Jed Wentz

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Jed Wentz (born July 1, 1960 in New Brighton , Pennsylvania ) is an American flautist and conductor .

life and work

Jed Wentz studied flute (modern and historical instruments) at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with Robert Willoughby and Michael Lynn (1981 Bachelor of Music), then at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag with Barthold Kuijken (1985 Master of Music). From the 1980s he appeared as a soloist in the USA and Europe, with ensembles such as Musica Antiqua Köln , Les Musiciens du Louvre , Capriccio Stravagante Paris and the Gabrieli Consort . Since the 1990s, conducting has moved more into the foreground. In 1992 he founded the ensemble Musica ad Rhenum , based in the Netherlands , with whom he has given concerts worldwide as a soloist or its conductor.

Jed Wentz is dedicated to the music of the 17th and 18th centuries, which he deals with in the sense of historically informed performance practice in various specialist articles (appeared in "Early Music", "Concerto", "Tijdschrijft voor Oude Muziek"). In 2010 he received his doctorate from the University of Leiden ( The Relationship between Gesture, Affect and Rhythmic Freedom in the Performance of French Tragic Opera from Lully to Rameau ). Wentz has been a member of the teaching staff at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam since 1994 , but is also a teacher and course leader at other universities, such as the Royal Academy of Music and the Koninklijke Conservatorium The Hague. In 2012 he became artistic advisor to the Utrecht Early Music Festival .

As a soloist and conductor, Jed Wentz has been involved in more than 30 CD recordings for various labels since the 1990s, including Vanguard Classics , Brilliant Classics and Challenge Classics . In 1995 the Fondazione Cini Venetia awarded him a prize for the best recording of Italian music for a CD with sonatas by Pietro Antonio Locatelli . In 2006 Brilliant Classics released his complete recording of Michel Blavet's sonatas .

Publications (selection)

  • With Anne Smith: Gustav Maria Leonhardt in Basel. Portrait of a Young Harpsichordist. In: Pedro Memelsdorff and Thomas Drescher (eds.): Basler Jahrbuch für Historische Musikpraxis , Bd. 34. Werk, Werkstatt, Handwerk - New Approaches to the Material of Early Music. Amadeus, Winterthur 2014, ISBN 978-3-905786-13-2 . Pp. 229-244.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dissertation Jed Wentz, 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Wentz, Jed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American flautist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH New Brighton