List of early music ensembles
Encyclopedia
An early music ensemble is a musical ensemble
that specializes in performing early music
of the European classical tradition from the Baroque era
and earlier — broadly, music produced before about 1750. Most, but not all, of these groups are advocates of "historically informed performance
", and attempt to re-create the music as it might have sounded at the time it was written, using period instruments and modifying playing techniques according to the most recent scholarly research into music of the time.
Ensembles listed below generally have produced a substantial output of commercially available recordings. Some of these groups "cross over" into other genres, such as folk music
or contemporary classical music
. Names in parentheses indicate current directors, unless otherwise indicated.
Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...
that specializes in performing early music
Early music
Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...
of the European classical tradition from the Baroque era
Baroque music
Baroque music describes a style of Western Classical music approximately extending from 1600 to 1760. This era follows the Renaissance and was followed in turn by the Classical era...
and earlier — broadly, music produced before about 1750. Most, but not all, of these groups are advocates of "historically informed performance
Historically informed performance
Historically informed performance is an approach in the performance of music and theater. Within this approach, the performance adheres to state-of-the-art knowledge of the aesthetic criteria of the period in which the music or theatre work was conceived...
", and attempt to re-create the music as it might have sounded at the time it was written, using period instruments and modifying playing techniques according to the most recent scholarly research into music of the time.
Ensembles listed below generally have produced a substantial output of commercially available recordings. Some of these groups "cross over" into other genres, such as folk music
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
or contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...
. Names in parentheses indicate current directors, unless otherwise indicated.
List of ensembles
- A Sei Voci (Bernard Fabre-Garrus d.2006), France: vocal sextet
- Académie Baroque de Montréal (Suzie LeBlancSuzie LeBlancSuzie LeBlanc is a Canadian soprano and early music specialist, who has enjoyed an active international career performing in concerts throughout Europe, North America and Japan, in repertoire ranging from lute songs to chamber music to oratorio and early opera.Suzie LeBlanc specializes in the 17th...
), Canada - Academy of Ancient MusicAcademy of Ancient MusicThe Academy of Ancient Music is a period-instrument orchestra based in Cambridge, England. Founded by harpsichordist Christopher Hogwood in 1973, it was named after a previous organisation of the same name of the 18th century. The musicians play on either original instruments or modern copies of...
(Christopher HogwoodChristopher HogwoodChristopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood CBE, MA , HonMusD , born 10 September 1941, Nottingham, is an English conductor, harpsichordist, writer and musicologist, well known as the founder of the Academy of Ancient Music.-Biography:...
founder, then Andrew ManzeAndrew ManzeAndrew Manze is an English violinist and conductor.As a guest conductor Manze has regular relationships with a number of leading international orchestras including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Munich Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra,...
, currently Richard EgarrRichard EgarrRichard Egarr is a British keyboard performer and conductor. He received his musical training as a choirboy at York Minster, at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, and as organ scholar at Clare College, Cambridge...
), UK: baroque orchestra - Accademia Bizantina (Ottavio DantoneOttavio DantoneOttavio Dantone is an Italian conductor and keyboardist particularly noted for his performances of Baroque music. He has been the Music Director of the Accademia Bizantina in Ravenna since 1996.-Career:...
), Italy: baroque orchestra - Accademia DanielAccademia DanielAccademia Daniel is an Israeli music ensemble that specializes in performing music of the baroque era. The ensemble performs regularly both in their native country and in Europe, appearing at such places as the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt, and the Bach Museum in Leipzig...
(Shalev Ad-El), Israel: baroque chamber group - Accentus Austria (Thomas Wimmer), Austria, : baroque chamber group
- Accordone (Guido MoriniGuido MoriniGuido Morini is an Italian pianist, organist, harpsichordist, musicologist and composer.In the ensemble Accordone he performs early baroque works with singer Marco Beasley.Morini was born in Milan....
), Italy: early baroque, often with Marco Beasley - Akademie für Alte Musik BerlinAkademie für Alte Musik BerlinAkademie für Alte Musik Berlin is a German chamber orchestra founded in East Berlin in 1982...
, Germany: baroque orchestra - Al Ayre EspañolAl Ayre EspañolAl Ayre Español is a vocal and instrumental ensemble specialized on early music founded in 1988 by Eduardo López Banzo .The name of the ensemble was inspired by the title for a guitar Fugue of the Calanda composer, Gaspar Sanz...
(Eduardo López BanzoEduardo López BanzoEduardo López Banzo is a Spanish harpsichordist and conductor of baroque music.Banzo was born in Zaragoza Spain. He studied harpsichord with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam....
), Spain: baroque orchestra - AlamireAlamire (consort)Alamire is an English consort specialising in medieval and Renaissance music, both secular and religious. It was founded by David Skinner in 2005, and very swiftly has won praise for the quality and imagination of its recordings...
(David Skinner (musicologist)David Skinner (musicologist)Dr David Skinner is Director of Music at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He co-founded the Cardinall's Musick and Magdala....
), UK: vocal consort - Alla Francesca (Pierre Hamon with Brigitte Lesne), France: medieval
- Altramar http://www.altramar.org, USA
- American Bach SoloistsAmerican Bach SoloistsThe American Bach Soloists is an American baroque orchestra and early music chorus dedicated to preserving the heritage of early music through historically informed performances on period instruments, community outreach through free educational programs, and the development of young artists...
(Jeffrey ThomasJeffrey ThomasJeffrey or Jeff Thomas is the name of:* Jeffrey Thomas , British Labour Member of Parliament* Jeffrey C. Thomas, seven-time candidate for U.S...
), USA - American Baroque http://www.americanbaroque.org, USA
- Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & ChoirAmsterdam Baroque Orchestra & ChoirThe Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir is a Dutch early-music group based in Amsterdam.The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir was created in two stages by the conductor, organist and harpsichordist Ton Koopman. He founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra in 1979 and the Amsterdam Baroque Choir in...
(Ton KoopmanTon KoopmanTon Koopman is a conductor, organist and harpsichordist.Koopman had a "classical education" and then studied the organ , harpsichord and musicology in Amsterdam...
): baroque orchestra - Anonymous 4Anonymous 4Anonymous 4 is a female a cappella quartet, based in New York City. Their main performance genre is medieval music, although they have also premiered works by living composers such as John Tavener and Steve Reich...
, USA: all-female a cappella ensemble specializing in medieval musicMedieval musicMedieval music is Western music written during the Middle Ages. This era begins with the fall of the Roman Empire and ends sometime in the early fifteenth century... - Apollo's FireApollo's FireApollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra is a popular and critically acclaimed period-instrument ensemble specializing in early music based in Cleveland, Ohio. The ensemble unites a select pool of early music specialists from throughout North America and Europe...
(Jeannette SorrellJeannette SorrellJeannette Sorrell is an American musician and the founder and musical director of Apollo's Fire, the Cleveland baroque orchestra.She studied at the Tanglewood Music Festival under Roger Norrington and Leonard Bernstein, and served as a conducting fellow at the Aspen Music Festival...
) http://www.apollosfire.org Cleveland, USA - Arìon Choir & Consort - (it: Collegio Ghislieri di Pavia) (Giulio Prandi), Italy: baroque choir & orchestra
- Arion Orchestre Baroque (Claire Guimond), Montreal, Canada
- L'ArpeggiataL'ArpeggiataL'Arpeggiata is a European early music group led by Christina Pluhar, and founded by her in 2000.-Discography:* La Vilanella * Homo Fugit Velut Umbra * La Tarantella * All'Improvviso * Rappresentazione di Anima et di Corpo...
(Christina Pluhar), France: early baroque - Ars Antiqua AustriaArs Antiqua AustriaArs Antiqua Austria is an early music group founded in Linz in 1995 with the specific aim of performing Austrian baroque music on period instruments. The music at the imperial court in Vienna during the baroque era was influenced by Italian and French musical forms as well as by Spanish court music...
(Gunnar Letzbor) http://www.ars-antiqua-austria.com - Ars Antiqua de Paris, trio, France
- Ars Barocca, Bulgaria
- Ars Cantus, Poland
- Ars Nova Copenhagen (Paul HillierPaul HillierPaul Douglas Hillier is a conductor, music director and baritone. He specializes in early music and contemporary art music, especially that by composers Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford and the Guildhall School of Music, beginning his professional career while a...
), Denmark: renaissance to contemporary - Artek Early Music, http://www.artekearlymusic.org/ New York City
- Les Arts FlorissantsLes Arts Florissants (ensemble)Les Arts Florissants is a Baroque musical ensemble in residence at the Théâtre de Caen in Caen, France. The organization was founded by conductor William Christie in 1979. The ensemble derives its name from the 1685 opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. The organization consists of a chamber orchestra...
(William ChristieWilliam Christie (musician)William Lincoln Christie is an American-born French conductor and harpsichordist. He is noted as a specialist in baroque repertoire and as the founder of the ensemble Les Arts Florissants....
), France: baroque orchestra - Asteria MedievaleAsteria MedievaleAsteria is a vocal ensemble that specializes in historically informed performances of medieval and renaissance music, based on extensive research with original source material...
, duo, NYC: renaissance chansons - Atrium Musicae de MadridAtrium Musicae de MadridAtrium Musicae was an early music ensemble from Madrid, Spain, founded in 1964 by Gregorio Paniagua, a Spanish monk.-Background:Perhaps the group's most famous recording is Musique de la Grèce Antique , in which they performed ancient Greek music carefully taken down off scattered fragments of...
(Gregorio Paniagua), Spain - Auser MusiciAuser MusiciAuser Musici is a period instrument ensemble centered in Pisa that specializes in early music repertory from the Tuscan region of Italy.-History, Mission, and Activities:...
(Carlo Ipata), Italy: baroque orchestra - Ausonia (ensemble) France: baroque chamber
- Australian Brandenburg OrchestraAustralian Brandenburg OrchestraThe Australian Brandenburg Orchestra is an Australian period instrument orchestra specialising in the performance of baroque and classical music.The musicians play from original edition scores on restored or reproduced instruments of the 18th century...
(Paul DyerPaul DyerPaul David Dyer is a former English professional footballer who played as a midfielder for football league clubs Notts County and Colchester United, where he made over 100 appearances. Dyer also played non-league football for Gravesend & Northfleet and Chelmsford City-External links:**...
