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

• The Early Music Ensemble, Brisbane, Australia http://theearlymusicensemble.com
• Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (Paul Dyer): baroque orchestra
• Ensemble Gombert, Melbourne, Australia

Austria

• Ars Antiqua Austria (Gunnar Letzbor)
• Clemencic Consort (René Clemencic), Austria: medieval to baroque
• Concentus Musicus Wien (Nikolaus Harnoncourt), Vienna: baroque orchestra
• Ensemble Eduard Melkus (Capella Academica Wien), Vienna: defunct
• Fiori musicali (Marinka Brecelj), Vienna, Austria: baroque chamber group
• 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.

Belgium

• Capilla Flamenca (Dirk Snellings), Belgium: renaissance choral
• Les Agrémens ´(Guy van Waas), Belgium
• Collegium Vocale Gent (Philippe Herreweghe), Belgium: renaissance and baroque choir
• Currende (Erik Van Nevel), Belgium :renaissance choir
• Ensemble Clematis, Leonardo García-Alarcón, Belgium: baroque
• Huelgas Ensemble (Paul Van Nevel), Belgium: renaissance choir
• Les Muffatti, Brussels, Belgium: Baroque orchestra
• La Petite Bande (Sigiswald Kuijken), Belgium: baroque orchestra and chamber ensemble
• Ricercar Consort (Philippe Pierlot), Belgium: baroque cantatas

Canada

• Académie Baroque de Montréal (Suzie LeBlanc), Canada

Aradia Ensemble (die. Kevin Mallon), Toronto

• Ensemble Claude-Gervaise, Montréal:
• Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (Christopher Jackson), Canada: mostly music of the Renaissance and early Baroque
• Tafelmusik (Elisa Citterio), Toronto: baroque orchestra and chamber choir

Colombia

• Musica Ficta (Colombia) (Carlos Serrano) : Latin American baroque

Czechia

• Collegium 419: Czech Early Music Vocal Ensemble
• Collegium 1704, (Václav Luks): Czech early music ensemble
• Collegium Marianum (Jana Semerádová): Czech early music ensemble
• Musica Florea, (Marek Štryncl) :Czech early music ensemble
• Schola Gregoriana Pragensis, a cappella male voice choir whose core repertoire is Gregorian chant, Bohemian plainchant, and early polyphony

Denmark

• Ars Nova Copenhagen (Paul Hillier), Denmark: renaissance to contemporary
• Concerto Copenhagen (Lars Ulrik Mortensen), Denmark: baroque orchestra
• Musica Ficta (Denmark) (Bo Holten) : renaissance and contemporary choral

Estonia

• Hortus Musicus (Andres Mustonen), Estonia: medieval and renaissance and baroque and contemporary music
• Rondellus (Maria and Robert Staak), Estonia: medieval and renaissance and contemporary music

Finland

• Kuninkaantien muusikot - Musicians of the King's Road, Finland: baroque orchestra and choir
• Oliphant, Finland: medieval music

France

• L'Arpeggiata (Christina Pluhar), France: early baroque
• Les Arts Florissants (William Christie), France: baroque orchestra
• Boulanger Ensemble (Nadia Boulanger), France: historic revival of Monteverdi
• Capriccio Stravagante (Skip Sempé), France: baroque chamber music
• 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
• Le Concert d'Astrée, (Emmanuelle Haïm), France: baroque orchestra
• Le Concert Spirituel (Hervé Niquet), France: baroque orchestra
• Concerto Vocale (René Jacobs), France: baroque vocal
• Diabolus in Musica, (Antoine Guerber), Paris: medieval choral
• Ensemble 415 (Chiara Banchini), France: baroque chamber orchestra
• Ensemble baroque de Nice, (Gilbert Bezzina), Nice: baroque opera
• Ensemble Clément Janequin (Dominique Visse), France: renaissance chansons
• Ensemble Matheus (Jean-Christophe Spinosi), France: baroque orchestra
• Ensemble Organum (Marcel Pérès), France: Gregorian chant
• La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy (Jean-Claude Malgoire), France
• Les Musiciens du Louvre (Marc Minkowski), Grenoble: baroque orchestra
• Orchestre Les Passions (Jean-Marc Andrieu), France: orchestra
• Le Poème Harmonique (Vincent Dumestre), France: renaissance-baroque chamber group
• Les Talens Lyriques (Christophe Rousset), France: baroque opera and orchestra

