‘There aren’t enough superlatives to do justice to this performance by Eriksson, soprano and violinist Susie Bishop, countertenor Russell Harcourt and Tommie Andersson on theorbo and guitar.’ - Limelight Magazine, April 2023

The Marais Project is a celebration of music for the viola da gamba inspired by Marin Marais, the great French virtuoso viola da gamba performer and composer. Formed by Jennifer Eriksson in 2000, the ensemble has presented concerts for 25 years, toured widely, and made numerous recordings.

Eriksson’s original aim was to perform the complete 600 viola da gamba works of Marais – a monumental task which is more than 85% complete. However, over the years The Marais Project has pushed their artistic and repertoire boundaries beyond the French baroque to include folk music, mediaeval and renaissance repertoire as well as commissioning and recording new music. They are one of the few Australian ensembles with a focus on Nordic traditional and early music – a product of Eriksson and lutenist Tommie Andersson’s Swedish heritage. Their 2014 Smörgåsbord recording, which featured Swedish baroque, classical and folk music – and even an ABBA song - spent 3 months in the Australian Top 20 classical charts. In 2023 Eriksson performed in Norway with renowned Norwegian jazz pianist, composer and Steinway Artist, Jan Gunnar Hoff.