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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.

Names in parentheses below indicate current directors, unless otherwise indicated.

List of ensemblesEdit

AustraliaEdit

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (Paul Dyer): baroque orchestra
Ensemble Gombert, Melbourne

AustriaEdit

Ars Antiqua Austria
Cinquecento: vocal ensemble
Clemencic Consort (René Clemencic): medieval to baroque
Concentus Musicus Wien (Nikolaus Harnoncourt), Vienna: baroque orchestra
Ensemble Eduard Melkus (Capella Academica Wien), Vienna: defunct
Fiori musicali, Vienna: baroque chamber group
Quadriga Consort: emphasis on early British traditional and popular music
Quatuor Mosaïques (founded in 1985 by members of Concentus Musicus Wien), Vienna

BelgiumEdit

Capilla Flamenca (Dirk Snellings): Renaissance choral
Les Agrémens
Collegium Vocale Gent (Philippe Herreweghe): Renaissance and baroque choir
Currende (Erik Van Nevel): Renaissance choir
Ensemble Clematis, Leonardo García-Alarcón: baroque
Huelgas Ensemble (Paul Van Nevel): Renaissance choir
Les Muffatti, Brussels: Baroque orchestra
La Petite Bande (Sigiswald Kuijken): baroque orchestra and chamber ensemble
Ricercar Consort: baroque cantatas
Vox Luminis: 16th- to 18th-century Italian, German, and English vocal music

CanadaEdit

Académie Baroque de Montréal (Suzie LeBlanc)
Ensemble Claude-Gervaise, Montréal:
Arion Orchestre Baroque, Montréal:
Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal: mostly music of the Renaissance and early baroque
Tafelmusik, Toronto: baroque orchestra and chamber choir
Theatre of Early Music (Daniel Taylor), Toronto: chamber choir
Ensemble Caprice (Matthias Maute), Montréal
Opera Atelier, Toronto: baroque opera company
Victoria Baroque (Victoria, B.C.)
Les Violons du Roy (Jonathan Cohen), Québec City

ColombiaEdit

Musica Ficta (Carlos Serrano): Latin American baroque

CzechiaEdit

Collegium 1704 (Václav Luks): early music ensemble
Collegium 419: early music vocal ensemble
Collegium Marianum (Jana Semerádová): early music ensemble
Musica Florea (Marek Štryncl): early music ensemble
Schola Gregoriana Pragensis: a cappella male choir whose core repertoire is Gregorian chant, Bohemian plainchant, and early polyphony
Czech Ensemble Baroque (Roman Válek, Tereza Válková): early music ensemble
Ensemble Inegal - Adam Viktora

DenmarkEdit

Ars Nova Copenhagen (Paul Hillier): Renaissance to contemporary
Concerto Copenhagen (Lars Ulrik Mortensen): baroque orchestra
Musica Ficta (Bo Holten): Renaissance and contemporary choral
Ensemble Zimmermann (Lars Colding Wolf): Mixed early music ensemble

EstoniaEdit

Hortus Musicus (Andres Mustonen): medieval and Renaissance and baroque and contemporary music
Rondellus: medieval and Renaissance and contemporary music

FinlandEdit

Kuninkaantien muusikot – Musicians of the King's Road: baroque orchestra and choir
Oliphant: medieval music

FranceEdit

L'Arpeggiata (Christina Pluhar): early baroque
Les Arts Florissants (William Christie): baroque orchestra
Boulanger Ensemble (Nadia Boulanger): historic revival of Monteverdi
Capriccio Stravagante (Skip Sempé): baroque chamber music
Les Siècles (François-Xavier Roth): symphony orchestra
La Chapelle Rhénane (Benoît Haller): baroque orchestra
La Chapelle Royale (Philippe Herreweghe): baroque orchestra
Chœur de Chambre Accentus (Laurence Equilbey): Renaissance to contemporary choir
Le Concert d'Astrée (Emmanuelle Haïm): baroque orchestra
Le Concert Spirituel (Hervé Niquet): baroque orchestra
Concerto Vocale (René Jacobs): baroque vocal
Diabolus in Musica, Paris: medieval choral
Ensemble 415 (Chiara Banchini): baroque chamber orchestra
Ensemble baroque de Nice (Gilbert Bezzina): baroque opera
Ensemble Clément Janequin (Dominique Visse): Renaissance chansons
Ensemble Matheus (Jean-Christophe Spinosi): baroque orchestra
Ensemble Organum (Marcel Pérès): Gregorian chant
La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy (Jean-Claude Malgoire)
Les Musiciens du Louvre (Marc Minkowski), Grenoble: baroque orchestra
Orchestre Les Passions
Le Poème Harmonique (Vincent Dumestre): Renaissance-baroque chamber group
Les Talens Lyriques (Christophe Rousset): baroque opera and orchestra

