2024 Early Music America Summit

Concert venues

• Harkness Chapel, 11200 Bellflower Rd
• Mixon Hall, 11021 East Boulevard

Sunday, October 20

1:00pm, Harkness Chapel
2024 Young Performers Festival concert #1
University of Michigan Early Music Ensemble & Oberlin Conservatory Baroque Ensemble
Open to the public. $20 suggested donation.

4:00pm, Mixon Hall
Oberlin College Conservatory Historical Performance Faculty Concert
Edwin Huizinga, violin, and Mark Edwards, harpsichord
Open to the public. $20 suggested donation.

7:30pm, Harkness Chapel
Les Délices, featuring soprano Hannah De Priest
Arcadian Dreams: Dramatic works from the French and Italian Baroque
Ticketed separately through Les Délices (20% discount code available to Summit attendees)
In a new program featuring “magnetic” (Boston Globe) soprano Hannah De Priest, Les Délices makes musical magic with dramatic works from the French and Italian Baroque. “With a voice that is theater itself,” (Classique News), De Priest and a brilliant ensemble including oboe, violins, and continuo will beguile audiences and transport them to the heart of the Baroque Era. Cantatas by Handel, Rameau, Lefebvre, and Bourgeois plus instrumental works by Scarlatti and Corelli.

Monday, October 21

1:00pm, Harkness Chapel

2024 Young Performers Festival concert #2
Longy Baroque Flute Ensemble & UCLA Early Music Ensemble
Open to the public. $20 suggested donation.

4:00pm, Mixon Hall

Case Western Reserve University Historical Performance Practice Faculty Concert
Julie Andrijeski, Violin; Elena Mullins Bailey, Soprano; Peter Bennett, Keyboards; Tyler Duncan, Bass Baritone; Jaap ter Linden, Cello and Viola da Gamba
Monday, Oct. 21 at 4:00pm, Mixon Hall
Open to the public. $20 suggested donation.

6:30pm, Harkness Chapel
Pre-Concert Conversation: From Köthen with Love:  Affekt, Rhetoric, and Exhilaration in Bach’s Concertos and Orchestral Suites
Apollo’s Fire Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell and Concertmaster Alan Choo

7:30pm, Harkness Chapel

Apollo’s Fire, Jeannette Sorrell, conductor and harpsichord
Brandenburg Concertos no. 3, 4, & 6, plus Orchestral Suite no. 3 in D
Ticketed separately through Apollo’s Fire (20% discount available to Summit attendees)
GRAMMY winners Apollo’s Fire and Jeannette Sorrell are hailed for “forging a vibrant, life-affirming approach to early music – a blend of intellect and artistry” (BBC MAGAZINE). In this concert, the Apollonians revel in the exhilarating masterpieces that J.S. Bach composed for his virtuoso orchestra at the palace of Köthen. Featuring daredevil violinist Alan Choo, violists Nicole Divall and Min-Young Kim, and recorder players Daphna Mor and Kathie Stewart, Apollo’s Fire brings to Harkness Chapel their signature “joyous spontaneity” (THE NEW YORKER).

This concert is generously sponsored by MICHAEL FRANK & PAT SNYDER* (*dec’d).

Tuesday, October 22

1:00pm, Harkness Chapel

2024 Young Performers Festival concert #3
Indiana University Baroque Orchestra & Case Western Reserve University Historical Performance Ensembles
Open to the public. $20 suggested donation.

4:00pm, Mixon Hall

The W. Crimm Singers, Patrick Daley, Founder and Artistic Director
“Sankofa Sounds: Black Sacred Music Traditions Across Time”
In the West African tradition, the Adinkra symbol of “Sankofa” depicts a bird with its head turned backwards while its feet face forward carrying a precious egg in its mouth. It is primarily understood as “looking back to move forward”. Sankofa Project explores the rich tapestry of vocal music created and interpreted by people of African descent in the US and across the diaspora while drawing correlation to works from the European/Western canon. Experience Black music and culture through the annals of history from the hush harbor to the institutional Black church and historically Black colleges to social justice movements.
Open to the public. $20 suggested donation.

7:30pm, Harkness Chapel

2024 Emerging Artist Showcase
Admission included with Summit registration. Public tickets available online or at the door.
General admission – $30, Students with ID – $10
Purchase Tickets

• Duo CPE – Andréa Walker, soprano, and Mikhail Grazhdanov, fortepiano
• Amelia Sie, baroque violin, assisted by Kevin Devine, harpsichord, and Nathan Whittaker, cello
• Magdalena – Liv Castor, Mira Fu-En Huang, Cole Manel, Niccolo Seligmann, Sarah Shodja, and Cameron Welke