Australia •
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (
Paul Dyer), Sydney: baroque orchestra • Australian Haydn Ensemble (Skye McIntosh): 18th century period orchestra • Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra (Rachael Beesley and Nicole Van Bruggen): 18th-20th century period orchestra • Bach Akademie Australia (Madeleine Easton) Sydney-based historically informed baroque ensemble, specialising in the music of J. S. Bach and contemporaries. • Canberra Bach Ensemble, Andrew Koll: baroque ensemble and chamber choir •
Ensemble Gombert, Melbourne: chamber choir
Austria •
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 Austria, 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
Belgium •
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 • il Gardellino: 16th- to early 19th-century repertoire: orchestra and vocal ensemble
Canada • Académie Baroque de Montréal (
Suzie LeBlanc) • Arion Orchestre Baroque, Montréal • Early Music Vancouver (EMV), Vancouver: early music concert series • Ensemble Caprice (
Matthias Maute), Montréal •
Ensemble Claude-Gervaise, Montréal • Nota Bene Players & Singers (
Howard Dyck). Waterloo, ON:early music orchestra and chamber choir •
Opera Atelier, Toronto: baroque opera company • The Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Vancouver •
Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal: mostly music of the Renaissance and early baroque •
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Toronto: baroque orchestra and chamber choir •
Theatre of Early Music (
Daniel Taylor), Toronto: chamber choir • Victoria Baroque, Victoria, BC: early music ensemble •
Les Violons du Roy (
Jonathan Cohen), Québec City: early music orchestra
Colombia •
Musica Ficta (
Carlos Serrano): Bogota: Latin American baroque
Czech Republic •
Collegium 1704 (
Václav Luks): Prague: early music ensemble •
Collegium 419: Prague: early music vocal ensemble •
Collegium Marianum (
Jana Semerádová): Prague: early music ensemble •
Musica Florea (
Marek Štryncl): Prague: early music ensemble •
Schola Gregoriana Pragensis: Prague:
a cappella male choir whose core repertoire is Gregorian chant, Bohemian plainchant, and early polyphony • Czech Ensemble Baroque - Roman Válek, Tereza Válková, Loučka: early music ensemble • Ensemble Inegal Prague: Adam Viktora, Prague
Denmark •
Ars Nova Copenhagen (
Paul Hillier): Renaissance to contemporary •
Concerto Copenhagen (
Lars Ulrik Mortensen): baroque orchestra • Camerata Øresund •
Musica Ficta (
Bo Holten): Renaissance and contemporary choral •
Ensemble Zimmermann (
Lars Colding Wolf): Mixed early music ensemble
Estonia •
Hortus Musicus (
Andres Mustonen): medieval and Renaissance and baroque and contemporary music •
Rondellus: medieval and Renaissance and contemporary music
Finland • Kuninkaantien muusikot –
Musicians of the King's Road: baroque orchestra and choir •
Oliphant: medieval music
France •
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 de Saint-Julien: baroque orchestra, François Lazarevitch •
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
Germany •
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 •
Gaechinger Cantorey and Internationale Bachakademie, Stuttgart •
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
Greece •
Ex Silentio: medieval and baroque music
Iceland •
Voces Thules: Icelandic medieval music
Israel •
Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra: baroque orchestra (music director: David Shemer) •
Accademia Daniel: baroque chamber group • Ensemble PHOENIX on period instruments: broad ensemble performing from Middle Ages to Early Romantic music on period instruments, working since 1998 (conductor & musical director Myrna Herzog) •
Profeti della Quinta, Israel/Switzerland: vocal ensemble • Barrocade: baroque orchestra (music director: Amit Tiefenbrunn)
Italy •
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 •
SimoneSorini Syrenarum (
Simone Sorini Cantore al Liuto): from medieval to early baroque •
I Solisti Veneti (
Claudio Scimone): baroque orchestra on modern instruments •
La Venexiana (
Claudio Cavina): madrigals •
Venice Baroque Orchestra (
Andrea Marcon)
Japan •
Bach Collegium Japan (
Masaaki Suzuki), Kobe: Bach
