Excellent news reaches us of the return of the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO), which has been absent from the classical music panorama for 4 years.
The orchestra, which specialises within the efficiency of works from the Baroque period and is open to younger musicians from throughout the European Union, has been capable of return due to funding from Italian philanthropic basis ICONS.
EUBO was created within the UK in 1985, as a part of the European 12 months of Music held to have a good time the three hundredth anniversary of three nice Baroque musicians: Bach, Scarlatti and Handel. For the following 30+ years, it acted as a number one coaching faculty within the area of traditionally knowledgeable efficiency. Certainly, many former EUBO members went on to play in Europe’s main baroque orchestras, akin to Concentus Musicus Wien, Les Arts Florissants, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and others.
The orchestra is totally renewed yearly. Auditions happen in spring, with normally round 100 younger baroque musicians making use of for the 20-25 locations. The profitable candidates then come collectively for live performance excursions which take the gifted younger orchestra to all corners of Europe. Ton Koopman, Roy Goodman, Enrico Onofri, Rachel Podger are amongst the artists who frequently work with the orchestra.
Nonetheless, since 2018 and a transfer to Belgium following Brexit, EUBO has been inactive. Now, in settlement with EUBO founders and former managers, ICONS has introduced the orchestra collectively once more, with a base in Italy.
ICONS is already energetic on this space: it additionally helps the Theresia Orchestra, a global ensemble made up of musicians beneath 30 years outdated, who’ve graduated from the foremost European colleges of early music ‘The mission of ICONS is to help tradition in all its varieties,’ explains Mario Martinoli, co-founder and president of ICONS. ‘As an organisation, we share the identical values as EUBO, and that’s the reason now we have strongly promoted the relaunch of the orchestra in our nation – thanks additionally to the help and enthusiasm proven by the Associazione Musicale Angelo Mariani.’
‘ICONS has all the time been energetic within the inventive promotion of younger musical abilities by the help and growth of Theresia Orchestra, the flagship of our philanthropic actions since 2012, and EUBO will match into this identical vein of help for worldwide youth inventive excellence.’
The newly fashioned EUBO will observe the residential mannequin already utilized by the Theresia Orchestra, which meets a number of occasions a 12 months to arrange programmes for brief excursions. The orchestra has already come collectively for a November residency, which culminated in a live performance on 28 November at Ravenna’s Alighieri Theatre.
