EMA FEATURES & PRESS RELEASES
Boston Early Music Festival Names New Dance Director
In appointing Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière to lead its prestigious dance activities, BEMF has picked a multidisciplinary choreographer, dancer, actor, and musician. She has been 'an invaluable collaborator for many years and is at the top of her field.'
Getting Creative: a New Bach Passion & Vivaldi ‘Seasons’ Opera
Creative artists in early music are hoping to attract new fans by offering more than old music in predictable formations. By design, they break from the status quo, with soap-bubble sets for Vivaldi and Bach in spoken English. Historically informed? 'It’s historically inspired, which is maybe more important.'
This Time, Versailles Starts the Revolution
Dedicated to research toward performances of French Baroque repertoire, Le Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles encourages American musicians and scholars to travel to Paris for research or to hone their skills. Its resources are likely unmatched in the early-music world.
Fantasy Camp for Early Music Superfans
Across North America, ensembles are connecting with audiences not just as passive-listening concert-goers but as participants in making music. Give a performance of Renaissance polyphony, but also teach local amateurs how to sing it themselves. 'They will hear it as never before — from within the ensemble.'
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EMA RECORDING & BOOK REVIEWS
Marvelous Bach & Couperin from Les Délices
In this beautifully paced recital, Baroque oboist Debra Nagy and harpsichordist Mark Edwards create an equal partnership and explore familiar music by J.S. Bach and François Couperin, often in delightful arrangements.
Clément Janequin’s Vocal Adventures
Clément Janequin occupies a unique spot in early music, where several of his kaleidoscopic chansons — including 'Le Chant des oyseaux, and 'La Chasse' — are a hit among vocal ensembles. An agile, often humorous new book covers the range of Janequin's work and his times, aimed at reaching the performer as much as the scholar.
Elisabetta de Gambarini, Obscure No Longer
You might have come across the composer, singer, and harpsichordist Elisabetta de Gambarini (1731-1765) from music history books, but until now there's not been significant recordings of her work. Now Margherita Toretta, a pianist, has brought together all Gambarini's known keyboard pieces on one disc.
And the Winner is…John Weldon’s ‘The Judgment of Paris’
In early 18th-c. Britain, a competition to help promote opera in English led to a surprise winner. John Weldon's 'The Judgment of Paris,' recorded for the first time by the Academy of Ancient Music, boasts colorful orchestration, clever choral writing, and rapturous music.
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COMMUNITY NEWS & PRESS RELEASES
Also for 2025, the Traverso Practice Net has published a comprehensive list of early music summer courses and masterclasses worldwide, with a special focus on the traverso and historical flutes ...
The San Diego Early Music Society is thrilled to welcome back Stile Antico for the performance of their program Palestrina in the Eternal City. The wonderful twelve-piece vocal ensemble will ...
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at 300North American tourMARCH 14 - APRIL 11, 2025 Les Arts Florissant, the celebrated baroque music ensemble founded by American-born conductor William Christie, returns to North America ...
Serafina presents "In An Unknown Hand: Treble Music from Anonymous Manuscripts" at 7 pm on Saturday, March 29 at Christ Church Detroit. Tickets can be purchased here: bit.ly/SerafinaMarch  History ...
We are pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for the 2025 Organ Conference: Ludus Chronalis: Time, Cadence, and Temporality in Keyboard Music and Sacred Spaces The Department of Organ ...