Latvia • 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
Mexico • Mexican Baroque Orchestra: Mexico City: traditional baroque and Mexican baroque instrumentation • : Celaya, GUA: baroque and classical era orchestra
Netherlands •
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, Utrecht: 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
Norway •
Poland • Arte dei Suonatori • Polish Baroque Orchestra (
Krzysztof Czerwinski)
Portugal • Concerto Atlântico (
Pedro Caldeira Cabral): medieval to baroque • Officium Ensemble (
Pedro Teixeira): renaissance • 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
Russia •
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
Serbia •
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 Korea •
Collegium Vocale Seoul (
Sun-ah Kim), Seoul-based choir: medieval to romantic with focus on baroque •
Musica Glorifica (
Jin Kim), Seoul
Spain •
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 •
Íliber Ensemble (
Darío Tamayo): baroque orchestra •
Musica Ficta (
Raúl Mallavibarrena): Renaissance choral
Sweden •
Switzerland • Alta Bellezza: early wind ensemble •
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
Taiwan • Baroque Camerata • Formosan Baroque • The Gleam Ensemble
United Kingdom •
Academy of Ancient Music (
Christopher Hogwood founder, currently
Laurence Cummings): baroque orchestra •
Alamire (
David Skinner): vocal consort •
Avison Ensemble: baroque orchestra • The Band of Instruments: baroque orchestra,
New Chamber Opera • Brandenburg Consort (
Roy Goodman): baroque orchestra • Brecon Baroque (
Rachel Podger): baroque orchestra •
The Brook Street Band, Handel specialists • Cancionero, Kent • Cantilena (
Adrian Shepherd): baroque on modern instruments •
The Cardinall's Musick (
Andrew Carwood): choir •
City Waites (inc.
Lucie Skeaping): medieval to baroque English music and folk •
Collegium Musicum 90 (
Simon Standage), English baroque orchestra •
The Consort of Musicke (
Anthony Rooley): Renaissance vocal, madrigals •
Deller Consort (founded by
Alfred Deller d.): Renaissance and baroque chamber •
Dufay Collective: William Lyons, artistic director, medieval and renaissance instrumental and vocal •
Dunedin Consort Director John Butt. Based in Scotland. •
Early Music Consort of London (
David Munrow d.): medieval, defunct •
Early Opera Company: baroque opera •
English Baroque Soloists (
John Eliot Gardiner): baroque and classical-era music •
The English Concert (
Trevor Pinnock founder, then
Andrew Manze, now
Harry Bicket) •
Ex Cathedra (
Jeffrey Skidmore): choir and baroque orchestra •
I Fagiolini: vocal consort, madrigals •
Florilegium, London: baroque •
Fretwork: viol consort •
The Gesualdo Six vocal ensemble • Gabrieli Consort & Players (
Paul McCreesh): baroque choir and orchestra •
Gothic Voices (
Christopher Page): medieval and Renaissance music •
The Hanover Band: period instrument orchestra • The Harp Consort (
Andrew Lawrence-King): Renaissance consort • The
Hilliard Ensemble (formerly directed by
Paul Hillier): medieval, Renaissance and contemporary music •
The King's Consort (
Robert King): baroque orchestra; see also
Retrospect Ensemble •
King's Singers: vocal sextet •
London Baroque (founded in 1978 by Ingrid Seifert and
Charles Medlam): baroque chamber orchestra •
Magpie Lane, Oxfordshire: folk band •
Musica Reservata (
John S. Beckett), London •
New London Consort (
Philip Pickett): medieval to baroque orchestra •
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: baroque orchestra •
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (
John Eliot Gardiner): classical and romantic orchestra •
Orlando Consort: vocal quartet •
Oxford Camerata (
Jeremy Summerly): Renaissance choral • Palladian Ensemble, British instrumental ensemble (co-founded by
Rachel Podger) •
The Parley of Instruments (
Roy Goodman): baroque orchestra •
Phantasm: viol consort •
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble (
Philip Jones): brass quintet •
Polyphony (
Stephen Layton): Renaissance, romantic and contemporary music •
Pro Cantione Antiqua: Renaissance choral • Raglan Baroque Players (
Nicholas Kraemer): baroque orchestra •
Red Priest: baroque orchestra, specializing in
Vivaldi •
