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Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and John Blow’s Venus and Adonis

“The highlight of the festival is the Summer Festival Opera, a double bill of two Baroque masterpieces, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and John Blow’s Venus and Adonis on 17 / 18 / 19 June in The Barber Institute of Fine Arts. With a twist to the production, these operas are set at the outbreak and close of the Second World War. Please see the opera press release attached for more details.
  

Just in case you missed it and you wished you had been able to attend, the Festival Embar(o)quement has put together an online photo album for all to view.
  

NewBEMF is a unique musical experience, held annually in the stunning seaside resort of St. Andrews, NB, just 60 minutes over the US border from coastal Maine.

NewBEMF, hosted by the St. Andrews Arts Council is also unique in its focus on combining college-level academic classes for credit through Millikin University (Decatur, IL) with pre-professional performing opportunities and significant community involvement.

List of upcoming concert from the New Brunswick Early Music Festival 2011:
  

“Never let it be said that early music is stuck in the past, whether it’s performing newly discovered old works or exploring new ways to present old favorites.
  

Festival Chants de Vielles  takes place amidst the autumn glory on September 9-10-11, 2011, in the lovely, country setting of Calixa-Lavallée, a quaint and historic Québec village. Every year, Chants de Vielles brings in a fresh and delicious musical harvest by providing a place for sharing and learning on a human scale.
  

“Take a sneak peak at dazzling performances by Amanda Forsythe and Philippe Jaroussky -- the stars of the Boston Early Music Festival’s upcoming North American premiere of Agostino Steffani's 1688 operatic masterpiece Niobe, Regina di Tebe in this new preview by BEMF videographer Kathy Wittman. 

I want to invite you to join us in Washington, DC from Monday June 27 through Saturday, July 2, 2011 for an exciting OHS Convention.
 

“Language and Music for Life was born in Spring 1997 and is committed to providing training in both music and foreign languages to students of all ages, with a lower age limit of 10 years old  for the main Summer course, from 3 to 10 years old for the Peter Pan Course and no upper age limit.
  

“Our 10th anniversary – something to celebrate with great fanfare.
Ten years of following all the musical currents surrounding the recorder.
  

It's almost time for the Fredericton Baroque Music Festival! In just a few days, Christ Church Cathedral will host three concerts of baroque music performed by local and international performers!
  

The Desert Pipes (Phoenix) and the Central Highlands (Prescott) ARS chapters invite our recorder friends near and far to join us for our annual summer workshop in the cool pines of Prescott, AZ.
  

NewBEMF is a unique musical experience, held annually in the stunning seaside resort of St. Andrews, NB, just 60 minutes over the US border from coastal Maine.
  

Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) Early Music Week III: On the Eloquent Mysterium

The School of Music, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and the Association Pro-Culture and Promotion of the Arts (APPA) will hold the “III Semana de Música Antiga da UFMG: do mysterium eloquente” workshop from 2 to 11 September 2011.
  

Home to the famous Jean de Boizard organ (1714) the Saint-Michel abbey has welcomed for the last several years, the most sought after artists of ancient music.
  

WOMEN IN MUSIC: SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA
Almería, Andalousia 7th - 9th October
Instruments: harpsichord, clavichord, piano (solo, chamber and ensemble)
  

An intensive week-long workshop in the principles of baroque style and performance practices and how they can be adapted to modern instruments.  (Singers are also welcome to apply.)
  

The Caecilia-Concert is pleased to announce the dates for our Summer Academy, to be held from 22-27 August 2011 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The course will run in collaboration with the Utrecht Festival for Early Music, Utrecht Music Conservatoire and the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague.
  

Baroque Opera Workshop
for Singers, String Players, and Continuo Players

The Institute for 17th Century Music at Queens College will offer a one-week, intensive training program in Baroque opera. 
  

Reminder from the Whitewater Early Music Festival, there is still time to register for Early Music Weekend at Whitewater, Wisconsin, USA.
 

Society for Early Music late-spring workshop: Players of recorders, viols, sackbuts, shawms, crumhorns, cornetti, etc.
are welcome.

Saturday, June 4, 2011, 9:00 - 4:00
Maryland Presbyterian Church, 1105 Providence Road, Towson, MD 21286

Artistic co-director and founding member of the Renaissance band Piffaro, Joan gave her full time to early music performance in 1980 after years as an early childhood educator.
  

This conference is intended as an international meeting of scholars and performers working in the field of keyboard studies, the first of its kind to be held in the United Kingdom.
 

Genova, Conservatorio di Musica “Niccolò Paganini”
21-23 October 2011

Call For Papers

The Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Italian Musicological Society will take place in Genova in collaboration with the Conservatorio di Musica “Niccolò Paganini” from 21 to 23 Oc­tober 2011. On October, 22 all members will gather for their annual meeting. Scholars from all over the world are invited to submit their paper proposals. Every topic in the field of
musicological studies is accepted.

Trafford Hall, Wimbolds Trafford Chester

This is our new home for Summer school this year. The venue is a grade 2 listed building near to Chester. The residential facilities are comfortable and we have plenty of easily accessible playing space for our regular singing, viol and recorder consorts. 
  

Tutored by: Rae Strong

Most people learn to play recorders pitched in C - usually the descant - but other members of the family, the treble, bass and tiny sopranino recorder, are pitched in F. Rae Strong’s accessible course will help you make the transition and have fun while you’re doing it. It will cover everything from basic note learning to ensemble playing, so that you’ll emerge from your stay at Benslow an altogether more versatile player. 

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The 2011 Greenwich International Early Music Festival and Exhibition 
11th -13th November 2011

We are pleased to announce the dates for this year's Greenwich International Early Music Festival and Exhibition, which celebrates its 10th anniversary at the Old Royal Naval College!