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The McGill Baroque Orchestra is one of McGill’s large ensembles. This group of 14 to 20 musicians plays on modern copies of Baroque strings and winds and performs orchestral works by J.S. Bach, George Frideric Handel, Arcangelo Corelli, Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Philipp Telemann, Lully, Rameau, Marais, Purcell, Biber and others. The ensemble frequently joins with the McGill Cappella Antica to perform vocal works by J.S. Bach, Charpentier, Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz, Carissimi, G.F. Handel and others. In collaboration with Opera McGill, the ensemble participates in annual staged productions of Baroque operas which have included G.F. Handel’s Cesare, Imeneo, Alcina and Agrippina, Lully’s Thésée, Monteverdi’s Poppea, Rameau’s Pygmalion and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. The group has played in Ottawa, and around Québec.
Graduates have gone on to perform with the Arion Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Caprice, le Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, and other ensembles in Montreal, across Canada and internationally.
Director: Hank Knox |
