Early Music Festivals

Festivals

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Bach Week Festival

Founded in 1974 by Karel Paukert and directed by Richard R. Webster every May since, the Bach Week Festival in Evanston, Illinois combines the Bach Week Festival Chorus with professional instrumentalists from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera Orchestra, and Northwestern University.  The music of Bach predominates, but works by other Baroque composers have been added selectively, particularly works by worthy but lesser-known composers not widely performed elsewhere.  One critic called the Bach Week Festival "the most comprehensive celebration of J. S.'s music west of Leipzig."
The 2009 Bach Week Festival will take place at the Music Institute of Chicago, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.
2009 Bach Week Festival events will take place on:  4/24/2009, 4/26/2009.
Photos of the Bach Week Festival here.
Location:  Music Institute of Chicago, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.
For more info:  write Bach Week Festival, P.O. Box 1832, Evanston, IL 60204-1832; e-mail info@bachweek.org; for tickets call 800-595-4849; or visit www.bachweek.org/bwf/tickets.php or bachweek.tix.com.

Bristol Renaissance Faire

Saturdays and Sundays, from early July through early September, including Labor Day Monday, 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM.
Spend a day filled with revelry and merriment, the arts, enlightenment, and delightful family fun.   Discover the entertainment on 16 open air stages; discover the feasting by sampling delectable treats from 50 food booths; discover the marketplace--over 180 high quality arts and crafts shops.
Location:  Bristol, Wisconsin (near the Illinois/Wisconsin border).
For more info:  call 847-395-7773; visit www.renfair.com/bristol.

Evelyn Dunbar Memorial Early Music Festival

 
The Evelyn Dunbar Memorial Early Music Festival is celebrated (typically every spring) at the Northwestern University School of Music.
Location:  Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
For more info:  e-mail j-schwartz@nwu.edu or swa440@northwestern.edu.

Handel Week Festival

The Handel Week Festival is an annual week-long festival to celebrate the music of George Frideric Handel.  The Festival is typically held in February of each year at Grace Episcopal Church, in Oak Park, Illinois.  Founded in 2000 by Dr. Dennis E. Northway and Charles Chauncey Wells, Handel Week is patterned after the highly sucessful Bach Week Festival.
Handel Week 2009 events on:  2/21/2009, 2/27/2009, 3/8/2009. 
Photos of Handel Week 2003 here.
Location:  Grace Episcopal Church, 924 Lake Street, Oak Park, Illinois.
For more info:  Call 708-383-2261; e-mail info@handelweek.com; or visit www.handelweek.com.

Indianapolis Early Music Festival

A production of the Festival Music Society of Indiana, The Indianapolis Early Music Festival, under the direction of Mark Cudek, was founded in 1966 as the U.S.' second early music organization and has the distinction of being the nation's oldest early music presenter in continuous operation.  All Festival concerts take place every June and July at the Indiana History Center, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Indianapolis Early Music Festival 2009 events on:  6/26/2009, 6/27/2009, 7/10/2009, 7/12/2009, 7/17/2009, 7/18/2009, 7/19/2009.
Location:  Basile Opera Center, 4011 N. Pennsylvania Street, (40th & Pennsylvania Streets), Indianapolis, Indiana.
For more info:  call 317-577-9731; e-mail fms@emindy.org; or visit www.emindy.org.  Newsletter sign-up:  e-mail newsletter@emindy.org.

Madison Early Music Festival

The Madison Early Music Festival brings world-renowned ensembles and artist/teachers together for eight days of workshop classes and a seven-concert series.
MEMF 2009 will explore the works of music and the arts that were inspired by scientific discovery, in particular the 400th anniversary of the first astronomical observation made through a telescope by Galileo Galilei.
Madison Early Music Festival 2008 concerts will be performed on 7/11/2009, 7/12/2009, 7/16/2009, 7/17/2009, 7/18/2009.
Location:  University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
For more info:  write Chelcy Bowles, Program Director, Madison Early Music Festival, 720 Lowell Center, 610 Langdon Street, Madison, WI 53703; call 608-265-5629; e-mail cbowles@dcs.wisc.edu; or visit www.memf.dcs.wisc.edu.

Peoria Bach Festival

The Peoria Bach Festival is organized and offered as gift to the city of Peoria and Central Illinois during the first weekend of June every year by Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Peoria.  Since its founding in 2003 by Trinity's Cantor Martin Dicke and Dr. John Jost, Director of Choral activities at Bradley University, the Peoria Bach Festival has quickly grown from a local arts event into a significant regional festival. It seeks to not only showcase Peoria's own musicians, but also to attract national and international talent.
The 2009 Peoria Bach Festival will be held June 1-7, 2009.
Location:  Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 135 NE Randolph Avenue, Peoria, Illinois.
For more info:  write Peoria Bach Festival, c/o Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 135 NE Randolph Avenue, Peoria, IL 61606-1920; call 309-676-4609; e-mail peoriabachfestival@trinitypeoria.com; or visit www.peoriabachfestival.org/.

Friday April 17 thru Sunday April 19, 2009.
77th Annual Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival.
Location:  Berea, Ohio.
For more info:  write Margaret Swendseid, Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, 275 Eastland Road, Berea, OH 44017 USA; call 440-826-8070; e-mail bachfest@bw.edu; visit www.bw.edu/bachfest.

Friday May 15 thru Sunday May 17, 2009.
Galway Early Music Festival.
Location:  Galway, Ireland.
For more info:  write Maura O'Croinin, Galway Early Music, Cahewrfurvaus, Craughwell, Co Galway, Ireland; call 353 87 9305506; e/usr/bin/mail info@galwayearlymusic.com; visit galwayearlymusic.com.

