EMA News Features

Talking about the latest thing in early music may sound as oxymoronic as talking about jumbo shrimp, but there really is a "latest thing" in early music and it goes

The album “An English Ladymass” by the vocal quartet Anonymous 4 made the classical Billboard charts In 1993. Later that year, Gail Luley and her sister-in-law opened Classical Tracks on the

Christopher Jackson, artistic director of the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, and a mainstay of music in the city, died Friday at 67. A news release from SMAM described

Jonas Kaufmann was 26 when he forgot how to sing. Kaufmann, who headlines at the Last Night of the Proms on Saturday alongside soprano Danielle de Niese and pianist Benjamin

Every year EMA accepts nominations for the Howard Mayer Brown Award, Thomas Binkley Award, and Laurette Goldberg Award, which recognize outstanding achievement in the field of early music. Early Music

Travel through the history of musical notation, learning how to decode medieval music manuscripts, with this free online course. Nowadays music is all around us: we listen to it while

Last year, the Czech musicologist Petr Danek was in the Franciscan library in Slany, about 20 miles northwest of Prague, searching for Renaissance and early Baroque musical prints. He noticed

A Season Begins by Donald Rosenberg One of the missions of EMAg is to explore the new in the old—to discover how music that’s been around for a long time

The free Gramophone Awards Shortlist 2015 digital magazine contains the complete original reviews of each of the 72 recordings shortlisted for Gramophone Awards this year. Once again, the Instrumental category

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