EMA FEATURES & PRESS RELEASES
Leaping Gracefully Between the Centuries
Anna Mansbridge's keen imagination and cross-pollination of dance styles — Renaissance, Baroque, contemporary — has informed her work in Seattle and across the Pacific Northwest for a quarter-century.
On the Road Again
For audiences and performers, the value of touring is undeniable. A city-to-city string of shows can seem glamorous, heightening artistic reputations and drawing new fans in distant communities. Many American early-music groups would love to go on tour. Some have learned to navigate that complex landscape.
CANTO: The Music Is the Culture
Friends and colleagues have shared with me, and I know from experience, that vocalists with exclusively “classical” training can sometimes be blind to the richness of other music. We tend to minimize our efforts when approaching different or less “formal” genres, or even avoid them completely.
Get Noticed: Publicizing Your Ensemble and Events
At EMA, we often hear versions of a basic question: How do I get my ensemble and concerts previewed, reviewed, mentioned in the press? Artists run their own social media but, in truth, you want someone else talking up your projects and performances. That attention, in turn, helps ticket sales and fundraising. It puts the organization on an upward spiral.
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EMA RECORDING & BOOK REVIEWS
Drama, Humor, Technicolor from the Butter Quartet
Based in the Netherlands, the remarkable Butter Quartet research and perform music from the late 18th and early 19th c., with rewarding adventures into modern works -- all on period instruments. Their latest album includes string quartets by Haydn and Caroline Shaw.
A Lautenwerk Revival Takes Shape
With two new recordings this year, the lautenwerk — an obscure, gut-stringed, mellow keyboard instrument sometimes called a "lute-harpsichord" — is having its moment. J.S. Bach owned two of them. Wolfgang Rübsam's latest recording, of Bach's didactic Inventions and Sinfonias, is a natural fit for the lautenwerk.
Changing Attitudes About Musical Counterfeits
A fascinating new book aims to understand the “inventive” musical forgery: not a counterfeit, per se, but a newly created composition that is falsely attributed to someone else. The author investigates not only why forgers may be attracted to such deceptions but, as authentication has shifted from stylistic concerns to source documentation, why we are repulsed when the truth is revealed.
A Six-Pack of Bach from Lillian Gordis
Berkeley-born harpsichordist Lillian Gordis' powerful new Bach recording dwells on sixes: the Partita No. 6 and English Suite No. 6, separated by six preludes and fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier. With a unique voice and confrontational attitude, Gordis is a master of this repertoire.
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COMMUNITY NEWS & PRESS RELEASES
Emmanuel Adriaenssen’s Pratum Musicum (1584) stands as one of the most important lute publications of the late Renaissance. This collection features intabulations—lute arrangements—of well-known vocal works from France and Italy, ...
New York (August 18, 2026) — The Frick Collection today announced its 2026–27 concert season, the second annual season in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Auditorium since the museum’s April 2025 reopening. Building on ...
Selected from an international field of over 100 applicants, the finalists of the 2026 Barbash Bach Competition are Leah Amory, violin; Peter Eom, cello; Emrik Revermann, violin; Alessandra Yang, viola; ...
ZRG Aspen Leadership Group is proud to partner with Portland Baroque Orchestra in their search for an Executive Director. Portland Baroque Orchestra enters this search at an important moment of ...
TUCSON, AZ. — [August 11, 2026] — Arizona Early Music (AEM), Arizona's presenter of historically informed performance since 1982, today announced the appointment of Benjamin K. Roe as its new ...
