Edition 2025

Early Music Day takes place every year on 21 March, at the initiative of REMA. This celebration of more than a thousand years of music, through concerts and events taking place simultaneously around the world, is an opportunity for Europeans to (re)discover our musical heritage!

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Concert of the harpsichord class of Andrea Marcon

21/03/2025 18:00 CET

Concert of the harpsichord class of Andrea Marcon On-site

Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Switzerland
Kleiner Saal, Campus MAB Basel, Leonhardsstrasse 6, 4051 Basel
Students of Andrea Marcon's harpsichord class will present repertoire for harpsichord in solo and ensemble formations
Palestrina 500: Music from Italy and the Sistine Chapel

28/03/2025 19:30 GMT (28/03/2025 20:30 CET)

Palestrina 500: Music from Italy and the Sistine Chapel On-site

Brighton Early Music Festival United Kingdom
St Paul's Church, Brighton, West Street, BN1 2RE Brighton
Join BREMF consort of voices to celebrate the 500 anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina in 1525, whose graceful polyphony was written to be performed in the Sistine chapel and whose influence quickly spread throughout Europe. We will also be performing motets by some of his contemporaries including Allegri, Victoria, Gabrieli, and Marenzio.
Musicians
  • BREMF Consort of Voices
  • James Elias, director
Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690): Misticismo e Assoluto

21/03/2025 21:00 CET

Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690): Misticismo e Assoluto On-site

MUSICA MIRABILIS. International Musical Festival Giovanni Legrenzi - Municipality of Clusone (Bergamo) Italy
Chiesa della Beata Vergine del Paradiso, Clusone, Piazza del Paradiso, 24023 Clusone
Music from «Harmonia d'affetti devoti», opus III (Venezia, 1655) and «Compiete», opus VII (Venezia, 1657), by Giovanni Legrenzi. Organ Music from «Codici Chigi, Q.IV.25-29, München 1581», by Girolamo Frescobaldi.
Musicians
  • Collegium vocale et instrumentale « Nova Ars Cantandi » (Alessandro Carmignani, Cantus ; Salvo Disca, Altus ; Alberto Allegrezza, Tenor ; Gianluca Ferrarini, Tenor ; Marcello Vargetto, Bassus)
  • Ivana Valotti, organ
  • Giovanni Acciai, direction
Johann Sebastian Bach – visionary of the piano, lecture illustrated with music by Aleksandra Gajecka-Antosiewicz

23/03/2025 20:49 CET

Johann Sebastian Bach – visionary of the piano, lecture illustrated with music by Aleksandra Gajecka-Antosiewicz On-site

Palace at Rybna Poland
The Baroque Spring at Palace at Rybna (XII Wiosna Barokowa w Pałacu w Rybnej), Pałac w Rybnej, Tarnowskie Góry, ul. Powstańców Warszawskich 90, 42-680 Tarnowskie Góry
A lecture on the keybord instruments of J.S.Bach's time and his attitude towards the subject. The lecture combined with piano recital by Aleksandra Gajecka-Antosiewicz
Musicians Aleksandra Gajecka-Antosiewicz
INTRECCI

23/03/2025 20:00 CET

INTRECCI On-site

N&B MARETERRA Festival Italy
Chiesa di San Giacomo, Piazza dell'Odegitria, 70122 Bari
Music by F. Sor, P. Rode, M.M. Ponce, P.I. Tchaikovsky and G. Susani
Musicians Giacomo Susani, guitar
Journée Européenne de la Musique Ancienne

23/03/2025 10:30 CET

Journée Européenne de la Musique Ancienne On-site

La Ruche Artistique France
Salle du CAREC, Rue du stade, 22300 Ploubezre
Numerous 20-minute concerts, “the time of a sonata”, from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., meetings with all Brittany's musicians, amateur and professional, music and dance.
Musicians
  • Les violistes de la Ruche Artistique
  • Chœur Claudio
  • Ensemble Il Pastor Fido
  • Ensemble Spered Hyvarnion, musique de chambre
  • Ensemble vocal Anouna
  • La Menestraudie et la Rigourden, musique et danse médiévale et renaissance
J. S. BACH: L’ARTE DELLA FUGA tra Speculazione e Espressione - parte I

13/03/2025 18:00 CET (13/03/2025 18:00 CET)

