The Ministers of Pastime is a group of musicians specialized in historically informed performance, focusing on repertoire from the 17th and 18th centuries.

It owes its name to an expression with which the ambassador of France at the court of Henry VIII of England described the search for musicians over the European continent. As a result of this search, the King managed to attract to his court, among others, a group of string musicians from Northern Italy, although possibly their origins lay on an exile from the Iberian Peninsula. Thus, the first documented group of instruments of the violin family in England was established, collecting on the one hand instrumental traditions originated in the Mediterranean countries and, on the other, planting the seed of a musical institution of increasing relevance whose echo would resound across the European continent.

The Ministers of Pastime wants to reflect this reality as it shows the richness of the cultural influences in Europe. For this, its proposal has as its main axis the music for violin consort and its evolution, as well as the relevance of these instruments in other later musical genres.