Since its creation by Director Julian Perkins in 2005, Sounds Baroque has devoted itself to conveying the thrilling theatricality and intense passion of music in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Comprising some of the finest period instrumentalists of our times, Sounds Baroque has collaborated with many eminent singers and actors including Simon Callow, Peter Capaldi, Rebecca Evans, Dame Emma Kirkby, Mark Padmore, Christopher Purves, Carolyn Sampson, Timothy West and David Wilson-Johnson, as well as an illustrious array of younger stars including Helen Charlston, Anna Dennis, Benjamin Hulett, James Laing, Ashley Riches, Anna Starushkevych and William Towers.

Sounds Baroque is heard regularly on BBC Radio 3 and has appeared at London’s Southbank Centre, Kings Place and St John's Smith Square, and at international festivals in Bristol, Cheltenham, JAM on the Marsh, London, Northern Aldborough, Roman River, Ryedale, Tel Aviv, Two Moors and York. Beyond the baroque it has given world premières of works by Paul Ayres, Stephen Dodgson and Iain Farrington, and often undertakes educational projects and engages in pre-performance talks and debates.