Jed Wentz
Jed Wentz began his career as a virtuoso flutist but gradually turned to conducting. He founded the early music ensemble Musica ad Rhenum (Music on the Rhine) and has appeared as soloist or conductor with them in numerous concerts throughout the world. Wentz has hardly abandoned the flute though -- or its early music counterparts like the traverso -- but he has, since the 1990s, focused more on the conducting side of his career and devoted much time as well to the understanding and implementation of historically informed music practices. He is on the faculty of the Amsterdam Conservatory where he teaches traverso and is a frequent lecturer at London's Royal Academy of Music. As a soloist and conductor Wentz has made well over 20 recordings for a variety of labels, including Vanguard Classics, Brilliant Classics, and Challenge Classics. Among the most critically acclaimed are his sets of complete flute sonatas by J.S. Bach and Locatelli, both on Vanguard Classics.
Jed Wentz was born in New Brighton, PA, on July 1, 1960. He enrolled at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he studied flute, both modern and early models, with Robert Willoughby and Michael Lynn. He continued studies with Barthold Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory of Music in the Hague, where he was awarded a soloist's diploma.
Wentz appeared regularly in the United States and Europe as a soloist and recitalist in the 1980s. His first recordings appeared in the early '90s, and include the aforementioned two-CD set of Bach sonatas, as well as the Concerto Alla Rustica and other concertos by Vivaldi. In 1992 Wentz founded the Holland-based Musica ad Rhenum, some of whose members appeared in those early recordings.
In the years following, both Wentz and his ensemble attracted much attention, regularly performing at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and other major venues in Holland, as well as at many European festivals and numerous locales in the United States. In 1995 the Fondazione Cini Venetia awarded Wentz a prize for the best recording of Italian music for his Locatelli sonatas disc. During the 1990s Wentz also busied himself writing: he authored a series of scholarly articles examining eighteenth century performance practices. In the new century he remained active as a conductor and soloist, as well as a teacher. Among his most later recordings is the 2006 release on Brilliant Classics of the complete flute sonatas of Michel Blavet.
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Discography
21 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Baroque Concerti from The Netherlands
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on 26/03/2021
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Philidor: Suites for Flute and B.C.
Musica Ad Rhenum, Jed Wentz, Marion Moonen, Cassandra Luckhardt, Michael Borgstede
Miscellaneous - Released by Brilliant Classics on 28/05/2021
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J. D. Braun: Sonatas for Traverso Flute & B.C.
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on 28/02/2020
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Mozart : La Clemenza di Tito (Intégrale)
André Post, Claudia Patacca, Cécile van de Sant, Vocal Ensemble Cocu, Musica Ad Rhenum & Jed Wentz
Full Operas - Released by Brilliant Classics on 29/04/2003
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Willem De Fesch: VI Concerti Opera Quinta
Jed Wentz, Musica Ad Rhenum, Manfredo Kraemer, Marion Moonen
Classical - Released by Donemus Musicians' Voice on 1/01/1996
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bach: Complete Flute Sonatas
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on 1/05/2009
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Pan and Syrinx
Jed Wentz, Musica Ad Rhenum, Johannette Zomer, Marc Pantus, Pauline Graham & Nicola Wemyss
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on 1/08/2008
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Vivaldi, Tartini, Albinoni, Ferrandini, Giordani, Galuppi: Italian Flute Concertos
Classical - Released by Challenge Classics on 1/01/1997
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin and other Melodramas
Miscellaneous - Released by Brilliant Classics on 26/11/2021
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Quatuors "Parisiens" (Georg Philipp Telemann)
Chamber Music - Released by Brilliant Classics on 17/10/2000
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Didon and Aeneas
Musica Ad Rhenum, Musica Ad Rhenum Choir & Jed Wentz
Full Operas - Released by Brilliant Classics on 1/04/2006
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J.H. Roman: 12 Sonatas for Flute and Continuo
Musica Ad Rhenum, Jed Wentz, Michael Borgstede & Job ter Haar
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on 1/12/2015
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Telemann: 12 Fantasias for Flute, TWV 40:2-13
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on 1/05/2007
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De Fesch: Joseph
Nationaal Kinderkoor, Viri Cantores, Musica Ad Rhenum, Jed Wentz
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on 29/01/2021
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Telemann: Traverso Concertos
Classical - Released by Cantus Records on 9/01/1995
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Mozart: Mitridate, rè di Ponto, K. 87
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on 1/01/2004
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Rococo Flute Music
Jed Wentz, Balázs Máté, Marcelo Bussi, Marion Moonen
Classical - Released by Donemus Musicians' Voice on 1/01/1996
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Telemann, Fantasias for Flute No. 1, 2, 3 & 4
Classical - Released by SendClassic on 14/04/2000
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Telemann, Fantasias for Flute No. 9, 10, 11 & 12
Classical - Released by SendClassic on 21/04/2000
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Telemann, Concerto for Flute and Violin
Classical - Released by SendClassic on 14/04/2000
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Telemann, Fantasias for Flute No. 5, 6, 7 & 8
Classical - Released by SendClassic on 20/04/2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo