Jed Wentz
"University Lecturer Musical performance practice before 1900; Historical acting and declamation"
- Name
- Dr. J.A. Wentz
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 5036
- j.a.wentz@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-1933-0195
Jed Wentz is a University Lecturer at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts.
More information about Jed Wentz
News
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Night of Discoveries: 3D-printed paintings and the effects of psychedelics -
Theatre as scientific experiment at OverActing festival: 'Practice can help you further in your historical understanding' -
European Drama and Performance Studies 2022 – 2, n° 19 - Historical Acting Techniques and the 21st-Century Body -
New release: The Pied Piper Of Hamelin And Other Melodramas -
New release: Philidor: Suites for Flute and B.C. | Jed Wentz -
New Platform for Research Collaboration in the Arts -
CD release: J. D. Braun: Sonatas for Traverso Flute & B.C. -
New elective in practical rhetoric -
Lecture series “Early Music as Discipline” -
First ever Joint docARTES and PhDArts session -
Jed Wentz and Anna Scott re-enforce ACPA-team
Research
The relationship between declamation, rhetoric and musical performance before 1900 is at the core of my research. This is approached through the study of sources related to acting and preaching from the long 18th century. Research is further put into practice in theatrical scenes, by striving for a poetic and 'pathetic' declamation. From practical declamatory experience this practice can then be transferred to musical contexts by working with singers and instrumentalists on Early Music repertoire. I have also worked extensively on the Dutch Early Music revival of the 20th century.
Curriculum Vitae
Jed Wentz received his Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory where he studied contemporary and historical flutes. He received his Master degree from the Royal Conservatory in the Hague and his doctorate from Leiden University, under supervision of Rebecca Harris-Warrick (Cornell University). His doctoral thesis 'Gesture, Affect and Rhythmic Freedom in the Performance of French Tragic Opera from Lully to Rameau' explores how historical acting techniques can influence the sound of French operatic music in performance. He has recorded more than 40 CDs with various Early Music ensembles including his own (Music ad Rhenum), has conducted staged opera performances and published in journals like Early Music, Cambridge Opera Journal and European Drama and Performance Studies. He is artistic advisor to the Utrecht Early Music Festival.
"University Lecturer Musical performance practice before 1900; Historical acting and declamation"
- Faculty of Humanities
- Academie der Kunsten
- Wentz J.A. 1 August 2023 - 5 August 2023. Dutch Historical Acting Collective Summer Confabulation 2023. Universiteit Leiden. Leiden. [contribution to an event].
- Wentz J.A., Belogurov A. & Dostaler-Lalonde O. (14 January 2023). Bryon’s Manfred. Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ. Amsterdam. [performance].
- Wentz J.A. & Pashchenko O. (20 May 2023). Film score arranged for Murnau’s Tartuffe . Keulen. [performance].
- Wentz J.A. & Pashchenko O. (22 September 2023). Film score arranged for Murnau’s Nosferatu. Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ. Amsterdam. [performance].
- Wentz J.A. (2023), Playing with gestures in dance. Oxford Dance Symposium. Oxford. [lecture].
- Wentz J.A. (2023), On not performing David Bispham’s The Raven. Historical Embodiment in Musical Performance. Hochschule der Künste Bern, Bern. [lecture].
- Wentz J.A. (2023), To “Feeling all the feels”: historical affect, historical acting and the performance of early music. Zum Umgang mit Emotionen in Alte Musik. Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Basel. [lecture].
- Wentz J.A. & Belogurov A. (17 May 2023). The Pied Piper and other melodramas. Leiden. [performance].
- Wentz J.A. (15 June 2023). Declamation: The Passions. Society for Theatre Research. London. [performance].
- Wentz J.A. & Kirkby E. (30 August 2023). Declamation: ‘Strawberry Hill’. Utrecht. [performance].
- Wentz J.A. & Pashchenko O. (15 December 2023). Declamation: Napoleon. Amsterdam. [performance].
- Wentz J.A. & Pashchenko O. (21 October 2023). Declamation: The Raven and other melodramas. Pianola Museum . Amsterdam. [performance].
- Wentz J.A. (3 September 2023), Victors and casualties in the battle for early music. Utrecht. [lecture].
- Wentz J.A.. Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst. Vienna. [contribution to an event].
- Wentz J.A.. Universität der Künste Berlin. Berlin. [contribution to an event].
- Wentz J.A. (2022), Guest editor: Historical acting techniques and the 21st-century body. European Drama and Performance Studies 19(2).
- Wentz J. (2022), Notions of the ‘mechanical’ in a Nineteenth-Century Adaption of Aaron Hill’s An Essay on the Art of Acting. The London Stage and the Nineteenth-Century World IV. New College, Oxford. [lecture].
- Wentz J.A. (2017), Early Music as Discipline (6 lectures) [Stichting Organizatie Oude Muziek and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam]. [lecture].