Edition 2024

Early Music Day takes place every year on 21 March, at the initiative of REMA. This celebration of more than a thousand years of music, through concerts and events taking place simultaneously around the world, is an opportunity for Europeans to (re)discover our musical heritage!

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LUX EX TENEBRIS

24/03/2024 20:00 CET

LUX EX TENEBRIS On-site

Delirivm Musica Spain
SMR de Cuenca Teatro-Auditorio de Cuenca, Teatro-Auditorio de Cuenca Paseo del Huécar s/n, 16001 Cuenca
Delirivm Musica offers us a monograph on Marc - Antoine Charpentier. A fascinating journey through five of his sacred compositions where light and shadow intervene representatively as an essential part of the music, the instrumentation, the interpretation and the text.
Musicians
Dessus [violin] Beatriz Amezúa 
Countertenor [violin] Marta Mayoral 
Bass [Flute] Juan Portilla 
Countertenor [Flute] Belén Nieto 
Violin waist Calia Álvarez 
Violin quintet María Barajas 
Bassoon bass Marta Calvo 
Violin bass Alberto Jara 
 
Bass Belén Vaquero 
Treble Lorea Agustí 
Low register Paloma Friedhoff 
[High counter Hugo Bolívar 
[Bass Andrea Rey 
[Height] Fran Braojos 
[Tall] Ariel Hernández 
[Low-cut] Manuel Quintana 
[Bass] Simón Millán
 
Organ and basso continuo Jorge López-Escribano (organ and harpsichord) / Juan Carlos de Mulder (archlute) 
 
Artistic Director Juan Portilla
Follie Barocche

21/03/2024 11:30 CET (21/03/2024 11:30 CET)

Follie Barocche On-site

Liceo Musicale Statale "Margherita di Savoia" - Napoli Italy
Salita Pontecorvo n.72, 80 135 Napoli
"Follie barocche is a musical journey on an anciet theme "la Follia", beautifully though for the european early music day. The music by J.S.Bach, A. Corelli, G.F.Haendel, A. Scarlatti, performed with our voices and on our musical instruments, recalls to original sounds and particular music languages, where past and present harmonize like in a cream to the original sounds.
Musicians
Nocerino Francesco, Amato Angela, Caiazza Ida, Greco Elisa, Borrelli Claudio
339. Bach-Geburtstag

21/03/2024 19:00 CET (21/03/2024 19:00 CET)

339. Bach-Geburtstag Online and On-site

Köthener BachGesellschaft mbH Germany
Kirche St. Agnus , Stiftstraße 11, 06366 Köthen (Anhalt)
On 21 March, the Köthen Bach Festival traditionally celebrates Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday with a concert in the Church of St. Agnus.

This year's Bach birthday will once again be characterised by the upcoming Bach Festival: the Austrian gambist Romina Lischka, who already took part in the Bach Festival in 2016 and 2020, is expected to perform. She combines interpretations of early music with Indian druphad singing - unique. In addition, three young musicians will be guests who are preparing an audiovisual performance for the Bach Festival as part of the BachLAB taking place at the same time.
Musicians
Lischka, Romina (Viola da gamba)
Uhde, Folkert (Moderation)
I Zefirelli

21/03/2024 12:00 GMT (21/03/2024 13:00 CET)

I Zefirelli Online

National Centre for Early Music United Kingdom
Walmgate, YO1 9TL York
Greensleeves

A set of dances from ‘The English Dancing Master’ A short film celebrating I Zefirelli’s residency in York, July 2023, as part of the EEEmerging+ programme.
Versailles Grand Bach Weekend - concert #7 "A Soli Bach Gloria"

17/03/2024 16:00 CET

Versailles Grand Bach Weekend - concert #7 "A Soli Bach Gloria" On-site

CRR de Versailles Grand Parc France
3 Place Élisabeth Brasseur, 78000 Versailles
Closing concert of the weekend. Programme: Motet Jesu meine Freude BWV 227, Fantasy and Fugue in G minor BWV 542 and Lutheran Mass in G minor BWV 235
Musicians
Soloists
DEM Vocal Ensemble
Baroque orchestra 
Solo organ
Visions of love

