Music at McClelland – Ensemble Pompadour

Ensemble Pompadour is dedicated to playing French baroque music on three of the most fashionable instruments of the day: the viola da gamba, theorbo, and the baroque musette, a tiny, bijou bagpipe once fetishised by the French aristocracy.

The ensemble takes its name from Madame de Pompadour, maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XV, an enthusiastic patron of the arts, and the leading fashionista of her day.

Music at McClelland is generously supported by major donors;
Igor Zambelli OAM, Mary-Jane Gething AO, The Robert Salzer Foundation, and the Cope-Williams Foundation.

With program partners
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

It is a seated event and is held in the Sarah and Baillieu Myer Education Pavilion.