PROFILE

Earl’s Court Baroque (ECB) is an ensemble dedicated to the historically-informed exploration of repertoire from the Baroque era, with a particular emphasis on early eighteenth-century English staged works and their Continental influences. The group was formed in 2007 by Žak Ozmo in order to bring to the public both forgotten and well-loved masterpieces. The majority of ECB’s concert programmes are based on original research, and the music is performed from new, custom-made scholarly editions.

This exciting ensemble, which on occasion expands into a full-size Baroque orchestra and regularly works with singers and other guest artists, consists of some of the best young musicians from the professional London early music circle.

Earl’s Court Baroque is currently an ensemble in residence at the Earl's Court Festival in London.

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES:

22 June, 3:00pm: 'Pleasures of Vauxhall Gardens'. Society for Theatre Research, Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton Court Road, London.

Earl's Court Baroque
Žak Ozmo Director

Sarah Barnes , soprano

Includes music by Handel, Arne, Corelli, Seedo, Hook and much more!

Lucy Hunt, violin

Elektra Miliadou, cello

Žak Ozmo, director, archlute

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15 July, 7:30 pm: 'A Venetian Entertainment in London'. Earl's Court Festival, St Cuthbert's Church, 50 Philbeach Gardens, London SW5 9EB. Tel: 0207 370 0015

Earl's Court Baroque
Žak Ozmo Director

Esther Levin, soprano

“When I think of a word to replace that of music, I can think only of Venice.” Nietzsche

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, music from Venice inspired and delighted the whole of Europe. Venetian-style masquerade balls, especially, were all the rage in Count Heidegger’s eighteenth-century high society London. This concert will include entertaining, imaginative, and uncommonly beautiful works by Venetian masters Vivaldi, Marini, Uccelini, and Castello, as well as forgotten English works associated with the fashion for Venice in 18th-century London.

Bojan Cicic, baroque violin

Lucy Hunt, baroque violin

Claire Bracher, viola da gamba

Manuel Minguillón, theorbo, baroque guitar

Žak Ozmo, director, archlute, baroque guitar

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28 November 2008, 7:30 pm: 'Handel in the Playhouse'. Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ. Tel: 020 7841 3600