): baroque orchestra - Avison EnsembleAvison EnsembleThe Avison Ensemble is one of England's foremost exponents of classical music on period instruments. It is named after Charles Avison , the Newcastle-born composer, conductor and organist, ‘the most important English concerto composer of the 18th Century’...
(Gordon Dixon), UK: baroque orchestra - Bach Collegium JapanBach Collegium JapanBach Collegium Japan is composed of an orchestra and a chorus specialising in Baroque music, playing with period instruments. It was founded in 1990 by Masaaki Suzuki with the purpose of introducing Japanese audiences to European Baroque music. Suzuki still remains its music director...
(Masaaki SuzukiMasaaki Suzukiis a Japanese organist, harpsichordist and conductor, and the founder and musical director of the Bach Collegium Japan.He was born in Kobe to parents who were both Christians and amateur musicians...
), Kobe: Bach - Bach Ensemble (Joshua RifkinJoshua RifkinJoshua Rifkin is an American conductor, keyboard player, and musicologist. He is best known by the general public for having played a central role in the ragtime revival in the 1970s with the three albums he recorded of Scott Joplin's works for Nonesuch Records, and to classical musicians for his...
), USA: baroque soloists and orchestra - Bach Sinfonia (Daniel AbrahamDaniel Abraham (conductor)Daniel E. Abraham is an American conductor and musicologist. He studied conducting under Paul Traver at the University of Maryland and William Weinert at the Eastman School of Music. In 1997 he was a Conducting Fellow at the Oregon Bach Festival, where he studied under Helmuth Rilling. He has also...
) http://www.bachsinfonia.org Maryland, USA - Baltimore Consort, USA
- B'Rock, http://www.b-rock.org Belgium Baroque orchestra
- I Barocchisti (Diego Fasolis), Switzerland: baroque orchestra
- Boston BaroqueBoston BaroqueBoston Baroque is the oldest continuing period instrument orchestra in North America. It was founded in 1973 by the American harpsichordist and conductor, Martin Pearlman to present concerts of the Baroque and Classical repertoire on period instruments, drawing on the insights of the historical...
(Martin PearlmanMartin PearlmanMartin Pearlman is an American conductor, harpsichordist, composer, and early-music specialist. In the1973-74 season, he founded Boston Baroque , the first permanent period-instrument orchestra in North America...
), USA: baroque orchestra - Boston CamerataBoston CamerataThe Boston Camerata is an early music ensemble based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1954 by Narcissa Williamson, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as an adjunct to that museum's musical instrument collection....
(Joel Cohen), USA - Boulanger Ensemble (Nadia BoulangerNadia BoulangerNadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...
), France: historic revival of Monteverdi - Bourbon BaroqueBourbon BaroqueFounded in the summer of 2007 by harpsichordist John Austin Clark and baroque violinist Nicolas Fortin, Bourbon Baroque is a period instrument ensemble centered in Louisville, Kentucky that specializes in the performance of the music of the 17th and 18th centuries...
(Nicolas Fortin and John Austin Clark), USA: baroque orchestra - Brabant Ensemble (Stephen Rice (conductor)), UK: renaissance choral
- Brandenburg Consort (Roy GoodmanRoy GoodmanRoy Goodman is a conductor and violinist, specialising in the performance and direction of early music...
), UK: baroque orchestra - Broadside Band (Jeremy BarlowJeremy BarlowJeremy Barlow is an American soccer player currently playing for Richmond Kickers in the USL Second Division.-Youth and college:...
), UK - Café Zimmermann (Pablo Valetti) France: baroque chamber ensemble
- Camerata BernCamerata BernLocated in Bern, Switzerland, the Camerata Bern was founded in 1963 by musicians as a small and flexible chamber orchestra without a conductor. The Camerata Bern performs early Baroque to contemporary classical music...
(Antje Weithaas), Switzerland: Chamber orchestra - Camerata Köln, http://www.camerata-koeln.de Germany: baroque chamber ensemble
- Camerata MediterraneaCamerata mediterraneaCamerata Mediterranea is a French non-profit organization, an international, intercultural institute of musical exchanges. Camerata Mediterranea devotes itself to research, dialogue, and pedagogy involving the diverse musical civilizations of the Mediterranean basin, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim....
(Joel Cohen), USA - Camerata TrajectinaCamerata TrajectinaCamerata Trajectina is a Dutch early music ensemble.The ensemble was founded in Utrecht in 1974 by Jos van Veldhoven and Jan Nuchelmans...
, Utrecht: renaissance and baroque Dutch music - CancioneroCancioneroCancionero is name of an early music ensemble based in the Sevenoaks and Maidstone area of Kent who perform the songs and dance music of the Middle Ages and also early Renaissance music from the Tudor court.-Current members:...
, Kent, UK - Cantilena (Adrian ShepherdAdrian ShepherdAdrian Shepherd is a British conductor, and director of the modern-instrument ensemble Cantilena.Shepherd, was born in 1939 in the county of Essex, England, and studied the cello with William Pleeth at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, For 20 years he was principal cello with the Royal...
), UK: baroque on modern instruments - Cantus Cölln (Konrad JunghänelKonrad JunghänelKonrad Junghänel is a German conductor and lutenist. He has given numerous solo concerts all around the world and has also worked with ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants and others....
), Germany: renaissance and baroque vocal - Capella de MinistrersCapella de MinistrersCapella de Ministrers is an early music group formed in 1987 in Valencia, Spain by its director, the Valencian musicologist Carles Magraner ....
(Carles MagranerCarles MagranerCarles Magraner is a Spanish musician.-Life:Carles Magraner was born in Almussafes and studied music at Carcaixent, the Conservatorio Superior de Valencia , Toulouse and Amsterdam...
), Spain: medieval to baroque - Capella Ducale Venetia (Livio Picotti), Italy: baroque orchestra, winds and choir
- La Capella Ducale Musica Fiata (Roland Wilson (conductor)Roland Wilson (conductor)Roland Wilson is an American cornet player, and conductor based in Germany.Roland Wilson originally studied trumpet at the Royal College of Music, London, then specializing in the baroque cornet...
), Germany - La Capella Reial de CatalunyaLa Capella Reial de CatalunyaLa Capella Reial de Catalunya was created in Barcelona in 1987 by its conductor Jordi Savall as a group of soloist singers whose aim is to make the repertoire of Catalan historical music and, by extension, that of Spanish and other music widely known throughout the world...
(Jordi SavallJordi SavallJordi Savall i Bernadet is a Catalan viol player, conductor and composer. He has been one of the major figures in the field of Western early music since the 1970s, largely responsible for bringing the viol back to life on the stage...
), Spain - Capilla Cayrasco & Camerata Cayrasco (Eligio Luis Quinteiro),http://cayrasco.com/Cayrasco_in_english/About_Us.html, Spain
- Capilla FlamencaCapilla FlamencaCapilla Flamenca is a vocal and instrumental early music consort based in Leuven, Belgium. The group specialises in 14th to 16th Century music from Flanders and takes its name from the choir of the court chapel of Emperor Charles V...
(Dirk Snellings), Belgium: renaissance choral - Capilla PeñafloridaCapilla PeñafloridaThe Capilla Peñaflorida is a Spanish early music group founded in 1985 by Jon Bagüés.The first director was the late José Rada Sereno . Currently musical direction is shared by the founder, the Basque musicologist Jon Bagüés , and by the bass Josep Cabré...
, Spain: renaissance choral - Capilla Renacentista (Pilar Alvira), Spain
- Cappella Augustana (Matteo Messori), Italy
- Cappella della Pietà de' TurchiniCappella della Pietà de' TurchiniThe Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini is an early music ensemble based in Naples and dedicated to the recovery of Neapolitan musical heritage, primarily from the baroque era....
(Antonio Florio), Italy: baroque orchestra - Cappella Mediterranea, (Leonardo García-AlarcónLeonardo García-AlarcónLeonardo García-Alarcón is an Argentian conductor specializing in baroque music.He studied harpsichord and organ and was assistant to Gabriel Garrido for several years, before founding the ensemble Cappella Mediterranea, with whom he has performed at many festivals, particularly the Festival...
) - Capriccio Stravagante (Skip Sempé), France: baroque chamber music
- Cardinall's MusickThe Cardinall's MusickThe Cardinall's Musick is a United Kingdom-based vocal ensemble specialising in music of the 16th and 17th centuries and contemporary music. They have earned themselves an enviable reputation around the world both for the excellence of their voices and the way in which they work together as a...
(Andrew CarwoodAndrew CarwoodAndrew Carwood is the Director of Music at St Paul's Cathedral in London and director of his own group, The Cardinall's Musick.-Biography:He was educated at The John Lyon School, Harrow and was a choral scholar in the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge under Dr George Guest, a lay clerk at...
), UK: choir - Carolina Pro Musica (Karen Hite Jacob), North Carolina, USA: early instruments and voice
- Le Cercle de l'Harmonie (Jérémie Rhorer), France: Mozart
- Les Agrémens ´(Guy van Waas), Belgium
- ChanticleerChanticleer (ensemble)Based in San Francisco, California, Chanticleer is a full-time classical vocal ensemble in the United States. Over the last three decades, it has developed a major reputation for its interpretations of Renaissance music, but it also performs a wide repertoire of jazz, gospel, and other venturesome...
, USA: choir - La Chapelle Ducale (Maéva Bouachrine), France
- La Chapelle Rhénane (Benoît Haller), France: baroque orchestra and choir
- La Chapelle RoyaleLa Chapelle Royale- History :La Chapelle Royale was founded in 1977 in Paris by the Belgian conductor Philippe Herreweghe. It takes its name from the Chapelle royale of the French kings....
(Philippe HerreweghePhilippe HerreweghePhilippe Herreweghe is a Flemish conductor.In his school years at the University of Ghent, Herreweghe combined studies in medical science and psychiatry with a musical education at the Ghent Conservatory, where Marcel Gazelle, Yehudi Menuhin's accompanist, was his piano teacher...
), France: baroque orchestra - Charivari Agréable (Kah-Ming Ng), UK: Period instrument ensemble
- The Charlotte Waites (John BurnsJohn BurnsJohn Elliot Burns was an English trade unionist and politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly associated with London politics. He was a socialist and then a Liberal Member of Parliament and Minister. He was anti-alcohol and a keen sportsman...
