very best of the period music tradition to today’s audiences in performances characterised by commitment, excellence and passion.

The Sixteen is recognised as one of the world’s greatest ensembles. Comprising both choir and period-instrument orchestra, The Sixteen’s total commitment to the music it performs is its greatest distinction. A special reputation for performing early English polyphony, masterpieces of the Renaissance, bringing fresh insights into Baroque and early Classical music and a diversity of 20th-century music, is drawn from the passions of conductor and founder Harry Christophers.