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The Sociable Fortepiano (March 5–9, 2026, New York City) is a new artist residency, workshop, and mini-festival reimagining fortepiano musicking as a space of connection and experimentation. Funded by the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies and curated by Yi-heng Yang (Juilliard) and Patricia García Gil (Cornell CCHK), the initiative invites performers, scholars, and technicians—including […]

The GRAMMY-winning Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Opera Series presents Stellidaura’s Revenge by Francesco Provenzale on Thanksgiving weekend in Boston Cambridge, MA – The GRAMMY Award-winning Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Opera Series returns on Thanksgiving weekend with an all-new production of Stellidaura’s Revenge by Italian Baroque composer Francesco Provenzale. A courtly love triangle is torn apart by violent passions in

This December, Piffaro, The Renaissance Band joins forces with New York City’s “splendid” (New York Times) Tenet Vocal Artists for a German Christmas program called Ein Kind Geborn. Combining the evocative sounds of sackbuts, shawms, dulcians, and other period instruments with Tenet’s radiant voices in a program of music by Michael Praetorius and his contemporaries,

Come join us in 2026 for the second edition of the Dutch International Traverso Competition. The live final rounds of this international student traverso competition will take place during the International Adams Flute Festival in Limburg in April. The competition is entirely aimed at students and offers many a valuable stepping stone to a professional

Escape to the stage with Ann Ford (1737-1824)! When British socialite Ann Ford’s father demanded that she marry a man 30-years her senior (who had attempted to pay for her hand in marriage), she was desperate to find a way out. With money she borrowed from her well-to-do friends, Ann rented out some of London’s most