The ensemble gives concerts all over the country, including performances at the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio, the National Philharmonic, the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Silesian Philharmonic and others. It has taken part in festivals in Warsaw (Early Music Festival at the Royal Castle, Summer Academy of Early Music in Wilanów, International Festival of Contemporary Music Wwarszawska Jesień) and Katowice (Days of Europe). He has collaborated with such performers as Andreas Lebeda, Constanze Backes, Evelyn Tubb, Didier Talpain, the early instruments ensemble Il Tempo (under the direction of Agata Sapiecha) and the early dance ensemble Pawanilia.
A concert on the occasion of the Bach Year (2000) with the participation of the La Tempesta choir and soloists of the International Academy of Early Music in Wilanów was broadcast by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). In October 2002, at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, the ensemble performed in the form of an all-female choir and an all-female orchestra, presenting Msza dla Ospedale [Mass for the Ospedale] – sacral works by Antonio Vivaldi (including the Gloria RV 589), performing this music for the first time in Poland with an original cast of performers. In 2003, at the invitation of the Alliance Française, the group toured presenting French music and literature of the 16th century. In the same year, at the 13th Early Music Festival in Warsaw, it received the prestigious Eugenia and Julian Kulski award. In 2004, it made his debut at the Wratislavia Cantans festival, performing alongside the outstanding soprano Olga Pasiecznik.
In 2002, the ensemble recorded an album of instrumental and vocal-instrumental compositions of the late Baroque for the company Canon. Two years later, in 2004, another of its albums, containing sacred compositions by Antonio Vivaldi, was released on the Swedish BIS label. It was hailed as Record of the Year by the British online portal MusicWeb. In 2005, La Tempesta was invited to permanently collaborate on a large-scale project for the phonographic recording of Jasna Góra music. It is currently preparing three discs containing compositions by Józef Elsner and Fathers Cyril Gieczyński and Amando Ivancic.
The group performs in major concert halls and festivals at home and abroad (Roma Festival Barocco, Internationales H.I.F. Biber Festival Wien, Tage für Alte Musik Berlin and others). It collaborated with the Grand Theatre in Poznań and the Opera at the Castle in Szczecin during the staging of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen directed by Michał Znaniecki. The ensemble has recorded over a dozen albums, including a series dedicated to the music of the Jasna Góra monastery archives and the first Polish studio recording of J. F. Handel’s Messiah oratorio.
The ensemble’s artistic director and conductor is its founder, Jakub Burzyński.