The Croatian Baroque Ensemble is Croatia's leading ensemble for historically informed performance of instrumental and vocal-instrumental music of the baroque and related periods on original instruments or replicas. The Ensemble was established in 1999. Its members are renowned musicians of the younger generation – instrumentalists and singers who are already well-established baroque music performers. They have a permanent concert series in the Croatian Music Institute in Zagreb with thematically clearly developed programs consisting of Croatian and international baroque repertoire. They also appear around Europe and in South America, as well as in festivals such as the Varaždin Baroque Evenings, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Split Summer, Korkyra Baroque Festival, Osor Music Evenings, Evenings in St. Donat's, Histria Festival, Passion Heritage, Organum Histriae, Festival SEVIQC Brežice, Croatian Music Festival in Vienna, Esteban Salas Festival in Havana, the International Baroque Festival Melk, Misiones de Chiquitos Festival in Bolivia, Central European Sacral Music Festival in Rome, Tesori musicali Festival in Pisa, etc. They often host excellent soloists and conductors, including Enrico Onofri, Adrian Butterfield, Laurence Cummings, Richard Egarr, Hervé Niquet, Stefano Montanari, Philip Pickett, Catherine Mackintosh, Werner Ehrhardt, Ryo Terakado, Aapo Häkkinnen, Richard Egarr, Peter Lönnerberg, Mimi Mitchell, David Staff and others. The Ensemble's artistic director is violinist Laura Vadjon, while Saša Britvić is their president.