PHAEDRUS EMBODIES THE RENAISSANCE TRAVERSO CONSORT AS A LIVING ARTISTIC PALETTE BY JOINING HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE PRACTICES WITH EXPERIMENTAL AESTHETIC RESEARCH.
The ensemble shares what inspires them through concert stagings and immersive listening experiences.
The musicians of Phaedrus come from around the world, giving each performer the opportunity to lend their unique and distinguished perspective to the interpretation of the music they create together. Phaedrus performs on flutes made by the renowned maker, Giovanni Tardino, after the original consort of flutes which survive in the Accademia Filarmonica in Verona.
The ensemble's name was inspired by the humanist philosophy and rhetorical practices which gave music its distinctive character in the 16th and 17th centuries. Thus, 'Phaedrus' was chosen from Plato's classic text in which Socrates claimed that the art of rhetoric flowed from madness, divine inspiration, and above all else, love.