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“Founded in 2011, the Festival de Música Antiga dels Pirineus is an Early Music festival held annually in July / August in the Catalan Pyrenées. The festival aims to combine Early Music with the beauty of the traditional Romanesque Art that characterizes the North of Catalonia. The concerts take place in small churches in several towns and villages in the Pyrenées. Visit the FeMAP’s website for more information on the location and dates of the concerts.“

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Added on: Feb 27, 2012 | Hits: 232

“For over 20 years, we have programmed the festival within the walls of the prestigious baroque churches of Tarentaise. The “ Festival Baroque de Tarentaise” is organised by the music and heritage association of Tarentaise.”

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Added on: Sep 30, 2011 | Hits: 233

“Arnstadt still features more original locations related to the Bach family than any other town. There is much to discover, experience, hear and marvel at. Treat yourself to a short holiday and visit the Bach-Festival 2012!

Did you know that there are 19 places in Arnstadt where the Bach family lived and worked? The tower of the castle ruin Neideck where Caspar Bach once lived with his wife and seven children; the Bachhouse where the young Johann Sebastian was regularly seen coming and going; the Bach Church where he held his first organ recital or the Church of Our Lady and the Upper Church where Heinrich Bach worked as an organist for 51 years.

And that's not all: 17 members of the Bach family were born in Arnstadt and at least 24 are buried in the historic graveyard. However, Arnstadt has a special position amongst all the places that pride themselves on being Bach towns.

To quote the author Hannelore Wallendorf: "Is it any wonder that the entire clan held here for their annual reunion?"  Even if there is no "annual reunion" nowadays, the annual Bach-Festival-Arnstadt revives the musical heritage of this family and is impressive in its versatility, charm and virtuosity! ”

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Added on: Feb 18, 2012 | Hits: 237

“Sligo Festival of Baroque Music began life in 1995 as Sligo Early Music Festival, conceived and implemented by Rod Alston and the Sligo Early Music Ensemble – which had been formed five years earlier.

Now in its sixteenth year, the festival aims to present high quality performance of baroque chamber music in a notably friendly and informal context. There is always a mix of performers, some with an enviable international reputation, others at some early stage of their careers. A feature of the festival has always been an attempt to foster the development of young performers – from the local youngsters who work under an experienced and renowned performer in the Baroque Youth Orchestra, to recently formed ensembles of young professionals or third level students.

Among those who have appeared at the festival are, sopranos, Emma Kirkby, Julia Gooding and Lenneke Ruiten; tenor John Elwes; baroque violinists Elizabeth Walfisch, Maya Homburger, Claire Duff and Walter Reiter; flautists Wilbert Hazelzet, Eleanor Dawson, Julia Knight; sopranos Julia Gooding; recorder players Laoise O’Brien, Aedin Halpin and Kate Hearne; viola da Gamba players, Sarah Cunningham, Reiko Ichesi, Sarah Groser; harpsichordists Malcolm Proud,  and Laurence Cummins, David Adams.”

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Added on: Feb 18, 2012 | Hits: 237

“The theme of the festival each year is not an end in itself, a self-imposed restriction to creating a programme, but more of a guiding light that lends a unique color to each edition of the event. “La Folia” is a venue that has made it is possible to encounter early music in all of its facets, a series of concerts over an extended Whitsunday weekend, each “an earful” in itself. The previous festivals offered tours of the great musical traditions in Europe, taking listeners to Flanders, Austria, Bohemia and even to… Switerland! …”

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Added on: Mar 24, 2012 | Hits: 238

Website for the international festival of early music of Xàtiva.

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Added on: Feb 26, 2012 | Hits: 240

Early music festival in the region of Knechtsteden

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Added on: Mar 01, 2012 | Hits: 241

International Baroque week.

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“It may take two to tango, but it took several to create a festival of Baroque music. It is perhaps rare that a collective vision should converge and be realised in a single event, but that is what happened, and that is what no doubt laid the foundations for its success.

 In 1984 Ivor Bolton and I were married in the Wren church of St. James's, Piccadilly, where he had been appointed Director of Music by the then rector, the Reverend Donald Reeves. Donald was a man with a vision: for him, St. James's was to be a centre for as many activities of a positive and creative kind as possible. A more than competent organist himself, he set out to enable music (among many other things) to happen in the church, and his energy and enthusiasm were matched by those of Ivor, not long graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, where he had been Organ Scholar. And, it could be said, it was in the formation of the St. James's Baroque Players to accompany Ivor's performances of Bach cantatas at Sunday services that the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music had its roots. The St. James's Baroque Players also performed in some of the concerts that formed part of the 1984 Piccadilly Festival, a wide-ranging arts events organised at the church; the following year the concerts were grouped under the title of the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music with Ivor as Musical Director.  …“

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Added on: Feb 19, 2011 | Hits: 254

“This is the facebook page of the "Festival delle Viole". We recommend to all lovers of classical music to come and visit our Festival of Viol in the beautiful medieval town of Gerfalco. “ …

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Added on: Oct 01, 2011 | Hits: 254

“The first Dance Symposium at New College took place on 21 April 1999 with Dance on the English Stage, and has become a yearly event. Each symposium is designed to explore different aspects of dance, with particular reference to its musical, theatrical, literary and social context during the long eighteenth-century. …”

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“The Baroque Festival dedicated to Leonardo Leo was born with its first edition in 1997 with the intention of recovering the historical memory and artistic master composer, born in San Vito of the Normans in 1694.

Since then the event has grown from year to year, calling him international artists and ensembles and a wide audience.”

