Boston Early Music Festival

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 :

10am–1pm 

SYMPOSIUM

Women at Work: Composers, Musicians, and Scholars
Moderated by Professor Ellen T. Harris, co-organized by Professor Claire Fontijn
Wilbur/Colonial Ballroom, Courtyard Marriott Boston Downtown

10am–5pm

Exhibition

Courtyard Marriott Boston Downtown
(Empire Ballroom & the 5th Floor Conference Suite)

1:30pm

PRE-CONCERT TALK

Thwarted Constancy: La Guerre’s Cephale et Procris
Professor Claire Fontijn
New England Conservatory's Williams Hall

2pm–4pm

MASTERCLASS

Session One: Francesco Corti, harpsichord
Library, Courtyard Marriott Boston Downtown

2:30pm 

SPECIAL CONCERT

BEMF 2023 Young Artists Training Program participants
Gilbert Blin, Founder & Director; Jason McStoots, Associate Director, 2023; Jeffrey Grossman, Musical Director, 2023
Cephale et Procris by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall

Free Concert

5pm 

CONCERT

Tiburtina Ensemble
Barbora Kabátková, Artistic Director
Ego sum ****: Musical visions of Hildegard von Bingen
Emmanuel Church

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5:30pm 

PRE-OPERA TALK

Designing an opera in the shadow of Lully and Quinault
Benoît Dratwicki, Artistic Director of the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre

6:40pm 

OPENING FANFARE | Desmarest's Circé

Members of the BEMF Orchestra
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre

7pm 

OPERA | Desmarest's Circé

Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre

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8pm 

CONCERT

Stile Antico
Breaking the Habit: Music for and by Renaissance women
Emmanuel Church

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10:30pm 

CONCERT

Ricercar Consort
Philippe Pierlot, Director
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe et ses filles
Emmanuel Church

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