), North Carolina, USA: Renaissance to early Baroque town band - Chœur de Chambre Accentus (Laurence EquilbeyLaurence EquilbeyLaurence Equilbey is a French conductor, particularly noted for her work in the choral repertoire.Equilbey studied piano and flute as a youth. She undertook formal music education in Paris, Vienna, London and Scandinavia...
), France: renaissance to contemporary choir - Ciaramella http://www.ciaramella.org/, USA
- Cinco SiglosCinco SiglosCinco Siglos is a musical ensemble devoted to the early music. It was founded in Córdoba in 1990 by Antonio Torralba and by its musical director Miguel Hidalgo Fernández...
http://www.cincosiglos.es, Spain - Cinquecento vocal quintet, Munich: renaissance choral
- City of Lincoln Waites: the Mayor of Lincoln's own 'Band of Musick', UK
- City WaitesCity WaitesThe City Waites is a British early music band. Formed in the early 1970s, they specialise in English music of the 16th and 17th centuries from the street, tavern, theatre and countryside - the music of the common man. They appeal to a wide general audience as well as scholars...
(inc.Lucie SkeapingLucie SkeapingLucie Skeaping is a British singer, instrumentalist and broadcaster, founder of the early music group the City Waites, pioneering klezmer band The Burning Bush and presenter of BBC Radio 3's Early Music Show, a programme dedicated to the early music repertoire...
), UK: medieval to baroque English music and folk - Clemencic Consort (René ClemencicRené ClemencicRené Clemencic is an Austrian composer, recorder player, harpsichordist, conductor and clavichord player.-Compositions:* Meraviglia 1969* Missa Mundi mass in Latin, for five voices and orchestra...
), Austria: medieval to baroque - The Clerkes Of Oxenford (David Wulstan), UK
- Clerks' Group (Edward WickhamEdward WickhamEdward Thomas Ruscombe Wickham was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Taunton at the 1935 general election, but was defeated at the 1945 general election by the Labour Party candidate, Victor Collins.- External links :...
), UK: renaissance choral - Collegium Aureum (Franzjosef Maier), Germany: baroque orchestra
- Collegium 419Collegium 419Collegium 419 is a vocal ensemble specializing in music of the 16th to 18th century, aiming at historical performance praxis of high Renaissance as well as early and high Baroque vocal music with or without instrumental accompaniment....
: Czech Early Music Vocal Ensemble - Collegium 1704 (Václav Luks), Czech Republic: baroque orchestra and choir
- Collegium Marianum (Jana Semerádová), Czech Republic: baroque orchestra
- Collegium Musicum 90Collegium Musicum 90Collegium Musicum 90 is an English baroque orchestra playing on period instruments. It was founded by violinist Simon Standage and conductor Richard Hickox in 1990 and was jointly directed by them until the death of Hickox in November 2008.Collegium Musicum means something like musical guild and...
(Simon StandageSimon StandageSimon Andrew Thomas Standage is an English violinist and conductor best known for playing and conducting music of the baroque and classical eras on original instruments.- Biography and career :...
), English Baroque orchestra - Collegium Musicum Den HaagCollegium Musicum Den HaagCollegium Musicum Den Haag is a baroque orchestra composed of musicians who trained at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in The Netherlands. The orchestra was founded in 2006 by Brazilian/Italian harpsichordist Claudio Ribeiro....
, Holland - Collegium Musicum Riga, (Maris Kupcs) Latvia: baroque orchestra and choir
- Collegium Vocale Bydgoszcz (Michał Zieliński), Poland: Renaissance vocal
- Collegium Vocale Gent (Philippe HerreweghePhilippe HerreweghePhilippe Herreweghe is a Flemish conductor.In his school years at the University of Ghent, Herreweghe combined studies in medical science and psychiatry with a musical education at the Ghent Conservatory, where Marcel Gazelle, Yehudi Menuhin's accompanist, was his piano teacher...
), Belgium: renaissance and baroque choir - Cologne Chamber Orchestra (Helmut Müller-BrühlHelmut Müller-BrühlHelmut Müller-Brühl is a German conductor.Müller-Brühl is a former pupil of Hermann Abendroth, the founder of Cologne Chamber Orchestra. In 1958, Müller-Brühl invited this orchestra to be the principal orchestra for concerts given at his family home, Schloss Brühl...
), Germany: baroque orchestra - Il Complesso Barocco (Alan CurtisAlan Curtis (harpsichordist)Alan Curtis is a noted American harpsichordist, musicologist, and conductor of baroque opera. After graduate studies at the University of Illinois , where he wrote his dissertation on the keyboard music of Sweelinck, he studied in Amsterdam with Gustav Leonhardt, with whom he subsequently recorded...
), Italy: baroque orchestra - Concentus Musicus WienConcentus Musicus WienConcentus Musicus Wien is a baroque music ensemble founded by Nikolaus and Alice Harnoncourt in 1953. It generated the now well-established movement in performance and recordings to play early music on period instruments....
(Nikolaus HarnoncourtNikolaus HarnoncourtNikolaus Harnoncourt is an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the Classical era and earlier. Starting out as a classical cellist, he founded his own period instrument ensemble in the 1950s, and became a pioneer of the Early Music movement...
), Vienna: baroque orchestra - Le Concert d’Astrée (Emmanuel Haïm), France: baroque orchestra
- Le Concert des NationsLe Concert des NationsLe Concert des Nations is an orchestra with period instruments, able to perform the orchestral and symphonic repertoire from the Baroque to Romanticism: 1600 - 1850. The orchestra was created in 1989, the youngest of the groups conducted by the Catalan maestro and viola da gamba virtuoso Jordi Savall...
(Jordi SavallJordi SavallJordi Savall i Bernadet is a Catalan viol player, conductor and composer. He has been one of the major figures in the field of Western early music since the 1970s, largely responsible for bringing the viol back to life on the stage...
), Spain: baroque orchestra - Le Concert Spirituel (Hervé NiquetHervé NiquetHervé Niquet is a French conductor, harpsichordist, tenor, and the director of Le Concert Spirituel, specializing in French Baroque music.-Biography:...
), France: baroque orchestra - Concerto Caledonia (David McGuinness), Scotland: baroque
- Concerto CopenhagenConcerto CopenhagenConcerto Copenhagen, also known as CoCo, is a Danish period instrument orchestra, established in 1991 and directed since 1999 by harpsichordist Lars Ulrik Mortensen....
(Lars Ulrik MortensenLars Ulrik MortensenLars Ulrik Mortensen is a Danish harpsichordist and conductor.He studied with Karen Englund and Jesper Bøje Christensen at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and with Trevor Pinnock in London....
), Denmark: baroque orchestra - Concerto ItalianoConcerto ItalianoConcerto Italiano is an Italian early music ensemble well-known for their interpretations of Monteverdi and Vivaldi, among others.The historically informed performance ensemble was formed by the harpsichordist Rinaldo Alessandrini, and made its Rome debut with Francesco Cavalli's La Calisto in 1984...
(Rinaldo AlessandriniRinaldo AlessandriniRinaldo Alessandrini is a virtuoso on Baroque keyboards, including harpsichord, fortepiano, and organ. He is founder and conductor of the Italian early music ensemble Concerto Italiano, performing music of Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Couperin, J. S. Bach, and others...
), Italy: madrigals and baroque orchestra - Concerto KölnConcerto KölnConcerto Köln is a Baroque music chamber ensemble.The group formed in 1985, one of many groups associated with the surging interest in period instruments in that decade. Its members consisted mainly of recent graduates of conservatories from across Europe. They began touring the Continent, often...
http://www.concerto-koeln.de/home_welcome.php?lang=eng, Germany: baroque orchestra - guest conductors inc. Evelino Pidò, Daniel HardingDaniel HardingDaniel Harding is a British conductor.Harding studied trumpet at Chetham's School of Music and was a member of the National Youth Orchestra at age 13. At age 17, Harding assembled a group of musicians to perform Pierrot Lunaire of Arnold Schoenberg, and sent a tape of the performance to Simon...
etc. - Concerto Palatino (Bruce Dickey & Charles Toet), Belgium: baroque winds
- Concerto Vocale (René Jacobs), France: baroque vocal
- The Consort of MusickeThe Consort of MusickeThe Consort of Musicke is a British early music group, founded in 1969 by lutenist Anthony Rooley, the ensemble's Artistic Director. Members of the group have included such well-known artists as sopranos Emma Kirkby and Evelyn Tubb, alto Mary Nichols, tenors Paul Agnew, Andrew King and Joseph...
(Anthony RooleyAnthony RooleyAnthony Rooley is a British lutenist. He founded in 1969 and directs the early music ensemble the Consort of Musicke, which continues to be one of the chief vehicles for his inspiration, among many other activities and interests...
), UK: Renaissance vocal, madrigals - Consort Veneto, Italy
- Constantinople (ensemble) (Kiya TabassianKiya TabassianKiya Tabassian was born in 1976, in Tehran, Iran, immigrating to Quebec in 1990. He has been trained in Persian music under Reza Ghasemi and Kayhan Kalhor...
), Montreal: baroque and mediterranean - Croatian Baroque Ensemble, Zagreb (Laura Vadjon)
- Currende (Erik Van NevelErik Van NevelErik Van Nevel is a Belgian conductor. He is the nephew of Paul Van Nevel.He pursued instrumental and vocal studies at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven and at the Koninklijk Conservatorium and the Koninklijk Conservatorium ....
), Belgium :renaissance choir - Deller Consort (founded by Alfred DellerAlfred DellerAlfred George Deller CBE , was an English singer and one of the main figures in popularizing the return of the countertenor voice in Renaissance and Baroque music during the 20th Century....
d.), UK: renaissance and baroque chamber - Diabolus in MusicaDiabolus in MusicaDiabolus in Musica is the eighth studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer. Released on June 9, 1998, it is the third studio album to feature drummer Paul Bostaph...
, (Antoine Guerber), Paris: medieval choral - DialogosDialogOSDialogOS is a graphical programming environment to design computer system which can converse through voice with the user. Dialogs are clicked together in a Flowchart...
(Katarina Livljanic), France and Croatia: medieval - DiGrease's Buffoon Theatre http://www.medievalbelarus.org/eng/ Minsk, Belarus: open air medieval theatre and music ensemble
- Doulce Mémoire (Denis Raisin Dadre), France: renaissance chansons
- DrollsDrollsDrolls is a Russian early music ensemble formed in 1999 and playing its own interpretation of Medieval and Renaissance music. Their repertoire includes music and songs from across the Europe...