J. S. BACH: L’ARTE DELLA FUGA tra Speculazione e Espressione - parte I Online and On-site

Grandezze & Meraviglie Italy
Headquarter Grandezze & Meraviglie / Live streaming , Via Ganaceto 40c , 41121 Modena
Join us for the inaugural concert lecture of Grandezze & Meraviglie in celebration of Early Music Day 2025. Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080 is the supreme synthesis of theory and emotion in Bach's mature works representing the culmination of counterpoint and variation techniques in all their forms.
Musicians Riccardo Castagnetti, harpsichord
Les Amateurs des Passions - Unikat

22/03/2025 16:00 CET

Les Amateurs des Passions - Unikat On-site

Les Passions de l'Âme Switzerland
Kirche, Wohlen bei Bern, Kirchgasse 3, 3033 Wohlen bei Bern
Les Amateurs des Passions is a project orchestra for amateur instrumentalists initiated by Les Passions de l'Âme. Led by Meret Lüthi, the orchestra performs five different unique baroque pieces by Vivaldi, Biber, Muffat and J. Chr. Bach
Musicians
  • Les Amateurs des Passions: 11 baroque violins, 3 baroque violas, 2 baroque cellos
  • Guests: Julian Behr, Giulio Falzone, Barbora Hulcova, Diego Chacón (lutes), Shuko Sugama (violone)
  • Solo violin and leader: Meret Lüthi
Maitrise d'enfants de l'IRVEM

19/03/2025 16:30 CET

Maitrise d'enfants de l'IRVEM On-site

Les muses en dialogue France
Musée d'art Hyacinthe Rigaud - Perpignan, Musée d’art Hyacinthe Rigaud - 21 Rue Mailly, 66000 Perpignan, 66000 Perpignan
Musical tour of the Hyacinthe Rigaud art museum collections by the IRVEM Children's Choir
Musicians With the Children's Choir of the Institut de recherche vocale et d’enseignement musical Méditerranée (IRVEM)
Andreas Staier

21/03/2025 20:15 CET (21/03/2025 20:15 CET)

Andreas Staier On-site

Amici della Musica di Padova Italy
Auditorium Cesare Pollini, Via Carlo Cassan, 17, , 35121 Padova
Andreas Staier, Bach Medal (2024) of the City of Leipzig, returns to Padova (first concert in our series was in the 1984, with Musica Antiqua Köln) with a program devoted to musical representations of Vanitas in seventeen-century France and Germany
Musicians Andreas Staier, harpsichord
Alessandro Capece, il Maestro di Carissimi

23/03/2025 10:00 CET

Alessandro Capece, il Maestro di Carissimi On-site

Musicaimmagine ETS Italy
Chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Anima, via di S. Maria dell'Anima, 65, 00186 Roma
Music by: A. Capece, G. Carissimi, F. Colusso Musicaimmagine and Flavio Colusso, who have been involved since 1983 in the performance and publication of the works of Carissimi and the many pupils of his celebrated school at the German-Hungarian College in Rome, in 2025 take the opportunity to remember Alessandro Capece [Tarano, c. 1575 - (?), after 1636], who was his teacher at Tivoli Cathedral.
Musicians

Cappella Musicale di Santa Maria dell'Anima

  • Flavio Colusso, chapel master
AlterEcho

22/03/2025 20:00 CET

AlterEcho On-site

AUBE MUSIQUE ANCIENNE France
21, rue du Cloître Saint-Etienne, 10000 TROYES
Baroque music concert
Musicians
  • Vocal ensemble La Compagnie des Humbles
  • Student singers in the Voice program at the Marcel-Landowski Conservatory in Troyes
  • Moana GALLETTI, baroque violin
  • Teddy DANJEAN, cornet à bouquin
  • Olivier RENAULT, alto sackbut
  • Abel CORTES, tenor sackbut
  • Luc RENAULT, bass sackbut
  • Flore SEUBE, viola da gamba
  • Stefano INTRIERI, organ and harpsichord
  • Cécile Rigazio, conductor and director
  • Xavier CLAVERIE-ROSPIDE, conductor
AlterEcho

23/03/2025 16:00 CET

AlterEcho On-site

AUBE MUSIQUE ANCIENNE France
21, rue du Cloître Saint-Etienne, 10000 Troyes
Baroque music concert
Musicians
  • Vocal ensemble La Compagnie des Humbles
  • Student singers in the Voice program at the Marcel-Landowski Conservatory in Troyes
  • Moana GALLETTI, baroque violin
  • Teddy DANJEAN, cornet à bouquin
  • Olivier RENAULT, alto sackbut
  • Abel CORTES, tenor sackbut
  • Luc RENAULT, bass sackbut
  • Flore SEUBE, viola da gamba
  • Stefano INTRIERI, organ and harpsichord
  • Cécile Rigazio, conductor and director
  • Xavier CLAVERIE-ROSPIDE, conductor
Passio secundum Joannem

