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The Little Baroque Company is a multi-national ensemble specialising in 17th and 18th century music. Formed in London in 2006 the group's members are Helen Kruger and Frouke Mooij (Violins / Violas), Kinga Gáborjáni ('Cello / Viola da Gamba), Manuel Minguillon (Theorbo / Baroque Guitar / Lute) and Laura Tivendale (Harpsichord). The Little Baroque Company is dedicated to making early music more accessible and is particularly interested in education and outreach work, giving inspiring and imaginative workshops for schools and other community groups.
Performances by the Little Baroque Company include the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Brighton Early Music Festival, Art in Action festival (Oxford), Handel's Partenope at Les Azuriales (Cap Ferrat), the opening of the V&A Jewellery Gallery and British Museum's Clocks and Watches Gallery, a promenade concert at the Wallace Collection, a lunchtime recital at St. Martin-in-the-Fields and a collaboration with the Esterhazy Singers of Handel's Ester for the London Handel Festival. The LBC performed programmes 'The Isle of Chacona', 'Musica Poetica' (St George's church, Hanover Square) and a Messiah from Scratch with Laurence Cummings (Foundling Museum) for the London Handel Festival this year.
The Little Baroque Company has broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and was the winner of the Mortimer Award (RAM) in 2007 and of the Audience Prize at the new Fenton House Early Keyboard Ensemble Competition. The ensemble will be touring Australia and New Zealand in February 2012.