As with so many of the best early music ensembles performing today, the performances of the Ensemble Gilles Binchois have been inextricably linked with profound musical scholarship and the leadership of a single powerful personality. For the Ensemble Gilles Binchois, this personality remains its founder and director, Dominique Vellard. While also presenting around 30 concerts a year, the group has continued a steady recording pace into the mid-2020s. Adding to its catalog of more than 40 recordings, it issued the album Timor Mortis in 2024.
Vellard and some of his close colle...