Apollo’s Cabinet

Murder, drinking songs, fairy tales, European tours, serene polyphonies, and candlelit rituals are just some of the elements that populate Apollo’s Cabinet’s narrative and visually rich programs. Winners of the Royal Overseas League Mixed Ensemble Award, the Oude Muziek Utrecht Competition, and the Göttingen International Handel Competition, the ensemble offers a distinctive blend of performance, dance, poetry, and theater that brings historical forms of performance within reach of today’s audiences. They have also won the Brian Nisbet Prize for their fusion of music and poetry, first prize and the audience prize at #GeneraciónSMADE in Spain, the F. J. Aumann Prize for innovation and new discoveries in Baroque music at the Biber International Competition in Austria, first prize at the Maurizio Pratola competition in Italy, the Friends prize at the York Early Music International Young Artists competition, second prize at the CIMA competition in the Loire Valley in France, and finally, the prize at the Potsdam Lunchtime Concert Competition in Germany.

To date, the ensemble has performed at the London Handel Festival, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Felix! Festival Köln, The Georgian Concert Society Edinburgh (as part of a tour supported by the Tunnell Trust), AMUZ Antwerp, OudeMuziek Fabulous Fringe, :alpenarte Schwarzenberg, and the Brighton Early Music Festival.

The ensemble is dedicated to cultural outreach for both children and adults, and its members have designed and delivered workshops and educational concerts in collaboration with the Royal Opera House, the Centre for Young Musicians, the Brighton Early Music Festival, English National Opera, ZAMUS Cologne, and Wigmore Hall. They recently joined Live Music Now, a long-standing charity founded by Yehudi Menuhin.

Highlights of the season include concerts at the Thüringer Bachwochen, AMIA Strasbourg, Cambridge Early Music, and Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci. In addition, the ensemble will record its third and fourth albums and has just commissioned a new composition for its “Elements” program.