The European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO) provides specialist baroque orchestral training to post conservatoire music students from all over Europe, selected by audition, in preparation for concerts and tours which in 2011 will be directed by Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Enrico Onofri and Alexis Kossenko.

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, usually from at least 13 EU countries with an average age of 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.

EUBO is also regularly invited for residencies by Les Jardins d'Agrement, Amilly, France, Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein in Blankenburg, Germany and for the first time in 2011 by Collegio Ghislieri in Pavia, Italy.