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"Early Music West Midlands is a consortium of promoters and performers committed to supporting and advocating medieval, baroque and early classical music, particularly through historically authentic performance.

EMWM produces a regular diary of events with details of performances and workshops throughout the region. We also offer advice and support to local music promoters and work to increase audiences for early music, through our mailing list promotions, and presenting performances at events such as ArtsFest in Birmingham. We are also working on education projects to introduce children and young people to early music. " ...

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" The American Bach Society was founded in 1972 to support the study, performance, and appreciation of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in the United States and Canada.

The ABS produces Bach Notes and other publications, sponsors a biennial meeting and conference, and offers grants and prizes for research on Bach." See the website for more information. (ed.)

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"The Nuove Settimane Barocche was founded in 2003 by Emanuele Beschi and Francesco Lattuada. The main purpose is the dissemination of music, arts and culture through events of various kinds: concerts, conferences, lectures concert, workshops musical high refinement, recordings and publications specialized companies. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"The training centre musical called Academy of Ancient Music "San Patrignano" is situated on the hill of Collecorvino (Pescara) and takes its name from the Benedictine monastery.

The intent is the study of scores of unpublished, research and preservation of Musical Heritage Abruzzese. In fact, the Academy of San Patrignano collaborates with important realities of the music scene regional and national levels: "Ensemble'900 'Trails Armonici (Bari), Collegium Pro Musica di Genova, Collegium Musicum Alpazur (Ventimiglia) Musica Viva (Verona) Dramsam ( Gorizia)…

The Academy is a center of arts, are organized Stages summer exhibitions of painting and sculpture, Festival of ancient music and contemporary music, courses, conferences and more ... " (Google translation) Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“The Over the Water Hurdy-Gurdy Association (OTW for short) is a group of hurdy-gurdy players, builders, and aficionados based mostly in Western Washington (USA). We put on French music jams and dances in the Seattle area (with live hurdy-gurdy music, of course) and an annual hurdy-gurdy festival and Saturday dance on the Olympic Peninsula. ..“

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"The objective of Nocturna is to disseminate and to taste "The Idea of the Middle Ages" with its values and its problems, through the reconstruction of atmospheres and glimpses of our past.

The Company consists of a dozen components with clothes of the XII - XIII century. In recent years the Group has participated with increasing success to many expressions of historical reconstruction, both in Italy and abroad : ceremonies and festivals are the main contexts in which the group operates, collaborating with public bodies, associations and individuals. ... " (Google translation) Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“The Netherlands Bach Society owes its existence and fame to the performances of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion which it has given since 1922, in the Grote Kerk, Naarden. These performances are greatly beloved by the Dutch public, and they attract a yearly audience of more than 12,000.

The present-day Netherlands Bach Society consists of a group of professional singers and instrumentalists who are specialized in the performance practice of 17th and 18th century repertoire. The artistic director, and chief conductor of The Netherlands Bach Society, is Jos van Veldhoven. ..“

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"THE LUTE SOCIETY, founded in 1956, exists to promote the lute and its music. Even if you can't make it to our meetings and recitals in London, joining the Lute Society is an excellent way of building up your music library, and of keeping in touch with news in the Lute world. We are happy to retail our publications to non-members. The Society currently has around 730 members (2006, May). " See website for more information. (ed.)

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"This chapter of the Viola da Gamba Society of America (VdGSA ) is based in sunny Tucson, AZ. It was incorporated as a non-profit and tax-exempt [501 (c) 3] organization in October 2001. It pursues the same goal as its parent organization, i.e. the enjoyment of playing the viola da gamba, a musical instrument of the Renaissance period. To facilitate this goal, the VdGS - Southern AZ will conduct monthly meetings during the school season and it will organize an annual workshop." Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Southern California Baroque Association was established 1986 to foster performances of early music on period instruments. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"FIMA - Italian Foundation for Early Music - formerly known as SIFD (Italian Recorder Society, founded in 1971 by Giancarlo Rostirolla) - is a non-profit organization based in Rome.