GermanyEdit

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin: baroque orchestra
Pera Ensemble: baroque orchestra, Alla Turca
Cantus Cölln (Konrad Junghänel): Renaissance and baroque vocal
La Capella Ducale Musica Fiata (Roland Wilson)
Cologne Chamber Orchestra (Helmut Müller-Brühl): baroque orchestra
Concerto Köln: baroque orchestra; concert master: Evgeny Sviridov, guest conductors inc. Evelino Pidò, Daniel Harding
Ensemble amarcord, Leipzig, vocal ensemble, medieval, Renaissance, contemporary
Ensemble Santenay, Trossingen, Germany: Renaissance choral
Ensemble Schirokko Hamburg: baroque orchestra
Estampie: medieval
Freiburger Barockorchester (Gottfried von der Goltz): baroque orchestra
G. A. P. Ensemble, instrumental trio
Hamburger Ratsmusik: baroque chamber orchestra
il Gusto Barocco: baroque orchestra
Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble (Arno Paduch): Renaissance baroque choir and orchestra
Lautten Compagney (Wolfgang Katschner): early music ensemble
Münchener Bach-Orchester (founder Karl Richter)
Musica Antiqua Köln (formerly Reinhard Goebel): baroque chamber music, now disbanded
Musica Fiata (Roland Wilson): baroque wind orchestra
Oni Wytars (Marco Ambrosini): medieval music
L'Orfeo Barockorchester (Michi Gaigg): baroque orchestra
Pantagruel: Renaissance music trio
Rheinische Kantorei and the Kleine Konzert (Hermann Max): baroque choir and orchestra
Sarband: baroque orchestra
Sequentia (Benjamin Bagby): medieval
La Stagione (Michael Schneider), Frankfurt: baroque orchestra
Studio der frühen Musik (Thomas Binkley d.), Munich: medieval, disbanded
Telemann-Kammerorchester Michaelstein (Ludger Rémy): baroque orchestra
Weser-Renaissance Bremen (Manfred Cordes): Renaissance and baroque

GreeceEdit

Ex Silentio: medieval and baroque music

IcelandEdit

Voces Thules: Icelandic medieval music

IsraelEdit

Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra: baroque orchestra (music director: David Shemer)
Accademia Daniel: baroque chamber group
Profeti della Quinta, Israel/Switzerland: vocal ensemble
Barrocade: baroque orchestra (music director: Amit Tiefenbrunn)

ItalyEdit

Academia Montis Regalis (Alessandro De Marchi): baroque orchestra
Accademia Bizantina (Ottavio Dantone): baroque orchestra
Accordone (Guido Morini): early baroque, often with Marco Beasley
Auser Musici: baroque orchestra
Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini (Antonio Florio): baroque orchestra
Il Complesso Barocco (Alan Curtis): baroque orchestra
Concerto Italiano (Rinaldo Alessandrini): madrigals and baroque orchestra
Delitiæ Musicæ: Renaissance and baroque vocal music
Ensemble Aurora (Enrico Gatti): baroque to classical
Ensemble Micrologus: medieval
Europa Galante (Fabio Biondi): baroque orchestra
I Febiarmonici (Alan Curtis): madrigals
Il Giardino Armonico (Giovanni Antonini), Milan: baroque orchestra
Modo Antiquo (Bettina Hoffmann and Federico Maria Sardelli): medieval music to baroque orchestra
La Reverdie: medieval
I Solisti Veneti (Claudio Scimone): baroque orchestra on modern instruments
La Venexiana (Claudio Cavina): madrigals
Venice Baroque Orchestra (Andrea Marcon)

