Founded by James Vivian and Joseph Crouch in 2006, The Temple Players pursue musical activities on several fronts, from joining the Temple Church Choir in providing music for services, concerts and recordings, to a series of small-scale cantata concerts with solo singers like Robin Blaze and Claire Booth, to a re-enactment of ‘An Evening at the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens’, to oratorios and critically-acclaimed opera productions.

The group is flexible in size as befits its range of activities, from chamber trio to oratorio orchestra. Joseph Crouch, principal cellist with both The Academy of Ancient Music and The English Concert, leads the band alongside Persephone Gibbs.