The Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra is a Baroque orchestra dedicated to performing music of the 17th and 18th centuries using period instruments and historically informed performance practices to enrich, educate, and inspire the Indiana community and beyond.
The orchestra's artistic director is the Belgian Baroque flutist and conductor, Barthold Kuijken.
The members of the group perform on instruments built between about 1600 and 1750, or replicas thereof, including instruments not in common use today, such as the theorbo, the violone, the sackbut, wooden one-keyed flutes, valveless trumpets, and the harpsichord.
The orchestra also collaborates with the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, the Indianapolis Suzuki Academy, and Second Presbyterian's Beecher Singers on an annual Handel Messiah performance.
[6] In 2019, the orchestra began performing on the Marianne Tobias Music Program[7] at Eskenazi Health[8] and on a series of Sunday concerts at Newfields, Indianapolis Art Museum.