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 : baroque orchestra
- Ensemble Gombert, Melbourne
Austria
- Ars Antiqua Austria
- Clemencic Consort : medieval to baroque
- Concentus Musicus Wien, Vienna: baroque orchestra
- Ensemble Eduard Melkus, Vienna: defunct
- Fiori musicali, 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, Canada
- Ensemble Claude-Gervaise, Montréal:
- Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, Canada: mostly music of the Renaissance and early Baroque
- Tafelmusik, Toronto: baroque orchestra and chamber choir
- Theatre of Early Music, Toronto: chamber choir
- Ensemble Caprice, Montreal
- Cor Unum Ensemble, Toronto: orchestra
- Toronto Consort, Toronto
- Opera Atelier, Toronto: Baroque opera company
- Orchestra and choir of the University of Toronto Schola Cantorum
Colombia
- Musica Ficta : Latin American baroque
Czechoslovakia
- Collegium 1704 : early music ensemble
- Collegium 419: early music vocal ensemble
- Collegium Marianum : early music ensemble
- Musica Florea : early music ensemble
- Schola Gregoriana Pragensis: a cappella male choir whose core repertoire is Gregorian chant, Bohemian plainchant, and early polyphony
- Czech Ensemble Baroque : early music ensemble
Denmark
- Ars Nova Copenhagen : renaissance to contemporary
- Concerto Copenhagen : baroque orchestra
- Musica Ficta : renaissance and contemporary choral
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
- Alla Francesca: medieval and renaissance music
- L'Arpeggiata : early baroque
- Les Arts Florissants : baroque orchestra
- Boulanger Ensemble : historic revival of Monteverdi
- Capriccio Stravagante : baroque chamber music
- 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, 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 du Louvre, Grenoble: baroque orchestra
- Orchestre Les Passions : orchestra
- Le Poème Harmonique : renaissance-baroque chamber group
- Les Talens Lyriques : baroque opera and orchestra
- La Simphonie du Marais : chamber and orchestral music
Germany
- Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin: baroque orchestra
- Cantus Cölln : renaissance and baroque vocal
- La Capella Ducale Musica Fiata
- Cologne Chamber Orchestra : baroque orchestra
- Concerto Köln: baroque orchestra; guest conductors inc. Evelino Pidò, Daniel Harding
- Ensemble amarcord, Leipzig, vocal ensemble, Medieval, Renaissance, contemporary
- Ensemble Santenay, Trossingen, Germany: renaissance choral
- Estampie : medieval
- Freiburger Barockorchester : baroque orchestra
- Hamburger Ratsmusik : baroque chamber orchestra
- Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble : renaissance baroque choir and orchestra
- Münchener Bach-Orchester, Germany, founder
- Musica Antiqua Köln : Baroque chamber music, now disbanded
- Musica Fiata : baroque wind orchestra
- Musica Sequenza : baroque chamber orchestra
- Oni Wytars : medieval music
- L'Orfeo Barockorchester : baroque orchestra
- Pantagruel Renaissance Musicke trio
- Rheinische Kantorei & Das 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
Hungary
- Aura Musicale : baroque orchestra
Iceland
- Voces Thules, Reykjavík
Israel
- Accademia Daniel : baroque chamber group
- Profeti della Quinta, Israel/Switzerland: vocal ensemble
Italy
- 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
- I Solisti Veneti : baroque orchestra on modern instruments
- La Venexiana : madrigals
- Venice Baroque Orchestra
Japan
- Bach Collegium Japan, Kobe: Bach
Netherlands
- Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir : baroque orchestra
- Camerata Trajectina, Utrecht: renaissance and baroque Dutch music
- Cappella Pratensis],, 's-Hertogenbosch: vocal music 15th and 16th century
- Collegium Musicum Den Haag, Holland
- Egidius Kwartet, Holland: renaissance vocal music
- Netherlands Bach Society, Naarden: baroque ensemble
- New Dutch Academy, The Hague, 18th- and early 19th-century symphonic music
- Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Holland: baroque orchestra
Poland
- Polish Baroque Orchestra
Portugal
- Concerto Atlântico : medieval to baroque
