フルート奏者：イェド・ヴェンツ Jed Wentz
Jed Wentz (bornJuly 1, 1960)is an American flautist and conductor.
Life and activity
Wentz studied flute and traversiere at the Oberlin Conservatory with Robert Willoughby and Michael Lynn and received a bachelor's degree in music in 1981; He later studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Barthold Kuijken, obtaining a Master of Music in 1985. Since the eighties he has performed as a soloist in Europe and the United States together with orchestras such as Musica Antiqua Koln, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Capriccio Stravagante Paris and the Gabrieli Consort. During the nineties he was very active as a conductor. In 1992 he founded the orchestra Musica ad Rhenum, based in the Netherlands, with which he performs worldwide both as flutist and conductor.
Jed Wentz devoted himself to the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which he also dealt with philological approach in various specialized magazines (including Early Music, Concerto, Tijdschrijft voor Oude Muziek). In 2010 he obtained a doctorate at the University of Leiden with a thesis entitled The Relationship between Gesture, Affect and Rhythmic Freedom in the Performance of French Tragic Opera from Lully to Rameau[1]. Since 1994 he has been part of the teaching staff of the Amsterdam Conservatory, but also teaches at other conservatories such as the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In 2012 he was artistic advisor of the Utrecht Early Music Festival.
As a soloist and conductor he has recorded since the nineties more than thirty CDs for various record companies such as Vanguard Classics, Brilliant Classics and Challenge Classics. In 1995, following the recording of the sonatas for transverse flute by Pietro Antonio Locatelli, the Cini Venetia Foundation awarded him for the best recording of Italian music. In 2006 the complete sonatas by Michel Blavet was published by Brillant Classics.