21/03/2025 20:30 CET

Passio secundum Joannem On-site

Associazione Liederiadi ETS Italy
Chiesa di San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore, Corso Magenta 15 , 20120 Milano
Passio Secundum Joannem - Alessandro Scarlatti Stabat Mater a 10 voci - Domenico Scarlatti
Musicians

Intende Voci Ensemble

Mirko Guadagnini, maestro concertatore

Carmina sine Verbis - XVIth Century Lute Intabulations

21/03/2025 17:00 CET (21/03/2025 17:00 CET)

Carmina sine Verbis - XVIth Century Lute Intabulations On-site

Művészetek Háza Veszprém Hungary
Dubniczay-palota, Dubniczay-palota - Vár utca 29, 8200 Veszprém
The concert will feature contemporary lute transcriptions of works for voice by Josquin des Prez, Johannes Ockeghem, Cipriano de Rore, Clemens non Papa and Jean Richafort, performed on period instruments.
Musicians Csaba Nagy, luth
„Echoes of the Past” - concert of baroque music created by students, teachers, and musical friends of the Music School

20/03/2025 19:00 CET

„Echoes of the Past” - concert of baroque music created by students, teachers, and musical friends of the Music School On-site

Państwowa Szkoła Muzyczna I i II st. in Gliwice Poland
Concert Hall of PSM in Gliwice, Księcia Ziemowita 12 street, 44-100 Gliwice
Step into a world of timeless pieces as the Państwowa Szkoła Muzyczna in Gliwice presents a concert of early music. Talented students, teachers, and the School Baroque Orchestra bring Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi to life.
Musicians
  • Soloists
  • Vox Amici vocal ensemble
  • Student Vocal Ensemble
  • School Baroque Orchestra
  • Natalia Olczak - project coordination
Cantoría | Ensaladas

21/03/2025 19:00 CET

Cantoría | Ensaladas On-site

Festival Torroella de Montgrí Spain
Esglesia Santa Maria dels Masos, Camí Vell de Torroella a l'Estartit, 142, 17258 Torroella de Montgrí, Girona, 17258 Torroella de Montgrí
Discover the fresh and energetic style of Cantoría, a vocal group born in Barcelona and grown up at the Festival de Torroella de Montgrí, as part of the residencies of the EEEmerging project.
Musicians
  • Inés Alonso, soprano
  • Belén Herrero, alto
  • Jorge Losana, tenor and direction
  • Lluis Arratia, bass
  • Marc de la Linde, viola de gambe
  • Jeremy Nastasy, vihuela
The Sound of the Middle Ages: Musical Instruments Exhibition

23/03/2025 14:30 CET (23/03/2025 14:30 CET)

The Sound of the Middle Ages: Musical Instruments Exhibition On-site

Fondazione Abbatia Sancte Marie de Morimundo Italy
Morimondo Abbey, Chapter Hall and Cloister, Piazza Municipio n. 4, 20081 Morimondo (MI)
On the occasion of the Early Music Day a single ticket allows visitors to explore the Cloister and the Chapter House, where an exhibition of replicas of medieval musical instruments is set up with short live musical performances.
Musicians
  • In Itinere Musica Medievale
  • Roberto Chiari, medieval fiddle, rebec, drum, and others
Musica per l'anima

23/03/2025 18:30 CET

Musica per l'anima On-site

Associazione musicale culturale Coro Polifonico Sturm und Drang e Orchestra da camera l'Estro Armonico Italy
Chiesa del Santissimo Sacramento, Via Provvidenza Virgillito Bonaccorsi, 1, 95047 Paternò
Music by Purcell, Playford, Storace, Bach
Musicians
  • Tiziana Coniglio, baroque violin
  • Salvatore Coniglio, harpsichord
Conversation with C. S. Tania Birardi : J. S. Bach … a “silhouette”

21/03/2025 18:00 CET

Conversation with C. S. Tania Birardi : J. S. Bach … a “silhouette” Online

C. S. Tania Birardi Italy
Via De Cristoforis 31 , 70044 Polignano a mare
Lecture: biographical introduction with focus on compositions for harpsichord
Musicians C. S. Tania Birardi, speaker
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