Jed Wentz
studied traverso with Barthold Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague. He has performed with leading early music
ensembles like Musica Antiqua Koln, the Gabrielli Consort and Les Musiciens du Louvre. He founded Musica ad Rhenum in 1992 in
order to put his personal vision of Baroque music to the test: first re-examining the sources and then putting into practice some of the
more controversial aspects of 18th-century performance practice which they describe. Recently, he has turned his attention towards
conducting, exploring the relationship between theater aesthetics, music and 18th-century theories about the generation of human emotions.
Jed received his PhD in musicology from the University of Leiden and teaches traverso at the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music.