"J" Ensembles

Jacaranda Consort

• Director : ?
• Year ensemble formed : ?
• Description : Performs music from the Medieval through the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
• Contact information : ?
• Home city/country : Australia
• Members :
  • Laura Bell (recorder)
  • Catherine Weaver (recorder, viola da gamba)
  • Liz Strasser (recorder, viola da gamba)
  • Frances Firth (violoncello)
  • Margo Adelson (harpsichord, viola da gamba)

Jacobean Viols

• Director : Gail Ann Schroeder
• Year ensemble formed : 1998
• Description : A viol consort of 4-6 players with countertenor and/or soprano.
• WWW : http://www.jacobeanviols.com
• Contact information :
  • Postal address : ?
  • Telephone : ?
  • FAX : ?
  • E-mail : gsch@worldonline.nl
• Home city/country : The Netherlands
• Members :
  • Viol players:
    • Gail Ann Schroeder
    • Thomas Baete
    • Richard Sutcliffe
    • Emmanuelle Laine
    • Cassandra Luckhardt
    • Lynn Tetenbaum
  • Marnix De Cat (countertenor)
  • Francisca Vanherle (soprano)

Janas Ensemble

• Director : Paola Erdas
• Year ensemble formed : 1996
• Description : The ensemble takes its name from the Janas, the Faires of the Sardinian tradition. The Janas project is concerned with the nature of the artistic contacts and exchange between the different regions of the Mediterranean area during Renaissance and Baroque, and the interactions of music with the other arts during this period.
• WWW : http://www.janas-ensemble.it/
• Contact information :
  • Postal address :
    • c/o Paola Erdas
      Via Belpoggio 24
      34123 Trieste
      ITALY
  • Tele/Fax : +39 040 314071
  • E-mail : paola.erdas@libero.it
• Home city/country : Italy
• Members :
  • Lia Serafini (soprano)
  • Stefano Albarello (countertenor)
  • Lorenzo Cavasanti (recorder)
  • Jorge Alberto Guerriero (violoncello)
  • Maurizio Less (viola da gamba & violone)
  • Fabio Accurso (luth & baroque guitar)
  • Marco Muzzati (percussion)
  • Paola Erdas (organ and harpsichord)
• Discography :
  • "HERMOSURAS - Bellezza, Sacralità e Passione nel Regno di Spagna" (Beauty, Sacredness and Passion in the Spanish Kingdom): music by S.Durón, A.Cabezón, D.Cásseda, J.del Vado, B.Montalbano, B.Selma y Salaverde, G.F.Sances, A.Valente, G.Gorzanis. - Stradivarius STR33601 (Recorded in 2000. Released in 2001)

Janiculum

• Director : Jane Clark (harpsichord)
• Year ensemble formed : 1985
• Description : The ensemble's mission is to resurrect & perform the music that appealed to the British in the 18th century and to relate it to the other arts. The ensemble started off performing unpublished music collected by British travelers on "The Grand Tour". Rome was an essential destination point on The Grand Tour. Janiculum is named after the hill in Rome.
• Contact information :
  • Postal address :
    • 4, Scarth Road
      London SW13 OND
      UK
  • Telephone : 0208 876 6901
  • FAX : 0208 395 3919
  • E-mail : janeclark@intune.co.uk
• Home city/country : London, UK
• Members :
  • Marie Vassiliou(soprano)
  • Alasdair Elliott (tenor)
  • Harry Nicoll (tenor)
  • Lesley Holliday (flute)
  • James Eastaway (oboe)
  • John Trusler (violin)
  • Andrew Roberts (violin)
  • Marilyn Sansom (violoncello)
  • Nicholas Roberts (violoncello)
  • Jane Clark (harpsichord)
• Discography : (All recordings listed below are available from Rhinebeck Records, POB 262, Salt Point, N.Y. 12578. Tel: (914) 266-3500, Fax: (914) 266-4432, e-mail: Rhinebeckrecords@compuserve.com)
  • "The Country House" - Musical life in the great historic houses of Britain (works by Haym, G. Bononcini, Corelli, Paquali, D. Scarlatti, Handel, Galliard, Anfossi, Piozzi, Giardini, and Noferi) - Janiculum JAN D201 (Released in 1999).
  • "The Grand Tour" - Music heard & collected in Paris, Rome, Naples & Venice (works by Blavet, Clérambault, Pasquini, A. Scarlatti, D. Scarlatti, Broschi, Valentine, Terradeglias, Nardini, and Jommelli) - Janiculum JAN D202 (Released in 1999).
  • "Handel's Rivals" - Operatic hits by Handel's formidable Italian rivals (works by Gasparini, D. Scarlatti, G. Bononcini, Porta, Amadei, Hasse, Vinci, and Porpora) - Janiculum JAN D203 (Released in 1999)

