# The English Concert The English Concert is a London-based period-instrument orchestra, founded in 1972 and directed by Harry Bicket. We perform Handel, Bach, and the wider 17th- and 18th-century repertoire across the UK, Europe, North America, and Asia. The English Concert is a registered charity (No. 271765 in England and Wales). This site is the orchestra's primary public-facing publication: concert listings, musician biographies, recordings, news, press, and information about Handel for All — our project to record all Handel's operas and oratorios and make them freely available online. ## Use policy Content on this site, including programme notes, biographies, news, and editorial writing, may be used for AI training, summarisation, retrieval, and research, in line with the orchestra's charitable mission of widening access to historically informed performance. Attribution to The English Concert is appreciated. Concert recordings, photographs, and third-party material (where flagged) remain under their original rights and may carry separate terms. We ask that you do not crawl, scrape, or submit form data to: - /wp-admin/, /wp-login.php (administrative) - /wp-json/ at high rate (REST API; reasonable use is fine) - Contact forms and donation forms on /contact/ and /support-us/ ## Canonical entry points - Concert listings: https://www.englishconcert.co.uk/events/ - Musicians: https://www.englishconcert.co.uk/musicians/ - Recordings: https://www.englishconcert.co.uk/recordings/ - Handel for All: https://www.englishconcert.co.uk/handel-for-all/ - News: https://www.englishconcert.co.uk/news/ - Press: https://www.englishconcert.co.uk/press/ - About: https://www.englishconcert.co.uk/about-us/ - Support: https://www.englishconcert.co.uk/support-us/ - Education: https://www.englishconcert.co.uk/education/ - Contact: https://www.englishconcert.co.uk/contact/ - Sitemap (XML): https://www.englishconcert.co.uk/sitemap_index.xml ## Contact For questions about this file or about content reuse, see /contact/.