- Cupertinos : renaissance
- Il Dolcimelo : renaissance
- Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música : baroque orchestra
- Segréis de Lisboa : baroque orchestra
Russia
- Insula Magica, musical collective from Novosibirsk
- Pro Anima, Leningrad: 1980s, now disbanded
- La Voce Strumentale, Moscow: Baroque ensemble
Serbia
- Ensemble Renaissance, Belgrade: medieval and renaissance
- New Trinity Baroque, Belgrade
South Korea
- Musica Glorifica, Seoul
Spain
- A5 vocal ensemble
- Al Ayre Español : baroque orchestra
- Atrium Musicae de Madrid : dissolved
- Capella de Ministrers : medieval to baroque
- La Capella Reial de Catalunya
- Capilla Peñaflorida: renaissance choral
- Cinco Siglos
- La Colombina: vocal ensemble
- Le Concert des Nations : baroque orchestra
- El Cortesano : baroque duo
- Hespèrion XX/Hespèrion XXI : renaissance orchestra
- Música Antigua : medieval, cantigas
- Musica Ficta : Renaissance choral
Switzerland
- Camerata Bern : chamber orchestra
- Ensemble Elyma : baroque orchestra
- Ferrara Ensemble, Basel: medieval and renaissance
- Gli Angeli Genève, Geneva: baroque ensemble
- InVocare: vocal consort and madrigal group
- Students of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, based in Basel: medieval to baroque
- Les Cornets Noirs, based in Basel: early baroque music
United Kingdom
- Academy of Ancient Music : baroque orchestra
- Alamire : vocal consort
- Avison Ensemble : baroque orchestra
- Brandenburg Consort : baroque orchestra
- The Brook Street Band: baroque ensemble and 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: vocal consort, madrigals
- 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
- 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 and Renaissance and contemporary music
- The King's Consort : baroque orchestra; see also Retrospect Ensemble
- King's Singers: vocal sextet
- London Baroque : baroque chamber orchestra
- Lux Musicae London: mixed consort, renaissance and early baroque
- 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, England: 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
- 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
- American Bach Soloists
- Anonymous 4: all-female a cappella ensemble specializing in medieval music
- Apollo's Fire, Cleveland: renaissance, baroque, early classical orchestra
- Asteria Medievale, duo, NYC: renaissance chansons
- Bach Ensemble : baroque soloists and orchestra
- Bach Sinfonia, Maryland
- Baltimore Consort
- Blue Heron, Boston
- Boston Baroque : baroque orchestra
- Boston Camerata
- Boston Early Music Festival: baroque orchestra and opera company
- Bourbon Baroque : baroque orchestra
- Byrd Ensemble, Seattle, Washington
- Camerata Mediterranea
- Chanticleer: choir
- Les Délices, Cleveland: baroque and early music
- Early Music New York, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Classical
- Ensemble Alcatraz : medieval
- Folger Consort
- Handel and Haydn Society, Boston: baroque choir and orchestra
- Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra
- Lyra Baroque Orchestra : baroque to early classical orchestra
- Magnificat Baroque Ensemble
- Music of the Baroque, Chicago
- Musica Angelica, Los Angeles
- New Trinity Baroque, Atlanta
- New York Collegium, dissolved
- New York Pro Musica Antiqua : choir, defunct
- Newberry Consort, at the Newberry Library: baroque chamber
- Opera Lafayette: opera before 1800
- Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra : baroque orchestra
- Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, Philadelphia
- Portland Baroque Orchestra
- Project Ars Nova : medieval
- Quire Cleveland, Cleveland: choir
- Rose Ensemble, St. Paul
- Schola Antiqua of Chicago
- Texas Early Music Project, Austin, Texas
- Trobár, Cleveland: medieval
- Tempesta di Mare: The Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra
- Virginia Tech Early Music Ensemble
- Washington Bach Consort
Unspecified or international
- Cappella Mediterranea
- Ensemble Syntagma
- European Community Baroque Orchestra, EU: baroque orchestra
- Tetraktys, medieval, early renaissance