Retrospect Ensemble: baroque orchestra •
Rose Consort of Viols •
La Serenissima (
Adrian Chandler): baroque orchestra,
Vivaldi •
The Sixteen (
Harry Christophers): mostly
a cappella music of the Renaissance, with baroque orchestra for Handel •
Solistes de Musique Ancienne: baroque orchestra and choir • Sounds Baroque (
Julian Perkins): period instrument ensemble •
Stile Antico: early music vocal ensemble •
Tallis Scholars (
Peter Phillips):
a cappella Renaissance music •
Taverner Consort and Players (
Andrew Parrott): Renaissance choir and baroque orchestra •
Theatre of Voices: vocal consort •
Tonus Peregrinus (
Antony Pitts): Renaissance and contemporary choir •
Trinity Baroque,
Trinity College, Cambridge: vocal ensemble •
Voces8: vocal ensemble •
Westminster Abbey Choir (
Simon Preston) •
Westminster Cathedral Choir (
David Hill)
United States •
Alkemie Early Music Ensemble •
American Bach Soloists, San Francisco Bay area •
Anonymous 4: all-female
a cappella ensemble specializing in
medieval music, New York City •
Apollo's Fire (
Jeannette Sorrell), Renaissance, baroque, early classical orchestra, Cleveland •
Arcadia Players, Northampton, Massachusetts •
Asteria Medievale, duo, Brooklyn, New York: Renaissance chansons • Austin Baroque Orchestra & Chorus: baroque orchestra and choir specializing in Iberian and Latin American early music • Bach Ensemble (
Joshua Rifkin): baroque soloists and orchestra •
Bach Sinfonia (
Daniel Abraham), Washington, D.C. •
Baltimore Consort •
Blue Heron, Boston •
Boston Baroque (
Martin Pearlman): baroque orchestra •
Boston Camerata (
Anne Azéma) •
Boston Early Music Festival: baroque orchestra and opera company •
Bourbon Baroque (Nicolas Fortin and
John Austin Clark): baroque orchestra, Louisville, Kentucky •
Camerata Mediterranea (
Joel Cohen), Boston •
Chanticleer: choir, San Francisco • Concordian Dawn, New York City •
Early Music New York, medieval, Renaissance, baroque and classical • Ensemble Alcatraz (
Shira Kammen): medieval, San Francisco Bay area • Fanfare Barok, baroque, Washington, D.C. •
Folger Consort, Washington, D.C. •
Handel and Haydn Society, baroque choir and orchestra, Boston •
Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra (
Barthold Kuijken) • Istanpitta Early Music Ensemble (
Albert Cofrin): medieval, Houston, TX • Lyra Baroque Orchestra (
Jacques Ogg): baroque to early classical orchestra, St. Paul, MN •
Magnificat Baroque Ensemble, San Francisco Bay area • Music of the Baroque (
Jane Glover), Chicago •
Musica Angelica (
Martin Haselböck), Los Angeles •
New Trinity Baroque (
Predrag Gosta), Atlanta •
New York Collegium (
Andrew Parrott), dissolved •
New York Polyphony •
New York Pro Musica Antiqua (
Noah Greenberg d. 1966, then John Reeves White to 1974): choir, defunct •
Newberry Consort, at the
Newberry Library, baroque chamber, Chicago •
Newport Baroque Orchestra, Newport, RI • North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, Davidson, NC •
Opera Lafayette: pre-1800 opera, Washington, D.C. •
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (
Nicholas McGegan): baroque orchestra, San Francisco •
Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, Philadelphia •
Portland Baroque Orchestra (
Julian Perkins), Portland, OR •
Project Ars Nova Ensemble PAN: medieval, Boston • Quartet Salonnières, New York City • Relic, greater Washington, D.C. area •
Renaissance Street Singers, a cappella Renaissance, New York City • Roanoque Baroque (
Michael Shasberger), Roanoke, Virginia •
Rose Ensemble Jordan Sramek, St. Paul •
Schola Antiqua of Chicago •
Texas Early Music Project, Austin, Texas • Tempesta di Mare: The Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra (
Gwyn Roberts and
Richard Stone, co-diorectors) •
TENET (ensemble), now known as TENET Vocal Artists, New York City • Three Notch'd Road: The Virginia Baroque Ensemble, Charlottesville, VA •
Virginia Tech Early Music Ensemble, Blacksburg, VA •
Voices of Music, San Francisco, California • Wyoming Baroque, Sheridan, Wyoming
Unspecified or international •
Cappella Mediterranea (
Leonardo García-Alarcón) •
Ensemble Syntagma (
Alexandre Danilevsky) • European Community Baroque Orchestra (
Roy Goodman),
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