, Petrozavodsk, Russia: medieval - Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, Stockholm, Sweden
- Dufay CollectiveDufay CollectiveThe Dufay Collective is an early-music ensemble from the United Kingdom, specializing in Medieval and Renaissance music. Founded in 1987, it was named after the Renaissance composer Guillaume Dufay. The group is directed by William Lyons...
, UK: vocal consort, madrigals - Duo Trobairitz, UK: medieval
- Early Music Consort of London (David MunrowDavid MunrowDavid Munrow was a British musician and early music historian.- Biography and career :Munrow was born in Birmingham and was the son of Birmingham University dance teacher Hilda Norman Munrow and Albert Davis 'Dave' Munrow, a Birmingham University lecturer and physical education instructor who...
d.), UK: medieval, defunct - Early Opera CompanyEarly Opera CompanyThe Early Opera Company is a British ensemble dedicated to the performance of baroque operas using period instruments. It was founded in 1994, by Christian Curnyn...
(Christian Curnyn), UK: baroque opera - Egidius Kwartet, Holland: renaissance vocal music
- El Cortesanohttp://www.elcortesano.com/ duo: José Hernández Pastor & Ariel Abromovich http://arielabramovich.com, Spain: baroque duo
- English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, http://www.ecse.co.uk/
- English Baroque SoloistsEnglish Baroque SoloistsThe English Baroque Soloists is a chamber orchestra playing on period instruments, formed in 1978 by English conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Its repertoire comprises music from the early Baroque period to the Classical period...
(John Eliot GardinerJohn Eliot GardinerSir John Eliot Gardiner CBE FKC is an English conductor. He founded the Monteverdi Choir , the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique...
): Baroque and Classical-era music - Ensemble 415 (Chiara BanchiniChiara BanchiniChiara Banchini is a Swiss violinist, involved in the historical performance practice movement. She specializes in the music of the Baroque.Banchini was born in 1946 in Lugano, Switzerland. She graduated from the Geneva Conservatory; following this she studied under Sandor Vegh and then at the...
), France: baroque chamber orchestra - Ensemble Alcatraz (inc. Shira KammenShira KammenMulti-instrumentalist and vocalist Shira Kammen received her degree in music from the University of California, Berkeley and studied vielle with Margriet Tindemans. She has performed and taught throughout the world and has played on several television and movie soundtracks, including "O", a modern...
), USA: medieval - Ensemble amarcordEnsemble amarcordThe ensemble amarcord is a German male classical vocal ensemble based in Leipzig, founded in 1992 by five former members of the Thomanerchor. Their focus is Medieval music, Renaissance music and the collaboration with contemporary composers.- Singers :...
, Leipzig, Germany, vocal ensemble, Medieval, Renaissance, Contemporary - Ensemble baroque de Nice, (Gilbert BezzinaGilbert BezzinaGilbert Bezzina is a French violinist and conductor of baroque opera.Gilbert Bezzina studied violin at the Conservatory of Nice and continues to perform and record as a violinist....
), Nice: baroque opera - Ensemble Claude-Gervaise, Montréal:
- Ensemble Clément JanequinEnsemble Clément JanequinThe Ensemble Clément Janequin is a French early music ensemble founded in 1978 and specializing in the chansons of the Renaissance and early Baroque.The founder, and leader, is the countertenor Dominique Visse...
(Dominique VisseDominique VisseDominique Visse is a French countertenor and founder of the Ensemble Clément Janequin. Visse devotes himself to performing of secular and religious music of the Renaissance. He is principally known for his interpretations of the Parisian chansons.He was a chorister in the Cathedral of Notre Dame...
), France: renaissance chansons - Ensemble Clematis, Leonardo García-AlarcónLeonardo García-AlarcónLeonardo García-Alarcón is an Argentian conductor specializing in baroque music.He studied harpsichord and organ and was assistant to Gabriel Garrido for several years, before founding the ensemble Cappella Mediterranea, with whom he has performed at many festivals, particularly the Festival...
, Belgium: baroque - Ensemble Discantus (Brigitte Lesne, see also Emmanuel Bonnardot, Pierre Hamon): medieval music
- Ensemble Eduard MelkusEduard MelkusEduard Melkus is an Austrian violinist and violist.Following the Second World War, Melkus dedicated himself to the exploration of historically informed performance...
(Capella Academica Wien), Vienna: defunct - Ensemble Electa http://www.ensembleelecta.co.uk/, Midlands, UK
- Ensemble ElymaEnsemble ElymaEnsemble Elyma is an early music ensemble specialising in the baroque musical heritage of Latin America, led by Gabriel Garrido.-Selected discography:See...
(Gabriel GarridoGabriel GarridoGabriel Garrido is an Argentinian conductor specialising in the recovery of the baroque musical heritage of Latin America.Garrido was born in Buenos Aires, and at the age of 17 Argentine recorder quartet, Pro Arte, undertaking two tours in Europe...
), Switzerland: baroque orchestra - Ensemble für frühe Musik Augsburg, Germany: medieval
- Ensemble Festa Rustica, (Giorgio Matteoli), Italy: Renaissance, Baroque, Classical
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois (Dominique Vellard), France: medieval
- Ensemble GombertEnsemble GombertEnsemble Gombert is a chamber choir based in Melbourne, Australia noted for its pure intonation and historic approach to choral sound and style. The ensemble was founded and is conducted by musicologist and organist John O'Donnell in 1990. The group is named after Nicolas Gombert Ensemble Gombert...
http://www.ensemblegombert.com.au/, Melbourne, Australia - Ensemble Inégal, http://www.inegal.cz/?sLang=en Czech: baroque
- Ensemble MatheusEnsemble MatheusEnsemble Matheus is a French baroque orchestra. Based in Brittany, the ensemble gives concerts in a number of French cities, including Brest at Le Quartz, where it has enjoyed a residency since 1996, Vannes , and Plougonvelin...
(Jean-Christophe SpinosiJean-Christophe SpinosiJean-Christophe Spinosi is a French conductor and violinist, the founder of Quatuor Matheus , a group that later grew into Ensemble Matheus. He is especially well-known for his interpretation of the instrumental and vocal music of the Baroque, most notably the operas of Vivaldi...
), France: baroque orchestra - Ensemble Mikado http://www.ensemblemikado.com, Vienna
- Ensemble Musica Nova (Lucien Kandel), France: vocal consort
- Ensemble MicrologusEnsemble MicrologusEnsemble Micrologus is an Italian group that performs vocal and instrumental medieval music, including both religious and secular pieces from the 12th to the 16th century in their repertoire....
(Adolfo Broegg d.2006), Italy: medieval - Ensemble OrganumEnsemble OrganumEnsemble Organum is a group performing early music, co-founded in 1982 by Marcel Pérès and is based in France. Its members have changed, but have included at one time or another, Josep Cabré, Josep Benet, Gérard Lesne, Antoine Sicot, Malcolm Bothwell...
(Marcel PérèsMarcel PérèsMarcel Pérès is a French musicologist, composer, choral director and singer, and the founder of the early music group Ensemble Organum. He is an authority on Gregorian and pre-Gregorian chant....
), France: Gregorian chant - Ensemble RenaissanceEnsemble RenaissanceRenaissance Ensemble Serbia is the first early music ensemble in south-eastern Europe, having been founded in 1968.The Renaissance Ensemble from Belgrade began its life in the autumn of 1968, when they played early music scores on historical instruments that Dragan Mladjenovic Shakespeare had...
, Serbia: medieval - Ensemble Responsorium, Website, Croatia
- Ensemble SantenayEnsemble SantenayEnsemble Santenays roots lie in the Institute of Early Music in Trossingen, Germany. It was established in May 2004 by four musicians of four different nationalities specialising in their studies in the historically informed interpretation and performance of music from the 14th and 15th centuries,...
, http://www.santenay.de Trossingen, Germany: renaissance choral - Ensemble Unicorn (Michael Posch), Germany: medieval
- EstampieEstampie (band)Estampie is a German music group, founded in 1985 by Sigrid Hausen , Michael Popp and Ernst Schwindl. The band plays primarily medieval music, with some modern influences from world and minimalist music.-Members:...
(Michael Popp), Germany: medieval - Europa GalanteEuropa GalanteEuropa Galante is an Italian period instrument Baroque orchestra founded by violinist Fabio Biondi in 1990 and directed by him since that time....
(Fabio BiondiFabio BiondiFabio Biondi is an Italian violinist and conductor.Born in Palermo, Sicily, Biondi began his international career at the age of 12 playing a concerto with the RAI Symphony Orchestra. When he was 16, he performed Bach's violin concertos at the Musikverein in Vienna...
), Italy: baroque orchestra - European Community Baroque Orchestra (Roy GoodmanRoy GoodmanRoy Goodman is a conductor and violinist, specialising in the performance and direction of early music...
), EU: baroque orchestra - Ex CathedraEx CathedraEx Cathedra is a British choir and early music ensemble based in Birmingham in the West Midlands, England. It performs choral music spanning the 15th to 21st centuries, and regularly commissions new works....
(Jeffrey SkidmoreJeffrey SkidmoreJeffrey Skidmore is the conductor and artistic director of Ex Cathedra, a choir and early music ensemble based in Birmingham in the West Midlands, England...
), UK: choir and baroque orchestra - I FagioliniI FagioliniI Fagiolini is a British vocal ensemble specialising in early music and contemporary music. Founded by Robert Hollingworth at Oxford in 1986, the group won the UK Early Music Network’s Young Artists’ Competition in 1988 and a Royal Philharmonic Society Award in 2006...
, UK: vocal consort, madrigals - I Febiarmonici (Alan Curtis (harpsichordist)Alan Curtis (harpsichordist)Alan Curtis is a noted American harpsichordist, musicologist, and conductor of baroque opera. After graduate studies at the University of Illinois , where he wrote his dissertation on the keyboard music of Sweelinck, he studied in Amsterdam with Gustav Leonhardt, with whom he subsequently recorded...
