The Consort was founded in 1988 as part of the activities of the Early Music Network of Great Britain, a forerunner of the NCEM, York.
[1] The group disbanded in 2024, their last concert being a performance of 'Voices Appeared'[2] for the Boston Early Music Festival on June 7 2024.
'Voices Appeared' was a live soundtrack of music composed or performed during the lifetime of Joan of Arc that accompanied screenings of Carl Theodor Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928).
The Consort has also performed and recorded with the jazz quartet Perfect Houseplants.
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