Jed Wentz

Jed Wentz started his career being a virtuoso flutist but gradually considered conducting. He founded the first music ensemble Musica advertisement Rhenum (Music in the Rhine) and provides made an appearance as soloist or conductor with them in various concerts across the world. Wentz provides hardly discontinued the flute though — or its early music counterparts just like the traverso — but he provides, because the 1990s, concentrated more in the performing aspect of his profession and devoted enough time as well towards the understanding and execution of historically up to date music practices. He’s in the faculty from the Amsterdam Conservatory where he shows traverso and it is a regular lecturer at London’s Royal Academy of Music. Being a soloist and conductor Wentz provides made more than 20 recordings for a number of brands, including Vanguard Classics, Outstanding Classics, and Problem Classics. Being among the most critically acclaimed are his pieces of comprehensive flute sonatas by J.S. Bach and Locatelli, both on Vanguard Classics. Jed Wentz was created in New Brighton, PA, on July 1, 1960. He enrolled on the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he examined flute, both contemporary and early versions, with Robert Willoughby and Michael Lynn. He continuing research with Barthold Kuijken on the Royal Conservatory of Music in the Hague, where he was honored a soloist’s diploma. Wentz made an appearance regularly in america and Europe being a soloist and recitalist in the 1980s. His 1st recordings made an appearance in the first ’90s, you need to include these two-CD group of Bach sonatas, aswell as the Concerto Alla Rustica and additional concertos by Vivaldi. In 1992 Wentz founded the Holland-based Musica advertisement Rhenum, a few of whose users made an appearance in those early recordings. In the years pursuing, both Wentz and his ensemble captivated much attention, frequently performing in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and additional major locations in Holland, aswell as at many Western festivals and several locales in america. In 1995 the Fondazione Cini Venetia granted Wentz a reward to discover the best documenting of Italian music for his Locatelli sonatas disk. Through the 1990s Wentz also busied himself composing: he authored some scholarly articles analyzing eighteenth hundred years performance methods. In the brand new hundred years he remained energetic like a conductor and soloist, and a instructor. Among his many later recordings may be the 2006 launch on Amazing Classics of the entire flute sonatas of Michel Blavet.