Friday May 15 thru Monday May 25, 2009.
Bloomington Early Music Festival.
Location:  Bloomington, Indiana.
For more info:  write Bloomington Early Music Festival, PO Box 734, Bloomington, IN 47402 USA; call 812-331-1263; or visit www.blemf.org.

Friday May 29 thru Monday June 1, 2009.
Tage Alter Musik Regensburg.
Location:  Regensburg, Germany.
For more info:  visit www.tagealtermusik-regensburg.de.

Monday June 1 thru Sunday June 7, 2009.
Peoria Bach Festival.
Location:  Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 135 NE Randolph Avenue, Peoria, Illinois.
For more info:  write Peoria Bach Festival, c/o Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 135 NE Randolph Avenue, Peoria, IL 61606-1920 USA; call 309-676-4609; e-mail peoriabachfestival@trinitypeoria.com; visit www.peoriabachfestival.org/.

Saturday June 6 thru Sunday June 14, 2009.
Boston Early Music Festival.
Location:  Boston, Massachusetts.
For more info:  visit www.bemf.org.

Thursday June 11 thru Sunday June 21, 2009.
Bachfest Leipzig 2009.
Location:  Leipzig, Germany.
For more info:  e-mail bachfest@bach-leipzig.de.

Saturday June 13 thru Monday June 29, 2009.
Connecticut Early Music Festival.
Location:  New London, Connecticut.
For more info:  write Connecticut Early Music Society, PO Box 329, New London, CT 06320; call 860-444-2419; visit www.ctearlymusic.org.

Thursday June 25 thru Sunday June 28, 2009.
Montreal Baroque Festival.
Location:  Montreal, Quebec.
For more info:  write Susie Napper, Montreal Baroque Festival, 3689 rue Ste Famille, Montreal, QC H2X 2L2, Canada; call 514-219-2031; e-mail info@montrealbaroque.com; visit www.montrealbaroque.com.

Friday June 26 thru Sunday July 19, 2009.
Aston Magna Festival.
Location:  Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
For more info:  write Laureen Bubniak, Aston Magna Foundation, PO Box 3167, Danbury, CT 06813 USA; call 800-875-7156 or 203-792-4662; e-mail lbubniak@yahoo.com; visit www.astonmagna.org.

Friday July 10 thru Saturday July 25, 2009.
2009 Sanford-Springvale Classical Music Festival.
Location:  Sanford, Maine.
For more info:  write George Bozarth, Musique du jour, PO Box 68, Sanford, ME 04073 call 207-490-6840; e-mail gbozarth@u.washington.edu; visit classicalmusicfestival.org.

Friday July 17 thru Saturday August 1, 2009.
Carmel Bach Festival.
Location:  Carmel, California.
For more info:  write Carmel Bach Festival, PO Box 575, Carmel, CA 93921; call 831-624-1521; e-mail info@bachfestival.org; or visit www.bachfestival.org.

Sunday July 26 thru Friday August 21, 2009.
Vancouver Early Music Programme & Festival.
Location:  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
For more info:  write Vancouver Early Music Programme & Festival, 1254 W. 7th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6H 1B6, Canada; call 604-732-1610; e-mail workshops@earlymusic.bc.ca; visit www.earlymusic.bc.ca.

Friday July 31 thru Sunday August 9, 2009.
Musica Antigua Festival.
Location:  Bruges, Belgium.
For more info:  write 't Zand 34, 8000 Brugge, Belgium; call 32 050 33 22 83; e-mail info@MAfestival.be; visit www.MAfestival.be.

Friday July 31 thru Saturday September 5, 2009.
Festival Musica Antica a Magnano.
Location:  Magnano, Italy.
For more info:  write Bernard Brauchli, Festival Musica Antica a Magnano, Via Roma 43, Magnano, Biella, I-13887 Italy; call 39015679260; e-mail info@MusicaAnticaMagnano.com; visit www.MusicaAnticaMagnano.com.

Friday August 28 thru Sunday September 6, 2009.
Holland Festival Oude Muziek.
Location:  Utrecht, Netherlands.
For more info:  e-mail info@oudemuziek.nl; visit www.oudemuziek.nl.

Wednesday September 16 thru Sunday September 20, 2009.
East Cork Early Music Festival.
Location:  East Cork, Ireland.
For more info:  visit www.eastcorkearlymusic.ie.

Thursday September 17 thru Sunday September 20, 2009.
Montreal Recorder Festival & International Recorder Competition.
Location:  Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
For more info:  write Sophie Larivière, Artistic Director, Ensemble Caprice, 4841 rue Garnier, Montreal, QC H2J 3S8 Canada; call 514-523-3611; e-mail info@ensemblecaprice.com; visit www.ensemblecaprice.com.

Thursday November 12 thru Sunday November 15, 2009.
A Handel Festival.
Location:  Williamsburg, Virginia.
For more info:  write Mary Cottrill, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; Bruton Parish Church; The College of William and Mary, CWF Museums, PO Box 1776, Williamsburg, VA 23187; call 757-220-7984; e-mail mcottrill@cwf.org; visit www.WilliamsburgFestival.com.

Friday December 11 thru Saturday December 12, 2009.
A Handel Festival.
Location:  Williamsburg, Virginia.
For more info:  write Mary Cottrill, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; Bruton Parish Church; The College of William and Mary, CWF Museums, PO Box 1776, Williamsburg, VA 23187; call 757-220-7984; e-mail mcottrill@cwf.org; visit www.WilliamsburgFestival.com.

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