Since its launch just over two and a half decades ago, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment has surprised, changed and mesmerised the music world, becoming one of the world’s leading period instrument orchestras with an innovative flair. In 2012 the orchestra launched a series of concerts exploring women in music: ‘Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers’.

They have also toured Europe with Sir Simon Rattle and Pierre-Laurent Aimard and launched a radical marketing campaign for their 2012-2013 series destroying the stereotype of a classical music buff – not all audiences are the same.