Salut! Baroque turns 30 in 2025, offering an opportunity to reflect on a journey that has taken 140 musicians into the diverse music of 280 composers since the ensemble’s founding in 1995.

“In this celebratory year, our concerts span the ages, honouring Baroque music as it emerged from the Renaissance, its resplendent peak and its evolution into the Classical period,” says Salut! Baroque’s Director, Sally Melhuish.

“Our programs pay tribute to the composers and musicians of this rapidly changing era who broke with tradition to become the pioneers of new instrumental techniques and performance styles. It brought forth a musical era based on drama, diversity and creativity, threading together politics, religion and social progress.”

Concert 1: Music to Celebrate

Salut’s season opener captures the blooming of music the baroque period as concerts moved away from the confines of the church and royal courts and into the public realm. This program includes The Four Seasons by Giovanni Guido (written around eight years before Vivaldi’s more famous composition), and Jan Rokyta’s enchanting Balkanology, written 300 years later...