Germany

• Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Germany: baroque orchestra
• Cantus Cölln (Konrad Junghänel), Germany: renaissance and baroque vocal
• La Capella Ducale Musica Fiata (Roland Wilson (conductor)), Germany
• Cologne Chamber Orchestra (Helmut Müller-Brühl), Germany: baroque orchestra
• Concerto Köln, Germany: baroque orchestra - guest conductors inc. Evelino Pidò, Daniel Harding etc.
• Ensemble amarcord, Leipzig, Germany, vocal ensemble, Medieval, Renaissance, Contemporary
• Ensemble Santenay, Trossingen, Germany: renaissance choral
• Estampie (Michael Popp), Germany: medieval
• Freiburger Barockorchester (Gottfried von der Goltz), Germany: baroque orchestra
• Hamburger Ratsmusik (Simone Eckert), Germany: baroque chamber orchestra
• Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble (Arno Paduch), Germany: renaissance baroque choir and orchestra
• Lautten Compagney (Wolfgang Katschner), Berlin, Germany, baroque ensemble
• Münchener Bach-Orchester, Germany, founder (Karl Richter)
• Musica Antiqua Köln (formerly Reinhard Goebel), Germany: Baroque chamber music, now disbanded
• Musica Fiata (Roland Wilson (conductor)), Germany: baroque wind orchestra
• Oni Wytars (Marco Ambrosini and Peter Rabanser), Germany: medieval music
• L'Orfeo Barockorchester, (Michi Gaigg), Germany: baroque orchestra
• Pantagruel Renaissance Musicke trio, Germany
• Rheinische Kantorei & Das Kleine Konzert (Hermann Max), Germany: Baroque choir and orchestra
• Sarband, Germany: baroque orchestra
• Sequentia (Benjamin Bagby), Germany: medieval
• La Stagione (Michael Schneider (conductor)), Frankfurt, Germany: baroque orchestra
• Studio der frühen Musik (Thomas Binkley d.), Munich: medieval, disbanded.
• Telemann-Kammerorchester Michaelstein (Ludger Rémy), Germany: baroque orchestra
• Weser-Renaissance Bremen (Manfred Cordes), Germany: renaissance and baroque

Guatemala

• Ensamble Prosodia (Omar Morales Abril), Guatemala: Ibero-american early music

Israel

• Accademia Daniel (Shalev Ad-El), Israel: baroque chamber group
• Profeti della Quinta (Elam Rotem), Israel/Switzerland: vocal ensemble

Italy

• Accademia Bizantina (Ottavio Dantone), Italy: baroque orchestra
• Accordone (Guido Morini), Italy: early baroque, often with Marco Beasley
• Auser Musici (Carlo Ipata), Italy: baroque orchestra
• Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini (Antonio Florio), Italy: baroque orchestra
• Il Complesso Barocco (Alan Curtis), Italy: baroque orchestra
• Concerto Italiano (Rinaldo Alessandrini), Italy: madrigals and baroque orchestra
• Ensemble Aurora, (Enrico Gatti), Italy: baroque to classical
• Ensemble Micrologus (Adolfo Broegg d.2006), Italy: medieval
• Europa Galante (Fabio Biondi), Italy: baroque orchestra
• I Febiarmonici (Alan Curtis (harpsichordist)), Italy: madrigals
• Il Giardino Armonico (Giovanni Antonini), Milan: baroque orchestra
• L'Homme Armé (Fabio Lombardo), Firenze: renaissance, baroque, contemporary
• Modo Antiquo (Bettina Hoffmann and Federico Maria Sardelli), Italy: medieval music to baroque orchestra
• La Reverdie (Claudia Caffagni, Livia Caffagni), Italy: medieval
• I Solisti Veneti (Claudio Scimone b.1934), Italy: baroque orchestra on modern instruments
• La Venexiana (Claudio Cavina), Italy: madrigals
• Venice Baroque Orchestra, Italy (Andrea Marcon)

Japan

• Bach Collegium Japan (Masaaki Suzuki), Kobe: Bach

Netherlands

• Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir (Ton Koopman): baroque orchestra
• Camerata Trajectina, Utrecht: renaissance and baroque Dutch music
• Collegium Musicum Den Haag, Holland
• Egidius Kwartet, Holland: renaissance vocal music
• Netherlands Bach Society (Jos van Veldhoven), Naarden, The Netherlands: baroque ensemble
• New Dutch Academy (Simon Murphy), The Hague, The Netherlands, 18th and early 19th century symphonic music
• Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (Frans Brüggen), Holland: baroque orchestra

Poland

• Polish Baroque Orchestra (Krzysztof Czerwinski), Poland
• La Tempesta (Jakub Burzynski), Poland: baroque orchestra

Portugal

• Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música (Laurence Cummings), Portugal: baroque orchestra

Russia

• Drolls, Petrozavodsk, Russia: medieval
• Pro Anima (Gennadiy Golstein), Leningrad: 1980s, now disbanded.

