Ferrara Ensemble

The Ferrara Ensemble presents late medieval/early Renaissance music with a distinctive vocal sound and with a unique string-ensemble sound (lute, harp, hammered dulcimer/viola d'arco) which medieval music audiences have come to identify with this group. The seeds of the Ferrara Ensemble were sown at the Schola Cantorurn Basiliensis in 1984, where a string ensemble led by Crawford Young and a wind band led by Randall Cook recorded a program of Quattrocento instrumental music for the Schola Documenta/Harmonia Mundi Deutschland label.