EMA FEATURES & PRESS RELEASES
Early Music America Announces Medieval + Renaissance Competition
EMA's fourth Medieval and Renaissance Competition will take place at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland on October 1, 2016. Our competition brings together some of the brightest up-and-coming performers
Vibrato Wars
Many people think a peace treaty was signed after the vibrato wars of the 1970s, when the plush string textures of the modern symphony orchestra were challenged by the leaner sound of historical instruments. Eliminating vibrato, along with playing on gut strings, was the most noticeable mark of historically informed performance style. Before it was even called HIP, employing “authentic instruments” set early-music players apart from symphony orchestras, and singing with a pristine, boy-like sound marked a new vocal coloring.
If It’s Monday, It’s Collegium
The peripatetic and exhausting and fascinating and insanely fulfilling life of an early musician in America.
Cracking a Centuries-Old Tradition
A prof from Ohio guides collegiate singers in Cambridge, England, in the illuminating tuning system known as Just Intonation.
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EMA RECORDING & BOOK REVIEWS
CD Review: Galou Offers Deeply Expressive Vivaldi
The latest release in Naïve’s Vivaldi Edition — which is recording the entire collection of the composer’s manuscripts at Turin’s Italian National University Library — gives the deepest feminine voice lots of love.
Book Review: Wood’s Love of Bach Illuminated
Viewing Sir Henry Wood as an unappreciated figure in the “Bach revival” movement, Hannah French has industriously researched the scores and orchestral parts of the Bach works belonging to the conductor and used for his performances.
CD Review: Sonnambula Debuts With Duarte
The ensemble's impressive first disc promises and delivers the complete works of Leonora Duarte (1610-1678), the accomplished daughter of a prosperous Iberian converso jeweler who was resident in Antwerp.
CD Review: Sebastians Illuminate Vivaldi And Friends
On its new recording, 'Folia,' the ensemble’s comfort with the material shines through. The slower movements are graceful and expressive, the faster ones exciting.
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COMMUNITY NEWS & PRESS RELEASES
The latest installment of the comedic documentary series, “Stories” explores underrepresented works of the first women composers. DALLAS - When not singing the praises of God, Teodora Ginés, a former ...
January 18, 2023 (Houston, Texas) Conductor Rick Erickson and the Bach Orchestra will perform the six instrumental works known as the Brandenburg Concertos in two performances on March 10 and ...
(Vancouver, BC) – Let’s face it – winter in Vancouver can be dreary. The grey skies and endless rain can dampen the spirits of even the most positive people. Early ...
Boston Baroque’s renowned orchestra returns in March for Mozart’s beloved “Jupiter” Symphony, while an all-star cast headlined by Wendy Bryn Harmer and William Burden close out the season with Gluck’s rarely-heard opera Iphigénie en Tauride ...
Discover Double Bass, a music education website specializing in the double bass, is pleased to announce the release of its latest course, Baroque Double Bass. Presented by early music specialist ...