Janus Ensemble

• Director : Michael Barrett
• Year ensemble formed : ?
• Contact information : ?
• Home city/country : USA

Jean-Louis-Charbonnier Baroque Ensemble

• Director : Jean-Louis Charbonnier (viola)
• Year ensemble formed : ?
• Contact information : ?
• Home city/country : ?
• Members:
  • Jean-Louis Charbonnier (viola)
  • Claire Giardelli (viola, violoncello)
  • Mauricio Buraglia (lute, theorbo)
  • Joyce Lindorff (harpsichord)

Jefferson Baroque Orchestra

• Music Director : Rob Diggins (violin)
• Artistic Director : Jim Rich (Renaissance and Baroque woodwinds)
• Year ensemble formed : 1994 -- by Jim Rich & Heather Krehbiel 
• Description : To bring 17th & 18th-century performance practice to the mythical state of Jefferson (Southern Oregon and Northern California).
• WWW : http://www.jeffersonbaroque.org/
• Contact information :
  • Postal address:
    • c/o Jim Rich
      9345 Takilma Rd
      Cave Junction, OR 97523
      USA
  • Tel/Fax: (541) 592-2681
  • email: info@jeffersonbaroque.org
• Home city/country : Oregon, USA

Jerusalem Consort

• Director : none
• Year ensemble formed : 1984
• Description : The first regular ensemble in Israel to employ only period instruments for the interpretation of Baroque Music.
• Contact information : (See performance management.)
• Home city/country : Jerusalem, Israel
• Members :
  • Miriam Meltzer (soprano)
  • Lilia Slavni (baroque violin)
  • Myrna Herzog (viols, quinton)
  • David Shemer (harpsichord)
• Discography :
  • Peace
  • Un Concert Spirituel

Jeune Orchestre Antlantique

• Artistic Director & Principle Conductor : Philippe Herreweghe
• Education Manager : Jane Booth
• Year ensemble formed : 1996
• Description : Focus on the interpretation of the Classical and Romantic repertoire on period instruments. Training courses in orchestral and chamber music take place in Saintes. These training courses allow young musicians at the end of their conservatory studies or young professional at the start of their careers, to study the Classical and Romantic repertoire on period instruments. During the Festival de Saintes, the Jeune Orchestre Atlantique gives several concerts under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe and other invited conductors. The instructors, all members of L'Orchestre des Champs Elysées, are professors in major French and Europeans conservatories.
• WWW : http://www.abbayeauxdames.org/en/courses
• Contact information : ?
• Home city/country : Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes, France

Joculatores Upsalienses
(translation : Uppsala Jesters)

• Director : ?
• Year ensemble formed : 1965
• Description : To bring music from the 13th to the beginning of the 17th century to life.
• WWW : http://www.algonet.se/~cs/jocupe.htm
• Contact information :
  • Postal address :
    • c/o Per Aberg
      Swedenborgsgatan 16
      SE-753 34 Uppsala
      SWEDEN
  • Tel : +46 18 201164
  • E-mail : per_aaberg@hotmail.com (c/o Per Aberg)
• Home city/country : Uppsala, Sweden

Johann Christian Bach-Akademie

• Artistic Director/Leader : Ingeborg Scheerer
• Year ensemble formed : 1991 -- by Scheerer
• WWW : http://www.jcba.de
• Contact information :
  • Postal address:
    • Claudia Kirfel
      Afrastr. 1
      D-50354 Hürth
      GERMANY
  • tel/fax: +49 2233/691409
  • E-mail: ckirfel@aol.com
• Home city/country : Bonn, Germany
• Discography :
  • "Italian Organ Concertos" : Antonio Vivaldi - Andrea Luchesi (1741-1801) - JC Bach,  with Johannes Geffert (organ) - Fermate 20002 or Audite 20.002 (Recorded in 1991; Released in 1991)
  • WA Mozart : "Die Kirchensonaten" (Church Sonatas) - Fermate 20015 or Audite 20.015 (Recorded in 1994. Released in 1995.)
  • "Barock Festmusiken" (Johann Ernst Eberlin: Missa a due chori; Franz Xavier Richter: Kemptener Te Deum) with vocal soloists , St. Thomas-Chorschule Wettenhausen, camerata vocal Günzberg, and Jürgen Rettenmaier (director) - Carus CV 83.137
  • "Mozart und Mannheim" (Mozart: three sacred hymns after the choruses from Thamos, König in Ägypten; Ignaz Holzbauer: Missa in C) with vocal soloists, St. Thomas-Chorschule Wettenhausen, camerata vocal Günzberg, Harald Hoeren (organ), and Jürgen Rettenmaier (director) - Carus CV 83.141  (Recorded in 1998; Released in 1998)
  • JS Bach: "St. John Passion" (Version IV 1739 / 1749) - with Kölner Kantorei, Volker Hempfling (director) - Avi Music AVI553006 (2 CDs. Recorded in 2004. Released in 2005.)
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788): Organ Concertos Wq. 34 & 35 & sontata (Wq. 70 / 4) - with Johannes Geffert (organ) - Querstand VKJK 0528 (Recorded in 2005. Released in 2006.)
  • F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Paulus op. 36 - with Chor St. Michaelis, Hamburg; Christoph Schoener (director) - Mitra CD 16 402/403 (2 CDs. Recorded live in 2005.)

Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble

• Director : Arno Paduch
• Year ensemble formed : 1995
• Description : vocal and instrumental ensemble
• Contact information : ?
• Home city/country : Leipzig, Germany
• Discography :
  • Johann Rosenmüller (1619-1684): "German Sacred Concertos" - Christophorus CHR77227 (Recorded in 1999. Released in 2000.)
  • Johann Caspar Kerll (1627-1693): "Missa in fletu solatium obsidionis Viennensis" - Christophorus CHR772492 (Recorded in 1999. Released in 2002.)
  • "Albrecht von Brandenburg (1490-1545) and the Reformation": works by Nicolas Gombert, Arnolt Schlick, Martin Luther, Wolff Heintz, Arnold von Bruck - Christophorus CHR77254 (Recorded and released in 2002.)
  • Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706): "Festal Sacred Music" - Christophorus CHR77257 (Recorded in 2002. Released in 2003.)
  • Sebastian Knüpfer (1633-1676): "Sacred Concertos" - Christophorus CHR77276 (Recorded in 2004. Released in 2006.)
  • Andreas Hammerschmidt (1612-1675) "Verleih uns Frieden" (Sacred works) - with Himlische Cantorey, Knabenchor Hannover - Director: Jo:rg Breiding - ROP (Recorded and released in 2005.)
  • "Coronatio Solemnissima" (The Coronation of Leopold I 1658): Works by Bertali, Schmelzer - Christophorus CHR77283 (Recorded and released in 2006.)

Joseph Martin Kraus-Quartett

• Director : none
• Year ensemble formed : 1993
• Contact information : ?
• Home city/country : Germany
• Members :
  • Werner Ehrhardt (1st violin)
  • Jörg Buschhaus (2nd violin)
  • Antje Sabinski (viola)
  • Gerhart Darmstadt (violoncello)
• Discography :
  • Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-92):
    • "Streichquartette I" (String Quartets, Vol. 1) - Cavalli Records CCD 224 (Recorded and released in 2000.)
    • "Streichquartette II" (String Quartets, Vol. 2) - Cavalli Records CCD 225 (Recorded and released in 2006.)

Jouissance des dames

• Director : none
• Year ensemble formed : ?
• Contact information : ?
• Home city/country : UK
• Members:
  • Lucy Ballard (soprano)
  • Jessica Gordon (lutes)
  • Rebecca Austen-Brown (recorders)

Jouyssance des Instruments

• Director : John L. Robinson
• Leader : Thomas Axworthy and Ted Stern
• Year ensemble formed : 2002
• Description : A wind-instrument ensemble performing music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Early Baroque, specializing in mixed vocal-instrumental works. Regularly performs with the Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble.
• WWW : http://users.ez2.net/jdi/
• Contact information :
  • Postal address:
    • c/o John L. Robinson
      1601 N. Sepulveda Blvd., #151
      Manhattan Beach, CA 90266-5133
      USA
  • Telephone : +1 (310) 473-3609
  • Fax: +1 (310) 943-1423
  • E-mail: jouyssancedesinstruments@yahoo.com
• Home city/country : Los Angeles area, California, USA
• Members:
  • Thomas Axworthy (dulcian, crumhorn, recorder, shawm)
  • Deborah Dowling (recorder, crumhorn)
  • Steve Padilla (cornetto, recorder)
  • John Robinson (dulcian, bassanello, cornamuse, recorder, shawm)
  • Ted Stern (cornetto, cornamuse, crumhorn, recorder, shawm)
  • Mark Walter (cornetto, crumhorn, recorder, shawm)

Jubal's Lyre

• Director : Prof. Douglas Bodle (keyboard)
• Year ensemble formed : ?
• Contact information : ?
• Home city/country : Toronto, Canada

Julian Bream Consort

• Director : Julian Bream (guitar)
• Year ensemble formed : 1959
• Description : This ensemble revitalized interest in the music of the Elizabethan era.
• Contact information : no longer active
• Home city/country : UK