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, Sydney: baroque orchestra
- : 18th century period orchestra
- : 18th-20th century period orchestra
- Sydney-based historically-informed baroque ensemble, specialising in the music of J. S. Bach and contemporaries.
- , Andrew Koll: baroque ensemble and chamber choir
- Ensemble Gombert, Melbourne: chamber choir
Austria
- Ars Antiqua Austria
- Cinquecento: vocal ensemble
- Clemencic Consort : medieval to baroque
- Concentus Musicus Wien, Vienna: baroque orchestra
- Ensemble Eduard Melkus, Vienna: defunct
- , Vienna: baroque chamber group
- Quadriga Consort: emphasis on early British traditional and popular music
- Quatuor Mosaïques, Vienna
Belgium
- Capilla Flamenca : Renaissance choral
- Les Agrémens
- Collegium Vocale Gent : Renaissance and baroque choir
- Currende : Renaissance choir
- Ensemble Clematis, Leonardo García-Alarcón: baroque
- Huelgas Ensemble : Renaissance choir
- Les Muffatti, Brussels: Baroque orchestra
- La Petite Bande : baroque orchestra and chamber ensemble
- Ricercar Consort: baroque cantatas
- Vox Luminis: 16th- to 18th-century Italian, German, and English vocal music
Canada
- Académie Baroque de Montréal
- , Montréal
- , Vancouver: early music concert series
- , Montréal
- Ensemble Claude-Gervaise, Montréal
- . Waterloo, ON:early music orchestra and chamber choir
- Opera Atelier, Toronto: baroque opera company
- , 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, Toronto: chamber choir
- , Victoria, BC: early music ensemble
- Les Violons du Roy, Québec City: early music orchestra
Colombia
- Musica Ficta : Bogota: Latin American baroque
Czech Republic
- Collegium 1704 : Prague: early music ensemble
- Collegium 419: Prague: early music vocal ensemble
- Collegium Marianum : Prague: early music ensemble
- Musica Florea : Prague: early music ensemble
- Schola Gregoriana Pragensis: Prague: a cappella male choir whose core repertoire is Gregorian chant, Bohemian plainchant, and early polyphony
- - Roman Válek, Tereza Válková, Loučka: early music ensemble
- Prague: Adam Viktora, Prague
Denmark
- Ars Nova Copenhagen : Renaissance to contemporary
- Concerto Copenhagen : baroque orchestra
- Musica Ficta : Renaissance and contemporary choral
- Ensemble Zimmermann : Mixed early music ensemble
Estonia
- Hortus Musicus : 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 : early baroque
- Les Arts Florissants : baroque orchestra
- Boulanger Ensemble : historic revival of Monteverdi
- Capriccio Stravagante : baroque chamber music
- Les Siècles : symphony orchestra
- La Chapelle Rhénane : baroque orchestra
- La Chapelle Royale : baroque orchestra
- Chœur de Chambre Accentus : Renaissance to contemporary choir
- Le Concert d'Astrée : baroque orchestra
- Le Concert Spirituel : baroque orchestra
- Concerto Vocale : baroque vocal
- Diabolus in Musica, Paris: medieval choral
- Ensemble 415 : baroque chamber orchestra
- Ensemble baroque de Nice : baroque opera
- Ensemble Clément Janequin : Renaissance chansons
- Ensemble Matheus : baroque orchestra
- Ensemble Organum : Gregorian chant
- La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy
- Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien: baroque orchestra, François Lazarevitch
- Les Musiciens du Louvre, Grenoble: baroque orchestra
- Orchestre Les Passions
- Le Poème Harmonique : Renaissance-baroque chamber group
- Les Talens Lyriques : baroque opera and orchestra
Germany
- Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin: baroque orchestra
- Pera Ensemble: baroque orchestra, Alla Turca
- Cantus Cölln : Renaissance and baroque vocal
- La Capella Ducale Musica Fiata
- Cologne Chamber Orchestra : 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 : baroque orchestra
- G. A. P. Ensemble, instrumental trio
- Gaechinger Cantorey and , Stuttgart
- Hamburger Ratsmusik: baroque chamber orchestra
- il Gusto Barocco: baroque orchestra
- Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble : Renaissance baroque choir and orchestra
- Lautten Compagney : early music ensemble
- Münchener Bach-Orchester
- Musica Antiqua Köln : baroque chamber music, now disbanded
- Musica Fiata : baroque wind orchestra
- Oni Wytars : medieval music
- L'Orfeo Barockorchester : baroque orchestra
- Pantagruel: Renaissance music trio
- Rheinische Kantorei and the Kleine Konzert : baroque choir and orchestra
- Sarband: baroque orchestra
- Sequentia : medieval
- La Stagione, Frankfurt: baroque orchestra
- Studio der frühen Musik, Munich: medieval, disbanded