), Italy: madrigals - Ferrara Ensemble (Crawford YoungCrawford YoungCrawford Young is an American lutenist, music teacher, and director of the Ferrara Ensemble and Shield of Harmony, both early music groups.Robert Crawford Young graduated in 1976 from New England Conservatory in Boston, where he played classical guitar, lute and tenor banjo...
), Basel, Switzerland: medieval and renaissance - Ficta (Grace Newcombe), Oxford UK: mediaeval, renaissance & baroque vocal consort
- FlorilegiumFlorilegium early music ensembleFlorilegium is an early music ensemble based in London. The Director, Ashley Solomon co-founded the group in 1991, and Florilegium's performances range from intimate chamber music to large-scale orchestral repertoire...
(Ashley Solomon), London: baroque - Folger Consort http://www.folger.edu/consort/, Amherst College, USA
- Les Folies Françoises (Patrick Cohën-Akenine), French: chamber ensemble
- La Follia Austin Baroque, http://www.lafollia.org USA: baroque orchestra
- Fortune's Wheel (ensemble) http://www.fortuneswheel.org (inc. Shira KammenShira KammenMulti-instrumentalist and vocalist Shira Kammen received her degree in music from the University of California, Berkeley and studied vielle with Margriet Tindemans. She has performed and taught throughout the world and has played on several television and movie soundtracks, including "O", a modern...
), USA - Four Temperaments (ensemble) quartet and Trilogue (Pawel Siwczak), Poland: baroque
- Freiburger BarockorchesterFreiburger BarockorchesterFreiburger Barockorchester is a German orchestra founded in 1987, with the mission statement: "to enliven the world of baroque music with new sounds"...
(Gottfried von der GoltzGottfried von der GoltzGottfried von der Goltz is a German-Norwegian violinist and conductor, specialising in the baroque repertoire. His first teachers were his parents, Georg Conrad von der Goltz and Kirsti Hjort. After further education in Hannover, New York and Freiburg he joined the radio orchestra of the...
), Germany: baroque orchestra - Freiburger Spielleyt, Germany: medieval
- FretworkFretwork (music group)Fretwork is a consort of viols based in England, United Kingdom. Formed in 1986, the group consisted of six players, while it is currently five viols...
, UK: viol consort - Fuoco e cenere (Jay Bernfeld), France: early baroque chamber music
- Gabrieli Consort & Players (Paul McCreeshPaul McCreeshPaul McCreesh is an English conductor.Paul McCreesh is founder and artistic director of the Gabrieli Consort & Players, with whom he has established himself at the highest level in the period instrument field; he is recognised for his authoritative and innovative performances on the concert...
), UK: baroque choir and orchestra - GaïtaGaitaGaita may refer to:Musical instruments*Various types of bagpipes common to Spain and Portugal such as:** Gaita asturiana, a bagpipe used in the Spanish provinces of Asturias, northern León and western Cantabria...
(Chris Elmes) http://www.gaita.co.uk/, Scotland - Il Giardino ArmonicoIl Giardino ArmonicoIl Giardino Armonico is a pioneering Italian early music ensemble founded in Milan in 1985 by Luca Pianca and Giovanni Antonini, primarily to play 17th- and 18th-century music on period instruments....
(Giovanni AntoniniGiovanni AntoniniGiovanni Antonini is an Italian conductor and soloist on the recorder and baroque transverse flute. He studied in his native Milan, and attended the Civica Scuola di Musica in that city and the Centre de Musique Ancienne in Geneva...
), Milan: baroque orchestra - Gothic VoicesGothic VoicesGothic Voices is a United Kingdom based vocal ensemble specialising in repertoire from the 11th to the 15th century. The group was formed in 1981 by scholar and musician Christopher Page....
(Christopher PageChristopher PageChristopher Page is an expert on medieval music, instruments and performance practice. He has written seven books regarding medieval music...
), UK: medieval and Renaissance music - Greensleaves, Canada: Renaissance and early Baroque
- La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du RoyLa Grande Écurie et la Chambre du RoyLa Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy is a French musical ensemble that performs using period instruments. The group was founded in 1966 by Jean-Claude Malgoire. While the ensemble has performed a wide repertoire from a variety of musical periods, the group has drawn particular acclaim for their...
(Jean-Claude MalgoireJean-Claude MalgoireJean-Claude Malgoire is a French conductor.He was born in Avignon, France and studied music locally and at the Paris Conservatory. His early musical career was as an oboist....
), France - Hamburger RatsmusikHamburger RatsmusikThe Hamburger Ratsmusik was the name, in German, for the Hamburg city government musical establishment of Hamburg during the baroque period. Ratsmusik was a generic term to distinguish from Hausmusik, domestic music making, during the Hanseatic period.It is also the name of a modern ensemble for...
(Simone Eckert), Germany: baroque chamber orchestra - Handel and Haydn SocietyHandel and Haydn SocietyThe Handel and Haydn Society is an American chorus and period instrument orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1815, it remains one of the oldest performing arts organizations in the United States.-Early history:...
, Boston: baroque choir and orchestra - Harmonie Universelle (Florian Deuter)http://www.harmonie-universelle.com/, Germany: baroque chamber ensemble and orchestra
- The Harp Consort (Andrew Lawrence-KingAndrew Lawrence-KingAndrew Lawrence-King is a harpist and early music specialist, and is currently the director of The Harp Consort...
), UK: renaissance consort - Helga Weber Ensemble - Instrumentalkreis Helga Weber, Germany
- Hespèrion XX/Hespèrion XXIHespèrion XXIHespèrion XXI is an international early music ensemble. The group was formed in Basel, Switzerland in 1974 as Hespèrion XX by Spanish musical director Jordi Savall , Montserrat Figueras , Lorenzo Alpert , and Hopkinson Smith...
(Jordi SavallJordi SavallJordi Savall i Bernadet is a Catalan viol player, conductor and composer. He has been one of the major figures in the field of Western early music since the 1970s, largely responsible for bringing the viol back to life on the stage...
), Spain: renaissance orchestra - The Hilliard EnsembleHilliard EnsembleThe Hilliard Ensemble is a British male vocal quartet originally devoted to the performance of early music. Founded in 1974, the group is named after the Elizabethan miniaturist painter Nicholas Hilliard....
(formerly directed by Paul HillierPaul HillierPaul Douglas Hillier is a conductor, music director and baritone. He specializes in early music and contemporary art music, especially that by composers Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford and the Guildhall School of Music, beginning his professional career while a...
), UK: Medieval and Renaissance and contemporary music - His Majesty's Sackbutts and Cornetts, UK
- Hortus MusicusHortus MusicusHortus Musicus is an Estonian ensemble that was established in 1972 by Andres Mustonen, a violin student of the Tallinn State Conservatory. Hortus Musicus specialises in performing early music, including 8th–15th century European forms such as; Gregorian Chant, Organum, Medieval Liturgic Hymns and...
(Andres Mustonen), Estonia - Huelgas EnsembleHuelgas EnsembleThe Huelgas Ensemble is a Belgian early music group formed by the Flemish conductor Paul Van Nevel in 1971. The group's performance and extensive discography focuses on renaissance polyphony...
(Paul Van NevelPaul Van NevelPaul Van Nevel is a Belgian conductor, musicologist and art historian. In 1971 he founded the Huelgas Ensemble, a choir dedicated to polyphony from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Van Nevel is known for hunting out little known polyphonic medieval works to perform.He grew up in a musical...
), Belgium: renaissance choir - The Ivory Consort, Spain
- Johann Rosenmüller EnsembleJohann Rosenmüller EnsembleThe Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble is a German early music group formed by the German cornetto player and conductor Arno Paduch in 1995.The group's performance and discography focuses on the rediscovery of unknown music of the 17th and 18th centuries....
(Arno PaduchArno PaduchArno Paduch is a German cornetto player.After highschool degree in Friedberg , Paduch studied musicology at Goethe University Frankfurt and afterwards...
), Germany: renaissance baroque choir and orchestra - The King's ConsortThe King's ConsortThe King's Consort is a prominent British period music orchestra founded in 1980 by the English conductor and harpsichordist Robert King . The ensemble has an associated choral group, Choir of The King's Consort. Together, they have made over 90 recordings, largely on the Hyperion label, and sold...
(Robert KingRobert KingRobert King may refer to:Robert King*Robert King, 4th Earl of Kingston , Irish peer, soldier and Whig politician*Robert King, Bishop of Oxford Robert King may refer to:Robert King*Robert King, 4th Earl of Kingston (1796–1867), Irish peer, soldier and Whig politician*Robert King, Bishop of Oxford...
), UK: baroque orchestra. See also Retrospect EnsembleRetrospect EnsembleRetrospect Ensemble is a prominent British period music orchestra, chamber ensemble and choir with an extensive international touring and recording programme.-History:... - King's Noyse (David DouglassDavid DouglassDavid H. Douglass is an American physicist at the University of Rochester. Prof. Douglass received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Maine and his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After positions at MIT Lincoln Laboratories and MIT, he was appointed...
), USA: renaissance and baroque chamber music - King's SingersKing's SingersThe King's Singers is a British a cappella vocal ensemble who celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2008. Their name recalls King's College in Cambridge, England, where the group was formed by six choral scholars in 1968. In the United Kingdom, their popularity peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s...
, UK: vocal sextet - Kithara Ensemble (duo Christopher Wilson and Shirley Rumsey), UK: duo
- Kuninkaantien muusikot - Musicians of the King's RoadMusicians of the King's RoadMusicians of the King's Road is a Finnish professional baroque orchestra.- Orchestra and choir :...
, Finland: baroque orchestra and choir - La Selva, early music ensemble based in Rome, Italy
- London Baroque (founded in 1978 by Ingrid Seifert and Charles MedlamCharles MedlamCharles Medlam is an English conductor and cellist also known for his performances on viola da gamba.Medlam studied the cello in London, Paris, Vienna and Salzburg before becoming interested in the bass viol and early performing styles....
), UK: baroque chamber orchestra - Lumen Valo http://www.lumenvalo.fi, Helsinki, Finland
- Lux Musica trio (Linda Burman-Hall), USA
- Magnificat Baroque EnsembleMagnificat Baroque EnsembleThe Magnificat Baroque Ensemble, or Magnificat, is an early music ensemble of voices and instruments specializing in the Baroque music of the 17th century under the artistic direction of Baroque cellist Warren Stewart. Stewart founded the ensemble in San Francisco in 1989 with Baroque...