28/03/2024 21:30 CET

Visions of love On-site

Clermont Auvergne Opéra France
boulevard Desaix, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand
Poetry by Giovanni Boccaccio with music by Guillaume de Machaut and Georg Friedrich Haendel. It all begins on a Tuesday morning in Florence, near Santa Maria Novella, where ten young people united by friendship meet to discuss love.
Musicians
Bruno Bonhoure: musical writing, singing, psaltery
Khaï-Dong Luong: research, script writing 
Clémence Montagne: singing, 
Lucas Bedecarrax: singing 
Dalai Daansuren: singing, morin khurr, lute, percussion
Inès Trientz: organetto
Valentin Bruchon: flutes, string drum, bagpipes
Missa ad placitum: Claudin de Sermisy at the Sainte-Chapelle

21/03/2024 19:00 CET

Missa ad placitum: Claudin de Sermisy at the Sainte-Chapelle On-site

Centre des monuments nationaux France
Sainte-Chapelle de Paris, bd du Palais, 75004 Paris
At the beginning of the 16th century, the choir of the prestigious Sainte-Chapelle in Paris consisted of around twenty adult singers and, as was the ancient custom, six choirboys, trained by a master of music and a master of grammar. Polyphony was taught and a high level of excellence was required to compete with the princely chapels and choirs of European cathedrals. Among the many singers who succeeded one another at the Sainte-Chapelle du Palais were great musicians, some of whom left their mark on their era. These included Crispin de Stappen, Jean Conseil, Pierre Certon, and above all Claudin de Sermisy (c. 1490 - 1562), a cleric in 1508 and then canon of the Sainte-Chapelle from 1533, who also worked at the Chapelle Royale; his particularly prolific polyphonic works made him one of the most highly regarded composers of his time. He died of the plague in 1562, and was buried in the Lower Chapel. The Schola gave him a new voice, with one of his masses (Ad placitum) and several motets that blend in with the plainchant then in use at the Sainte-Chapelle.
Musicians
The Sainte-Chapelle Schola
Musical director and programme designer: Brigitte Lesne
Flutes & Frets

21/03/2024 16:00 GMT (21/03/2024 17:00 CET)

Flutes & Frets Online

National Centre for Early Music United Kingdom
Walmgate, YO1 9TL York
Dancing Through Time

As two of the most expressive artforms, music and dance have been intimately linked since the beginning of
time. To highlight this special link, Flutes & Frets present ‘Dancing Through Time’. Performing works on flutes and fretted instruments, Flutes & Frets showcase how music for dance has transformed over time, taking the audience on a short journey through dance music from the renaissance through to the late baroque.
Atys

26/03/2024 19:30 CET

Atys On-site

Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Ecurie | CMBV | Opéra d'Avignon | Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing France
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 15 Avenue Montaigne, 75008 Paris
On 21th March, we will celebrate Early Music Day with Atys by Lully. This big projet developped with CMBV aims at recreating the opera with the original cast (musicians, soloists, ballet). We will record it for Alpha between 19th and 22nd of March. Our last performance will be in Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on March 26th.
Musicians
Alexis Kossenko, conductor

Mathias Vidal, Atys
Véronique Gens, Cybèle
Sandrine Piau | Déborah Cachet, Sangaride
Tassis Christoyannis, Célénus
Hasnaa Bennani, Doris
Virginie Thomas, Flore, Une divinité de fontaine
Éléonore Pancrazi, Melpomène, Mélisse
David Witczak, Le Temps, un Songe funeste, Le Fleuve Sangar
Adrien Fournaison, Idas, Phobétor
Antonin Rondepierre, Un Zéphyr, Morphée, un Grand Dieu de fleuve
Carlos Porto, Le Sommeil, un Grand Dieu de fleuve
Marine Lafdal-Franc, Iris, une Divinité de fontaine
François-Olivier Jean, Phantase
Marie Baron, Un Petit Dieu de ruisseau
Henri de Montalembert, Un Petit Dieu de ruisseau
Inès Coirier Duet, Un Petit Dieu de ruisseau
Edouard Dumon, Un Petit Dieu de ruisseau
Maryna Plumet, Une Divinité de fontaine
Madeleine Prunel, Une Divinité de fontaine