- Telemann-Kammerorchester Michaelstein : baroque orchestra
- Weser-Renaissance Bremen : Renaissance and baroque
Greece
- Ex Silentio: medieval and baroque music
Iceland
- Voces Thules: Icelandic medieval music
Israel
- Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra: baroque orchestra
- 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
- Profeti della Quinta, Israel/Switzerland: vocal ensemble
- Barrocade: baroque orchestra
Italy
- Academia Montis Regalis : baroque orchestra
- Accademia Bizantina : baroque orchestra
- Accordone : early baroque, often with Marco Beasley
- Auser Musici: baroque orchestra
- Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini : baroque orchestra
- Il Complesso Barocco : baroque orchestra
- Concerto Italiano : madrigals and baroque orchestra
- Delitiæ Musicæ: Renaissance and baroque vocal music
- Ensemble Aurora : baroque to classical
- Ensemble Micrologus: medieval
- Europa Galante : baroque orchestra
- I Febiarmonici : madrigals
- Il Giardino Armonico, Milan: baroque orchestra
- Modo Antiquo : medieval music to baroque orchestra
- La Reverdie: medieval
- SimoneSorini Syrenarum : from medieval to early baroque
- I Solisti Veneti : baroque orchestra on modern instruments
- La Venexiana : madrigals
- Venice Baroque Orchestra
Japan
- Bach Collegium Japan, Kobe: Bach
Latvia
- Canto, Riga: Renaissance and baroque vocal and instrumental music
- Collegium Choro Musici Riga : baroque choir
- Collegium Musicum Riga : baroque orchestra
- Lirum, Riga: Renaissance vocal music ensemble
- Ludus, Riga: late Renaissance to early baroque
- Schola Cantorum Riga : 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 : 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, The Hague, 18th- and early 19th-century symphonic music
- Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century : baroque orchestra
Norway
Poland
- Polish Baroque Orchestra
Portugal
- Concerto Atlântico : medieval to baroque
- Officium Ensemble : renaissance
- Il Dolcimelo : Renaissance
- Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música : baroque orchestra
- AVRES SERVA : early baroque to early classical
- CONCERTO IBÉRICO ORQUESTRA BARROCA : baroque orchestra
- FLORES DE MVSICA : instrumental and vocal ensemble, renaissance to classical
Russia
- Insula Magica, Novosibirsk
- The Pocket Symphony, Moscow, St. Petersburg
- Pro Anima, Leningrad: 1980s, now disbanded
- La Voce Strumentale, Moscow: baroque ensemble
- Pratum Integrum, Moscow: baroque and classical orchestra
Serbia
- Ensemble Renaissance, Belgrade: medieval and Renaissance
- Ensemble Musica Antiqua Consort, Belgrade : Medieval and Renaissance, also Baroque
- Ensemble Musica Antiqua Serbiana, Belgrade : Medieval vocal music of the Orthodox spiritual tradition
- New Trinity Baroque, Belgrade
South Korea
- Collegium Vocale Seoul, Seoul-based choir: medieval to romantic with focus on baroque
- Musica Glorifica, Seoul
Spain
- A5 vocal ensemble: vocal quintet
- Al Ayre Español : baroque orchestra
- Atrium Musicae de Madrid: dissolved
- Capella de Ministrers : medieval to baroque
- La Capella Reial de Catalunya
- L'Apothéose baroque ensemble
- Capilla Peñaflorida: Renaissance choral
- Cinco Siglos
- La Colombina: vocal ensemble
- Le Concert des Nations : baroque orchestra
- Hespèrion XX/Hespèrion XXI : Renaissance orchestra
- Música Antigua : medieval, cantigas
- Íliber Ensemble : baroque orchestra
- Musica Ficta : Renaissance choral
Sweden
Switzerland
- : early wind ensemble
- Camerata Bern : chamber orchestra
- : women's medieval vocal ensemble
- Ensemble Elyma : baroque orchestra
- Ferrara Ensemble, Basel: medieval and Renaissance
- Gli Angeli Genève, Geneva: baroque ensemble
- : medieval and renaissance ensemble
- : baroque orchestra
- Students of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, based in Basel: medieval to baroque
Taiwan
- Baroque Camerata
- Formosan Baroque
- The Gleam Ensemble
United Kingdom
- Academy of Ancient Music : baroque orchestra
- Alamire : vocal consort
- Avison Ensemble: baroque orchestra
- The Band of Instruments: baroque orchestra, New Chamber Opera
- Brandenburg Consort : baroque orchestra
- Brecon Baroque : baroque orchestra
- The Brook Street Band, Handel specialists
- Cancionero, Kent
- Cantilena : baroque on modern instruments
- The Cardinall's Musick : choir
- City Waites : medieval to baroque English music and folk
- Collegium Musicum 90, English baroque orchestra
- The Consort of Musicke : Renaissance vocal, madrigals