(Warren Stewart), USA - Magpie LaneMagpie LaneMagpie Lane is an English folk group, based in Oxford, England.The musicians of Magpie Lane first came together in the winter of 1992–93 to record The Oxford Ramble, a collection of songs and tunes from, or about, Oxfordshire. Although originally conceived as a one-off recording project, the band...
, Oxfordshire UK: folk band - Mala Punica (Pedro Memelsdorff), Italy: medieval
- La Maurache, France: renaissance chansons
- The Martin Best Medieval Ensemble (Martin Best), UK
- Medieval Ensemble of London (Peter & Timothy Davies), UK
- Modo Antiquo (Bettina Hoffmann and Federico Maria SardelliFederico Maria SardelliFederico Maria Sardelli is an Italian conductor, composer, musicologist and flautist. He is the founder of the baroque orchestra Modo Antiquo and has made more than forty recordings as soloist and conductor, some of them in co-production with the German broadcast company Westdeutscher Rundfunk.A...
), Italy: medieval music to baroque orchestra - Les MuffattiLes MuffattiThe ensemble Les Muffatti was created in 1996 in and around the Brussels Conservatory by a group of twelve idealistic musicians who wanted to ensure that the Baroque repertoire for string orchestra was sufficiently addressed in their education...
(Peter Van Heyghen), Brussels: Baroque orchestra - Münchener Bach-Orchester, Germany, founder (Karl Richter)
- Music of the BaroqueMusic of the BaroqueMusic of the Baroque is a professional chorus and orchestra based in Chicago that specializes in the performance of eighteenth-century works.-History:...
(Jane GloverJane GloverJane Glover CBE is a British-born conductor and music scholar.-Early life:Glover attended Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls. Her father, Robert Finlay Glover MA TD,was headmaster of Monmouth School and it was through this connection that she was able to meet Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears...
), Chicago - Musica Aeterna Bratislava,http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/MAB.htm Slovakia (Peter Zajícek): period instrument ensemble
- Música Antigua (Eduardo PaniaguaEduardo PaniaguaEduardo Paniagua is a Spanish architect and musician, specializing in medieval Spanish music.Between 1966 and 1983, he was a member of the group Atrium Musicae de Madrid, led by his older brother Gregorio, playing wind instruments and percussion...
), Spain: medieval, cantigas - Musica Antiqua KölnMusica Antiqua KölnMusica Antiqua Köln was an early music group that was founded in 1973 by Reinhard Goebel and fellow students from the Conservatory of Music in Cologne. Musica Antiqua Köln devoted itself largely to the performance of the music of the 17th and 18th centuries...
(formerly Reinhard GoebelReinhard GoebelReinhard Goebel is a German conductor and violinist specialising in early music on authentic instruments. Goebel received his first violin lessons at the age of twelve...
), Germany: Baroque chamber music - Musica Antiqua of London (Philip Thorby), UK: renaissance
- Musica Fiata (Roland Wilson (conductor)Roland Wilson (conductor)Roland Wilson is an American cornet player, and conductor based in Germany.Roland Wilson originally studied trumpet at the Royal College of Music, London, then specializing in the baroque cornet...
), Germany: baroque wind orchestra - Musica Ficta (Colombia)Música Ficta (Colombia)* See musica ficta for the Latin musical term, feigned music.* Musica Ficta founded 1975 by Rubén Soifer.* Musica Ficta founded in 1988 - the subject of this article.* Musica Ficta founded 1992 by Raúl Mallavibarrena....
(Carlos SerranoCarlos SerranoCarlos Serrano is a recorder and early woodwinds player born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1963. After recorder studies at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio and Mannes College of Music in New York with Philip Levin, and with Pedro Memelsdorff in Italy, he graduated from the Early Music Institute at Indiana...
) : Latin American baroque - Musica Ficta (Denmark) (Bo HoltenBo HoltenBo Holten is a Danish composer and conductor.He has been the principal conductor for the vocal ensembles Ars Nova and Musica Ficta , as well as guest-conductor for the BBC Singers...
) : renaissance and contemporary choral - Musica Ficta (Spain)Musica Ficta (Spain)* Ensemble Fontegara: Marie Nishiyama , Rafael Bonavita -Raúl Mallavibarrena:Mallavibarrena studied guitar with Carmen Ross at the Conservatory of Music in Madrid, flute with Giulio Capocaccia, Music Theory with Alvaro Zaldivar, Chamber Music with Emilio Moreno, Gregorian chant with Ismael...
(Raúl Mallavibarrena) :renaissance choral - Musica Glorifica (Jin KimJin KimJin Kim is a South Korean Baroque violinist.A native of Seoul, she studied in Seoul National University's Department of Music, and then came to the United States to study at the University of Michigan under Ruggiero Ricci...
), Seoul, Korea - Musica Reservata Barcelona, Spain: renaissance choral
- Musica Reservata of London, (John S. BeckettJohn S. BeckettJohn Stewart Beckett , was an Irish musician, composer and conductor; cousin of the famous writer and playwright Samuel Beckett.-Youth and education:...
) - Les Musiciens du LouvreLes Musiciens du LouvreLes Musiciens du Louvre is a French period instrument ensemble, formed in 1982. Originally based in Paris, since 1996 it has been based in the Couvent des Minimes in Grenoble. The Guardian considers it one of the best orchestras in the world.- History:Founded by Marc Minkowski in 1982, the...
(Marc MinkowskiMarc MinkowskiMarc Minkowski is a French conductor of classical music, especially known for his interpretations of French Baroque works. His mother is American, and his father was Alexandre Minkowski, a Polish-French professor of pediatrics and one of the founders of neonatology...
), Grenoble: baroque orchestra - La Nef, Quebec: medieval and renaissance
- New London Consort (Philip PickettPhilip PickettPhilip Pickett is an English musician, recorder player and director of early music ensembles, notably The New London Consort.- Student days :...
), UK: medieval to baroque orchestra - New York CollegiumNew York CollegiumThe New York Collegium was an ensemble of players and singers dedicated to the music of the Baroque era, featuring historically authentic instruments and performance techniques. The artists of The New York Collegium were some of America’s best-known historic music specialists, and were featured...
(Andrew ParrottAndrew ParrottAndrew Parrott is a British conductor, perhaps best known for his pioneering historically informed performances of pre-classical music. He conducts a wide range of repertoire, including contemporary music. He conducted the premiere of Judith Weir's A Night at the Chinese Opera...
), USA - New York Pro Musica Antiqua (Noah GreenbergNoah GreenbergNoah Greenberg was an American choral conductor.In 1937, aged 18, Greenberg joined the Socialist Workers Party of Max Schachtman, and worked as a lathe operator and party activist. He lost work-related draft deferment in 1944 and joined the U.S. Merchant Marine till 1949. By this time he had lost...
d.1966, then John Reeves White to 1974), USA: choir - Newberry Consort, at the Newberry LibraryNewberry LibraryThe Newberry Library is a privately endowed, independent research library for the humanities and social sciences in Chicago, Illinois. Although it is private, non-circulating library, the Newberry Library is free and open to the public...
, USA: baroque chamber. - Obsidienne (Emmanuel Bonnardot), France: medieval
- Olde Hansa Musicus, Estonia
- OliphantOliphant (band)Oliphant is a Finnish band playing medieval music.-History:The Oliphant ensemble for medieval music has a repertoire consisting of music from the 12th century to the polyphonic ars nova. Formed in 1995, it has brought to light and recorded a wealth of previously unknown trouvère music...
, Finland: medieval music - Oni WytarsOni WytarsOni Wytars is an early music ensemble that was founded in 1983 by Marco Ambrosini and Peter Rabanser.- The Music :Appearing in concerts and at festivals throughout Europe, Americas, Middle- and Far East they perform music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance as well as classical and traditional Arab...
(Marco Ambrosini and Peter Rabanser), Germany: medieval music - Opera LafayetteOpera LafayetteOpera Lafayette is an is an opera company based in Washington, D.C. that produces French operas from the 17th and 18th Centuries. It was founded in 1995 by Ryan Brown and performs at the Kennedy Center, among other venues....
http://www.operalafayette.org/, USA: opera before 1800. - Orchestra of the Age of EnlightenmentOrchestra of the Age of EnlightenmentThe Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is a British period instrument orchestra. The OAE is a resident orchestra of the Southbank Centre, London, associate orchestra at Glyndebourne Festival Opera and has its headquarters at Kings Place...
, UK: baroque orchestra - Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (Frans BrüggenFrans BrüggenFrans Brüggen is a well-known Dutch conductor, recorder player and baroque flautist.-Biography:Brüggen studied recorder and flute at the Amsterdam Muzieklyceum. He also studied musicology at the University of Amsterdam. In 1955, at the age of 21, he was appointed professor at the Royal...
), Holland: baroque orchestra - Orchestra of the Renaissance (Richard Cheetham), UK: renaissance choir
- L'Orfeo Barockorchester, (Michi Gaigg), Germany: baroque orchestra
- Orion ConsortOrion ConsortThe Orion Consort is an early music ensemble specialising in Medieval and Renaissance music. The consort was formed in Sydney, Australia by Daniel Cooper to further study and promote pre-Baroque music....
, (Daniel Cooper) http://www.orionconsort.com/, Australia: medieval and renaissance ensemble - Orlando ConsortOrlando ConsortThe Orlando Consort is a British vocal consort which is best known for performing renaissance choral music one voice to a part. The Consort was founded in 1988 as part of the activities of the Early Music Centre of Great Britain, a forerunner of the NCEM, York....
, UK: vocal quartet - Oxford Camerata (Jeremy SummerlyJeremy SummerlyJeremy Summerly is a British conductor. He was educated at Lichfield Cathedral , at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford . While at Oxford he conducted the New College Chamber Orchestra and the Oxford Chamber Choir...
), UK: renaissance choral - Palladian Ensemble, British instrumental ensemble (co-founded by Rachel PodgerRachel PodgerRachel Podger is an English violinist specialising in the performance of baroque music. She often conducts baroque orchestras from the violin, and in 2004 took up a guest directorship with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, having previously been leader of The English Concert from 1997 to...
) - PantagruelPantagruelPantagruel is an international Early Music ensemble specialising in semi-staged performances of Renaissance music. The group was formed in Essen, Germany at the end of 2002 by the English lutenist Mark Wheeler and the German born Dominik Schneider...
