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.
Académie Baroque de Montréal (Suzie LeBlanc), Canada
Academy of Ancient Music (Christopher Hogwood founder, then Andrew Manze, currently Richard Egarr), UK: baroque orchestra
Accademia Bizantina (Ottavio Dantone), Italy: baroque orchestra
Accademia Daniel (Shalev Ad-El), Israel: baroque chamber group
Accordone (Guido Morini), Italy: early baroque, often with Marco Beasley
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Germany: baroque orchestra
Al Ayre Español (Eduardo López Banzo), Spain: baroque orchestra
Alamire (David Skinner), UK: vocal consort
American Bach Soloists (Jeffrey Thomas), USA
Amphion Consort, UK
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir (Ton Koopman): baroque orchestra
Anonymous 4, USA: all-female a cappella ensemble specializing in medieval music
Apollo's Fire (Jeannette Sorrell) [1] Cleveland, USA: renaissance, baroque, early classical orchestra
L'Arpeggiata (Christina Pluhar), France: early baroque
Ars Antiqua Austria (Gunnar Letzbor) [2]
Ars Nova Copenhagen (Paul Hillier), Denmark: renaissance to contemporary
Les Arts Florissants (William Christie), France: baroque orchestra
Asteria Medievale, duo, NYC: renaissance chansons
As Flautas de São Paulo, (Cesar Villavicencio and Ricardo Kanji]]) Recorder Consort, ancient and contemporary music, Brazil
Atrium Musicae de Madrid (Gregorio Paniagua), Spain: dissolved
Auser Musici (Carlo Ipata), Italy: baroque orchestra
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (Paul Dyer): baroque orchestra
Avison Ensemble (Gordon Dixon), UK: baroque orchestra
Bach Collegium Japan (Masaaki Suzuki), Kobe: Bach
Bach Ensemble (Joshua Rifkin), USA: baroque soloists and orchestra
Bach Society of Minnesota (Paul Boehnke), US: baroque orchestra and choir
Bach Sinfonia (Daniel Abraham) [3] Maryland, USA
Baltimore Consort, USA
Boston Baroque (Martin Pearlman), USA: baroque orchestra
Boston Camerata (Joel Cohen), USA
Boulanger Ensemble (Nadia Boulanger), France: historic revival of Monteverdi
Bourbon Baroque (Nicolas Fortin and John Austin Clark), USA: baroque orchestra
Brandenburg Consort (Roy Goodman), UK: baroque orchestra
Byrd Ensemble (Markdavin Obenza), Seattle, WA, USA
Camerata Bern (Antje Weithaas), Switzerland: Chamber orchestra
Camerata Mediterranea (Joel Cohen), USA
Camerata Trajectina, Utrecht: renaissance and baroque Dutch music
Cancionero, Kent, UK
Cantilena (Adrian Shepherd), UK: baroque on modern instruments
Cantus Cölln (Konrad Junghänel), Germany: renaissance and baroque vocal
Capella Aeqvator (Conductor Daniel Torres Tear), Ecuador: Historical Interpretation Enseble
Capella de Ministrers (Carles Magraner), Spain: medieval to baroque
La Capella Ducale Musica Fiata (Roland Wilson (conductor)), Germany
Cappella Pratensis, Netherlands
La Capella Reial de Catalunya (Jordi Savall), Spain
Capilla Flamenca (Dirk Snellings), Belgium: renaissance choral
Capilla Peñaflorida, Spain: renaissance choral
Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini (Antonio Florio), Italy: baroque orchestra
Cappella Mediterranea, (Leonardo García-Alarcón)
Capriccio Stravagante (Skip Sempé), France: baroque chamber music
Cardinall's Musick (Andrew Carwood), UK: choir
Les Agrémens ´(Guy van Waas), Belgium
Chanticleer, USA: choir
La Capilla del Valle de la Asunción [4] (Omar Morales Abril), Guatemala: iberoamerican early music ensemble
Carolina Pro Musica (Karen Hite Jacob) [5], USA: medieval to baroque
La Chapelle Rhénane (Benoît Haller), France: baroque orchestra
La Chapelle Royale (Philippe Herreweghe), France: baroque orchestra
Chœur de Chambre Accentus (Laurence Equilbey), France: renaissance to contemporary choir
Cinco Siglos [6], Spain
City Waites (inc.Lucie Skeaping), UK: medieval to baroque English music and folk
Clemencic Consort (René Clemencic), Austria: medieval to baroque
Collegium 419: Czech Early Music Vocal Ensemble
Collegium Musicum 90 (Simon Standage), English Baroque orchestra
Collegium Musicum Den Haag, Holland
Collegium Musicum Riga, (Maris Kupcs) Latvia: baroque orchestra and choir
Collegium Vocale Bydgoszcz, Poland: renaissance music
Collegium Vocale Gent (Philippe Herreweghe), Belgium: renaissance and baroque choir
Cologne Chamber Orchestra (Helmut Müller-Brühl), Germany: baroque orchestra
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam (Jan Willem de Vriend) [7]
Il Complesso Barocco (Alan Curtis), Italy: baroque orchestra
Concentus Musicus Wien (Nikolaus Harnoncourt), Vienna: baroque orchestra
Le Concert d'Astrée [8], (Emmanuelle Haïm), France: baroque orchestra
Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall), Spain: baroque orchestra
Le Concert Spirituel (Hervé Niquet), France: baroque orchestra
Concerto Copenhagen (Lars Ulrik Mortensen), Denmark: baroque orchestra
Concerto Italiano (Rinaldo Alessandrini), Italy: madrigals and baroque orchestra
Concerto Köln, Germany: baroque orchestra - guest conductors inc. Evelino Pidò, Daniel Harding etc.