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Added on: Feb 26, 2012 | Hits: 258

“Since its inception in 1997, the Biennial Conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain has established itself as one of the most significant musicological meetings in the academic calendar. In an area that has seen an upsurge in scholarly interest in the past two decades, it attracts established scholars and students alike from Europe, North America and Australia. Recent venues have included Leeds, Nottingham, Birmingham and Bristol; papers given at several of these conferences have later been published in collections of essays by Ashgate publishing, as part of their Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain series.“

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Added on: May 15, 2011 | Hits: 264

“The Festival concerts are held in August and early September. These events offer the opportunity to hear historically informed performances of early music on either original instruments or copies.  The antique beauty of the buildings in which they take place, a 12th-century church and the town's 17th-century church, enhance this experience. ..“

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Added on: Apr 17, 2010 | Hits: 265

“The Festival Armoniche Fantasie takes place every year between June and July at Mondovi and elsewhere in the province of Cuneo in Piedmont and the initiative of the Fondazione Academia Montis Regalis. The title of the event is inspired by the eponymous collection of vocal works that Giovanni Battista Bassani published in Venice in 1690, is aimed at vocal and instrumental repertoire from the XVIII century, expressed in a manner with the use of historical instruments. …”

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Added on: Apr 24, 2011 | Hits: 277

“The Attingham Trust offers a special insight into one of Britain's greatest contributions to Western art: the country house, together with its collections and landscape setting, as well as the development of the royal palace in England.

Founded in 1952 as The Attingham Summer School Trust and named after the great neoclassical house in Shropshire at which the Summer School was first held, The Attingham Trust has built and sustained an international reputation for academic excellence. This development has been encouraged by the American Friends of the Attingham Trust, established in New York in 1962.

Three residential summer programmes are organised by the Trust each year:

• The Attingham Trust Attingham Study Programme
• The Attingham Trust Attingham Summer School
• The Attingham Trust Royal Collection Studies
  

From a large number of applicants from many countries, participants are chosen who have an architectural, historical, conservationist or academic background, or a close involvement with the fine and decorative arts.

Today many Attingham alumni are among the staff of museums, galleries, universities, heritage bodies, design practices, and conservation programmes throughout the world.

Scholarship assistance is available for qualified candidates.”

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“The International Heinrich Schütz Society, founded in 1930 as New Schütz-Gesellschaft by Hans Joachim Moser, Fritz Schmidt, Karl Vötterle and others, has its headquarters in Kassel, the first home of the composer.

Since 1954, numerous sections in other European and non-European countries.

The members of the International Heinrich Schütz Society Music lovers are not only musicians but also music researchers, theologians, journalists and church musicians as well as musicological institutes, libraries, government agencies and companies.

The International Heinrich Schütz Society regularly organizes smaller Heinrich-Schütz-day or larger-scale Heinrich Schütz festivals with different themes. Such meetings serve not only the intensive care and practical scientific penetration of Schütz's music, but also give members the opportunity for mutual exchange of ideas and to deepen existing and establish new contacts.”

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Visit the North West Early Music Forum website for more information on the location and dates of venues. (ed.)

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Bach Festival in Combrailles. 

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Stockstädter Musiktage (Stocktadt Exhibition/Festival). One of the largest recorder festival/exhibition in Europe.

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Added on: Jun 29, 2010 | Hits: 298

"The International EARLYMUSIC Festival, established in St Petersburg in 1998, is now recognised as one of Russia’s leading musical forums. The Festival takes places annually in September-October and presents the musical legacy of the Middle-Ages, Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras to audiences in St Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, Ekaterinburg and Novosibirsk, performed by world-renowned ensembles and soloists.

Thanks to the Festival, Russian audiences have been able to hear ‘live’ such musical legends as: Il Giardino Armonico (Italy); Fretwork (UK); Jordi Savall & Hesperion XXI (Spain); Trio Sonnerie (UK); Freiburgbarockorchester (Germany); Akademie fuer Alte Musik Berlin (Germany); Oltremontano (Netherlands); Le Poeme Harmonique (France); L’Arpeggiata (France); Mala Punica (Italy); Il Fondamento (Belgium); Gerard Lesne & Il Seminario Musicale (France); Ensemble William Byrd (France); Orchestre Baroque de Limoges (France); Les Basses Reunies (France); Gustav Leonhardt (Netherlands); Michael Chance (UK); Paul O’Dette (USA); Andrew Manze (UK; Richard Egarr (UK); Emma Kirkby (UK); Christophe Coin (France); Bruno Cocset (France); Alla Francesca (France); Micrologus (Italy); and many others.

The Festival also offers a series of public master-classes and lectures on the cultural context of the music, given by leading specialists in this field. ... "

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"The summer school offers exciting and diverse opportunities for young players under the guidance of experienced tutors. Playing opportunities include chamber groups, large ensembles, viol consorts, recorder consorts and mixed ensembles, catering for every age and ability (grades 2 – 4, 5 – 7 and 8+).

More advanced players will play in small chamber groups and consorts, tackling challenging repertoire and developing the all important skills of a chamber musician. Cellists and keyboard players (playing harpsichord) will have plenty of continuo playing experience in trio sonata groups with the most advanced recorder and viol players.

Less experienced players will enjoy the variety of different ensembles, playing both within larger groups and also being encouraged to play chamber music.

There will be plenty of time for recreational activities, making full use of the facilities available to us. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Apr 15, 2008 | Hits: 304

Bach Festival in Leipzig. 

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Added on: Jun 20, 2010 | Hits: 305

Festival of the Seven Roses of Saint Quirin. Visit website for more details. (ed.)

Added on: Apr 22, 2009 | Hits: 310

Visit website for more information on the Early Music Workshop dates and events. (ed.)

Added on: Jul 28, 2009 | Hits: 311