INTRADA has a new partner!
Intrada, the scheme for historically informed instrumentalists, is thrilled to announce the addition of its fifth ensemble, France’s incredible Le Banquet Céleste.
Since 2024, the artistic direction of Le Banquet Céleste has been the collective responsibility of a team of musicians who have been loyal to the ensemble for many years. To find out more about our newest Intrada partner check out their biography below.
Players from Le Banquet Céleste joined other partner ensembles, B’Rock Orchestra, Concerto Copenhagen, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, and Dunedin Consort, for our 2026 auditions at Brussels’ Royal Conservatoire at the end of January.
Intrada is in its fourth year, and will be announcing its three newest players shortly, bringing the total number of musicians supported by the scheme to twelve. It is a is a Europe-wide, year-long artists development scheme for historically informed orchestral instrumentalists, which offers the opportunity to play as a professional musician in a project hosted by one of the scheme’s partner ensembles, one-to-one coaching/mentoring, and professional development coaching, all with professional fees for rehearsals and performances and accommodation and travel costs covered.
Le Banquet Céleste has occupied a unique place in the landscape of European baroque ensembles for fifteen years, and the project has preserved its human and musical dimension. Attached to the sacred and secular repertoires championed by the ensemble since its creation, Le Banquet Céleste retains its vocal signature, which is balanced with the instrumental repertoire, in the image of the members who embody the new artistic direction.
The programmes cover Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with A. Stradella, F. Cavalli, C. Monteverdi, H. Purcell, J.S. Bach and G.F. Haendel as well as G. Carissimi, J.G. Pisendel, M. Weckmann and H. Schütz. They also explore earlier repertoire with J.H. Schein and W. Byrd, in addition to later works by C.P.E. Bach and G. Benda as well as, exceptionally, contemporary music. Since its inception, Le Banquet Céleste has, at its core, focused on the music of J.S. Bach, and this close link with the composer's work remains at the heart of its artistic project.
Since 2024, the artistic direction of Le Banquet Céleste has been the collective responsibility of a team of musicians who have been loyal to the ensemble for many years. To find out more about our newest Intrada partner check out their biography below.
Players from Le Banquet Céleste joined other partner ensembles, B’Rock Orchestra, Concerto Copenhagen, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, and Dunedin Consort, for our 2026 auditions at Brussels’ Royal Conservatoire at the end of January.
Intrada is in its fourth year, and will be announcing its three newest players shortly, bringing the total number of musicians supported by the scheme to twelve. It is a is a Europe-wide, year-long artists development scheme for historically informed orchestral instrumentalists, which offers the opportunity to play as a professional musician in a project hosted by one of the scheme’s partner ensembles, one-to-one coaching/mentoring, and professional development coaching, all with professional fees for rehearsals and performances and accommodation and travel costs covered.
Le Banquet Céleste has occupied a unique place in the landscape of European baroque ensembles for fifteen years, and the project has preserved its human and musical dimension. Attached to the sacred and secular repertoires championed by the ensemble since its creation, Le Banquet Céleste retains its vocal signature, which is balanced with the instrumental repertoire, in the image of the members who embody the new artistic direction.
The programmes cover Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with A. Stradella, F. Cavalli, C. Monteverdi, H. Purcell, J.S. Bach and G.F. Haendel as well as G. Carissimi, J.G. Pisendel, M. Weckmann and H. Schütz. They also explore earlier repertoire with J.H. Schein and W. Byrd, in addition to later works by C.P.E. Bach and G. Benda as well as, exceptionally, contemporary music. Since its inception, Le Banquet Céleste has, at its core, focused on the music of J.S. Bach, and this close link with the composer's work remains at the heart of its artistic project.
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