Chamber music for musette(s), harpsichord, baroque cello and baroque flute. We are SO excited to be able to share with you our second album! Recorded in Manchester, in July 2025, we have been working with Chiaro Audio and First Hand Records to deliver the best possible experience for our listeners, remaining true to our search […]
Baroque In The North is a Manchester-based performing arts charity. We specialise in music from the 16th-18th centuries, played on period instruments.
Baroque In The North is committed to making live music accessible to all. Each of our projects combines excellence with experience and inspiration, bringing music to life in settings suitable for all ages and backgrounds.
Music in Schools gives access to and participation in live music-making for KS2 children.
Come and Play! days are aimed at music teachers, amateurs, students and young people. These educational sessions give participants access to expert instruction in baroque instruments.
Baroque & Beyond takes live music (and tea and cake!) to rural communities in the North West.
Baroque In The North’s debut album, Music for French Kings, was released on the Deux-Elles label in October 2022. It was a featured album on Radio 3’s Early Music Show. The album was awarded four out of five stars in BBC Music Magazine’s December 2022 issue. Their second album, Musette: Friends in High Places, will be released on 21 August 2026.
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For Choirs
Baroque In The North frequently provides period-instrument orchestras and ensembles for choirs wanting to perform the great choral works of the baroque period and beyond. We are able to enrich this experience with our expertise in authentic period instruments. Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Passions are particularly popular, but our repertoire has ranged from Monteverdi’s Vespers and Buxtehude’s Jesu Membra Nostri to Mozart’s Requiem.
We’re proud to have particularly close relationships with several choirs and conductors across the North of England with whom we work regularly. We are always happy to advise on instrumentation, forces and programming. Get in touch to discuss how we can bring your concert plans to life.
Baroque & Beyond!
Baroque & Beyond events are designed around the charity’s aim of improving accessibility to live music. They have the further aim of bringing communities together by performing live music in venues at the heart of rural communities.
Each Baroque & Beyond event consists of an hour of music followed by tea and cake, with the opportunity to talk to the performers. Held in daylight hours, on weekend afternoons, they are suitable for all ages and wheelchair accessible. We always include informal spoken introductions to each piece played.
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Music in Schools
We offer educational workshops that are designed to fit the criteria of most of the key stage 2 requirements.
They are part of our commitment to meet our charitable aim of increasing accessibility to live music for people of all ages.
See our News page and social media for previous events. Contact us to find out more.
Come and join in
Do you want to try period instruments?
Learn more about Baroque style and meet other like-minded people?
Then join our mailing list or watch this space for news of our next ‘Come and Play’ day or get in touch to see if we can visit your school, college, church or organisation.
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Can you help us release our new album? Back in July, we recorded a disc of previously-unrecorded chamber music for musette and a variety of other instruments (musette, flute, cello and harpsichord). We have had a fantastic response to our campaign already but we are not there yet and now is your chance to […]
Summer Sizzlers! 6 July, St Giles’s Church, Hartington
Kick back, relax and let us entertain you with an hour of live music, with spoken introductions by our expert performers. This will be followed by tea and cake (included in the ticket price) and the chance to chat to us and each other. Tickets £10/£7 concession, U16s and carers free entry. Come and listen […]