Victor Duclos, choreographer
Pierre Daubigny​, lights

Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Écurie
Les Pages et les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (Fabien Armengaud, artistic director)
Ballet de l'Opéra Grand Avignon 
Holy Week Concert

21/03/2024 21:30 GMT (21/03/2024 22:30 CET)

Holy Week Concert On-site

Alexandre Andrade Portugal
Igreja da Misericórdia de Santa Maria da Feira, R. Dr. António Carlos Ferreira Soares, Santa maria da Feira, 4520-213 Santa Maria da Feira Santa Maria da Feira
Early Music Day is celebrated worldwide on March 21st, and the Iberian Ensemble is once again associated with this event. For this Holy Week Concert, and from an associated musicological perspective, we focused the program on this period, marked by introspection and recollection, where music was always a haven and an element present in the celebrations. Music forms the link between Man and God, thus inspiring composers and instrumentalists to follow this path. Starting from historically informed interpretation and using period instruments or copies of these instruments, the Iberian Ensemble presents works by prominent composers of the French Baroque period, such as M. R. Lalande, J. B. Boismortier, and M. Blavet. Highlighting the work Leçons de Ténèbres, IIIème Leçon du Mercredi Saint by M. R. Lalande, covered with great harmonic density and tension. By the french composer J. B. Boismortier we have the work Les Printemps alluding to Spring, written for soprano and ensemble, showing a balance between Lalande's work, showing greater melodic and harmonic clarity, opposing the Leçons de Ténèbres. From Blavet we will be able to hear Sonata nº 1, op. 2 for flute and continuo, as well as the Trio Sonata no. 2, op. 37 by Boismortier. Thus, the vocal works of Lalande and Boismortier, as well as the instrumental works, form this contemplative program, sharing the themes of Love and Passion, celebrating Early Music Day.
Musicians
Patrícia Pescadinha - sopran
Alexandre Andrade – baroque flute
Ivan Oliveira – theorbo and baroque guitar
David Cruz – baroque cello
Catarina Sousa - harpsichord
EARLY MUSIC DAY COPENHAGEN 2024

21/03/2024 18:00 CET

EARLY MUSIC DAY COPENHAGEN 2024 Online and On-site

Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival Denmark
KoncertKirken Blågårds Plads, Blågårds Plads 6A, 2200 Copenhagen
Three intimate concerts with medieval and renaissance music, presented live in KoncertKirken and streamed live on Facebook and Youtube.
Musicians
18.00: Falsobordone (SE)
Anna Rynefors - song, rebec, bagpipe, percussion 
Erik Ask-Upmark - song, harp, portative, bagpipe, flutes, citole
Bestiarium - animals and creatures in images and music
19.30: Musica Ficta & Bo Holten (DK)
Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame
21.00: Martin Vanberg, tenor & lute (SE)
Lute songs by Dowland a.o.
Ministers of Pastime

21/03/2024 20:00 GMT (21/03/2024 21:00 CET)

Ministers of Pastime Online

National Centre for Early Music United Kingdom
Walmgate, YO1 9TL York
Phantastic Kapellmeisters The music of 17th century Vienna

There are moments and places in history in which, despite the prevalence of political, military, and religious conflicts, an artistic movement arises and the 17th century court of the Hapsburgs in Vienna saw such a flourishing of culture known as ‘stylus phantasticus’.

Instrumental ensemble The Ministers of Pastime trace the history of this thrilling new style in the works of Schmelzer, Bertali and Valentini.

Sacred Spanish polyphonies

24/03/2024 16:00 CET

Sacred Spanish polyphonies On-site

A VOUS SANS AUTRE France
église St Sauveur, 35000 RENNES
A capella concert devoted to sacred Spanish polyphony. These rigorous, noble polyphonies from the Golden Age seem to be striving for an ideal of musical perfection through sobriety and even pared-down simplicity. They get straight to the point and impose themselves on us. They stretch out time, captivating our ears and capturing our hearts!
Musicians
Vocal ensemble A VOUS SANS AUTRE
All the wild animals in the green forest - 100th concert in the TITANS RISING concert series

21/03/2024 20:00 CET (21/03/2024 20:00 CET)

All the wild animals in the green forest - 100th concert in the TITANS RISING concert series Online

