Les Délices (pronounced Lay day-lease) delights, inspires, educates, and expands audiences for music on period instruments through innovative programming and world class performances. With deep roots in our Northeast Ohio community, Les Délices is building a national reputation as a leader in the field of early music, advancing its relevance and sustainability by welcoming collaboration, embracing digital media, and proactively working to support diversity and inclusion among our peers and repertoire.

Founded by baroque oboist Debra Nagy in 2009, Les Délices has established a reputation for unique programs that “can’t help but get one listening and thinking in fresh ways” (San Francisco Classical Voice). The New York Times observed that “Concerts and recordings by Les Délices are journeys of discovery” while UK Classical Source added, “The centuries roll away when the members of Les Délices bring this long-existing music to communicative and sparkling life.”

Les Délices produces an annual four-program subscription concert series and tours nationally. The organization’s creative outreach programs include SalonEra, our early music webseries and podcast that serves a local and global audience of music lovers and LD Music Meditations, a guided-listening series available as a telephone hotline and podcast that provides brief respite from stress and anxiety to listeners from all walks of life. Les Délices’ post-pandemic programming balances digital content creation with in-person concert productions and outreach programs that impact our local community.