ArtistInfo

Joel Cohen

fl, perc, *1942 US, Providence, Rhode Island
Musician / Conductor of Classical

Joel Cohen, (born 1942) is an American musician specializing in early music repertoires. Cohen graduated Classical High School in Providence, R.I. in 1959, and from Brown University in 1963. He continued graduate education at Harvard University. From 1968 to 2008 he was the director of the Boston Camerata, generally considered to be the pre-eminent American early music ensemble. He remains connected to the Boston Camerata as Music Director Emeritus. Cohen founded the Camerata Mediterranea in 1990 and incorporated it as a nonprofit research institute in France in 2007. He performs on lute and guitar and sings, but is best known as an organizer and creator of concert programs and sound recordings. He has also written extensively on musical topices. In recent years Cohen's research and perfor

Instruments

• Flute
• Percussion
• Recorder

Genres

• Classical
• Folk
• World
• Spoken Word

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