One of the world's leading early music ensembles, Philip Pickett's versatile New London Consort explores a uniquely wide and colourful repertoire of Renaissance and Baroque music presented in interesting and carefully planned programmes designed to combine the very best in scholarship and entertainment.

The principal artists, all established soloists in their own right, share a rare unanimity of purpose and style, resulting in the New London Consort's undisputed reputation for artistry, flair and virtuosity.

Their concerts and recordings, while frequently including first modern performances of unpublished, undiscovered or reconstructed masterpieces, also shed unexpected and often controversial new light on more familiar works.

The Consort is a regular visitor to major festivals and concert halls throughout the world. Most recent performances have included a world-wide tour of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (directed by Jonathan Miller) with performances in London, Poole, Brighton, Newbury, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Gateshead, Glasgow, Rotterdam, Luxembourg, Paris, Bergen,  Warsaw, Aranjuez, Pamplona, Jerusalem, Guanajuato and Mexico City.  Among future plans the Consort will perform their newly reconstructed Dido & Aeneas 1700 at the Chelsea and Buxton Festivals, Birmingham Town Hall, Glasgow City Halls, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Luxembourg Philharmonie, as well as in Santiago de Compostela, Pamplona and Las Palmas. Other projects include Bach’s Easter Oratorio at the Perth International Arts Festival and Strasbourg Philharmonie, Monteverdi’s Vespers 1610 at the Manchester Bridgewater Hall, and Purcell’s Don Quixote and The Indian Queen at the Cité de la Musique in Paris.

As well as appearing frequently at London's South Bank Centre (where the Consort was resident ensemble between 1996-2005) the Consort regularly performs at the leading British arts festivals and has undertaken five nationwide Early Music Network tours.

Much of the Consort's repertoire has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3 (more than 120 programmes including eight concerts at the Proms), and members of the Consort have provided music for many BBC Radio Drama productions.

On television the Consort was featured in the BBC Music in Time series, the BBC2 Music in Camera series and both of the Westminster Abbey Purcell Centenary concerts in 1995.

Major film and TV soundtracks include Channel 4’s Tales from the Decameron, the BBC TV Shakespeare Series, Lady Jane, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, A Man for all Seasons, Hamlet, Dangerous Beauty, Nostradamus and Elizabeth.