We like to combine the instruments which we know - from looking at the paintings and sculpture of the period - were played together at the time. We see ourselves as an innovative group, not just in playing Arab instruments alongside Christian ones, exploring their mutual interplay, but in allowing each instrument to express its own distinctive character. Our satisfaction derives from discovering what is possible.

In many cases, there are no surviving original examples anywhere in the world of the instruments which we play. Recreating them presupposes the accumulated experience of years of research in Europe and the Arab world, thirty-seven years of making mediaeval instruments and of learning how to play them by exploring the nature and musical potential of each in its own right. We like to use musical forms – such as introduction-theme-improvised solo-theme – which were used at the time and which still feature today in Maghrebi-Andalusian music, a living tradition from which we continue to learn so much.

The instruments which we use are carefully selected, bearing in mind that some evolved considerably over four hundred years and others completely disappeared. Some appear strange to the modern eye – but it is like an old family photograph: they can look wildly out of fashion, but you can recognise some of the traits and characteristics inherited by their descendants, the instruments familiar to us today.

Mudéjar’s music has featured in documentaries, television programmes and in dance and theatrical performances.

Mudéjar, and each of the musicians who form the group, has performed all over the world, playing in major festivals and concert tours in Spain, Portugal, England, Ireland, France, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Japan, the United States, Canada, Australia and Latin America.