The annual Piffaro Recorder Fest, scheduled for April 9, 2022, has been canceled. “It saddens us that we must cancel the always-uplifting annual Recorder Fest & Competition, but this has been a tremendously trying year for music educators,” says artistic co-director Joan Kimball. “We look forward bringing the Fest back in 2023.”
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Since 2007, the Philadelphia-based period instrument ensemble Piffaro has hosted recorder festivals, featuring a competition for some the nation’s most accomplished middle and high school players, and showcasing budding young recorder enthusiasts at the elementary school level. This year, due to COVID, Piffaro has transported the Recorder Fest online. The free community event will take
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Cambridge, MA – The 21st biennial Boston Early Music Festival will be presented exclusively online, from June 6–13, 2021. The virtual event—titled Music of Solace and Joy—will feature a combination of new broadcasts from BEMF’s operatic video archives, recorded concert performances from the world’s leading Early Music Artists, an Exhibition, Fringe Series, Masterclasses, and more.
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It is with great sadness that we announce that Beatrice Asken died on December 30, 2020 of Covid 19. She was 91 years old. Beatrice was an accomplished musician, and was an active participant in her communities in Connecticut and Maine, both musically and as a volunteer. She is remembered by her family and many
CANCELLATION TORONTO BACH FESTIVAL CELEBRATES ITS FIFTH SEASON (Scheduled for May 29-31, 2020) The Toronto Bach Festival has announced the cancellation of its fifth season, scheduled for May 29-31, due to restrictions on gatherings during the Covid-19 pandemic.   According to Artistic Director John Abberger, “Steps are being taken to keep in place as much of
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