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Oxford University Press released “Improvising Fugue: A Method for Keyboard Artists” in February 2023.  Author John Mortensen drew upon experience as a concert improviser on the international stage to develop this approach to creating spontaneous polyphonic music in Baroque style. Juilliard keyboard studies professor Yiheng Yang stated that “Mortensen has done it again! As in […]

This new program presents Alkemie’s creative arrangements of favorite works by Guillaume Dufay – considered the foremost European composer by his 15th-century contemporaries – alongside the compositions of modern medieval luminary Shira Kammen. Though written centuries ago, many of the texts on this program have a strong sense of place recognizable to us today –

Founder and Artistic Director Thomas Crawford leads the American Classical Orchestra (ACO), New York City’s foremost period instrument orchestra, in a program of much-loved Bach cantatas at the beautiful Gothic-style Church of St. Vincent Ferrer in Manhattan on Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 8 pm. The concert features an ensemble of notable  soloists including soprano

The mobile app Early Music Companion has been updated (new version: 2.1) and includes the following improvements: 1) New quick reference on tuning, with information on commas, cents, temperaments, … 2) Composer Database: ** New “Notes” field for additional information about composers. ** More composers, updated composer information. 3) User interface enhancements: larger slider buttons

Seattle, WA ­‑ Early Music Seattle announces Ars Longa Early Music Ensemble of Havana will be performing a program titled Gulumbá Gulumbé – Resonances of Africa in the New World on March 12 in Town Hall Seattle. Originally scheduled to be on our series in March 2020, this Cuban ensemble will finally make its long-awaited