Renaissance Musicke trio, Germany - Le Parlement de Musique, (Martin Gester), France: baroque orchestra
- The Parley of Instruments (Roy GoodmanRoy GoodmanRoy Goodman is a conductor and violinist, specialising in the performance and direction of early music...
), UK: baroque orchestra - Passamezzo,http://www.passamezzo.co.uk (Tamsin Lewis), UK: Renaissance ensemble
- Orchestre Les PassionsLes PassionsLes Passions is a Baroque Orchestra. Created in 1986 by the recorder player Jean-Marc Andrieu, the orchestra Les Passions is in residence in the south-west French town of Montauban. This flexible ensemble specialises in the practice of period instruments...
(Jean-Marc Andrieu), France: orchestra - La Petite BandeLa Petite BandeLa Petite Bande is a Belgium-based ensemble specialising in Baroque music played on period instruments. They are particularly known for their recordings of works by Corelli, Rameau, Handel, and Bach.-History:...
(Sigiswald KuijkenSigiswald KuijkenSigiswald Kuijken is a Belgian violinist, violist, and conductor known for playing on authentic instruments.-Biography:Kuijken was born in Dilbeek, near Brussels. He was a member of the Alarius Ensemble of Brussels between 1964 and 1972 and formed La Petite Bande in 1972...
), Belgium: baroque orchestra and chamber ensemble - PhantasmPhantasm (music group)Phantasm is a viol consort based in England. It was founded in 1994 by Laurence Dreyfus.They have recorded on the Channel Classics Records, GMN, Simax, and Avie Records labels.-Members:*Laurence Dreyfus, treble viol and director...
, UK: violViolThe viol is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed musical instruments developed in the mid-late 15th century and used primarily in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The family is related to and descends primarily from the Renaissance vihuela, a plucked instrument that preceded the...
consortConsort of instrumentsA consort of instruments was a phrase used in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to indicate an instrumental ensemble. These could be of the same or a variety of instruments. Consort music enjoyed considerable popularity at court and in households of the wealthy in the... - Philharmonia Baroque OrchestraPhilharmonia Baroque OrchestraPhilharmonia Baroque Orchestra is an orchestra based in San Francisco, which is dedicated to historically informed performance of Baroque, Classical and early Romantic music on original instruments. The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra was founded in 1981 by harpsichordist, teacher and early music...
(Nicholas McGeganNicholas McGeganNicholas McGegan OBE is a British harpsichordist, flautist, conductor and early music expert....
), USA: baroque orchestra - Philip Jones Brass EnsemblePhilip Jones Brass EnsembleThe Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, founded in 1951 by trumpeter Philip Jones, was one of the first modern classical brass ensembles to be formed. The group played either as a quintet or as a ten-piece, for larger halls...
(Philip Jones), UK: brass quintet - Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, Philadelphia, USA
- Le Poème HarmoniqueLe Poème HarmoniqueLe Poème Harmonique is a musical ensemble founded in 1998 by Vincent Dumestre to recreate and promote early music, in particular that of the 17th century. Using rare instruments such as the theorbo, the lirone, the tiorbino and the arpa tripla, Le Poème Harmonique aims to recapture the poetry of...
(Vincent DumestreVincent DumestreVincent Dumestre is a French lutenist. In 1997 he founded the ensemble Le Poème Harmonique.He studied the classical guitar at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and art history at the École du Louvre...
), France: renaissance-baroque chamber group - Polish Baroque Orchestra (Krzysztof CzerwinskiKrzysztof CzerwinskiKrzysztof Czerwinski is a Polish conductor, organist and voice teacher.Czerwinski studied at Wieniawski School of music , Eastman School of Music and Birmingham Conservatoire .He has won many national and international competitions, awards, scholarships and...
), Poland - Polyphony (Choir)Polyphony (choir)Polyphony is a small English choir formed by Stephen Layton for one particular concert put on in King's College, Cambridge in 1986. They have released many critically acclaimed recordings, the most recent of which is Bruckner - Mass in E Minor and Motets. They record and perform a wide range of...
(Stephen LaytonStephen LaytonStephen Layton is an English conductor.Layton was raised in Derby, where his father was a church organist. Layton learned the piano as a youth. He was a chorister at Winchester Cathedral, and subsequently won scholarships to Eton College and then King's College, Cambridge as an organ...
), UK: renaissance, romantic and contemporary music - Pomerium,http://www.pomerium.com (Benjamin Blachly), NYC: Renaissance vocal ensemble
- Pro AnimaPro AnimaPro Anima was a musical ensemble from Leningrad, founded in in 1977. They were specialized in medieval music. Its founder and leader was former Jazz musician Gennady Golstain. They have participated in early music festivals and released some recordings on Melodiya label...
(Gennadiy Golstein), Leningrad: 1980s, now disbanded. - Pro Cantione AntiquaPro Cantione AntiquaPro Cantione Antiqua of London are a British choral group who were founded in 1968 by Tenor James Griffett, Counter-tenor Paul Esswood, and conductor and producer Mark Brown. From an early stage they were closely associated with conductor and musicologist Bruno Turner...
(Bruno TurnerBruno TurnerBruno Turner is a British musicologist, choral conductor, broadcaster, publisher and businessman.-Life:The son of a motor spares magnate, Turner went on holiday to Sweden shortly after the Second World War...
), UK: renaissance choral - Project Ars Nova P.A.N. (inc Crawford YoungCrawford YoungCrawford Young is an American lutenist, music teacher, and director of the Ferrara Ensemble and Shield of Harmony, both early music groups.Robert Crawford Young graduated in 1976 from New England Conservatory in Boston, where he played classical guitar, lute and tenor banjo...
), USA: medieval - Quadriga ConsortQuadriga ConsortQuadriga Consort aka Quadriga Early Music Band is an early music ensemble from Austria. Founded in 2001 by harpsichordist Nikolaus Newerkla, the ensemble plays rearranged early British and Irish traditional music....
(Nikolaus Newerkla), Austria: emphasis on early British traditional and popular music - Quatuor MosaïquesQuatuor MosaïquesThe Quatuor Mosaïques is an Austrian string quartet, founded in 1987 by four members of the Concentus Musicus Wien, playing on historical musical instruments...
(founded in 1985 by members of Concentus Musicus WienConcentus Musicus WienConcentus Musicus Wien is a baroque music ensemble founded by Nikolaus and Alice Harnoncourt in 1953. It generated the now well-established movement in performance and recordings to play early music on period instruments....
) Vienna. - Raglan Baroque Players (Nicholas KraemerNicholas KraemerNicholas Kraemer is a British harpsichordist and conductor. Kraemer began his career as a harpsichordist...
), UK: baroque orchestra - Red Byrd, UK: vocal quintet
- Red PriestRed PriestRed Priest is a British Baroque instrumental group that was formed in 1997, originally with eleven members. Currently it is composed of four performers: Piers Adams - recorder, Julia Bishop - violin, Angela East - cello and Howard Beach - harpsichord. On 18 January 2011 it was announced that Howard...
, UK: baroque orchestra, specializing in Vivaldi - Rheinische Kantorei & Das Kleine Konzert (Hermann MaxHermann MaxHermann Max is a German choral conductor.In 1977 he founded the Jugendkantorei Dormagen, which in 1985 became the basis of the Rheinische Kantorei and Das Kleine Konzert...
), Germany: Baroque choir and orchestra - Renaissance Consort Hungary http://www.renaissanceconsort.hu/, Hungary
- Renaissance Music Group, Liverpool http://www.renaissancemusicgroupliverpool.org/, Amateur Early Music Choir in Liverpool, England
- Retrospect EnsembleRetrospect EnsembleRetrospect Ensemble is a prominent British period music orchestra, chamber ensemble and choir with an extensive international touring and recording programme.-History:...
(Matthew Halls), UK: baroque orchestra - La ReverdieLa ReverdieLa Reverdie is an Italian group performing polyphonic medieval and Renaissance music.-Group members:* Elisabetta de Mircovich - vocal, vielle* Claudia Caffagni - vocal, lute, psaltery* Livia Caffagni - vocal, flute, vielle...
(Claudia Caffagni, Livia Caffagni), Italy: medieval - Ricercar ConsortRicercar ConsortThe Ricercar Consort is a Belgian instrumental ensemble founded in 1980 together with the record label of Jérôme Lejeune.The founding members were François Fernandez, Bernard Foccroulle, and Philippe Pierlot. The initial repertoire was focussed on the German Baroque, and the Consort was closely...
(Philippe Pierlot), Belgium: baroque cantatas - Rose Consort of ViolsRose Consort of ViolsThe Rose Consort of Viols is an English ensemble of viol players that perform mainly early consort music, including works by Gibbons, Dowland and Purcell....
, UK: - Rose EnsembleRose EnsembleThe Rose Ensemble, based in St. Paul, Minnesota, was originally founded by Jordan Sramek in 1996. The group, which is primarily vocal, specializes in medieval to modern music from around the world, occasionally commissioning new pieces following the older styles. Their music spans 1,000 years...
(Jordan Sramek) http://www.roseensemble.org/about/history.html St. Paul, USA - St George's Canzona (John Sothcott), UK: choir
- SarbandSarbandSarband is a German early music ensemble with musicians from 7 nations, focusing on musical connections between Orient & Occident; Jewish, Christian & Muslim music.The group was founded in 1986 by Dr. Vladimir Ivanoff...
, Germany: baroque orchestra - Students of the Schola Cantorum BasiliensisSchola Cantorum BasiliensisSchola Cantorum Basiliensis is a music academy and research institution located in Basel, Switzerland, and focusing on early music and historically informed performance....
(Rene Jacobs), based in BaselBaselBasel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
, Switzerland: medieval to baroque - Schola Cantorum Riga, http://www.music.lv/schola/en/about_us.htm Latvia: medieval to contemporary
- SequentiaSequentia (music group)Sequentia is an early music ensemble, founded in 1977 by Benjamin Bagby and the late Barbara Thornton . The group specializes mainly in Medieval music. Sequentia focuses particularly on music with texts, specifically chants and other stories with music, such as the Icelandic Edda...
(Benjamin BagbyBenjamin BagbyBenjamin Bagby is a singer, composer, harpist, and groundbreaking performer of medieval music. Educated at Oberlin College and the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Bagby founded the ensemble Sequentia with Barbara Thornton in 1977...
