Upcoming events
BLEMF 2024: Early Music in Exile
Watch this space for more details!
Call for Proposals here: https://blemf.org/cfp2024
Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra: Haydn & Stamitz
Barthold Kuijken, Artistic Director
Joseph Haydn became very famous from the mid-1760s onwards, but seems to have had less lasting effect on posterity as only his later symphonies are frequently played. In this program, the IBO rights this unfortunate wrong, letting the audience discover classical music that is all too seldom heard: two of Haydn’s lesser-known symphonies, as well as one of the best 18th century flute concertos, written by Carl Stamitz.
For tickets and more, visit the IBO website.
Bloomington Bach Cantata Project: "Jesu, der du meine Seele" BWV 78
Free concert
This concert is directed by Sergey Tkachenko.
Join the Bloomington Bach Cantata Project for the fifth performance of their 14th season! Cantata 78–with its spectacular opening and beloved soprano-alto vocal duet—is one of the very favorites in the repertoire. Between performances, BBCP director Daniel R. Melamed will be joined by his longtime partner in crime & scholarship, Michael Marissen, for a lively dialogue exploring salvation, blood, and leprosy.
TENET Vocal Artists: Forces of Nature - Exploring Stories of Iconic Women
This is a virtual concert.
Guest director, curator, composer Shira Kammen joins TENET Vocal Artists to guide us in telling a collection of stories about iconic women through medieval music. Forces of Nature is a deep dive into the stories of historical figures in celebration of mythical goddesses. It re-examines female archetypes through the poetry of Christine de Pizan, the original Carmina Burana, and the voices of the ancient sibyls. TENET's program includes music by Binchois, Jacopo da Bologna, and Hildegard von Bingen, among others.
For more details, visit the TENET website.
Forgotten Clefs: Ferrara's Musical Feast
Free Concert
Join Forgotten Clefs for a performance in downtown Bloomington! Bloomington’s favorite Renaissance wind band welcomes you to a musical feast, preceded by prayer and reflection from Corpus Domini and San Vito convents with music by nuns Leonora d’Este and Raffaela Aleotti. Shawm and sackbuts serve up the main course, celebrating 300 years of Estensi rule in the Duchy of Ferrara. We hope to see you there!
For more information, visit the Forgotten Clefs website.
Music & Dance of the Renaissance: A workshop for kids ages 8-12
Miyo Aoki & Erica Rubis, Instructors
Discover the lively instrumental music of the Renaissance in this one-day introductory workshop for kids, taught by Jacobs Academy teachers Erica Rubis and Miyo Aoki. Participants can choose to play recorder (both beginners and experienced recorder students welcome) or viola da gamba (some experience with string instruments required). Instruments will be provided, but kids who have recorders already are welcome to bring them.
Both recorder and viola da gamba are accessible and engaging for young students, whether as a secondary or primary instrument, and they lend themselves well to playing in a group. The whole group also gets to try out some Renaissance social dances, based on simple walking steps that participants can quickly master. No dance experience needed!
Co-presented by Jacobs Academy and Seattle Historical Arts for Kids, recipient of a 2023 Early Music America Engagement Award.
Learn more and register here!
Bloomington Bach Cantata Project: "Ein ungefärbt Gemüte" BWV 24
This concert is directed by Kathryn Davidson.
Join the BBCP for the first program of 2024 in the 13th season of this beloved Bloomington baroque tradition. The third work written by the newly-arrived Cantor of the Thomasschule at St. Thomas's Church in Leipzig almost exactly 300 years ago this month, "Ein ungefärbt Gemüte" BWV 24, offers a thrillingly robust instrumentation of trumpet, oboes, and oboes d'amore, and instilled a hearty lesson on the Golden Rule to churchgoers. In between performances, hear BBCP Director Daniel R. Melamed discuss how this lesson was taught through the music and text of the work, and how those churchgoers understood it at the time.
For more information, visit the BBCP’s Facebook page.
Incantare & Alchymy Viols: Abenmusik
Free Concert
In their highly anticipated second collaboration, Alchymy Viols and Incantare present a new program of music for the Christmas season. Music of Schein, Lambert de Sayve, a set from the New World, and more!
Learn more on the Incantare website.
Bloomington Chamber Singers: Messiah Sing
Free Concert
Come sing along, or come and listen, with the Bloomington Chamber Singers and full orchestra at the annual Messiah Sing – the decades-long BCS sing-along tradition is back! In this free and fun afternoon concert, the choir will present Part I of the Messiah—well known as the Advent or Christmas portion—and will follow up next spring with Parts II and III. Bring your own score, though we will have some copies to borrow. This famous and joyful oratorio, composed by George Frideric Handel in 1741, has been a holiday favorite for nearly three centuries—isn’t it time you joined in?
Learn more on the BCS website.
Echoing Air: A Season of Festive Cheer
Free Concert
Echoing Air is a chamber ensemble dedicated to exploring and presenting music of many European countries spanning from Medieval times to the present. Come enjoy the ensemble's singers & Baroque instruments for their annual holiday program, A Season of Festive Cheer!
