Founded in 2005, Orchid Classics is a leading artist-oriented classical music label known for its commitment to creative freedom and close artist partnerships. Over the last two decades, the label has established itself as a substantial creative presence within the classical music industry, working with a diverse roster of internationally acclaimed artists and significant emerging talents.

Alongside a base of leading artists primarily in the UK and North America, Orchid’s reach extends globally, with recent releases featuring musicians based in Italy, Japan, South Korea, The Netherlands, Estonia, Denmark, and other global territories. 

Orchid Classics’ catalogue includes an array of high-profile and celebrated recordings, highlighted by winning a Latin Grammy with pianist Gabriela Montero in her first release on an independent label. Alongside this, the label is home to a number of highly-acclaimed solo debuts by leading artists including soprano Erin Morley, pianist Kate Liu, violinist Nancy Zhou, and cellist John-Henry Crawford.

Orchid has a proud reputation for working with young artists to help establish a foothold in the recorded music industry, providing a platform to launch the careers of performers such as Coco Tomita, Hans Christian Aavik, Louise Alder, Liya Petrova, and Manami Suzuki. The label’s repertoire spans a wide range of composers, including Kris Bowers, Thomas Adès, Caroline Shaw, and Jonathan Dove, reflecting its commitment to both established and contemporary voices in classical music.

In addition to its classical music focus, Orchid Classics also produces select spoken word collections featuring some of the most iconic voices in the entertainment industry, such as Ralph Fiennes, Tom Conti, Kenneth Branagh, Samantha Bond, Alexander Armstrong, and Danny DeVito.

In 2023, the Orchid Music Group launched Blue Cloud Music. This label specialises in genres adjacent to core classical music, with key focuses on digital markets and cross-genre musical campaigns, whilst adhering to the core founding tenets of putting the artist to the fore. Recent highlights have included Andy Summers – Vertiginous Canyons, Robin Katz and Guy Barker – Oceans for Eros, and the upcoming release of The Earth Where We Meet – an ambient music project featuring soundscapes by Melisa Yildirim and Rachel Beckles Willson.

In the midst of its busiest calendar to date, upcoming Orchid Music Group releases include pianist Zee Zee and The Philharmonia Orchestra with Paavo Järvi, the debut album of cellist Daniel Hamin Go, an album of Meditations by Ashley Wass and Doriane Gable (Blue Cloud Music) and the return of the London Choral Sinfonia featuring star treble Malakai Bayoh.