About Us
HIP Company is an Early Music ensemble from Perth, Western Australia, specialising in the historically informed performance of seventeenth and eighteenth century music. Directed by Bonnie de la Hunty (soprano), Sarah Papadopoulos (Baroque violin), and Krista Low (Baroque ’cello and viola da gamba), HIP Company creates vibrant and thought-provoking performances, combining tradition with innovation.
Directors Sarah Papadopoulos, Bonnie de la Hunty, Krista Low - Photo by Nick FitzPatrick, 2023
The ensemble launched in 2020, made their festival debut at the Fremantle Biennale in 2021, and released their critically acclaimed debut album, Pastorales: Arias for the Open Air in the same year.
Recent concert programmes in Perth, regional WA and Sydney, have included works by European Baroque and Renaissance masters alongside contemporary works and traditional folk music, including cross-cultural collaborations, all on historical Baroque instruments.
Their close friendship and sense of fun in making music together for the audience, is always at the forefront, coupled with careful research and consideration of historical repertoire, instruments, scores, techniques, and stylistic elements, true to the ‘HIP’ (‘Historically Informed Performance’) Early Music movement.
HIP Company acknowledges the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation as the traditional custodians and earliest story-tellers of the land on which we live and play music today.
We pay our respects to Elders past and present.