FIMA runs every year in Urbino an International Course of Early Music, an Early Music Festival and a Trade Exhibition for instruments makers. FIMA publishes an annual journal called RECERCARE and maintains a specialized library."
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"It is due to the vision of its founder, the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, that the Royal College of Music owns a celebrated instrument collection as well as manuscripts, rare printed music and portraits of musicians. As he stated in his inaugural speech on 28 February 1882: ‘A school giving the best instruction … is but a branch of what I desire to found. I wish to establish an institution having a wider basis and a more extended influence than any existing school or college of music in this country ... It will be to England what the Berlin Conservatoire is to Germany, what the Paris Conservatoire is to France, or the Vienna Conservatoire to Austria–the recognised centre and head of the musical world.’ " ...

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"Designed to highlight the opening events of New York City artists and presenters specializing in historically informed performance (aka 'early music"), Celebration '07 will encompass a six week period in the fall, a veritable cornucopia of activity spanning the gamut from medieval to classical repertoire, performed by individual artists to baroque orchestras, in chamber concerts to symposia, including professional, recreational and educational events. " ...

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“In 1994 the “Fondazione Academia Montis Regalis Onlus” in Mondovì initiated training “Corsi di Formazione Orchestrale Barocca e Classica” (courses for a baroque and classical orchestra), with the aim to offer to young talented musicians, both Italian and foreign, the possibility to do an experience, unique in its kind in Italy, in the field of 17th and 18th century repertory, expressed according to the historical criteria and performed on historical instruments.

From this enterprise was born the Academia Montis Regalis’s orchestra which has been conducted by the most important international specialists in the field of ancient music, and has taken part in a lot of important concerts and Italian and European Festivals since then.
Thanks to the numerous concerts and the flourishing discography in the last years, the orchestra has become a professional activity and not only the result of the Academia’s courses.

As these courses are always an important aim for the foundation, it has decided to continue the formative experience for the young musicians making up a second orchestra: “I Giovani della Montis Regalis”. They who obtain a scholarship take part in five cycles of lessons which are given by teachers of international fame.
The Academia has an excellent replacement of elements for its professional orchestra: in fact, at the end of the five cycles of lessons, the best of these young musicians becomes part of the professional orchestra.

The Academia Montis Regalis also performs with smaller ensembles without a director, having acquired the "Astrée" ensemble, a prestigious instrumental group that represents the chamber version of the Orchestra.

The Fondazione Academia Montis Regalis Onlus organises “Armoniche Fantasie”, an important festival of 17th and 18th century music that has come to its 11th edition in this year.”

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“Created in fall 1998 to manage the Bach Festival in Combrailles and complete the construction of a pipe organ, the association is governed under the law of 1901 and is headquartered in Pontaumur (Puy de Dome) in the heart of Combrailles. ..“

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“The Associazione Hendel* is a non-profit organization that seeks to combine musicological thinking with practical performance projects of Handel's music. We are presently supporting an ambitious recording and performance project by the Italian orchestra La Risonanza to perform and record all of Handel's cantate con strumenti (i.e. the cantatas accompanied by continuo and additional instruments) dating from the composer's time working across Italy. In co-operation with the Spanish early music label Glossa, we aim to complete the project before the end of 2009, the 250th anniversary of Handel's death. Such a project has never been envisaged before, and has so far been met with enormous critical success. ..“

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"The Association Alessandro Scarlatti was founded in 1919, with the aim of making known the ancient Italian music, which at that time was facing a genuine revival, by the most sensitive part of culture, music or not. Indeed, one of the founders of Scarlatti were not only musicians as Emilia Gubitosi, later joined by Franco Michele Napolitano and Vincenzo Vitale, or as John Tebaldini, but also writers like Salvatore Di Giacomo and people of culture as Maria De Sanna. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"The Society was formed in October 1946 for the publication of original research into the history, construction, development and use of musical instruments. Its name commemorates the pioneer work of Canon Francis W. Galpin (1858-1945) who had spent a lifetime in the practical study of old instruments, in collecting them and recording their history.

The Founder Members, whose number shall at no time be added to or taken away from, were Anthony C. Baines, Philip A.T. Bate, Robert Donington, Hugh Gough, Eric Halfpenny, Edgar Hunt, E. Marshall Johnson, Lyndesay G. Langwill, R. Morley-Pegge, F. Geoffrey Rendall and Maurice Vincent.

The first President of the Society was Professor J.A. Westrup, with the following as Vice-Presidents: Mrs Arnold Dolmetsch, Dr Rosamund E.M. Harding, Walter F.H. Blandford, Adam Carse and Christopher J. Galpin.

