Gotham Early Music Scene

Professional Ensembles

New York City Professional Early Music Ensembles

Orchestras

American Classical Orchestra - "Music as the masters heard it"

Clarion Music Society - New York's first period-instrument orchestra reborn

Early Music New York -
the venerable ensemble under the direction of Frederick Renz

Grand Tour Orchestra - A period-instrument orchestra who plays "with an involved enthusiasm"

New York Collegium - One of North American's very finest baroque bands

REBEL - Baroque chamber orchestra known for their virtuosic, highly expressive and provocative approach

Sinfonia New York - New York's newest period instrument orchestra under the direction of John Scott


Instrumental

BREVE - Medieval, Renaissance, & Baroque Music on Period Instruments
                              Classical through Contemporary Chamber Music

Brooklyn Baroque - Chamber music of Bach and his contemporaries

Bradley Brookshire - American harpsichordist

Continuo Players - Baroque duo using baroque bassoon, viola da gamba & recorders

Dodd String Quartet - A new period string ensemble

East of the River - Medieval and world music ensemble

Empire Viols - Music for two viols & harpsichord

Ensemble Leonarda - Baroque flutes, viola da gamba & harpsichord

Flying Forms - "A presence that transforms communities and inspires expression through excellence in performance, innovative education, and creative collaboration"

Grenser Trio - Clarinet trio on historical instruments

La Mela di Newton - Baroque trio

The McDonald-Bianculli Flute and Guitar Duo - Early music on flute and guitar

Daphna Mor - Virtuosic recorder player

Mozartean Players - Piano trio with repertoire from Haydn through Schumann

New Amsterdam Recorder Trio - Three recorder virtuosi performing music from all ages

New York Consort of Viols - Viol music of the renaissance and baroque eras

Nina Stern - One of North America's leading performers of recorder and classical clarinet

Parthenia - "A glowing group of viol players that is one of the brightest lights in New York's early music scene"

Lionel Party - Harpsichordist

Repast - "Vital performances" and "robust" playing of baroque chamber music

Ridotto - Chamber concerts "with a touch of theatre"

Sonnambula - Viol consort performing repertoire for large ensembles of viols

Steven Lubin - Fortepianist performing Classical and Romantic literature

Traverse Music - Early music for flute and other wind instruments


Vocal

Amy Bartram - Soprano and early music specialist

Anonymous 4 - Unearthy vocal blend and virtuosic ensemble singing

Charites - Vocal trio committed to the works of early female composers and poets

Ruth Cunningham - Soprano and sound healing practitioner

Jessica Gould - Soprano performing repertoire from the Renaissance to the present day

Jolle Greenleaf - Leading soprano specialist in repertoire from the 17th & 18th centuries

Guildsingers - Vocal ensemble specializing in music from the late-medieval period

Lionheart - "Smoothly blended" vocal chamber music with an "impeccably balanced sound"

Machicoti - Medieval vocal trio

Music Divine - Vocal ensemble

New York Polyphony - Four men fusing elegant vocalism with expert ensemble singing

Polyhymnia - A small ensemble of singers and instrumentalists

Pomerium - A cappella music of the renaissance

 Prometheus - Baroque vocal chamber ensemble

Tiffany Consort - "One of New York City's most distinguished vocal ensembles"

The Trinity Choir - One of the country's pre-eminent vocal ensembles


Mixed Ensembles

Anima - Four musicians passionately revealing the soul of the Baroque repertoire

ARTEK - Semi-staged performances of early works

Asteria - Medieval duo performing timeless love songs of wide appeal

Bacchanalia Baroque - Music for two voices, flute, harpsichord & gamba

Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity - Bach's Cantatas and other great works in worship

BaroQue Across the River - Chamber music in historic settings

Callisto Ascending - Soaring sopranos and solid continuo

Consort Clerambault - Vocal chamber ensemble with organ

Duo Marchand - Renaissance music for lute, voice & harp

Early Music New York - Performance of historically informed repertoire from the Middle Ages to the Classical Era

Ex Umbris - Diverse multi-instrumental ensemble devoted to medieval and Renaissance music

Galileo's Daughters - "A period music ensemble that creates with each performance a visceral as well as intellectual link to the past"

Gotham Chamber Opera - "Where opera gets intimate"

Infiore - Cornetto, harp & voice performing inventive arrangements of medieval and baroque repertoire

Ivory Consort - Performing medieval music from the Golden Age of Spain with stunning clarity and bold improvisation

My Lord Chamberlain's Consort - Elizabethan consort

Opera Omnia - innovative Baroque opera

Sequentia - Ensemble for medieval music

Spiritus Collective - "A perfect blend of brass, strings, and voices"

Trefoil - A trio of singer-instrumentalists

Vox Vocal Ensemble - George Steel, Director, performing 16th through 21st century music

Well-Tuned Words - Voice and lute duo

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