Established in 2018, Red Dot Baroque (RDB) is Singapore's first professional baroque ensemble, dedicated to bringing out the spirit and essence of Baroque music on period instruments, and to presenting music in fresh perspectives for the modern audience. Led by baroque violinist Alan Choo, the group maintains a busy performance schedule both in Singapore and around the world, in addition to being Ensemble-in-Residence at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music.

In Singapore, Red Dot Baroque has spearheaded the local music scene with many firsts: the first performance on period instruments of Bach’s complete Brandenburg Concertos (2023), the first French Baroque opera (Charpentier’s Médee) in collaboration with the French ensemble Les Épopées and The Opera People (2025), and Bach’s St. John Passion performed without a conductor in collaboration with YST Conservatory – “a performance not lacking in conviction and passion.” (The Straits Times, 2022). RDB has also collaborated with guest artists such as Stéphane Fuget, Alberto Busettini and La Risonanza, and is looking forward to performing with countertenor Andreas Scholl and soprano Sarah Traubel at the Esplanade Concert Hall in July 2025.

Internationally, the group has embarked on concert tours in Malaysia (2019) and South Korea (2023), where they worked with Dorothee Oberlinger, Olga Watts, The Gleam Ensemble (Taiwan) and The New Baroque Company (Seoul). RDB is excited to make their European debut in Italy in the summer of 2025, which includes concerts at the Risonanze Festival (Malborghetto) and a five-city tour in Northeast Italy. In place of a cancelled USA tour in 2020 due to the pandemic, they have also appeared virtually on the Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Series and the Indianapolis Early Music Festival in 2021.

RDB regularly explores intersections between various arts disciplines in their original productions. In 2024, they presented a theatrical production of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in collaboration with Taugeh Productions – an educational outreach show where all musicians on stage also became actors. In 2021, they paired a concert presentation of The Four Seasons with the recitation of a commissioned poem from poet Sara Florian, “The Lost Seasons”. Immersive lighting designs by Alberta Wileo featured alongside string quartets by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Arriaga in 2022, with the audience seated around the performers. In 2023, RDB premiered “The Circle of Life” in collaboration with Chinese, Indian and Malay folk instrumentalists from The Open Score Project. In this unique programme, the worlds of the West and the East meet through 17th-century Italian songs and folk tunes from various world cultures.

In keeping with their roots and also exploring new music on old instruments, RDB has commissioned two original works by Singaporean composers –A Barojak Suite by Phang Kok Jun (2020) and Rainforest Refrains by Chen Zhangyi (2025, in celebration of Singapore’s 60th birthday). With support from the National Arts Council Singapore, the group has also filmed several music videos in iconic locations around Singapore, available on their YouTube channel.