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Karnatic Lab Festival 2003 16, 17 and 18 May Musica ad Rhenum Musica ad Rhenum About the Artists Musica ad Rhenum was founded in 1990 by a group of musicians dedicated to the expressive and virtuoso interpretation of Baroque music based on the performace practices decribed in 17th and 18th century methods. The founders of Musica ad Rhenum are members of Musica Antiqua Köln and Concerto Armonico Budapest Baroque and have performed as soloists with these ensembles on concert tours and at festivals throughout the world. The group's name - Music on the Rhine - reflects the determination of its members to combine the latest musicological research and playing styles associated with the Rhenish cities of Basel and Cologne with their own vision of authentic Baroque performance practice. The group's home base, an 18th century canal house on the Old Rhine in Utrecht, the Netherlands, has become a center for research and experimentation for the members of the group. Musica ad Rhenum is one of the most exciting and controversial early music ensembles of the moment, and is in the vanguard, according to BBC Music Magazine, of a new generation of top-notch performers with authentic performance ideals. The group performs a broad spectrum of 18th century repertoire, from intimate chamber music to Mozart operas, with "nerve and verve". Leader of the group is the virtuoso flutist and conductor Jed Wentz, who has been described as "the prince of pipers" (Sydney Tribune), "a born poet" (Boston Globe) and "a breath of fresh air" (Volkskrant, Amsterdam). Jed Wentz began his flute studies with Walter Mayhall in Youngstown, Ohio, and continued studying with James Walker in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied modern and historical flutes at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with Robert Willoughby and Michael Lynn, and received a Soloist's Diploma from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague after three years with Barthold Kuijken. He has performed and recorded with groups such as Musica Antiqua Koln, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Capriccio Stravagante Paris and the Gabrielli Consort. In 1992 he founded Musica ad Rhenum, with whom he has recorded more than 20 CDs both as flutist and conductor. His recording of the complete flute sonatas of Locatelli was awarded the prize for the Best Recording of Italian Music 1995 by the Fondazione Cini Venetia. Mr. Wentz teaches at the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music, and lectures regularly on performance practice at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He has published articles in Early Music, Concerto, and Tijdschrijft voor Oude Muziek. Job ter Haar (1964) studied cello at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Netherlands, with René van Ast, Lidewij Scheifes and Anner Bijlsma. He also took masterclasses with Heinrich Schiff and Valentin Berlinsky. After he graduated, he specialised in the performance of chamber music of all periods and styles. With his various ensembles he has recorded a large number of CDs and performed extensively in all corners of the globe. Since a few years, Job ter Haar also plays the lirone. For more info about the group ›› Jed Wentz: www.jedwentz.com ‹‹ back