TITANS RISING Verein für Alte Musik Berlin e.V. Germany
Herbartstr. 4-6, 14057 Berlin
For Early Music Day 2024 we are broadcasting a livestream of our festive 100th concert from Nov. 12, 2023 with madrigals by J.H. Schein, dance music by Michael Praetorius, and other music by their contemporaries during the Thirty Years' War. 
Musicians
TITANS RISING Early Music Ensemble 
Victoria Wilson & Jess Rucinski, soprano 
Korneel Van Neste, alto 
Stephan Gähler, tenor 
Jakob Ahles, bass 
Amanda Markwick, Renaissance traverso flute  
Prisca Stalmarski, baroque violin  
Mirjam-Luise Münzel, recorder & viola da gamba  
Elisabeth Kaufhold, recorder & dulcian  
Nathaniel Wood, sackbut  
Jia Lim, organ & harpsichord  
Magnus Andersson, theorbo 
Michael Metzler, percussion 
O ZELO D'AMORE - La Passione di Cristo nelle opere modenesi di Bernardo Pasquini

21/03/2024 21:00 CET (21/03/2024 21:00 CET)

O ZELO D'AMORE - La Passione di Cristo nelle opere modenesi di Bernardo Pasquini On-site

I Madrigalisti Estensi APS - Arcidiocesi di Modena-Nonantola Italy
Duomo di Modena, Corso Duomo, 41121 Modena MO, 41121 Modena
The concert celebrates the Early Music Day and the Holy Week with the Cantata Hor ch'il ciel fra densi orrori and some arias from the Oratorio La Sete di Christo by Bernardo Pasquini, whose manuscripts are preserved at the Estense Library in Modena.
Musicians
I Madrigalisti Estensi
Alice Fraccari, soprano
Giacomo Pieracci, bass
Michele Gaddi, organ and conductor
The Glass Bead Game of diversity

21/03/2024 15:00 CET

The Glass Bead Game of diversity Online

(in)sight-reading enlightenment podcast Switzerland
Apple podcasts, Spotify and your favorite podcast platform, Music Academy Basel, 4051 Basel
Hello dear friends, this special Early Music Day podcast episode is dedicated to looking at some obscure and still unknown corners when we think of the terms "diversity" and "awareness" in the music business across the spectrum. We will talk to a great specialist, director of operations at Black Lives in Music, outlines how this organisation advocates for diversity in the classical music industry Roger Wilson.
Musicians
Darina Ablogina, host
Roger Wilson, guest
Echoes of the English Renaissance

21/03/2024 19:00 CET

Echoes of the English Renaissance On-site

Ensemble Jacques Moderne France
49 Boulevard Preuilly, 37000 Tours
To mark European Early Music Day, the Ensemble Jacques Moderne, with David Chevallier on theorbo and Anne Magouët on vocals, invites you to its first projection-concert. In the presence of Joël Suhubiette, discover on the big screen extracts from the film Hear the voice, shot in the magnificent Abbaye de Noirlac, in dialogue with live English melodies by Dowland, Purcell and many others. 
The evening will continue with a drink with the artists.
Musicians
Ensemble Jacques Moderne
Joël Suhubiette, Artistic Director of the Ensemble Jacques Moderne
David Chevallier, theorbo
Anne Magouët, vocals
Baroque Labyrinth

20/02/2024 19:00 CET

Baroque Labyrinth On-site

Anousha France
16 Rue de Vézelay, 75008 Paris
Concert Programme
"Baroque Labyrinth: Handel meets Maraghi"
John Dowland
- In darkness let me dwell
- Come heavy sleep
- Flow my tears
- Come again
- If my complaints could passions move
Georg Friedrich Haendel 
- Ombra mai fu
- Atr Thou Troubled? 
-Lascia ch'io pianga
Henry Purcell 
-Music for a While 
- Dido's lament
Barbara Strozzi 
-L'Eraclito amoroso 
- Amor dormiglione
Abd al Qadir Maraghi 
- Râst
- Nahâvand e- Kabir

Musicians
Artistes: Anousha Nazari (Mezzo soprano) & Antoine Morinière (Guitare)
Amadigi di Gaula - opera by G. F. Handel

19/03/2024 20:00 CET

Amadigi di Gaula - opera by G. F. Handel Online

Luxuria Europae Association Bulgaria
Luxuria Europae Association , NADEJDA 172, APT. 171 SOFIA
The Sofia Baroque Arts Festival realised the opera performance of Handel's Amadigi di Gaula. Partners were Sofia Opera and Ballet and the National Fund "Culture". This was the first in the history period instruments production at the stage of the Sofia Opera and the 2 performances, as well as one in adaptation for young audience have been very successful. The semi-staged performances included 3D mapping scenography, ballet.  

