Musica Antica Rotherhithe

Musica Antica Rotherhithe Medieval song to Venetian opera and everything in between, brought accessibly to South East London

We’re over the moon to have been awarded a grant from Continuo Foundation towards touring one of our 2027 programmes, La...
24/09/2026

We’re over the moon to have been awarded a grant from Continuo Foundation towards touring one of our 2027 programmes, La Guitarra Reina! We’ll be resurrecting more long-forgotten music for guitar and voices from sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe and Latin America, which we’ll perform alongside the only surviving polyphony in some of the languages of pre-Colombian Mexico and Peru. Touring dates will be available soon! |

We’re delighted to be performing in the Great Hall at Queen’s House, Greenwich, next month! Soprano and Viol player Luci...
08/09/2026

We’re delighted to be performing in the Great Hall at Queen’s House, Greenwich, next month! Soprano and Viol player Lucine Musaelian and soprano and lutenist Kristiina Watt will be singing music by Barbara Strozzi, Francesca and Settimia Caccini and their teachers Giulio Caccini and Francesco Cavalli, with Oliver Doyle accompanying them on our lovely new pentagonal virginals - a perfect copy of an instrument made in Venice for Queen Elizabeth I, now preserved in the V&A! We’ll be doing two performances on the evening of 8 October, with some tickets including the opportunity to enjoy a reception on the terrace overlooking Greenwich Park. You can find tickets via the link in our bio! |

We’re in 18th century Paris for our next concert, with two of the mini-operas which make up Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes:...
22/05/2026

We’re in 18th century Paris for our next concert, with two of the mini-operas which make up Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes: Les Sauvages and Les Incas (back by popular request!).

Both pieces are set in the Americas at the time that they were falling to European dominance: with devious Spanish and French explorers vying with a noble Native American for the hand of a local chieftain’s daughter, Les Sauvages questions which of the parties is actually the ‘savage’. Les Incas culminates in a love duet sung at exactly the same time that an evil priest tries to summon a volcanic eruption to destroy both the Spanish and the last independent Inca city state - some of Rameau’s most fantastic music, and one of our favourite scenes from any opera!

We’ll be performing at Holy Trinity on 20th June, 7:30pm, with tickets from £2-£10, and our famous gin bar open from 7pm! Featuring the lovely Milly Atkinson, Camilla Seale, Tristram Cooke, Theo Nisbett, Oliver Doyle and Joachim Sabbat, with a band including Gabriel Alves Candido da Silva (flute) Flora Fontanelli and Katie Holmes (violins) Madison Marshall (viola) Rowena Jones (bassoon) Jude Chandler (double bass) and Peter Martin (baroque guitar)

The end of a fab tour of rarely-heard music from 1650’s Venice (including some not performed since the 17th century!) wi...
21/02/2026

The end of a fab tour of rarely-heard music from 1650’s Venice (including some not performed since the 17th century!) with our perfect copy of a Venetian opera band of the period. Next stop: the launch of the album! A huge thank you to everyone who supported it, including , and .j.white who captured our London concert so beautifully.

18/02/2026

TONIGHT: immerse yourself in the golden age of venetian opera with Musica Antica Rotherhithe.

Hear cantatas and extracts from operas brought to life by mezzo Camilla Seale and countertenor Tristram Cooke in an enchanting evening of early music. Using period instruments such as harpsichord and pentagonal virginal, this unique ensemble will transport you to the mid 17th century with a band that matches a Venetian theatre band of the time as closely as possible.

Musica Antica Rotherhithe was founded by Oliver Doyle and Jessica Eucker in 2016 with the aim of presenting affordable, accessible concerts of rarely heard music from the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Where modern scores for these works do not exist, Musica Antica create performing editions complete with translations and critical notes, which are made freely available online thanks to the Cavalli Charity. This concert has been made possible by the Continuo Foundation.

🎟️ Tickets available through the link below!
https://tinyurl.com/mzzmvbju

📆 Wednesday 18th February, 2026
⏰ 7:30 pm (Doors 7:00 pm)
📍 Firth Hall


Musica Antica Rotherhithe

We were in lovely New College, Oxford for our Decima Musa tour last night - today it’s Durham with MUSICON, and tomorrow...
17/02/2026

We were in lovely New College, Oxford for our Decima Musa tour last night - today it’s Durham with MUSICON, and tomorrow Sheffield for Performance Venues!

11/02/2026

The first newsletter of 2026 went out on Friday/Saturday and here it is in case you are not on the mailing list. It announces our first gig of the year, that promises to be a very special one.

Friends, family and fellow musicians of dear Pablo Dominguez, who performed seven times in our series, and who died a year ago, will be coming to perform a special concert on Friday 27th February.

Pablo played all sorts of music, on guitar and percussion, and that included chamber music, with guitarist Maria Camahort's Iberian Colours ensemble. They are coming (this is all really Maria's initiative!) and Demi Garcia Sabat, also a familiar face to Tuned In Londoners, will be taking on the role of percussionist. Excitingly their set will include a PREMIERE of a new piece Maria has written for Pablo.

Long-established and much acclaimed singer songwriter, poet, composer and neighbour of Pablo, JAVIER RUIBAL, will also be travelling specially to perform for us, bringing us the rhythms and essence of the region that is their home: Puerto de Santa Maria, near Cadiz.

Some of you will know, though many won't, for Pablo was a humble chap, that his father is the world renowned jazz pianist, Chano Dominguez. He is due to be on stage at the Barbican in April but doesn't want to miss this celebration of the life of Pablo: we are immensely thrilled that he will also be putting in a guest appearance.

We will be at City Hope London in Bermondsey. It is the last venue that Pablo played in, with the LEO POWER. Trio.

We are excited to announce that the Instituto Cervantes is supporting us.

Read all our news, with more info about this gig, as well as a look back at 2025, and a couple of other gig recommendations, one local to us (Musica Antica Rotherhithe), the other a band that is very important to us (She'koyokh). NB: This is our first time sending news via the Email Octopus platform.

https://tinyurl.com/EmOct-TIL-News99b

Tell your friends and get your tickets! See you there!! And if you are not free, please consider supporting the event anyway: we are raising funds for Pablo's wife and young children.

Here is the Facebook event: Pablo Domínguez, a Tuned In London Tribute: Iberian Colours, Javier Ruibal and Chano Domínguez

Just under two weeks away!
07/02/2026

Just under two weeks away!

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