The Illyria Consort

The Illyria Consort is a project of Baroque violinist Bojan Čičić, formed to explore rare Baroque works from the Venetian Republic and the Habsburg Empire. The group's programs on its extensive tours are often drawn from rare works known only in manuscript, including works by neglected violinists of the Baroque era. In 2017, the Consort released its debut album, Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli: Sonate da Camera Nos. 1-6. It released another album of Carbonelli sonatas, along with an album of the London Concertos by Giovanni Giornovich. In 2021, the Consort managed to release three albums in spite of the coronavirus pandemic: the group backed countertenor Barnaby Smith on the album Handel, and it issued Adriatic Voyage: Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia, and Pyrotechnia: Fire + Fury from 18th-Century Italy.