Devon Baroque Orchestra
The Orchestra
In 1999 a group of professional string players invited Margaret Faultless to Devon to direct a workshop devoted to Baroque performance style …
Baroque Music
An essay on Baroque Music and Devon Baroque by Lucy Robinson. “I heard that stupendious Violin Signor Nicholao (with other rare Musitians) …
Workshops
Devon Baroque promotes active involvement in the world of Baroque music through its education programme. The orchestra includes …
Baroque music informed by historical performance practice.
Devon Baroque is the only fully professional orchestra in the South West specialising in Baroque and early Classical music played on period instruments and in appropriate style. Its directors are Persephone Gibbs and Andrew Wilson-Dickson.
Forthcoming dates for your diaries:
Saturday 22nd June – St John’s Church, Totnes, 7.30pm: Music for Midsummer
Saturday 6th July – Exeter Cathedral, 7:30pm: Bach: Mass in B Minor, with Exeter Festival Chorus
Saturday 21st September – St Peter’s Church, Tiverton, 7:30pm
Sunday 8th December – Exeter Cathedral, 2:30pm: Handel Messiah
Listen to Devon Baroque
Recordings by Chris Holmquist
Valentini: Concerto Grosso op. 7 no. 11 in A minor, 1st movement (excerpt)
Bach: Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041, 3rd movement (excerpt) - solo violin: Persephone Gibbs
Vivaldi: Concerto for 4 violins in E minor RV 550, 3rd movement (excerpt)
