Early music becomes a starting point for curiosity: listening, experimenting, arranging and discovering what a group can create together.
What makes it special?
Inclusive
Strings, recorders and wind players use contemporary instruments they already know.
Creative
Sessions develop improvisation, arranging, musical imagination and close listening.
Connected
Workshops and performances connect young musicians with professional artists and York's cultural life.
A partnership with NCEM
The National Centre for Early Music hosts workshops, creates performance opportunities and brings specialist artists into the ensemble's musical life. Regular rehearsals take place at York Music Centre, with additional activity at NCEM, St Margaret's Church on Walmgate.
Highlights over time
- 2025
Performances at the York Early Music Festival and Cliffe Castle.
- 2024
A workshop with visiting Iranian early-music performers at NCEM.
- 2017
A sell-out York Early Music Festival performance with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
- 2014–15
Watercycle: composition, digital soundscapes and performance with national and local partners.