Concerto Romano (Alessandro Quarta), Italy/Rome: Roman Renaissance and Baroque Music [9]
Concerto Vocale (René Jacobs), France: baroque vocal
The Consort of Musicke (Anthony Rooley), UK: Renaissance vocal, madrigals
Currende (Erik Van Nevel), Belgium :renaissance choir
Consortium Carissimi (Garrick Comeaux), US: renaissance and baroque instrumental and vocal ensemble
Deller Consort (founded by Alfred Deller d.), UK: renaissance and baroque chamber
Diabolus in Musica, (Antoine Guerber), Paris: medieval choral
Drolls, Petrozavodsk, Russia: medieval
Dufay Collective, UK: vocal consort, madrigals
Early Music Consort of London (David Munrow d.), UK: medieval, defunct
Early Music New York, (Frederick Renz), [10] Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque & Classical
Edding Quartet, [11] Belgium/France: period instrument string quartet
Early Opera Company (Christian Curnyn), UK: baroque opera
Egidius Kwartet, Holland: renaissance vocal music
El Cortesano duo: José Hernández Pastor & Ariel Abromovich [12], Spain: baroque duo
English Baroque Soloists (John Eliot Gardiner): Baroque and Classical-era music
Ensemble 415 (Chiara Banchini), France: baroque chamber orchestra
Ensemble Alcatraz (inc. Shira Kammen), USA: medieval
Ensemble amarcord, Leipzig, Germany, vocal ensemble, Medieval, Renaissance, Contemporary
Ensemble Aurora, (Enrico Gatti), Italy: baroque to classical
Ensemble baroque de Nice, (Gilbert Bezzina), Nice: baroque opera
Ensemble Claude-Gervaise, Montréal:
Ensemble Clément Janequin (Dominique Visse), France: renaissance chansons
Ensemble Clematis, Leonardo García-Alarcón, Belgium: baroque
Ensemble Eduard Melkus (Capella Academica Wien), Vienna: defunct
Ensemble Elyma (Gabriel Garrido), Switzerland: baroque orchestra
Ensemble Gombert [13], Melbourne, Australia
Ensemble Matheus (Jean-Christophe Spinosi), France: baroque orchestra
Ensemble Micrologus (Adolfo Broegg d.2006), Italy: medieval
Ensemble Organum (Marcel Pérès), France: Gregorian chant
Ensemble Renaissance, Serbia: medieval
Ensemble Santenay, [14] Trossingen, Germany: renaissance choral
Ensemble Syntagma, (Alexandre Danilevsky)
Estampie (Michael Popp), Germany: medieval
Europa Galante (Fabio Biondi), Italy: baroque orchestra
European Community Baroque Orchestra (Roy Goodman), EU: baroque orchestra
Ex Cathedra (Jeffrey Skidmore), UK: choir and baroque orchestra
I Fagiolini, UK: vocal consort, madrigals
I Febiarmonici (Alan Curtis (harpsichordist)), Italy: madrigals
Ferrara Ensemble (Crawford Young), Basel, Switzerland: medieval and renaissance
Fiori musicali (Marinka Brecelj), Vienna, Austria: baroque chamber group
Florilegium (Ashley Solomon), London: baroque
Fredonia Camerata, Fredonia/Buffalo, NY, USA: early music chamber ensemble
Folger Consort[15] (Robert Eisenstein and Christopher Kendall) Washington, DC, USA: ensemble music ensemble in residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library
Freiburger Barockorchester (Gottfried von der Goltz), Germany: baroque orchestra
Fretwork, UK: viol consort
Gabrieli Consort & Players (Paul McCreesh), UK: baroque choir and orchestra
Il Giardino Armonico (Giovanni Antonini), Milan: baroque orchestra
Gothic Voices (Christopher Page), UK: medieval and Renaissance music
La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy (Jean-Claude Malgoire), France
Hamburger Ratsmusik (Simone Eckert), Germany: baroque chamber orchestra
Handel and Haydn Society, Boston: baroque choir and orchestra
The Harp Consort (Andrew Lawrence-King), UK: renaissance consort
Hespèrion XX/Hespèrion XXI (Jordi Savall), Spain: renaissance orchestra
The Hilliard Ensemble (formerly directed by Paul Hillier), UK: Medieval and Renaissance and contemporary music
Hortus Musicus (Andres Mustonen), Estonia: medieval and renaissance and baroque and contemporary music
Huelgas Ensemble (Paul Van Nevel), Belgium: renaissance choir
Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble (Arno Paduch), Germany: renaissance baroque choir and orchestra
The King's Consort (Robert King), UK: baroque orchestra. See also Retrospect Ensemble
King's Singers, UK: vocal sextet
Lautten Compagney (Wolfgang Katschner), Berlin, Germany, baroque ensemble
Kuninkaantien muusikot - Musicians of the King's Road, Finland: baroque orchestra and choir
London Baroque (founded in 1978 by Ingrid Seifert and Charles Medlam), UK: baroque chamber orchestra
Lyra Baroque Orchestra (Jacques Ogg), US: baroque to early classical orchestra
Magnificat Baroque Ensemble (Warren Stewart), USA
Magpie Lane, Oxfordshire UK: folk band
Modo Antiquo (Bettina Hoffmann and Federico Maria Sardelli), Italy: medieval music to baroque orchestra
Les Muffatti (Peter Van Heyghen), Brussels, Belgium: Baroque orchestra
Münchener Bach-Orchester, Germany, founder (Karl Richter)
Music of the Baroque (Jane Glover), Chicago
Musica Angelica (Martin Haselböck), Los Angeles
Música Antigua (Eduardo Paniagua), Spain: medieval, cantigas
Musica Antiqua Köln (formerly Reinhard Goebel), Germany: Baroque chamber music, now disbanded
Musica Fiata (Roland Wilson (conductor)), Germany: baroque wind orchestra
Musica Ficta (Colombia) (Carlos Serrano) : Latin American baroque
Musica Ficta (Denmark) (Bo Holten) : renaissance and contemporary choral
Musica Ficta (Spain) (Raúl Mallavibarrena) :renaissance choral
Musica Florea, [16] (Marek Štryncl) :Czech early music ensemble
Musica Glorifica (Jin Kim), Seoul, Korea
Musica Reservata of London, (John S. Beckett)
Les Musiciens du Louvre (Marc Minkowski), Grenoble: baroque orchestra
New Dutch Academy (Simon Murphy), The Hague, The Netherlands, 18th and early 19th century symphonic music
New London Consort (Philip Pickett), UK: medieval to baroque orchestra
New York Collegium (Andrew Parrott), USA, dissolved
New York Pro Musica Antiqua (Noah Greenberg d.1966, then John Reeves White to 1974), USA: choir, defunct
Newberry Consort, at the Newberry Library, USA: baroque chamber.
Oliphant, Finland: medieval music
Oni Wytars (Marco Ambrosini and Peter Rabanser), Germany: medieval music
Opera Lafayette [17], USA: opera before 1800.
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, UK: baroque orchestra
Orchestra of the Antipodes, (Anthony Walker), Australia: baroque orchestra
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (Frans Brüggen), Holland: baroque orchestra
Orchestre Revolutionairre et Romantique (John Eliot Gardner), England: Classical and early Romantic orchestra
Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música (Laurence Cummings), Portugal: baroque orchestra
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, (Michi Gaigg), Germany: baroque orchestra
Orion Consort, (Daniel Cooper) [18], Australia: medieval and renaissance ensemble
Orlando Consort, UK: vocal quartet
Oxford Camerata (Jeremy Summerly), UK: renaissance choral
Palladian Ensemble, British instrumental ensemble (co-founded by Rachel Podger)
Pantagruel Renaissance Musicke trio, Germany
The Parley of Instruments (Roy Goodman), UK: baroque orchestra
Orchestre Les Passions (Jean-Marc Andrieu), France: orchestra
Les Passions de l'Ame (Meret Lüthi), Switzerland: Orchestra for Ancient Music
La Petite Bande (Sigiswald Kuijken), Belgium: baroque orchestra and chamber ensemble
Phantasm, UK: viol consort
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (Nicholas McGegan), USA: baroque orchestra
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble (Philip Jones), UK: brass quintet
Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, Philadelphia, USA
Le Poème Harmonique (Vincent Dumestre), France: renaissance-baroque chamber group
Polish Baroque Orchestra (Krzysztof Czerwinski), Poland
Portland Baroque Orchestra (Monica Huggett), USA
Polyphony (Choir) (Stephen Layton), UK: renaissance, romantic and contemporary music
Pro Anima (Gennadiy Golstein), Leningrad: 1980s, now disbanded.
