In 2016 we embarked on our most ambitious project ever. We toured the UK with a programme of military art music. A contradiction in terms? Certainly not!

Composers such as Biber and Schmelzer were often inspired by the sounds of battle to write energetic and heroic music for trumpets, drums and strings. It is works like these that formed the core repertoire of our project, contrasted by more reflective music as the composers contemplated the heroism and tragedy of war.