Blackadder Baroque Brass brings together many of the UK’s leading period instrument players in a completely unique ensemble with a colourful blend of sounds never heard before. 

With specially commissioned arrangements we aim to revolutionise brass music from the Baroque period by combining different groups of instruments in a new ground-breaking formation which is the very first of its kind. 

Our players are at the forefront of the Early Music movement and hold principal positions with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Academy of Ancient Music, The Gabrielli Consort, His Majesty’s Cornetts and Sagbuts and The English Baroque Soloists amongst many others. For more information click here.

“The Cornett playing of Jeremy West is truly “a Rolls Royce affair".

— Music and Musicians.

"Playing the Natural Horn can sometimes be like juggling with live grenades. Gavin Edwards however, played the 4th horn solo with grace and deftness"

— The New York Times

“The two valveless Natural Trumpets of David Blackadder and Phillip Bainbridge strutted with proud and flawless magnificence”

— The Daily Telegraph.

David Blackadder’s performance at the Royal Wedding in 2018 was to an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion viewers. 

The video below shows him playing Handel’s Eternal Source of Light as Meghan Markle walked down the aisle of St George’s Chapel, Windsor followed by the new re-imagined Blackadder Baroque Brass version recorded in Keble College Chapel in February 2022.

"An intoxicating mix of 4 Natural Trumpets, 4 Natural Horns 4 Cornetts, 4 Sackbuts and a Serpent with Baroque Timpani and Percussion."

"A series of new stunning arrangements specially commissioned from some of the world’s leading brass arrangers."