Pro Cantione Antiqua (Bruno Turner), UK: renaissance choral
Project Ars Nova P.A.N. (inc Crawford Young), USA: medieval
Quadriga Consort (Nikolaus Newerkla), Austria: emphasis on early British traditional and popular music
Quatuor Mosaïques (founded in 1985 by members of Concentus Musicus Wien) Vienna.
Querkes of Faite UK, medieval to renaissance dance music
Raglan Baroque Players (Nicholas Kraemer), UK: baroque orchestra
Red Priest, UK: baroque orchestra, specializing in Vivaldi
Rheinische Kantorei & Das Kleine Konzert (Hermann Max), Germany: Baroque choir and orchestra
Retrospect Ensemble (Matthew Halls), UK: baroque orchestra
La Reverdie (Claudia Caffagni, Livia Caffagni), Italy: medieval
Renantique (Emanuel Vasconcelos), Brazil: medieval and renaissance
Ricercar Consort (Philippe Pierlot), Belgium: baroque cantatas
Rondellus [19] (Maria and Robert Staak), Estonia: medieval and renaissance and contemporary music
Rose Consort of Viols, UK:
Rose Ensemble (Jordan Sramek) St. Paul, USA
Sarband, Germany: baroque orchestra
Schola Antiqua of Chicago, (Michael Alan Anderson), Chicago, USA: medieval and Renaissance choir
Students of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Rene Jacobs), based in Basel, Switzerland: medieval to baroque
Sequentia (Benjamin Bagby), Germany: medieval
La Serenissima (Adrian Chandler) [20], UK: baroque orchestra, Vivaldi
Silva Rerum arte, [21], Gdańsk, Poland: baroque chamber and orchestral music
The Sixteen (Harry Christophers), UK: mostly a cappella music of the Renaissance, with baroque orchestra for Handel
Sligo Early Music Ensemble, Ireland
Solistes de Musique Ancienne, (Joel Newsome) UK: baroque orchestra and choir
I Solisti Veneti (Claudio Scimone b.1934), Italy: baroque orchestra on modern instruments
La Stagione (Michael Schneider (conductor)), Frankfurt, Germany: baroque orchestra
Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (Christopher Jackson), Canada: mostly music of the Renaissance and early Baroque
Studio der frühen Musik (Thomas Binkley d.), Munich: medieval, disbanded.
Tafelmusik (Jeanne Lamon), Toronto: baroque orchestra and chamber choir
Les Talens Lyriques (Christophe Rousset), France: baroque opera and orchestra
Tallis Scholars (Peter Phillips): a cappella Renaissance music
Taverner Consort and Players (Andrew Parrott), UK: renaissance choir and baroque orchestra
Telemann-Kammerorchester Michaelstein (Ludger Rémy), Germany: baroque orchestra
The Broken Consort (Emily Lau, founding director) USA; innovative medieval/renaissance music paired with living composers
The English Concert (Trevor Pinnock founder, then Andrew Manze, now Harry Bicket), UK
La Tempesta (Jakub Burzynski), Poland: baroque orchestra
TENET (Jolle Greenleaf), [22] New York, NY, USA
Tetraktys (Kees Boeke) medieval, early renaissance
Texas Early Music Project, [23] Austin, Texas, USA
Theatre of Voices, UK: vocal consort
Tonus Peregrinus (Antony Pitts), UK: renaissance and contemporary choir
Trinity Baroque, vocal ensemble Trinity College, Cambridge, UK
La Venexiana (Claudio Cavina), Italy: madrigals
Venice Baroque Orchestra, Italy (Andrea Marcon)
Via Artis Konsort (Poul Udbye Pock-Steen) [24], DK
Virginia Tech Early Music Ensemble, USA
Weser-Renaissance Bremen (Manfred Cordes), Germany: renaissance and baroque
Westminster Abbey Choir (Simon Preston), UK
Westminster Cathedral Choir (David Hill (choral director)), UK
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