EMA Video Resources » Early Music America

The videos below include original EMA videos and videos about the fields of early music and historical performance practice.

Celebrating Trailblazers in Historical Performance: Conversations with Tom Kelly

Trailblazers in Historical Performance is presented in collaboration with Thomas Forrest Kelly and the Juilliard School. This on-going project features conversations with key individuals in the field of early music and historical performance practice. Launched on April 19, 2021, the series will begin with 12 interviews conducted between December 2020 and March 2021.

Jeanne Lamon. For many years artistic director of Tafelmusk, a violinist and leader of extraordinary artistry.

Benjamin Bagby. Founding member of Sequentia, one of the magisterial voices in medieval music.

Catherine Turocy. Dancer, choregrapher, dance historian, founding director of the New York Baroque Dance Company.

Kenneth Slowik. Cellist, viol played, keyboardist; Curator of musical instruments at the Smithsonian, and Artistic Director of the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society.

Lisa Crawford. Harpsichordist, Professor at Oberlin Conservatory and Eastman School of Music.

Marilyn McDonald. Violinist, member of Smithsonian Chamber Players, The Castle Trio, The Axelrod Quartet, others.

Max van Egmond, Distinguished Dutch baritone with wide-ranging career, well-known for his recordings of the works of J. S. Bach.

Sarah Cunningham, viola da gamba; member of Trio Sonnerie, others; international recording artist and teacher.

Stanley Ritchie, violinist; Distinguished Professor at Indiana University; author; performances and recordings with Aston Magna, Mozartean Players, guest with most major ensembles.

Catharina Meints; viola da gamba; instrument collector; cellist in the Cleveland Orchestra; co-founder of Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute.

Stephen Hammer. Oboe, oboe-maker. Performances and recordings with The Bach Ensemble, The New York Collegium, Handel and Haydn Society, many others.

Susan Hellauer. Founding member of the early vocal quartet Anonymous 4.

Joel Cohen. Directed the Boston Camerata for more than 40 years and continues as Director Emeritus.

Cheryl Ann Fulton. Pioneer in the field of historical harps and a popular performer and teacher. Founding member of Ensemble Alcatraz.
Available July 28, 2021

Thomas Forrest Kelly is Morton B. Knafel Research Professor of Music at Harvard University, and a member of the Historical Performance faculty at The Juilliard School. He has served as the director of the Wellesley College Collegium Musicum, the Five College Early Music Program, the Oberlin Historical Performance Program, as Music Director of the Cambridge Society for Early Music, and President and as long-time board member of Early Music America. He writes a regular column for Early Music America magazine.

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access in Early Music

IDEA Performance Videos

A collection of videos curated by the IDEA Task Force representing diversity in early music.

IDEA Panels and Webinars

Panel: Women in Early Music from Underrepresented Backgrounds

Panel: Black Musicians in Early Music

Fiddlers and Social Mobility in New Spain

Black and Brown Composer in Baroque Latin America

Building Partnerships that Advance Justice

A circle of fifths: a retrospective and remedy for addressing diversity in Early Music in America

Slave Songs and Spirituals as Early Music: A Follow-up Conversation

EMA Webinars & Panels

A complete archive of EMA’s public streaming webinars and panel discussions since December 2019.

La Belle Dance: A Discussion of Historical Dance

Women in Early Music from Underrepresented Backgrounds

Black Musicians in Early Music

Cooking and Baking as Elements of Wellness

Field Training While Being a Performing Musician

Fact or Fiction: What is Early (and not Early) About Sephardic Music
Presenter: Ian Pomerantz

EMA Conversations: Medieval Music for the Modern World

Slave Songs and Spirituals as Early Music: A Follow-up Conversation

Renaissance Improvisation
Presenter: John Tyson

In the Palace of the Dukes of Mantua
Presenter: Tom Kelly

Pilgrims Progress: Creating Music for the Plimoth Settlers 1590-1650
Presenters: Karen Burciaga and Dan Meyers

Building Partnerships That Advance Justice
Presenters: Gus Denhard and Monica Rojas-Stewart

Back and Brown Composers in Baroque Latin America
Presenter: Henry Lebedinsky
Host: Maria Romero

Fiddlers and Social Mobility in New Spain
Presenter: Guillermo Salaz-Suárez

James River Music Book
Presenter: Loren Ludwig

Singing and Making Music in Meaningful Ways Online
Presenter: Adam Gilbert

Tempo and Performance Practice in Brahms’ Handel Variations
Presenter: Michael Delfin

Music, Business, and Belong in in the Early Modern Antwerp Salon
Presenter: Elizabeth Weinfield

Rethinking Evidence and Speculation in Historical Performance: The Case of Mozart’s Improvisations
Presenter: Dorian Bandy

To Trill or Trillo? A Study of Performance Practice
Presenter: Andrew Schulte

Music, Salon Culture, and Judaism in the World of Sara Levy (1761-1854)
Presenter: Rebecca Cypess

Texting with English Madrigals
Presenter: Nick Jones

A Circle of Fifths: A Retrospective and remedy for addressing diversity in Early Music in America
Presenter Patricia Ann Neely

50 Unknown Flutists 1800-1850
Presenter: Tom Moore

A Cookbook for Renaissance Improvisation
Presenter: Adam Gilbert

Making the Most of your Facebook Page

Representing Yourself in the Best Way: Performance Applications

Festival & Showcase Playlists (2011-Present)

Performance playlists for EMA’s Young Performers Festival (2011 to current) and Emerging Artists Showcase (2018-present).

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2017 Young Performers Festival

2016 Young Performers Festival

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2014 Young Performers Festival

2013 Young Performers Festival

2012 Young Performers Festival

2011 Young Performers Festival

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