Serbia

• Ensemble Renaissance, Belgrade: medieval and renaissance
• Ensemble Musica Antiqua (Vera Zlokovic), Belgrade: medieval to baroque,and early orthodox chants
• New Trinity Baroque (Predrag Gosta), Belgrade

Spain

• Al Ayre Español (Eduardo López Banzo), Spain: baroque orchestra
• Atrium Musicae de Madrid (Gregorio Paniagua), Spain: dissolved
• Capella de Ministrers (Carles Magraner), Spain: medieval to baroque
• La Capella Reial de Catalunya (Jordi Savall), Spain
• Capilla Peñaflorida, Spain: renaissance choral
• Cinco Siglos [1], Spain
• La Colombina, Spain: vocal ensemble
• Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall), Spain: baroque orchestra
• El Cortesano duo: José Hernández Pastor & Ariel Abromovich [2], Spain: baroque duo
• Hespèrion XX/Hespèrion XXI (Jordi Savall), Spain: renaissance orchestra
• Música Antigua (Eduardo Paniagua), Spain: medieval, cantigas
• Musica Ficta (Spain) (Raúl Mallavibarrena) :renaissance choral

South Africa

• Camerata Tinta Barocca (Artistic director: Erik Dippenaar), Cape Town: South Africa http://ctbaroque.co.za

South Korea

• Musica Glorifica (Jin Kim), Seoul, Korea

Switzerland

• Camerata Bern (Antje Weithaas), Switzerland: Chamber orchestra
• Ensemble Elyma (Gabriel Garrido), Switzerland: baroque orchestra
• Ferrara Ensemble (Crawford Young), Basel, Switzerland: medieval and renaissance
• Gli Angeli Genève (Stephan MacLeod), Geneva, Switzerland: baroque ensemble
• Students of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Rene Jacobs), based in Basel, Switzerland: medieval to baroque

United Kingdom

• Academy of Ancient Music (Nobody likes early music founder, then Andrew Manze, currently Richard Egarr), UK: baroque orchestra
• Alamire (David Skinner), UK: vocal consort
• Amphion Consort, UK
• Avison Ensemble (Gordon Dixon), UK: baroque orchestra
• Brandenburg Consort (Roy Goodman), UK: baroque orchestra
• Cancionero, Kent, UK
• Cantilena (Adrian Shepherd), UK: baroque on modern instruments
• Cardinall's Musick (Andrew Carwood), UK: choir
• City Waites (inc.Lucie Skeaping), UK: medieval to baroque English music and folk
• Collegium Musicum 90 (Simon Standage), English Baroque orchestra
• The Consort of Musicke (Anthony Rooley), UK: Renaissance vocal, madrigals
• Deller Consort (founded by Alfred Deller d.), UK: renaissance and baroque chamber
• Dufay Collective, UK: vocal consort, madrigals
• Early Music Consort of London (David Munrow d.), UK: medieval, defunct
• Early Opera Company (Christian Curnyn), UK: baroque opera
• English Baroque Soloists (John Eliot Gardiner): Baroque and Classical-era music
• Ex Cathedra (Jeffrey Skidmore), UK: choir and baroque orchestra
• I Fagiolini, UK: vocal consort, madrigals
• Florilegium (Ashley Solomon), London: baroque
• Fretwork, UK: viol consort
• Gabrieli Consort & Players (Paul McCreesh), UK: baroque choir and orchestra
• Gothic Voices (Christopher Page), UK: medieval and Renaissance music
• The Harp Consort (Andrew Lawrence-King), UK: renaissance consort
• The Hilliard Ensemble (formerly directed by Paul Hillier), UK: Medieval and Renaissance and contemporary music
• The King's Consort (Robert King), UK: baroque orchestra. See also Retrospect Ensemble
• King's Singers, UK: vocal sextet
• London Baroque (founded in 1978 by Ingrid Seifert and Charles Medlam), UK: baroque chamber orchestra
• Magpie Lane, Oxfordshire UK: folk band
• Musica Reservata (John S. Beckett), London
• New London Consort (Philip Pickett), UK: medieval to baroque orchestra
• Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, UK: baroque orchestra
• Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (John Eliot Gardiner), England: Classical and early Romantic orchestra
• Orlando Consort, UK: vocal quartet
• Oxford Camerata (Jeremy Summerly), UK: renaissance choral
• Palladian Ensemble, British instrumental ensemble (co-founded by Rachel Podger)
• The Parley of Instruments (Roy Goodman), UK: baroque orchestra
• Phantasm, UK: viol consort
• Philip Jones Brass Ensemble (Philip Jones), UK: brass quintet
• Polyphony (Choir) (Stephen Layton), UK: renaissance, romantic and contemporary music
• Pro Cantione Antiqua (Bruno Turner), UK: renaissance choral
• Raglan Baroque Players (Nicholas Kraemer), UK: baroque orchestra
• Red Priest, UK: baroque orchestra, specializing in Vivaldi
• Retrospect Ensemble (Matthew Halls), UK: baroque orchestra
• Rose Consort of Viols, UK:
• La Serenissima (Adrian Chandler) [3], UK: baroque orchestra, Vivaldi
• The Sixteen (Harry Christophers), UK: mostly a cappella music of the Renaissance, with baroque orchestra for Handel
• Solistes de Musique Ancienne, (Joel Newsome) UK: baroque orchestra and choir
• Tallis Scholars (Peter Phillips): a cappella Renaissance music
• Taverner Consort and Players (Andrew Parrott), UK: renaissance choir and baroque orchestra
• The English Concert (Trevor Pinnock founder, then Andrew Manze, now Harry Bicket), UK
• Theatre of Voices, UK: vocal consort
• Tonus Peregrinus (Antony Pitts), UK: renaissance and contemporary choir
• Trinity Baroque, vocal ensemble Trinity College, Cambridge, UK
• Westminster Abbey Choir (Simon Preston), UK
• Westminster Cathedral Choir (David Hill (choral director)), UK