- Deller Consort : 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 : medieval, defunct
- Early Opera Company: baroque opera
- English Baroque Soloists : baroque and classical-era music
- The English Concert
- Ex Cathedra : choir and baroque orchestra
- I Fagiolini: vocal consort, madrigals
- Florilegium, London: baroque
- Fretwork: viol consort
- The Gesualdo Six vocal ensemble
- Gabrieli Consort & Players : baroque choir and orchestra
- Gothic Voices : medieval and Renaissance music
- The Hanover Band: period instrument orchestra
- The Harp Consort : Renaissance consort
- The Hilliard Ensemble : medieval, Renaissance and contemporary music
- The King's Consort : baroque orchestra; see also Retrospect Ensemble
- King's Singers: vocal sextet
- London Baroque : baroque chamber orchestra
- Magpie Lane, Oxfordshire: folk band
- Musica Reservata, London
- New London Consort : medieval to baroque orchestra
- Orchestra of [the Age of Enlightenment]: baroque orchestra
- Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique : classical and romantic orchestra
- Orlando Consort: vocal quartet
- Oxford Camerata : Renaissance choral
- Palladian Ensemble, British instrumental ensemble
- The Parley of Instruments : baroque orchestra
- Phantasm: viol consort
- Philip Jones Brass Ensemble : brass quintet
- Polyphony : Renaissance, romantic and contemporary music
- Pro Cantione Antiqua: Renaissance choral
- Raglan Baroque Players : baroque orchestra
- Red Priest: baroque orchestra, specializing in Vivaldi
- Retrospect Ensemble: baroque orchestra
- Rose Consort of Viols
- La Serenissima : baroque orchestra, Vivaldi
- The Sixteen : mostly a cappella music of the Renaissance, with baroque orchestra for Handel
- Solistes de Musique Ancienne: baroque orchestra and choir
- Sounds Baroque : period instrument ensemble
- Stile Antico: early music vocal ensemble
- Tallis Scholars : a cappella Renaissance music
- Taverner Consort and Players : Renaissance choir and baroque orchestra
- Theatre of Voices: vocal consort
- Tonus Peregrinus : Renaissance and contemporary choir
- Trinity Baroque, Trinity College, Cambridge: vocal ensemble
- Voces8: vocal ensemble
- Westminster Abbey Choir
- Westminster Cathedral Choir
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, Renaissance, baroque, early classical orchestra, Cleveland
- Arcadia Players, Northampton, Massachusetts
- Asteria Medievale, duo, Brooklyn, New York: Renaissance chansons
- : baroque orchestra and choir specializing in Iberian and Latin American early music
- Bach Ensemble : baroque soloists and orchestra
- Bach Sinfonia, Washington, D.C.
- Baltimore Consort
- Blue Heron, Boston
- Boston Baroque : baroque orchestra
- Boston Camerata
- Boston Early Music Festival: baroque orchestra and opera company
- Bourbon Baroque : baroque orchestra, Louisville, Kentucky
- Camerata Mediterranea, Boston
- Chanticleer: choir, San Francisco
- , New York City
- Early Music New York, medieval, Renaissance, baroque and classical
- Ensemble Alcatraz : medieval, San Francisco Bay area
- , baroque, Washington, D.C.
- Folger Consort, Washington, D.C.
- Handel and Haydn Society, baroque choir and orchestra, Boston
- Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra
- : medieval, Houston, TX
- Lyra Baroque Orchestra : baroque to early classical orchestra, St. Paul, MN
- Magnificat Baroque Ensemble, San Francisco Bay area
- Music of the Baroque, Chicago
- Musica Angelica, Los Angeles
- New Trinity Baroque, Atlanta
- New York Collegium, dissolved
- New York Polyphony
- New York Pro Musica Antiqua : choir, defunct
- Newberry Consort, at the Newberry Library, baroque chamber, Chicago
- Newport Baroque Orchestra, Newport, RI
- , Davidson, NC
- Opera Lafayette: pre-1800 opera, Washington, D.C.
- Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra : baroque orchestra, San Francisco
- Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, Philadelphia
- Portland Baroque Orchestra, Portland, OR
- Project Ars Nova : medieval, Boston
- , New York City
- , greater Washington, D.C. area
- Renaissance Street Singers, a cappella Renaissance, New York City
- , 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
- TENET , now known as TENET Vocal Artists, New York City
- , Charlottesville, VA
- Virginia Tech Early Music Ensemble, Blacksburg, VA
- Voices of Music, San Francisco, California
- , Sheridan, Wyoming
Unspecified or international
- Cappella Mediterranea
- Ensemble Syntagma
- European Community Baroque Orchestra, European Union