), Germany: medieval - La SerenissimaLa SerenissimaLa Serenissima is a British early music/period instrument ensemble founded in 1994 by violinist Adrian Chandler, who has served as the group's director since its creation...
(Adrian Chandler) http://www.laserenissima.co.uk/, UK: baroque orchestra, Vivaldi - La Simphonie du Marais (Hugo Reyne), France: baroque opera and orchestra
- Sirinu quartet, UK: medieval
- The SixteenThe SixteenThe Sixteen are a choir and period instrument orchestra; founded by Harry Christophers in 1979.The group's special reputation for performing early English polyphony, masterpieces of the Renaissance, bringing fresh insights into Baroque and early Classical music and a diversity of 20th century...
(Harry ChristophersHarry ChristophersHarry Christophers is an English conductor. He attended the King's School, Canterbury and was a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral under choirmaster Allan Wicks and played clarinet in the school orchestra alongside Andrew Marriner...
), UK: mostly a cappellaA cappellaA cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...
music of the Renaissance, with baroque orchestra for Handel - Sligo Early Music EnsembleSligo Early Music EnsembleThe Sligo Baroque Ensemble is an amateur orchestra which specialises in late Baroque music. It is based in Sligo town and plays about 10 concerts a year in venues around the north-west of Ireland....
, Ireland - Solistes de Musique AncienneSolistes de Musique AncienneSolistes de Musique Ancienne, also known as Solistes, is a London-based ensemble specialising in Baroque music.Solistes, founded in 2010 by conductor Joel Newsome, draws its members from London conservatoires, and young professional classical musicians at the start of their careers...
, (Joel Newsome) UK: baroque orchestra and choir - I Solisti VenetiI Solisti VenetiI Solisti Veneti is one of the first rank of small Italian chamber orchestras with modern instruments. Founded in Padua in 1959 by Claudio Scimone, it has made a reputation especially with Italian Baroque music, recording many works by Antonio Vivaldi, Tomaso Albinoni, Francesco Geminiani,...
(Claudio ScimoneClaudio ScimoneClaudio Scimone is an Italian conductor.He was born in Padua, Italy and studied conducting with Dmitri Mitropoulos and Franco Ferrara. He has established an international reputation as a conductor, as well as a composer. He has revived many baroque and renaissance works...
b.1934), Italy: baroque orchestra on modern instruments - La Stagione (Michael Schneider (conductor)Michael Schneider (conductor)Michael Schneider is a German flautist, recorder player, conductor and academic teacher. He is especially connected with later baroque repertoire such as the works of Telemann, and founded the orchestra La Stagione to perform that repertoire.-Professional career:Schneider studied flute and...
), Frankfurt, Germany: baroque orchestra - Studio de musique ancienne de MontréalStudio de musique ancienne de MontréalThe Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal is an early music vocal ensemble based in Montreal, Canada. Co-founded in 1974 by the organ and harpsichord players Christopher Jackson, Réjean Poirier, and Hélène Dugal, the group became an important part of the Early Music Revival in Montreal during the...
(Christopher Jackson), Canada: mostly music of the Renaissance and early Baroque - Studio der frühen MusikStudio der frühen MusikStudio der frühen Musik was an early music group active from 1960–1980 and based in Munich.The leader of the group was Thomas Binkley, and the activity of the group coincided with the years he was teaching at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis...
(Thomas BinkleyThomas BinkleyThomas Binkley was an American lutenist and early music scholar.Thomas Eden Binkley studied at the University of Illinois and the University of Munich . He taught at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel...
d.), MunichMunichMunich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
: medieval, disbanded. - Tafelmusik (Jeanne LamonJeanne LamonJeanne Lamon , violinist and conductor, born in New York, was raised in New York state, and began studying the violin at the age of seven. She studied violin at the Westchester Conservatory of Music with Editha Braham...
), Toronto: baroque orchestra and chamber choir - Les Talens LyriquesLes Talens LyriquesLes Talens Lyriques is a baroque orchestra founded in 1991 by French conductor Christophe Rousset.The ensemble takes its name from Jean-Philippe Rameau's opéra-ballet Les fêtes d'Hébé ou les talens lyriques .- External links :...
(Christophe RoussetChristophe RoussetChristophe Rousset is a French harpsichordist and conductor, specializing in the performance of baroque music on period instruments.-Biography:...
), France: baroque opera and orchestra - Tallis Choir (Peter Mahon), Toronto
- Tallis ScholarsTallis ScholarsThe Tallis Scholars are a British vocal ensemble normally consisting of two singers per part, with a core group of ten singers.Formed in 1973 by their director Peter Phillips, they specialise in performing a cappella sacred vocal music written during the Renaissance by composers from all over Europe...
(Peter PhillipsPeter Phillips (conductor)Peter Phillips was born in Southampton on 15 Oct 1953. After winning a scholarship to St John's College, Oxford in 1972, Phillips was offered the opportunity to study Renaissance music with the influential musicologists David Wulstan and Denis Arnold...
): a cappellaA cappellaA cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...
Renaissance music - Taverner Consort and PlayersTaverner Consort and PlayersTaverner Consort and Players is a period instrument ensemble: baroque orchestra , vocal consort and Choir, named after the 16th century English composer John Taverner....
(Andrew ParrottAndrew ParrottAndrew Parrott is a British conductor, perhaps best known for his pioneering historically informed performances of pre-classical music. He conducts a wide range of repertoire, including contemporary music. He conducted the premiere of Judith Weir's A Night at the Chinese Opera...
), UK: renaissance choir and baroque orchestra - Telemann-Kammerorchester Michaelstein (Ludger RémyLudger RémyLudger Rémy is a German harpsichordist, conductor and musicologist.- Biography :Ludger Rémy studied the harpsichord in Freiburg im Breisgau and continued his studies with Kenneth Gilbert in Paris. He was a teacher at several German academies including the Folkwang Hochschule and the Hochschule für...
), Germany: baroque orchestra - The English ConcertThe English ConcertThe English Concert is a baroque orchestra playing on period instruments based in London. Founded in 1972 and directed from the harpsichord by Trevor Pinnock for 30 years, it is now directed by harpsichordist Harry Bicket...
(Trevor PinnockTrevor PinnockTrevor David Pinnock CBE is an English conductor, harpsichordist, and occasional organist and pianist.He is best known for his association with the period-performance orchestra The English Concert which he helped found and directed from the keyboard for over 30 years in baroque and early classical...
founder, then Andrew ManzeAndrew ManzeAndrew Manze is an English violinist and conductor.As a guest conductor Manze has regular relationships with a number of leading international orchestras including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Munich Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra,...
, now Harry BicketHarry BicketHarry Bicket is a British conductor, harpsichordist and organist.Bicket was educated at Radley College, Christ Church, Oxford, where he was organ scholar, and the Royal College of Music...
), UK - La Tempesta (Jakub Burzynski), Poland: baroque orchestra
- Students of the Texas Early Music Project, http://early-music.org/ USA
- The Rare Byrds, NZ: vocal and instrumental ensemble: Medieval and Renaissance
- The Rare Fruit Council (Manfredo Kraemer and Pablo Valetti) baroque chamber ensemble
- Theatre of VoicesTheatre of VoicesTheatre of Voices is a vocal ensemble founded by baritone Paul Hillier in 1992; it focuses on early music and new music.The ensemble was formed by Paul Hillier while he was teaching at the University of California, Davis, as an avenue to performing more contemporary music while his other group, the...
, UK: vocal consort - Tonus PeregrinusTonus PeregrinusTonus Peregrinus is a vocal ensemble specialising in early music and contemporary sacred music, especially that of founder and director, Antony Pitts...
(Antony PittsAntony PittsAntony Pitts is a British composer, producer and conductor.His compositions have been published by Faber Music, with 2 CDs of choral music on Hyperion Records and other recordings on Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, and Unknown Public. He was a Senior Producer at BBC Radio 3 until 2005...
), UK: renaissance and contemporary choir - Toronto Consort, http://www.torontoconsort.org/ Canada: renaissance and baroque
- Trinity BaroqueTrinity BaroqueTrinity Baroque is a group of musicians who focus on the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Founded originally at Trinity College, Cambridge, they are formed of a pool of 6-8 singers, sometimes expanding to larger vocal and instrumental forces. The ensemble has formed close relationships with the...
, vocal ensemble Trinity College, CambridgeTrinity College, CambridgeTrinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
, UK - Utah Baroque Ensemble (Martha Sargent), http://www.utahbaroque.org USA: choir
- La Venexiana (Claudio Cavina), Italy: madrigals
- Venice Baroque Orchestra, Italy (Andrea MarconAndrea MarconAndrea Marcon is an Italian conductor, organist, harpsichordist, and scholar. In 1997, he founded the Venice Baroque Orchestra.-Recordings:*Vivaldi and others: Andromeda liberata...
) - Virginia Tech Early Music EnsembleEarly Music Ensemble at Virginia TechThe Early Music Ensemble is a group of instrumentalists and vocalists at Virginia Tech performing historical music. The group was founded in 1996 as the outgrowth of a program of class and studio instruction in early instruments and informal recorder and vocal/instrumental ensembles...
, USA - Waverly Consort (Michael Jaffee), USA: renaissance
- Weser-Renaissance Bremen (Manfred CordesManfred CordesManfred Cordes is a German conductor of early music, musicologist and teacher. He is currently professor at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen.- Publications :...
), Germany: renaissance and baroque - Westminster Abbey ChoirWestminster Abbey Choir SchoolWestminster Abbey Choir School is a British boarding preparatory school and the only school in the United Kingdom exclusively for the education of boy choristers. It is located in Dean's Yard, by Westminster Abbey...
(Simon PrestonSimon PrestonSimon John Preston CBE is an English organist, conductor, and composer.- Early life :He attended the Canford School in Wimborne in Dorset. Originally a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, he studied the organ with C. H...
), UK - Westminster Cathedral Choir (David Hill (choral director)David Hill (choral director)David Hill , is a choral conductor and organist. His most high profile roles are as Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers from September 2007, and Musical Director of The Bach Choir from April 1998. He was previously Organist and Director of Music at St John's College, Cambridge, in succession to...
), UK - The York Waits, UK
- Zefiro Torna, Belgium: baroque chamber orchestra