The Continuo Foundation has announced the recipients of its eleventh round of grants, awarding more than £100,000 to support early music projects across the UK.
30 early music projects have received support from this round of grants, which includes nine emerging ensembles that have formed since 2020.
Projects supported include cross-arts collaborations, recordings, opera and touring beyond traditional concert settings and venues far from city centres.
This eleventh round includes an additional £6,000 in funding offered by The Purcell Society and matched by Continuo, to mark its 150th anniversary.
The Purcell-focused awards will go to the Monteverdi String Band’s project Wandering Prince, Unhappy Queen, inspired by Dido and Aeneas, as well as the Istante Collective’s production of King Arthur.
Including this round of grants, the total grant funding awarded since 2021 amounts to £1,176,000.
The grant recipients are:
Apollo’s Cabinet
Baroque in the North
Bloomsbury Players*
Early Opera Company
English Haydn Orchestra
Ensemble Hesperi
Fiori Musicali Figure*
Gabrieli
In Echo
Istante Collective
Linarol Consort of Viols
Monteverdi String Band
Nocturnalia*
Norwich Baroque
Obsidian Baroque*
Palisander
Rautio Piano Trio
Republic of Viols*
Saraband
Sirinu
Sounds Historical*
Spiritato
The Harmonious Society of
Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen
The Kaleidoscope Band
The Morley Consort*
The Mozartists
The Royal Sackbut Collective*
Vache Baroque
Wessex Baroque Collective*
* denotes ensembles formed after 2020