[2] EUBO was founded in 1985 as an initiative of European Music Year to celebrate the 300th anniversaries of three influential baroque musicians: Johann Sebastian Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, and George Frideric Handel.
[citation needed] From 1985 to 2017, the European Union Baroque Orchestra was an educational charity registered in England & Wales with its administrative office in Wootton, West Oxfordshire.
[4] In 2017 the orchestra announced its withdrawal from England and a temporary cessation of its operations as a result of Brexit, with the intention to relocate to the Augustinus Muziekcentrum (AMUZ) in Antwerp in 2018.
[6][7] Following auditions in 2023, EUBO has given its first performances since its relaunch at the Wratislavia Cantans festival in Poland, Concertgebouw Brugge and AMUZ in Belgium, under the guidance of Enrico Onofri and Francesco Corti.
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (former Music Director), Ton Koopman, Margaret Faultless,[10] Roy Goodman, Enrico Onofri, Rachel Podger, Paul Agnew, Gottfried von der Goltz, Alfredo Bernardini, Sergio Azzolini and Amandine Beyer are amongst the artists who have regularly worked with EUBO.