NEW! You can now download EUBO's new programme book for 2010 here.

The new members for EUBO 2010 have been selected. To see the list, click here.

The European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO) provides specialist baroque orchestral training to post conservatoire music students from all over Europe, selected by auditions, in preparation for concerts and tours with Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Enrico Onofri, Ton Koopman and Christina Pluhar in 2010.

Find out more about the European Union Baroque Orchestra in a film produced last year:

"baroque rocks" (12 minutes)

"presto presentation" (2 minutes)

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"Bringing together talent of different backgrounds, nationalities and languages, EUBO serves as a reminder of what we can achieve by working together."

José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission

"The European Union Baroque Orchestra is a perfect symbol of our united Europe and its ideals... a brilliant example of the Europe of excellence."

Jan Figel', Former Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth

In any profession, the move from student to practitioner is always difficult and if you are a talented young baroque musician, difficult might sometimes seem like impossible. The problem is one of experience: to work with a top orchestra you need experience, but you can’t get the experience you need without working with a top orchestra. EUBO bridges this ‘experience gap’.

Every year EUBO invites 100 talented young baroque musicians from across Europe to take part in one of the three-day audition courses. The 25 or so successful candidates, normally from up to 14 EU countries with an average age of approximately 24 years, then spend six months together, training, touring and performing throughout Europe and further afield under the world’s leading baroque specialists.

At the end of each year, the students of EUBO move on into the professional world and the whole process from audition to graduation, begins again. EUBO has been so successful in its mission, that there are now former EUBO students in every major professional baroque ensemble in the world, including, for example, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Les Musiciens du Louvre, English Concert, Europa Galante, Academy of Ancient Music, La Petite Bande, The King's Consort, Concerto Copenhagen and Les Arts Florissants.

In 2008 EUBO was invited to become orchestra-in-residence in Echternach, Luxembourg, thereby fortifying its position as the baroque orchestra at the heart of Europe. Under the banner "Echter'Barock" EUBO gives a series of concerts in co-operation with the City and Festival of Echternach and the new cultural centre Trifolion.