United States of America

• American Bach Soloists (Jeffrey Thomas), USA
• Anonymous 4, USA: all-female a cappella ensemble specializing in medieval music
• Apollo's Fire (Jeannette Sorrell) Cleveland, USA: renaissance, baroque, early classical orchestra
• Asteria Medievale, duo, NYC: renaissance chansons
• Bach Collegium San Diego (Ruben Valenzuela), USA
• Bach Ensemble (Joshua Rifkin), USA: baroque soloists and orchestra
• Bach Sinfonia (Daniel Abraham) Maryland, USA
• Baltimore Consort, USA
• Boston Baroque (Martin Pearlman), USA: baroque orchestra
• Boston Camerata (Joel Cohen), USA
• Boston Early Music Festival, USA: baroque orchestra and opera company
• Bourbon Baroque (Nicolas Fortin and John Austin Clark), USA: baroque orchestra
• Byrd Ensemble (Markdavin Obenza), Seattle, WA, USA
• Camerata Mediterranea (Joel Cohen), USA
• Chanticleer, USA: choir
• Early Music New York, (Frederick Renz), Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque & Classical
• Ensemble Alcatraz (inc. Shira Kammen), USA: medieval
• Handel and Haydn Society, Boston: baroque choir and orchestra
• Lyra Baroque Orchestra (Jacques Ogg), US: baroque to early classical orchestra
• Magnificat Baroque Ensemble (Warren Stewart), USA
• Music of the Baroque (Jane Glover), Chicago
• Musica Angelica (Martin Haselböck), Los Angeles
• New Trinity Baroque (Predrag Gosta), Atlanta
• 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.
• Opera Lafayette, USA: opera before 1800.
• Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (Nicholas McGegan), USA: baroque orchestra
• Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, Philadelphia, USA
• Portland Baroque Orchestra (Monica Huggett), USA
• Project Ars Nova P.A.N. (inc Crawford Young), USA: medieval
• Rose Ensemble (Jordan Sramek) St. Paul, USA
• Texas Early Music Project, Austin, Texas, USA
• Virginia Tech Early Music Ensemble, USA

Unspecified or international

• Cappella Mediterranea, (Leonardo García-Alarcón)
• Ensemble Syntagma, (Alexandre Danilevsky)
• European Community Baroque Orchestra (Roy Goodman), EU: baroque orchestra
• Tetraktys (Kees Boeke) medieval, early renaissance