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Joel Cohen, (b. 1942) is an American musician specializing in early music repertoires. Since 1968 he has been the director of the Boston Camerata, generally considered to be the pre-eminent American early music ensemble. Cohen founded the Camerata Mediterranea in 1990. He performs on lute and guitar and sings, but is best known as an organizer and creator of concert programs and sound recordings. In recent years Cohen's research and performance activities have centered on early American repertoires (including Shaker song), as well as southern European repertoires of the middle ages. Many of his projects in this latter category involve collaboration with Middle Eastern musicians.

He has worked a great deal with French soprano Anne Azéma and also worked with Schola Cantorum.

Partial Discography

Boston Camerata involved

• The American Vocalist
• Carmina Burana
• A Mediterranean Christmas
• A Renaissance Christmas
• Musique Judeo-Baroque
• Nueva Espana
• The Sacred Bridge: Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe
• Simple Gifts: Shaker Chants and Spirituals
• What Then Is Love

Camerata Mediterranea involved

• Bernatz de Ventadorn: Le Fou sur le Pont
• Lo Gai Saber
• Cantigas of Alfonso el Sabio with the Abdelkrim Rais Ensemble of Fez, Morocco (Edison Prize, 2000)

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