Noyse Productions offers the finest recordings of Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music, and is the home of recordings by The King’s Noyse, America’s premiere Renaissance violin band.

Noyse Productions offers a selection of editions of Renaissance and Baroque music, including scores and parts of music heard on recordings and in live performances of The King’s Noyse. In addition, available only through Noyse Productions is an edition of the country dance arrangements of David Hart, a beloved performer who died of AIDS. All proceeds from “The David Hart Book” will be donated to AIDS research.

The King's Noyse brings the Renaissance alive. This violin band, the most popular of Renaissance ensembles, brings into the 21st century spirited programs of fantasias and dances from 16th and 17th century Europe. This brilliantly fresh music has found expression in this core of five string players lead by director and violinist David Douglass. Also a meber of the ensemble is renowned early music soprano Ellen Hargis, and various guest artists on plucked string instruments (cittern, theorbo, harp, harpsichord and organ) help to provide a wide range of colors. Frequent collaborators with The King’s Noyse include lutenist Paul O'Dette and harpist Andrew Lawrence-King.

Recording extensively for the harmonia mundi usa label, the group is at the top of their field on stage and on CD. "The King's Noyse has established a mighty reputation in the early-instrument movement." (Los Angeles Times) "...the audience was stomping and cheering for more." (Boston Globe)

The King's Noyse is among the elite, the most celebrated in the early music field. Committed to a wide range of repertoire illuminated through high standards of scholarship, The King's Noyse performs on a set (or noyse) of Renaissance-style violins of all sizes (the only set of its kind in North America). The instruments were built especially for the ensemble by Robert Young and Jason Viseltear of New York City.

Booking information for concerts and workshops by The King’s Noyse, contact David Douglass at EMAIL

Fortune’s Wheel is a spirited collaboration of four distinguished early-music performers devoted to rediscovering the riches of medieval musical traditions. Their performances combine a meticulous attention to vocal sonority and instrumental virtuosity with an engaging sense of theater and improvisation. The ensemble has performed on nearly every early music series across America, and at the Boston, Berkeley, and Amherst Early Music Festivals, as well as at the Frick Collection and the Cloisters in New York City, the International Festival of Early Music in Mexico City, and the Regensburg Festival Alte Musik. Their deep experience and personal warmth have won them a devoted following wherever they appear. Further information on the performers and their recordings can be found at the ensemble’s website, www.fortuneswheel.org.