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

Belgium

Canada

Colombia

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

  • Hortus Musicus : medieval and Renaissance and baroque and contemporary music
  • Rondellus: medieval and Renaissance and contemporary music

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Iceland

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

Japan

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

Norway

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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

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

Spain

Sweden

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Switzerland

Taiwan

  • Baroque Camerata
  • Formosan Baroque
  • The Gleam Ensemble

United Kingdom

United States

Unspecified or international