Frederick Renz
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Frederick Renz is a conductor, director, and keyboardist specializing in Early Music spanning the medieval through the classical eras. He is the founder of the Early Music Foundation and directs its performing group Early Music New York,[1] an internationally performing ensemble and artist in residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.[2] Renz is also noted for his work in medieval drama, and has directed and produced works such as Daniel and the Lions and Le Roman de Fauvel based largely on his own musicological research.
Renz received his undergraduate degree in piano performance at State University of New York at Fredonia.[3][4] He completed a master's degree in harpsichord performance at Indiana University, where he also completed course work for a doctorate in conducting with Willi Apel and Julius Herford. In 1962 he received a Fulbright grant to study in the Netherlands with eminent harpsichordist and scholar Gustav Leonhardt at the Amsterdam Conservatory.[5]
