Effective period / Period of releases: 1994 - 2005

Members: Raquel Massadas, James Bush, Farran James, Miguel Angel Aguilo, María Bayo, Alba Roca, Jorge Jimenez (2), André Henrich, Xisco Aguiló, Javier Zafra, Eduard Wesly, Carlos García-Bernalt, Kobie Van Rensburg, Eduardo López Banzo, Bénédicte Pernet, Anne-Catherine Gillet, Soledad Cardoso, Sharon Rostorf-Zamir, Maria Riccarda Wesseling, Kepa Artetxe, Adriana Alcalde, Cristina Benito, Félix Ferrer, Antonio Almela, Eunjung Anna Ryu, Pedro Castro (3), Jesús Fernández De Yepes

Al Ayre Español was founded in 1988 by Eduardo López Banzo with the objective of avoiding the mistaken clichés that often surrounded the performance of Spanish baroque music. The spirit of the ensemble made this possible thanks to musicological rigor, performance excellence and with the main purpose of giving new breath to music from the past, making them appear as recent compositions, and then offering them to the contemporary audience.