Musicians
Sofia Baroque Arts Festival Orchestra 
Zefira Valova leader 
Lucia Giraudo, Malina Mantcheva, Elena Ganova, Sofi Stambolieva, Gergana Deliyska violin 
Evgenia Bauer viola 
Ludovico Minasi, Thomas Chigioni cello 
Gabriela Tzvetanova double bass 
Aviad Gershoni, Konstantin Kozhuharov oboe 
Sabina Yordanova bassoon 
Antonio Faillaci trumpet 
Yavor Genov, Roberto Caravella lute 
Arianna Radaelli harpsichord 
Masha Ilieva ballet school 
 
Rafał Tomkiewicz Amadigi 
Rumyana Kostova Oriana 
Carlotta Colombo Melissa 
Margherita Maria Dardanus 
 
Tatyana Andonova choreographer 
Alisa Dzhoneva, Aleksandra Videnova, Bilyana Lozanova, Daria Lovrich, Elena Borea Kossenko, Niya Popova, Riana Milotinova Enchanted ladies and gentlemen 
 
Julia Krasteva stage director 
ElektricMe 3D mapping 
 
October 2023 
Production Sofia Baroque Arts Festival 
Shooting place Sofia Opera and Ballet 
 
Special thanks to the National Fund “Culture”, Sofia Municipality, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Sofia, Polish Institute
 

The Early Music Shop's Informal Recital Series – Matthew Brown, harpsichord

21/03/2024 12:00 GMT (21/03/2024 13:00 CET)

The Early Music Shop's Informal Recital Series – Matthew Brown, harpsichord On-site

The Early Music Shop United Kingdom
The Early Music Shop, Snape Maltings, The Early Music Shop, Snape Maltings, Bridge Road, IP17 1SP Snape, Saxmundham
A free, informal recital to mark Early Music Day, followed by refreshments

Music by D’Anglebert (Troisième Suite in D minor) and J S Bach (Partita No. 1 in B flat major)

British harpsichordist, early organist, and director Matthew Brown is in demand as a continuo player, recitalist, repetiteur, vocal coach and conductor across London and beyond. A graduate of the University of Bristol and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he has studied under various leading harpsichordists such as Carole Cerasi, James Johnstone, and Colin Booth, and gained high praise for his graduating recitals and research. 

His concert, opera and chamber music work has seen him collaborate with groups such as the Academy of Ancient Music, Genesis Sixteen, Cambridge Handel Opera Company, Ryedale Festival Opera, Istante Collective, Victoria Baroque Players, and Southern Sinfonia, under a variety of conductors including David Hill, Eamonn Dougan, Julian Perkins and Simon Chalk, and at number of major venues and festivals, such as Milton Court, Barbican Centre, London International Festival of Early Music, Deal Festival, Ryedale Festival, and performances on the Cobbe Collection of Keyboard Instruments at Hatchlands Park. In opera, he has coached and prepared singers in collaboration with Chris Hopkins, Julian Perkins, and Eamonn Dougan, and acted as rehearsal accompanist and continuo player on a variety of productions. He also coaches singers in historical repertoire, and his clients have recently found success at early singing competitions across Europe.

He is the founder and Artistic Director of The Queenes Chappell, a historically informed solo-voice consort, who are looking forward to a busy 2024 with many concerts, festival appearances, and collaborations with other ensembles. As a solo harpsichordist, he was the First Prize winner at the 2023 Lewis Memorial Prize competition, and has appeared across the UK and in Canada as a recitalist on the harpsichord and the organ. He combines his busy performing career with his work as Organist and Director of Music at St Mary’s Stoke D’Abernon, where he presides over the baroque Frobenius organ and a flourishing music department.

Musicians
Matthew Brown, harpsichord
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