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Congratulations to the ensembles and artists who were selected from a fantastic pool of applicants to participant in EMA’s 2022 Young Performers Festival & Emerging Artists Showcase before and during the Berkeley Festival & Exhibition in Berkeley, CA.
Read about the ensembles and artists and their concert programs.
Young Performers Festival Judges
Bianca Hall
Edwin Huizinga
Kris Kwapis
Steven Plank
Maria Romero Ramos
Emerging Artist Showcase Judges
Jolle Greenleaf
Shira Kammen
Debra Nagy
Byron Schenkman
Michael Walker
Jonathan Woody
Emerging Artists Showcase (Virtual)
via YouTube
Wednesday, June 1
- 8pm ET – Ximenez Quartet, Montréal, QC
Karin Cuellar (violin), Simon Alexandre (violin), Namgon Lee (viola), and Jessica Korotkin (cello)
Friday, June 3
- 7pm ET – AKOYA, New York, NY
Naomi Dumas (violin) and Caitlyn Koester (harpsichord) - 8pm ET – Duo Oriana, Toronto, ON
Sinéad White (soprano) & Jonathan Stuchbery (lute)
Young Performers Festival
Hume Hall, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
And livestreamed on EMAs YouTube Channel.
Free Admission. Donations welcome.
Wednesday, June 8
- 10am PT – UCLA Early Music Ensemble
- 1pm PT – USC Early Music Ensemble
Thursday, June 9
- 1pm PT – San Francisco Conservatory Baroque Ensemble
- 4pm PT – Juilliard415
Emerging Artists Showcase (In-Person)
St. Mark’s Episcopal, Berkeley, CA
Tickets via Berkeley Festival & Exhibition
Friday, June 10, 12pm PT
- Julia Bengtsson (choreography & dance), New York, NY, & Rocío López Sánchez (cello), San Francisco, CA
- Patricia Garcia Gil (fortepiano), Greensboro, NC
- Pauline Kempf (violin), San Francisco, CA
The 2022 Young Performers Festival and Emerging Artists Showcase application period closed on Monday, February 21, 2022. Guidelines and eligibility are available using the links found below.
Young Performers Festival
Since 2010, the Young Performers Festival has brought together collegiate and pre-college early-music ensembles throughout North America to perform at leading early-music festivals in the United States in Berkeley, CA, Bloomington, IN, and Boston, MA, and virtually through EMA’s digital platforms.
Emerging Artists Showcase
Begun in 2018, the Emerging Artists Showcase features artists of any age in the early music field who have not otherwise performed regularly in major festivals or concert series. 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.
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