JapanEdit

Bach Collegium Japan (Masaaki Suzuki), Kobe: Bach

LatviaEdit

Canto (Andris Gailis), Riga: Renaissance and baroque vocal and instrumental music
Collegium Choro Musici Riga (Māris Kupčs): baroque choir
Collegium Musicum Riga (Māris Kupčs): baroque orchestra
Lirum, Riga: Renaissance vocal music ensemble
Ludus (Māra Birziņa), Riga: late Renaissance to early baroque (chamber music)
Schola Cantorum Riga (Guntars Prānis): gregorian and early medieval chants
Trakula: medieval and Renaissance vocal and instrumental music

NetherlandsEdit

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir (Ton Koopman): baroque orchestra
Camerata Trajectina, Utrecht: Renaissance and baroque Dutch music
Collegium Musicum Den Haag
Egidius Kwartet, Holland: Renaissance vocal music
Netherlands Bach Society, Naarden: baroque ensemble
New Dutch Academy (Simon Murphy), The Hague, 18th- and early 19th-century symphonic music
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (Frans Brüggen): baroque orchestra

NorwayEdit

Kalenda Maya [no]

PolandEdit

Polish Baroque Orchestra (Krzysztof Czerwinski)

PortugalEdit

Concerto Atlântico (Pedro Caldeira Cabral): medieval to baroque
Il Dolcimelo (Isabel Monteiro): Renaissance
Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música (Laurence Cummings): baroque orchestra
AVRES SERVA (Nuno Oliveira): early baroque to early classical
CONCERTO IBÉRICO ORQUESTRA BARROCA (João Paulo Janeiro): baroque orchestra
FLORES DE MVSICA (João Paulo Janeiro): instrumental and vocal ensemble, renaissance to classical

RussiaEdit

Insula Magica, Novosibirsk
The Pocket Symphony (Nazar Kozhukhar), Moscow, St.Petersburg
Pro Anima, Leningrad: 1980s, now disbanded
La Voce Strumentale (Dmitry Sinkovsky), Moscow: baroque ensemble
Pratum Integrum (Pavel Serbin), Moscow: baroque and classical orchestra

SerbiaEdit

Ensemble Renaissance, Belgrade: medieval and Renaissance
Ensemble Musica Antiqua Consort, Belgrade (1977): Medieval and Renaissance, also Baroque (vocal-instrumental ensemble, founder and director: Vera Zlokovich)
Ensemble Musica Antiqua Serbiana, Belgrade (1987): Medieval vocal music of the Orthodox spiritual tradition (ensemble founder and director: Vera Zlokovich)
New Trinity Baroque (Predrag Gosta), Belgrade

South KoreaEdit

Musica Glorifica (Jin Kim), Seoul

SpainEdit

A5 vocal ensemble: vocal quintet
Al Ayre Español (Eduardo López Banzo): baroque orchestra
Atrium Musicae de Madrid: dissolved
Capella de Ministrers (Carles Magraner): medieval to baroque
La Capella Reial de Catalunya (Jordi Savall)
L'Apothéose baroque ensemble (18th Century)
Capilla Peñaflorida: Renaissance choral
Cinco Siglos
La Colombina: vocal ensemble
Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall): baroque orchestra
Hespèrion XX/Hespèrion XXI (Jordi Savall): Renaissance orchestra
Música Antigua (Eduardo Paniagua): medieval, cantigas
Musica Ficta (Raúl Mallavibarrena): Renaissance choral

SwedenEdit

Joculatores Upsalienses [sv]

SwitzerlandEdit

Camerata Bern (Antje Weithaas): chamber orchestra
Contre le Temps: women's medieval vocal ensemble
Ensemble Elyma (Gabriel Garrido): baroque orchestra
Ferrara Ensemble (Crawford Young), Basel: medieval and Renaissance
Gli Angeli Genève, Geneva: baroque ensemble
La Fiamma: medieval and renaissance ensemble
Les Passions de l’Âme – Orchester für Alte Musik Bern (Meret Lüthi): baroque orchestra
Students of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Rene Jacobs), based in Basel: medieval to baroque