“The UK’s most dynamic, theatrical and outrageously different baroque ensemble” .
Gramophone

Red Priest is one of the major success stories on the international early music scene today. Named after the flame-haired priest Antonio Vivaldi, this extraordinary English ensemble has redefined the art of baroque music performance, combining the fruits of extensive research with swashbuckling virtuosity, creative recomposition and compelling stagecraft. The group performs largely from memory, allowing an operatic level of freedom and interaction, and its programmes are drawn from myriad baroque sources to create a kaleidoscopic range of moods.

International music critics have described the Red Priest style as ‘electrifying’, ‘sheer daring’, ‘sonically supercharged’, ‘brilliant and inspired’, but the group’s extravagantly baroque ethos is perhaps best summed up in the words of English musicologist and broadcaster George
Pratt:
“If nobody goes over the top, how will we know what lies on the other side?”

“The performance by British period-instrument quartet Red Priest of ‘The Four Seasons’ … didn’t so much breathe new life into Vivaldi as plunge an adrenaline-filled syringe into his heart. What made this zaniness work, was the players’ virtuosity and thorough understanding of the baroque idiom.”
Washington Post