While the initial focus was on European instruments, the need to encompass `musical instruments of all kinds was soon recognised. The Galpin Society has succeeded over the years in catering for an ever-widening range of interests within the fold of organology, as well as stimulating inter-disciplinary collaboration and the fruitful exchange of ideas. Moreover, the geographical coverage of the Society's membership list has kept on spreading: no fewer than thirty-nine countries are now represented. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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"The Association Early Music Italy, with headquarters in Lissone, in Brianza, in Rome (City Hall XII) and active throughout the country, was born in 2002 with broad purpose of spreading the music and "classic" instruments through the seasons concert, internships, publications and other companies. ... " (Google translation, ed.) Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“The American Beethoven Society is an international organization of individuals devoted to the study and appreciation of Beethoven's life, music, and influence on culture and society to the present day. …“

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"The Medieval Music & Arts Foundation is a non-profit public benefit corporation organized in order to nourish understanding of medieval music and related subjects. The focus of the Foundation is on the general public, and its intended niche is that between the truly academic scholarly publications and the more money-oriented commercial concerns. We hope to adopt a restrained dignity in our endeavors, without indulging in hype and without being exclusionary. " ...

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"The American Musical Instrument Society is an international organization founded in 1971 to promote better understanding of all aspects of the history, design, construction, restoration, and usage of musical instruments in all cultures and from all periods.

The membership of AMIS includes collectors, historians, curators, performers, instrument makers, restorers, dealers, conservators, teachers, students, and many institutional members. All individual members have full voting rights and, with the exception of spouse members, receive the Society's publications. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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"SSCM is dedicated to the study and performance of seventeenth-century music and related arts. The Society currently includes more than 280 members and over one hundred additional international subscribers to its electronic newslist SSCM-L. Members receive a semi-annual newsletter, 17th-CENTURY MUSIC. The Society also publishes the on-line, peer-reviewed scholarly Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music; JSCM Instrumenta, an on-line reference series; and the Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music (WLSCM), an on-line collection of performing and study scores in scholarly editions. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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"The Foundation for the Revival of Early Music is the principal promoter of pre-19th century music in the Russian Federation. The Foundation’s flagship project is the International EARLYMUSIC Festival, founded in 1998, and which takes place every September in St Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and other cities of Russian Federation. Festival concerts present the musical legacy of the Middle-Ages, Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras. The Foundation stages early music throughout the year, and has over the past eight years presented to Russian audiences most leading European orchestras, ensembles, and soloists in the field of early music.

In 2001, the Foundation created the Catherine the Great Orchestra, Russia’s first professional baroque orchestra, which tours regularly in Russia and abroad. We promote the development and professional training of young musicians in authentic performance through regular master-classes and lectures in collaboration with the Moscow and St Petersburg State Conservatoires.

The Foundation carries out extensive research in Russian archives with the aim of bringing to light and restoring to its legitimate place Russia’s 18th century musical legacy. Our publishing programmes include facsimile editions of music from these archives, as well as translations of key European musical treatises. In 2003, the Foundation was co-producer with the Utrecht Oude Muziek Festival of a fully staged production of Giovanni Paisiello’s classical opera ‘I Filosofi Immaginari’, composed for Catherine the Great in 1776. The opera was performed in Utrecht and at the Hermitage Theatre as part of the official 300th anniversary celebrations of St Petersburg.

Since 2006 the Foundation is a member of the European Early Music Network REMA (Réseau Européen de Musique Ancienne), which brings together the representatives of the most important early music festivals and centers in Europe. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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The Stichting Blokfluit (Recorder Foundation) is a non-profit organisation which aims to stimulate and promote the recorder's repertoire in every possible field by making it worldwide accessible for the public.

One of the foundation's most important activities is the publication on the net of two comprehensive catalogues, the Catalogue of Contemporary Blockflute Music (CCBM) and the Catalogue of Historical Recorder Repertoire (CHRR). ..

The CCBM is an idea of Walter van Hauwe, founder of the Stichting Blokfluit. When he started this project, around 1988, he had about 400 titles of original recorder music written after the year 1900, while he estimated another 300 works still undiscovered. Now, 20 years later, more than 5000 titles can be found in the CCBM, presumably 95% of the world-wide total. ..“ Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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