Academia de Música Antigua de Medellín is one of a few schools in Latin America that teaches historical performance. In a brilliant partnership, the inaugural Latin American Congress on Baroque Luthiery will help supply the Academia with a range of stringed instruments. #earlymusic #baroquemusic
Ruckus describes itself as a 'continuo band,' and for its latest album the adventurous ensemble is backing fiddler Keir GoGwilt in a collection of wild, romping tunes by Niel Gow (1727-1807), a legend in the Scottish tradition. #earlymusic
Beethoven was commissioned to transcribe the solo part of his beloved Violin Concerto for keyboard, rarely heard today. Canadian fortepianist Anders Muskens and a top period-instrument band give it a rousing go—brisk and flexible, imaginative and insightful.
"This opens up a whole new world of listening," Apple said in their press release. "Tired of the same old Mahler 5? Experience it like new through Werckmeister 3. Lady Gaga's "Abracadabra" getting stale? At the touch of the button you now have pure 5ths and wider 3rds."
Yesterday's release of firmware update 7E93 for AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 included an unexpected feature. Using AI-enhanced technology and Apple's proprietary noise-cancelling software, AirPod owners can now select the specific temperament in which they would like to experience the world.
In this beautifully paced recital, Baroque oboist Debra Nagy and harpsichordist Mark Edwards create an equal partnership and explore familiar music by J.S. Bach and François Couperin, often in delightful arrangements.
In appointing Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière to lead its prestigious dance activities, Boston Early Music Festival has picked a multidisciplinary choreographer, dancer, actor, and musician. She has been 'an invaluable collaborator for many years and is at the top of her field.'
EMA offers any student a one-time free membership at any time during their course of study. From access to our magazine EMAg, scholarship opportunities, the Naxos Music Library, and more, membership includes many benefits for students in the field of early music.
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EMA invites nominations for the 2025 Annual Awards for outstanding achievement and leadership in early music and historical performance practice. Recipients will be honored at the 2025 EMA Summit in Montréal in October.
Learn more about the awards and submit nominations by May 12
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Creative artists in #earlymusic are hoping to attract new fans by breaking from the status quo, with soap-bubble sets for Vivaldi and Bach in spoken English. Historically informed? 'It’s historically inspired, which is maybe more important.'
You might have come across the composer, singer, and harpsichordist, Elisabetta de Gambarini (1731-1765) from music history books, but until now there's not been significant recordings of her work. Pianist Margherita Toretta has brought together all Gambarini's known keyboard pieces on one disc.
Dedicated to research toward performances of French Baroque repertoire, Le Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles encourages American musicians and scholars to travel to Paris for research or to hone their skills. Its resources are likely unmatched in the early-music world. #earlymusic
The deadline for EMA's 2025 Workshop Scholarships is next Friday, March 14! These scholarships provide up to $1,500 in support for attendance at early-music and historical performance workshops throughout North America.
#earlymusic #earlymusicmonth
In early 18th-c. Britain, a competition to help promote opera in English led to a surprise winner. John Weldon's 'The Judgment of Paris,' recorded for the first time by the Academy of Ancient Music, boasts colorful orchestration, clever choral writing, and rapturous music.
Ensembles are connecting w/ audiences not just as passive-listening concert-goers but as participants in making music. Give a performance of Renaissance polyphony, but also teach local amateurs how to sing it themselves. 'They will hear it as never before - from within the ensemble.'
Proposals for presentations at the 2025 EMA Summit in Montréal (Oct. 16-18) are being accepting through March 28. Presentations should highlight topics of interest for the North and South American early-music and historical performance communities.
#earlymusic #2025EMASummit #earlymusicmonth
The Barabara Thornton Memorial Scholarship provides $4,000 for advanced study or auditions in Europe for an outstanding, highly motivated, and possibly unconventional young performer of medieval music.
#earlymusic #scholarships #medievalmusic
The Margriet Tindemans Early Strings Scholarship provides up to $25,000 in support of specialized, advanced study outside North America that focuses on some aspect of Medieval, Renaissance, or Baroque bowed stringed instruments.
Application deadline this Friday, March 7!
#earlymusic #scholarship
Where's the boundary between 'folk' and 'art' when it comes to early music? Does it matter? Joyously muddled, The Curious Bards' latest recording, ‘Sublimation,’ is a 'trad' album with early-music nuance, an early-music album with folk energy.
Read the review and listen to the recording. 👇
#Earlymusic brings us together, since exploring long forgotten or ignored repertoire requires communities of knowledge and of specialized practice. The late soprano Deborah Roberts took this ideal to the highest level, connecting amateurs and professionals on both sides of the Atlantic.
The #earlymusic movement is at an artistic crossroads and the field seems to be pushed and pulled in many directions. In 'Music in the 21st Century,' an array of authors dissect the recent past and consider the future for historical performance.
Current #earlymusic opportunities:
Université Laval: Tenure-Track Position, Music Performance, Early Music
Les Délices: Artist Educator AND Box Office & Community Engagement Coordinator
Emmanuel Music: Executive Director
Florida State University: Postdoctoral Scholar in Musicology/Early Music
Soprano Michele Kennedy writes about two profoundly moving experiences in her musical life. 'For aspiring young musicians, seeing their own image reflected back from the stage can be life-altering.' And, as an artist, so can 'being that example for others to see...'
In this imaginative and deeply satisfying new recording, the French period-instrument quartet named Nevermind finds the chamber music in Bach's Goldberg Variations. Surprisingly, harpsichordist Jean Rondeau and his three colleagues find truths in the music that are beyond the reach of the original.
If you know anything about Southern Oregon, it might be Crater Lake or the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. But the Jefferson Baroque Orchestra has been going steadily for three decades. Under new leadership, the ensemble is aiming to become one of the leading period instrument groups on the West Coast.
Find the festival, workshop, or competition that's right for you!
#earlymusic #workshops #festivals #competitions
March is also #earlymusicmonth!
The original voice of Johann Friedrich Fasch is finally reaching today's listeners, thanks to Tempesta di Mare. The ensemble's latest recording offers modern-day premieres of Fasch's playful, bouncy, and dramatic music. Our reviewer writes: 'I find it impossible to tire of this joyous journey.'
He was born into slavery, described as a fiddler when he tried to escape, and was emancipated in his mid-20s. Sawney Freeman's Musician's Pocket Companion may be the earliest published music by a Black composer in the United States.
#earlymusic #blackhistorymonth
Thanks to a generous donation, we have increased the number of awards available and raised the maximum award amount to $2,500. EMA has decided to expand the impact of these awards by opening applications to the entire early-music community, both EMA members and non-members.
