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(Vancouver, B.C.) – Early Music Vancouver (EMV) announced today the winners of its competition for emerging (age 30 and under) early music artists. Applicants were asked to create a short (3-5 minute) musical video based on what they thought the next generation of early music might look like and to include creative ways to present […]

A restless collective of medieval experimentalists, the Flatbush-based band Alkemie recently gained recognition beyond Brooklyn with their soundtrack for the video game Pentiment (directed by Obsidian studios and published by Xbox). Locally and nationally, they have been presented by the Amherst Early Music Festival, Arizona Early Music Society, Brooklyn Public Library, Cambridge Society for Early

“Stunning in its breadth and beauty,” (Broad Street Review) Piffaro’s season finale is drawn from the rich sacred and secular repertoire found in manuscripts of 16th and 17th-century Peru, Chile, and Bolivia. Piffaro’s wind band is augmented with plucked strings, percussion, and five stellar vocalists. Special guest, Argentinian tenor and lutenist Jonatan Alvarado, sings “with

The latest installment of “Stories”, Lumedia Musicworks’ comedic documentary series, explores the lives and works of underrepresented first women composers. The episode premieres online May 26, 2023. The daughter of professional musicians and a student at the famous Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, this young Italian female composer and multi-instrumentalist was well-positioned to perform and