The San Luis Obispo Early Music Consortium (a 502(c)(3) Non-Profit Corporation) was founded in 1985 to support the activities of the Central Coast Renaissance Historical Society. Over time, its mission was broadened to encompass the Baroque and Early Classical eras, and to incorporate little known New World treasures into a rich repertoire of the Old World masters.

Its director and musicologist John Warren, feels a special quest as a Californian to give early music a local relevance by researching and presenting music from California’s Spanish Colonial period. Indeed! -Music from all parts of the New World is an integral part of every Californian’s heritage. ---Mr.Warren is determined to uplift the great composers of Early Colonial California from their ill-deserved obscurity into the bright daylight of frequent performance.

The New World Baroque Orchestra brings the joys and treasure of the Baroque Era in Early California--- a time when grace and refinement were paramount--- to today’s audiences. By recreating the grace and refinement of the past, the Consort honors and renews these virtues for the present and the future, therefore providing artistic growth throughout the community. And furthermore, future generations can grow to treasure early music not as a museum piece, but as a living art.

About the Consort. The San Luis Early Music Consort was founded in 1985 to support the activities of the Central Coast Renaissance Historical Society. Over time, its mission has broadened to encompass the Baroque and Early Classical eras, and to incorporate little known New World treasures into the rich repertoire of the Old World masters...

A bridge between Generations The New World Baroque Orchestra is unique not only for the breadth of its repertoire, but in its genuinely intergenerational character. Young people participate in its music-making as honored equals, and are always welcome in its audiences, but it is not a youth group per se, for seasoned performers, and elders in the audience, are equally important and honored...