Learn more on the Echoing Air website.
The Newberry Consort: A Latin American Christmas
Dec 15th, 7:30PM - St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 939 Hinman Ave, Evanston
Dec 16th, 2:00PM - Mother of the Americas Catholic Church, 2226 S Whipple Street, Chicago
Dec 17th, 4:00PM - St. Mary of the Lake Catholic Church, 4220 N Sheridan Road, Chicago
Salomé Sandoval, Co-Director
Join the Newberry Consort for a program of sacred and secular music from Mexico to Peru, Spain, Guatemala, and the indigenous cultures of the Americas! The framework of the program is a funny and entertaining nativity égloga—a very short rustic Christmas drama written in the 15th century— interspersed with spirited dances, sonorous motets, and festive villancicos spanning from the 15th through 18th centuries. The program will feature traditional percussion and plucked instruments from the Iberian Peninsula and the New World, as well as a consort of wind instrumentalists and a vocal ensemble. Pre-concert panel discussions will take place 1 hour before each scheduled performance.
Learn more on the Newberry Consort website.
HODIE! Holiday Revelry in the Late Renaissance
This concert is directed by Dana Marsh and Joanna Blendulf.
Free Concert
Bloomington Early Music, in association with musicians of the IU Historical Performance Institute presents HODIE! - Holiday Revelry in the Late Renaissance. Experience an ensemble of voices, viols, cornetto, sackbut, organ, and percussion playing music of Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz.
For more information, visit the HPI Facebook Page.
Bloomington Bach Cantata Project: TBA
This concert is directed by Caio Guimarães F. Lopes.
The Bloomington Bach Cantata Project is pleased to present its 2023-24 season, six concerts of cantatas by J. S. Bach presented in performances modeled on his own. All are on Sundays at 2.30PM at St. Thomas Lutheran Church in Bloomington, IN.
For more information, visit the BBCP Facebook page.
Bloomington Bach Cantata Project: "Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns halt" BWV 178
This concert is directed by Sarah Cranor.
The Bloomington Bach Cantata Project is pleased to present its 2023-24 season, six concerts of cantatas by J. S. Bach presented in performances modeled on his own. All are on Sundays at 2.30PM at St. Thomas Lutheran Church in Bloomington, IN.
For more information, visit the BBCP Facebook page.
IU Baroque Orchestra
Directed by Ingrid Matthews.
Join the Indiana University JSoM Historical Performance Institute’s Baroque Orchestra for their first performance of the school year, featuring the music of Christoph Graupner, Georg Philip Telemann, W.F. Bach, Johann Adolph Hasse, and C.P.E. Bach.
Concentus: Byrdfest II
Directed by Joanna Blendulf.
Join the Indiana University Historical Performance Institute’s Concentus Ensemble for a second installment of “Byrdfest,” commemorating the 400th anniversary of English composer William Byrd’s death. The concert will feature voices, viols, sackbut, cornetto, and lute - performing fantasies, consort songs, anthems, and Latin motets including Ne irascaris and Miserere mei Deus.
Newberry Consort: In the Castle of the Moon
The Newberry Consort opens its 37th season with the delightful music of Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Described by her teacher Heinrich Schütz as “the incomparably perfect princess in all other princely virtues, especially in the praiseworthy profession of music,” Sophie Elisabeth (1613-1676) was a composer, poet, translator, arts patron, and impresario who transformed Lower Saxony into a thriving center for music and the humanities. Her musical talents and patronage made her famous during her lifetime and influenced early Baroque music in Germany for years to come.
For more details, visit the Newberry Consort’s website.
Bloomington Bach Cantata Project: "Wer da gläubet und getauft wird" BWV 37
This concert is directed by Shannon Beckemeyer and Blake Beckemeyer.
The Bloomington Bach Cantata Project is pleased to present its 2023-24 season, six concerts of cantatas by J. S. Bach presented in performances modeled on his own. All are on Sundays at 2.30PM at St. Thomas Lutheran Church in Bloomington, IN.
For more information, visit the BBCP Facebook page.
Bloomington Early Music Festival 2023: Day Eight
BLEMF 2023: Early Music Crossroads will map musical connections across Arabic regions, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Americas during the long early music period to demonstrate the deeply complex cultural relationships that emerged from centuries of invasions, colonialization, trade, and migration. The festival will represent not only a range of cultures, religions, and geographies, but also a balance of gender, race, and class from the medieval period through the early nineteenth century.
Specific concert & event details are forthcoming - watch this space!
Bloomington Early Music Festival 2023: Day Seven
BLEMF 2023: Early Music Crossroads will map musical connections across Arabic regions, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Americas during the long early music period to demonstrate the deeply complex cultural relationships that emerged from centuries of invasions, colonialization, trade, and migration. The festival will represent not only a range of cultures, religions, and geographies, but also a balance of gender, race, and class from the medieval period through the early nineteenth century.
Specific concert & event details are forthcoming - watch this space!
