Upcoming Concerts
Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival
Tickets available here.
A vivid journey from the clamour of conflict to the quiet miracle of peace. 17th-century composers painted battles in striking musical detail and then turned toward reflection, lament, and reconciliation. The programme moves from martial fanfares and foot-soldier rhythms to music of consolation and stillness with music by Lawes, Schmelzer, Biber and Falconieri.
“…Bellot Ensemble’s interpretations are wonderfully rich in contrast: heartfelt and tender, fiery and passionate.”
- pizzicato.lu
The programme, presented by the newly appointed New Generation Baroque Ensemble Bellot, will be recorded for future broadcast by BBC Radio 3. The New Generation Baroque Ensemble is supported by BBC Radio 3, the Royal College of Music and the National Centre for Early Music.
Oxford Festival of the Arts
Tickets and info available here.
We’re delighted to return to the festival by popular demand, after what the festival director referred to as one of the most riveting performances in the festival last year, with a new programme: Dreams Under the Wings of Morpheus.
‘Dreams Under the Wings of Morpheus’ follows the quiet journey from sleep into waking, guided by the figures who shaped the ancient understanding of dreams. Scenes from Cavalli and Lully sit beside Italian and English lullabies, with pieces carrying private messages, expressed through signs rather than speech. In myth, the imagined dream world did not end because the dream was finished but because something real cut through it. The calls of the nightingale and the cuckoo in works by Merula, Uccellini and Biber, act as symbols of morning and awareness, breaking the stillness that sleep had held. We follow this shift into daylight – where love, longing, and reflection appear without the disguises of dream through works by Monteverdi, Lambert and Lanier, exploring how signs, symbols and quiet natural cues shape the way we understand inner experience.
The Royal College of Music
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Bellot Ensemble explores the rich musical conversation between 17th-century Italy and England.
In this performance, the ensemble traces how styles, forms and expressive ideas travelled across borders – from the brilliance and contrast of Italian canzonas and early sonatas to the distinctive elegance and character of English consort and division writing. At its heart, the programme reveals a world of shared influences and striking contrasts, showcasing two musical cultures in dialogue with one another.
Bellot Ensemble is the 2026–28 New Generation Baroque Ensemble supported by the RCM, BBC Radio 3 and the National Centre for Early Music.
Winchfield Festival
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Join us for our debut performance at the Winchfield Festival, featuring our latest programme: Grounds for Exchange.
Budleigh Music Festival
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Programme:
Musicke for the Two Crownes – England and France in Dialogue, 1600–1700
Budleigh Music Festival takes place in this beautiful Devon seaside town every summer.
Bellot Ensemble brings exceptional flair to this celebration of music at court in England and France. Henry Lawes, Matthew Locke and Henry Purcell sit alongside the richly coloured chamber works of Lully and Charpentier from the courts of Louis XIII and Louis XIV. Performed with Bellot’s signature freshness, refinement and imagination, the programme offers a vivid portrait of two kingdoms in artistic dialogue.
Relaxed Concert at Budleigh Festival
Tickets available here.
Animals and Nature
This programme brings together pieces in which composers used instrumental colour, gesture, and invention to imitate animals, birds, weather, and movement. Each piece contains instantly recognisable sounds, making the concert especially suitable for a relaxed setting and for younger listeners. The atmosphere will be welcoming and informal, with audience members free to move around as they wish.
This concert will be British Sign Language interpreted.
This concert will finish at c. 11:45am and runs without an interval.
Surrey Bach Festival
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Join us for a special concert at the Surrey Bach Festival - a festival founded by our very own Matthew Brown!
Berkhamsted Music
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The ensemble will present a programme exploring the rich musical dialogue between Italy and England in the seventeenth century, focusing on one of the period’s most fertile ideas: the ground bass. From the expressive Italian world of Monteverdi, Strozzi, Merula and Marini to the more introspective but no less inventive sound world of Dowland, Lawes, Jenkins and Purcell, we trace how composers on both sides of the Channel absorbed, transformed and reimagined shared musical languages.
Worcestershire Early Music
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Join us at Worcestershire Early Music to experience our most well-loved programme: Cupid’s Ground Bass.
Cupid's Ground Bass - Waltham Forest Music Society
Bellot Ensemble, known for their energetic and passionate performances, bring their ‘Cupid’s Ground Bass’ programme to the Waltham Forest Concert Society! This concert is themed around their debut album of the same title, exploring the extremities of love, through the groundbreaking works of 17th-century Italy, highlighting both the vocal and instrumental innovations of the time. The concert will include not only some of the most beautiful arias from this period sung by the incredibly talented singers, soprano Lucine Musaelian and tenor Kieran White, but also the groups own instrumental diminutions and arrangements, often over the wonderful ‘ground bass’ themes, popular at this time. The interweaving of voices and instruments will be complemented by purely instrumental works from composers who continually inspire and surprise us with their depth and creativity.
