News
- The 2022 Young Performers Festival and Emerging Artists Showcase application period is scheduled to open in November 2022. Please check back in Fall 2022 for more details.
Young Performers Festival
Since 2010, Early Music America (EMA) has been proud to bring together college and university ensembles throughout North America to perform at the nation’s leading early music festivals in Berkeley, CA, Bloomington, IN, and Boston, MA, and virtually through EMA’s digital platforms. Applicants submitting programs that expand the canon beyond Western classical traditions, and that pay due attention to historical performance techniques, are encouraged to apply.
Early Music America’s 2021 Festival was an all-virtual festival and all collegiate and pre-college early music ensembles from institutions throughout the Americas were invited to celebrate what they have accomplished during the 2020-21 academic year.
Emerging Artists Showcase
Begun in 2018, the Showcase goes beyond the university level already represented by YPF to serve the broadest possible range of artists. The term “emerging artist” can include historically-informed performers of all types, without respect to age. Applicants are asked to describe how they see the future of historical performance taking shape, and to define how their role as artists and ensembles aligns with that future vision. Applicants submitting programs that expand the canon beyond Western classical traditions, and that pay due attention to historical performance techniques, are encouraged to apply.
EMA presented the 4th annual Emerging Artists Showcase as a Virtual Showcase May 21-23, 2021. This year’s Showcase featured high quality video projects up to 20 minutes in length which displayed creativity and originality. Six participants were selected based on the strength of their proposal and the level of artistry displayed in their application materials. They each received a grant of $1,500 from EMA to assist in the production of the Showcase project.
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As we move forward with the Festival & Showcase, our hope is that we can offer soloists and ensembles a supportive and stimulating environment in which they can grow and flourish. We look forward to presenting dynamic concerts that reflect the future of historical performance in North America.
Past Participants
2020: Virtual
Young Performers Festival
Davis Senior High School Baroque Ensemble – Davis, CA
Early Music Youth Academy – Seattle, WA
Juilliard415 – New York, NY
McGill University Baroque Ensemble – Montréal, QC
Tonos del Sur (Indiana University) – Bloomington, IN
USC Thornton Early Music – Los Angeles, CA
Emerging Artists Showcase
Gili Loftus: fortepiano – Montréal, QC
L.A. Camerata: dir. Marylin Winkle – Los Angeles, CA
Lyracle: Ashley Mulcahy, James Perretta – Boston, MA
Trobár: Allison Monroe, Elena Mullins, Karin Weston – Cleveland, OH
2019: Bloomington
Young Performers Festival
The Brandenburg Project (Community Music School of Ann Arbor)
McGill University Baroque Ensemble (McGill University)
Oberlin Baroque (Oberlin Conservatory)
Peabody Renaissance Ensemble (Peabody Conservatory)
USC Thornton Collegium Workshop (University of Southern California)
Emerging Artists Showcase
Aperi Animam: Milwaukee, WI
Joyce Chen, harpsichord: Princeton, NJ
Vincent Lauzer, recorder: Montréal, QC
Rezonance Baroque Ensemble: Toronto, ON
2018: Bloomington
Young Performers Festival
B’more Bach Ensemble (Peabody Conservatory)
Case Western-Reserve University Baroque Ensemble
Oberlin Baroque
Tarara (Indiana University)
USC Thornton Collegium Musicum
Emerging Artists Showcase
Adriana Ruiz
Costanoan Trio
Mélisande McNabney
Rachell Ellen Wong
Rumore Terribile
Voyage Sonique
2017: Boston
McGill Baroque Ensemble
Oberlin Baroque
USC Thornton Collegium Workshop
Westminster Kantorei
2016: Berkeley
USC Thornton Sinfonia
Opera Nova (Indiana University)
Bowling Green State University Early Music Ensemble
Case Western Reserve University Collegium Musicum Medieval Ensemble
University Baroque Ensemble at Brigham Young University of Idaho
2015: Boston
Case-Western Reserve University Baroque Chamber Music and Dance Ensemble
The University of Northern Texas
The Peabody Conservatory
Oberlin University Baroque Ensemble
Indiana University
McGill University
Seattle Historical Arts for Kids
2014: Berkeley
Arethusa Musica
McGill School’s The Victoria IV Madrigal Ensemble
Case-Western Reserve University Baroque Chamber Music and Dance Ensemble
Liaison Baroque Ensemble
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
Musa Baroque Ensemble
2013: Boston
Tufts Early Music Ensemble
Longy School of Music Bard College; Longy Dufay Ensemble; Longy Lassus Consort and Longy Bach Cantata Project
Juilliard 415
The Peabody Consort
University of North Texas Baroque Orchestra and Collegium Singers
Florida State Early Music Ensemble
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
Case Western Reserve University, Collegium Musicum
Oberlin Baroque Ensemble
McGill University Baroque Orchestra
the Sebastians
2012: Berkeley
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Baroque Ensemble
University of California at Berkeley Baroque Chamber Ensemble
University of North Texas Collegium Singers
Stanford University Baroque Ensemble
Case Western Reserve University Baroque Ensemble and Collegium Musicum
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
2011: Boston
Stony Brook Baroque Players
Harvard University Early Music Society
CWRU/Cleveland Institute of Music Baroque Orchestra
McGill University Baroque Orchestra
University of North Texas Baroque Orchestra and Collegium Singers
Brandeis Early Music Ensemble
Longy School of Music Collegium Musicum
Peabody Conservatory ensembles
Case Western Reserve University Violin Band and Collegium Musicum
Boston University Chamber Ensemble
Oberlin Baroque Ensemble
¡Sacabuche! from Indiana University
University of Southern California Collegium Musicum and Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
EMA Festival Ensemble