Presenting the rising stars of early music and historical performance since 2018. The Emerging Artists Showcase has been presented at early-music festivals in Berkeley, CA, Bloomington, IN, and Boston, MA, and virtually through EMA’s digital platforms. In 2023, the Showcase became a central element of the annual EMA Summit. 2025 Virtual Showcase The next Emerging […]
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Early Music America (EMA) proudly presented pre-college and collegiate early-music ensembles throughout North America since 2011. The Young Performers Festival is a central element of the annual Early Music America Summit, with Festival concerts held daily throughout the Summit. Festival participants receive free registration for the duration of the Summit, a travel grant if located
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Kleine Kammermusik’s CD, Fanfare and Filigree: Chamber Music from Paris and Dresden, is an evocative collection of attractive pieces for oboes, recorders, bassoon, and continuo by six composers active in those cities between 1692 and the 1740s.
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The members of Ensemble Correspondances seem to get everything right in Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers: easily swinging inégales, perfectly weighted appogiature, crisp articulation of text, and overall dramatic impersonation.
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Anyone unfamiliar with the festival might be surprised to learn that its programs also encompass a healthy dose of 19th, 20th, and even 21st-century works. Put simply, Bach is the foundation, but the festival builds a musical house on him of many colors, styles, and periods.
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The works Piffaro has chosen for this journey through German and Franco-Flemish music gives the artists myriad opportunities to revel in the diverse colors their instruments lavish on 38 brief and varied selections.
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The secret of the Boston Early Music Festival’s success is an ensemble framework that radiates from the centerpiece opera. “Le Carnaval de Venise” by André Campra provided not only a thematic focus for the festival but also the structural resources for many of its other events.
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The scholarship of Michael Marissen has always been characterized by depth of research, fearlessness, and a tendency towards considerable speculation. Those qualities are found in the work under review, a compilation of seven of his essays dealing with religious issues in the music of J. S. Bach.
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Lutenist Ronn McFarlane and his colleagues will present “Will You Walk the Woods So Wild,” a program of John Dowland and William Byrd exploring the intersections between the folk music and art music of England, Scotland, and Wales, at the Boston Early Music Festival on June 12.
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Word is out. Young professional musicians looking for an edge in their game or an extra nudge for their career have jumped at the chance to audition for the Berwick Academy, the intensive education-cum-performance institute that is part of the Oregon Bach Festival.
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