Britten Pears Residency - Concert #2
We’re excited to present two concerts at Britten Pears Arts as part of our residency there.
“O come piace" (as it pleases) – Legrenzi’s invitation becomes the guiding thread through 17th-century Italy. This programme moves freely between sacred lullabies, theatrical laments and virtuosic sonatas, showing how composers from Monteverdi to Farina delighted in blending form and style to expression, invention and pleasure.
Bellot Ensemble are the recipients of the Keith Coventry Bursary and are also supported by The Fidelio Charitable Trust.
More information and tickets available here.
Britten Pears Residency - Concert #1
We’re excited to present two concerts at Britten Pears Arts as part of our residency there.
This programme – Whose Wills were Laws – begins with works by Nicholas Lanier, the first Master of the King’s Musick, and traces a path through his Caroline contemporaries to the expressive world of Purcell and Banister in the Restoration.
Bellot Ensemble are the recipients of the Keith Coventry Bursary and are also supported by The Fidelio Charitable Trust.
More information and tickets available here.
Bellot Ensemble @ Royal College of Music
We’re delighted to invite you to our first concert as New Generation Baroque Ensemble at the Royal College of Music. This concert will feature our Il Miracolo della Pace, a vivid journey from the clamour of conflict to the quiet miracle of peace. Full programme available here.
For more information and tickets, please visit the Royal College of Music website.
Bellot Ensemble - Venice to London, in music and memory
This programme draws a line between two musical cultures: In Venice, we hear vivid contrasts, fluid forms, and vocal expressivity in the works of Cavalli, Strozzi, Pandolfi, Fontana, and Marini. In London, the mood shifts. Music becomes more introspective, shaped by dance, counterpoint, and finely measured speech. From Locke and Purcell to Dowland, Hume, and Byrd, these pieces reflect a different way of thinking. Yet echoes of Italian style remain, travelling not through scores but through memory, imitation, and exchange.
Programme:
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger Libro quarto d’intavolatura di chitarrone - Taccata Prima
Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli Sonate a violino solo - Sonata Seconda ‘La Cesta’
Francesco Cavalli Xerse, Act I Scene I - Sinfonia & “Ombra mai fu” arr.
Giovanni Battista Fontana - Sonate a I, II, III per il Violino - Sonata Seconda
Giuseppe Cenci “Fuggi, fuggi, fuggi da questo cielo” arr.
Barbara Strozzi Cantate, ariette, e duetti - “Amor dormiglione” arr.
Biagio Marini Sonate, symphonie, canzoni - Sonata terza variata per il violino
Barbara Strozzi Are - “Che si può fare” arr.
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Henry Purcell “She loves and she confesses” arr.
Matthew Locke Consorts of Two Parts for several friends - Suite No. 7 in C minor/Major
John Dowland Preludium & The Frog Galliard
Tobias Hume The First Part of Ayres, French, Polish and Others - Captaine Humes Pavan
Nicholas Lanier Selected Ayres and Dialogues - “No more shall meads” arr.
Henry Eccles Premier livre de sonates à violon seul et la basse - Sonata Undecimo
William Byrd “John come kiss me now” arr.
Bellot Ensemble Trio:
Lucine Musaelian voice & viola da gamba,
Edmund Taylor violin
Daniel Murphy theorbo & lute
The concert will be followed by a buffet supper referencing 17th-century Italian grand dining! £5 from each ticket will go to the Camden Music Trust. The Trust supports music in Camden schools with particular emphasis on children who might not otherwise have access to instruments or music lessons.
Handel's "Messiah"
Brighton Orpheus Choir joins forces with Bellot Ensemble for a performance of Handel’s Messiah, one of the most iconic works in the choral tradition.
Written in 1741, this timeless oratorio brings to life the story of Christ’s birth, passion and resurrection through music of remarkable drama and beauty.
Expect joyful choruses, expressive solos and radiant playing on period instruments, all within the atmospheric setting of St John’s Church.
Bellot Ensemble at HHH Concerts
Join the Bellot Ensemble for a thrilling evening of 17th-century Italian music, as they bring their acclaimed Cupid’s Ground Bass programme to the HHH Concerts series.
Cupid’s Ground Bass
Oxford Festival of the Arts EARLY MUSIC DAY in collaboration with Continuo Foundation.