2024 EMA Summit Presentations
Detailed daily schedule with times and locations. Check back throughout the summer as we add more presentations, workshops, and events.
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ChamberQUEER Pride Festival 2024: Constellation
ChamberQUEER is thrilled to present ChamberQUEER 2024: Constellation, our 2024 Pride Month celebration of queer community, diversity, and excellence in chamber music! Featuring multiple live performances and workshops every day, Constellation runs Tuesday, June 11 through Sunday, June 16 at MITU580, with additional community events at nearby coffee shops and bars. Find out all the
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National Endowment for the Arts Awards $25,000 to EMA
Early Music America is pleased to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $25,000. This grant will support the 2024 EMA Summit in Cleveland, October 20-22. In total, the NEA will award 1,135 Grants for Arts Projects awards totaling more than $37 million as part of its second round of fiscal year 2024 grants.
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Membership Impacts the Entire Field
‘I suppose it would be easier for EMA to cater to just professional musicians or only arts administrators,’ writes EMA Executive Director David McCormick. ‘But there’s a vitality to the rich tapestry of our membership that allows for a collaborative spirit between professional performers, amateur players, scholars, luthiers, and listeners, to name a few. Thanks to our free and low-cost membership options for students, we have more young members than ever before…’
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Introducing Britain’s Continuo Foundation
Meet the Continuo Foundation. Founded in 2020 by a former Wall Street financier, the non-profit supports Britain’s early-music scene with grants for resident U.K. ensembles. To date, the foundation has awarded £750,000 for projects across the U.K. Its Continuo Connect is becoming Britain’s go-to events calendar.
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Piffaro announces new members, Héloïse Degrugillier and Sian Ricketts
Philadelphia – Piffaro is delighted to announce the addition of Héloïse Degrugillier and Sian Ricketts to its core band after a two-year search to replace retiring founders Joan Kimball and Bob Wiemken, who played dozens of instruments in the ensemble. “No one in this field is a carbon copy of anyone else,” says artistic director
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Traverso Practice Net compiles multinational list of summer 2024 early-music courses
The Traverso Practice Net is glad to present the most comprehensive and constantly updated list of courses and masterclasses for the baroque flute and a number of other period instruments available worldwide in the summer of 2024! Head to the web portal to check it out and pick your favorite place and maestro.
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Trouvère Songs of Love and Loss
Brooklyn-based Alkemie’s latest recording, devoted to music from the 13th-century trouvères of Northern France, draws as much on contemporary folk and Celtic styles as Medieval historical performance practice. At turns extravagant or yearning, this is music of celebratory zeal as well as poetic musing.
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Chanticleer presents Machaut’s “Messe de Nostre Dame” in Bay Area
(March 2024) — Multiple Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer – a group that “fascinates and enthralls … through luxurious perfection” (Los Angeles Times) – turns its attention this spring to Western music’s first notated large-scale, multi-movement work: Machaut’s landmark Messe de Nostre Dame, with four performances around the group’s home region of the San Francisco Bay Area (June 2–9). Chanticleer also continues
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From Scratch: Atlanta’s Early Music Scene
After 25 years of building and re-building, the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra has found stability and high artistic success.
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