The core formation of two violins, recorder/traverso, cello/viola da gamba and harpsichord/organ expands with additional strings, winds, theorbo and vocalists, performing on period instruments. Rebel is currently in residence at historic Trinity Church in New York City, collaborating with Trinity Choir in works ranging from the cantatas of Bach to the major oratories of, Handel, Bach, Mozart and Haydn.

Named after the innovative French Baroque composer Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747), Rebel was formed in The Netherlands in l99l. In the Fifth International Competition for Ensembles in Early Music, Utrecht 1991 ( now the van Wassenaer Competition) Rebel was awarded first prize. Since then the ensemble has performed at European venues such as the Holland Festival Oude Muziek, Tage Alter Musik Berlin, the Resonanzen Festival (Vienna), La Chapelle Royale (Versailles), Internationale Festtage für Alte Musik Stuttgart, and the Händel Festspiele (Halle an der Saale, Germany), amongst others.

Rebel has appeared to critical acclaim at distinguished American venues such as the DaCamera Society (Los Angeles), the Seattle Early Music Guild, Houston Early Music, the Concert Society at Maryland, Chamber Music Sedona, Chautauqua Institution, the San Diego Early Music Society, the Howard Mayer Brown International Concert Series (Chicago), the Shrine to Music Museum (South Dakota), the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Boston and Berkeley Early Music Festivals and Music Before 1800 in New York City.

Rebel has collaborated with renowned vocalists Max von Egmond, Peter Kooy, Barbara Schlick, Suzie LeBlanc and Curtis Streetman and has recorded for all the major European national radio networks as well as the BBC. They have been featured on NPR’s "Performance Today", "WNYC Live", WQXR’s "The Jewel Box" and MPR’s "St. Paul Sunday". In 1999 Rebel became the first and only period instrument ensemble to be awarded an artists’ residency at National Public Radio.

Rebel has recorded for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and more recently, Dorian Recordings ("Rossi and his Circle"; "Concerti di Napoli"; "Telemann alla Polacca"). "Giuseppe Sammartini: Sonate e Concerti" (with Ensemble Caprice, Montréal) on ATMA Classique, and Haydn: Two Masses (Rebel Baroque Orchestra & Trinity Choir, on Hänssler Classics) were released in 2002.

The Rebel Baroque Orchestra gained international recognition for its performance of Mozart’s Requiem with Trinity Choir, broadcast nationally over National Public Radio in memoriam of the victims of September 11, and for its performance of Handel’s Messiah in December 2001 from Ground Zero, which was broadcast live nationally and internationally on the web, with portions of the performance appearing on CBS’s "60 Minutes II" with Dan Rather. Since then, WQXR-FM, the radio station of The New York Times will do a live broadcast of Rebel Baroque Orchestra and Trinity Choir from Trinity Church in New York City three times annually.

Rebel Baroque Orchestra and Trinity Choir have been engaged by Hänssler-Verlag Stuttgart to record the complete sacred choral works of Haydn through the year 2009.