Welcome to AEM!

Amherst Early Music is the largest presenter of Early Music workshops in North America. We create learning opportunities for amateur and pre-professional students to study with leading musicians in the field of Early Music. In addition to online classes, we present the Amherst Early Music Festival at Muhlenberg College in July, and several in-person workshops during the year.

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Solo singer performing in Purcell's Fairy Queen at the AEM Festival

Audition Portal now open!

Audition due dates for 2023 are April 1 for singers, and April 15 for instrumentalists

Click here to go to the Audition Portal Auditions are now being accepted for Baroque Academy (singers and instrumentalists) and the Ensemble Singing Intensive program. .

Painting of a concert by Pomboli

Spring Break Workshop

Register now for the 2023 Spring Break Workshop!

Continental Conversations - Music of Italy and England

An image from a manuscript by Machaut

Register now for the 2023 Amherst Early Music Festival!

We are thrilled to announce AEMF 2023! July 2-9, and 9-16 at Muhlenberg College, in Allentown, PA. Register here!

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Upcoming Online Classes

Weekend Classes April 15 & 16

All Things Hurdy And Gurdy, with Kevin Devine
Contrapuntal Quandries for Two, with Alison Melville, recorder
Three’s Company: Trios for Viols from the Tudor and Stuart Eras, with Lawrence Lipnik and Rosamund Morley

Slideshow

AEMF 2022 - Orientation
ice cream social week 2 2022
Loud band musicians
Farallon Recorder Quartet
Kathryn Cok's harpsichord class at AEMF 22
Choral Workshop in rehearsal
trio rehearsing in the gazebo
NLA dancers
Collegium with Larry Lipkis

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