Bloomington Early Music Festival 2023: Day Six
BLEMF 2023: Early Music Crossroads will map musical connections across Arabic regions, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Americas during the long early music period to demonstrate the deeply complex cultural relationships that emerged from centuries of invasions, colonialization, trade, and migration. The festival will represent not only a range of cultures, religions, and geographies, but also a balance of gender, race, and class from the medieval period through the early nineteenth century.
Specific concert & event details are forthcoming - watch this space!
Bloomington Early Music Festival 2023: Day Five
BLEMF 2023: Early Music Crossroads will map musical connections across Arabic regions, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Americas during the long early music period to demonstrate the deeply complex cultural relationships that emerged from centuries of invasions, colonialization, trade, and migration. The festival will represent not only a range of cultures, religions, and geographies, but also a balance of gender, race, and class from the medieval period through the early nineteenth century.
Specific concert & event details are forthcoming - watch this space!
Bloomington Early Music Festival 2023: Day Four
BLEMF 2023: Early Music Crossroads will map musical connections across Arabic regions, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Americas during the long early music period to demonstrate the deeply complex cultural relationships that emerged from centuries of invasions, colonialization, trade, and migration. The festival will represent not only a range of cultures, religions, and geographies, but also a balance of gender, race, and class from the medieval period through the early nineteenth century.
Specific concert & event details are forthcoming - watch this space!
Bloomington Early Music Festival 2023: Day Three
BLEMF 2023: Early Music Crossroads will map musical connections across Arabic regions, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Americas during the long early music period to demonstrate the deeply complex cultural relationships that emerged from centuries of invasions, colonialization, trade, and migration. The festival will represent not only a range of cultures, religions, and geographies, but also a balance of gender, race, and class from the medieval period through the early nineteenth century.
Specific concert & event details are forthcoming - watch this space!
Bloomington Early Music Festival 2023: Day Two
BLEMF 2023: Early Music Crossroads will map musical connections across Arabic regions, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Americas during the long early music period to demonstrate the deeply complex cultural relationships that emerged from centuries of invasions, colonialization, trade, and migration. The festival will represent not only a range of cultures, religions, and geographies, but also a balance of gender, race, and class from the medieval period through the early nineteenth century.
Specific concert & event details are forthcoming - watch this space!
Bloomington Early Music Festival 2023: Day One
BLEMF 2023: Early Music Crossroads will map musical connections across Arabic regions, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Americas during the long early music period to demonstrate the deeply complex cultural relationships that emerged from centuries of invasions, colonialization, trade, and migration. The festival will represent not only a range of cultures, religions, and geographies, but also a balance of gender, race, and class from the medieval period through the early nineteenth century.
Specific concert & event details are forthcoming - watch this space!
Baroque Orchestra and voices of Concentus
This concert is directed by Dana Marsh.
Join the Jacobs School of Music’s Baroque Orchestra with voices of Concentus for a program of music including J.S. Bach’s “Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir” BWV 130 and G. Ph. Telemann’s Die Donner-Ode TWV 6:3.
For more information, visit the JSoM events calendar.
Concentus: "Now, oh Now"
This concert is directed by Nigel North.
Join the Jacobs School of Music’s Historical Performance Institute Concentus ensemble for “Now, oh Now”, a program of Ayres and Dances by John Dowland (1563-1626) with voices, lutes, and viols. The concert will include a duet for two to play on one lute, printed in 1597, and Lachrimae for 5 viols and lute (1604).
For more information, visit the JSoM events calendar.
Gotham Early Music Scene: Midtown Concert Series
This is a virtual event.
ALBA Consort: Venice - The Republic of Music!
The republic of Venice, (La Serenissima) was known as “The Republic of Music” and existed from 697–1797. Venetian culture was influenced by regions incorporated in the republic including North Africa, Cyprus, Greece and southern Europe. ALBA Consort serenades with vocal and instrumental music of La Serenissima, including Monteverdi, Caccini, Cypriot ballads and ancient Middle Eastern tunes still popular today.
For more information, visit the GEMS website.
Bloomington Bach Cantata Project: "Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen" BWV 215
This concert is directed by Joanna Blendulf.
The Bloomington Bach Cantata Project is pleased to present its 2022-23 season, six concerts of cantatas by J. S. Bach presented in performances modeled on his own. All are on Sundays at 2.30PM at St. Thomas Lutheran Church in Bloomington, IN.
For more information, visit the BBCP Facebook page.
Upcoming events.
Browse the calendar for select upcoming early music events in Bloomington, south-central Indiana, and beyond! We are especially proud to feature partner and collaborator events, including those of Bloomington Bach Cantata Project, Alchymy Viols, IU Historical Performance Institute, Latin American Music Center, and the IU Jacobs School of Music.
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Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
Looking for more early music events at IU Bloomington? Check out the JSM event calendar for a full listing, including The JSM Historical Performance Institute Colloquium Series.
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Early Music America
EMA is happy to showcase the performance seasons of EMA Organization Members. Their heartfelt thanks to all the administrators and musicians who have tirelessly crafted these rich seasons; please do support them.
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REMA/ Early Music In Europe
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