Wentz, Jed (1st July 1960-Present)

He is a flautist, conductor and teacher born Jed Alan Wentz in New Brighton, Pennsylvania who started to study the flute in Youngstown, Ohio and went on to take further studies in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was a student of the historical and modern flute at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio in 1977, where he gained his Bachelor of Music degree in 1981, before gaining a Master’s degree at the Royal Conservatory of Music in the Hague, Netherlands in 1985. He has gone on to study for his doctorate at Leiden University on the subject of the relationship between 18th century staging and tempo in the tragedie en musique.

After becoming a professional musician he performed as a recitalist and soloist during the 1980s and went on to work with Barrockorchester Stuttgart, De Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Gabrieli Concert, Les Musiciens du Louvre and Musica Antiqua Koln among others. He went on to spend much of his time as a conductor.

He became the founder of Musica ad Rheum (Music on the Rhine) in Holland in 1992 where he worked with the ensemble as a conductor and flautist nationally and internationally. They appeared in major venues in Holland as well as performing in many festivals in Europe and the USA.

In 2012 he became the artistic advisor to the Utrecht Early Music Festival.

In the recording study he has performed on many albums as a musician and/or conductor. Some of these include his own Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Sonatas for Flute, JS Bach: Complete Chamber Music for Flute, Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach: Complete Solo Flue Sonatas and Telemann – 12 Fantasias for Flute along with Locatelli: XII Sonate, Baroque Concerti from The Netherlands, Italian Flute Concertos, William de Fesch: VI Concerti Opera Quinta, Gailliard: The Pan and Syrinx, Mozart Flute Quartets, Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Telemann: Paris Quartets, Vivaldi: Concert Alla Rustica and 18th Century Flute Concerti by Musica Ad Rhenum, Telemann: Tafelmusik, Johann David Heinichen: Dresden Concerti and Johann Adolf Hasse: Salve Regina by Musica Antiqua Koln and Bach: Epiphany Mass by Gabriel Consort & Players along with many others.

In the field of musical education he has been a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1990 to 2011 and been on the faculties of the Leiden University, Amsterdam Conservatory, the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, the Hilversumse Conservatorium and Conservatoire national de region de Caen.

As an author he has written a series of articles that examine 18th century performance practices and has been published in several magazine.

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Wentz, Jed (1st July 1960-Present)

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