Summer Festival, Spring Workshop

Amherst News: Have you registered yet for Amherst Early Music Festival? If so, sign up for classes online here!

Recorder Special Programs auditions (including Recorder Boot Camp, Virtuoso Recorder, and Recorder Seminar) are due May 15. Here's how to apply.

Special Programs auditions: Those for Baroque Academy instrumentalists and Ensemble Singing Intensive singers were due May 1. Baroque Academy and Opera Project singers' auditions were due April 15.

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Memorial Day Weekend

Friday, May 25 - Monday, May 29, 2012

A Tale of Two Cities: Venice and Antwerp -- centers of music publishing in Renaissance Europe

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Amherst Early Music Festival

July 8-15 and 15-22, 2012

Music of the German Lands

The Amherst Early Music Festival is the most comprehensive workshop for historical performance in North America, with classes for amateurs and pre-professionals, a music and instrument exhibition, and a professional concert series. Each July, we offer two week-long programs of classes at all levels in medieval, renaissance and baroque music and dance on the beautiful campus of Connecticut College in New London. There are four periods a day; choose from a wide variety of classes in all instruments, voice and dance. Play in consorts of like or mixed instruments, investigate a new repertory, take a dance class or start a new instrument. The All-Workshop Collegium brings everybody together to sing and play a large-scale choral work. We also are proud to offer a unique program in renaissance notation for all levels starting with absolute beginner. In the evening, after classes, there are lectures, concerts, English country dancing, and socializing with early music enthusiasts from all over the world. Concurrent with the Central Program are special programs: the Baroque Academy for advanced students, a fully-staged Baroque Opera Project, advanced recorder programs -- Virtuoso Recorder, Recorder Seminar, and Recorder Boot Camp -- and the Ensemble Singing Intensive.