To celebrate 10 years of Musica Antica in 2026, we will be recording our first album of previously unrecorded and long-unperfomed music from 1650s Venice. This will be the first recording to reproduce the exact instrumentation used according to surviving payment records from the 17th century. Camilla Seale and Tristram Cooke will be accompanied by a band of violins, bass viol, harpsichord, pentagonal virginal and two theorbos, with our approach to tone and ornamentation led by research on the voice in the 17th century and historical treatises on ornamentation and surviving examples of ornamented music. 

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Your support will allow us more time to work on implementing historical pedagogy in practice, and on bringing to life a soundworld which has yet to be recorded. In thanks, all supporters will receive invitations to workshops on instrumentation and ornamentation, a private sneak peak lecture-recital of music unheard since the 1650s, credit in our liner notes, and a hard copy of the album.

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You can donate via the panel on this page, or write to us at info@musicaantica.org.uk for questions on our project or other ways to support us.

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With all our thanks,

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Oliver, Jess, and all the musicians of
Musica Antica.