Welcome to the June 2023 Boston Early Music Festival, North America’s premier celebration of Early Music.
After the success of our 2021 Virtual Festival, we are thrilled to return in person for our 2023 Festival and Exhibition— A Celebration of Women—June 4 to 11.
We have planned a spectacular array of events honoring the work of women, both current and past, that will illuminate the integral role that women have always played in great classical music.
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To best protect the most vulnerable members of our community and those artists who cannot mask while performing, we are requiring guests to wear well-fitted face masks at all in-door events at the 2023 Festival. Please visit BEMF.org/safety to review our current policies. We thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
Schedule :
9:30am–11am
DANCE WORKSHOP
Session One: An exploration of gavotte and hemiola rhythms to create comic effect
Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière, Circé Co-Choreographer
Emmanuel Church Music Room (ECMR), 15 Newbury Street
10am–5pm
Exhibition
Courtyard Marriott Boston Downtown
(Empire Ballroom & the 5th Floor Conference Suite)
10am
Organ & Keyboard Mini-Festival
Part One: Carole Cerasi, clavichord
The First Lutheran Church of Boston
1pm
LECTURE
Consider the Source: Reconstructing the Lienas Vespers
Ellen Hargis, Director Emerita of The Newberry Consort
Wilbur/Colonial Ballroom, Courtyard Marriott Boston Downtown
11:30am–1pm
DANCE WORKSHOP
Session Two: Baroque dance: from walking steps to complex dances and from codified movements to expressive interpretation
Pierre-François Dollé, Circé Co-Choreographer
Emmanuel Church Music Room (ECMR), 15 Newbury Street
11:30am
Organ & Keyboard Mini-Festival
Part Two: Francesco Corti, harpsichord
The First Lutheran Church of Boston
1:30pm
Organ & Keyboard Mini-Festival
Part Three: Stefania Neonato, fortepiano
The First Lutheran Church of Boston
2pm–4pm
MASTERCLASS
Philippe Pierlot, viola da gamba
Library, Courtyard Marriott Boston Downtown
3pm
Organ & Keyboard Mini-Festival
Part Four: Christa Rakich, organ
The First Lutheran Church of Boston
5pm
CONCERT
Doulce Mémoire
Denis Raisin Dadre, Director
The Century of Titian: Music of the Italian Renaissance
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall
7pm
PRE-CONCERT TALK
Portraits of Celestial Women by Handel and Bach
Professor Ellen T. Harris
New England Conservatory’s Williams Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street
8pm
CONCERT
BEMF Orchestra & Vox Luminis
Robert Mealy, Orchestra Director
Lioniel Meunier, Vox Luminis Artistic Director
From Heavenly Harmony: Handel’s Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day and Bach’s Magnificat
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall
10:30pm
CONCERT
Hamburger Ratsmusik & Dorothee Mields, soprano
Barbara Strozzi: La Virtuosissima Cantatrice
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall
