List of early music ensembles

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 ensembles

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 Händelfestpielorchester, baroque chamber orchestra in Halle (Saale) 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 Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam: 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 Africa The African Renaissance Ensemble (Adam H. Golding), Johannesburg (2017): Renaissance and Baroque Tinta Baroque, Cape Town: Baroque 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