Exhibition

2025 Boston Early Music Festival Exhibition

Wednesday, June 11 - Saturday, June 14, 2025
10:00am-5:00pm Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday
10:00am-7:00pm Friday

The Colonnade Hotel | 120 Huntington Avenue, Boston

The heart of the Boston Early Music Festival is our world-famous Exhibition. As the premier early music trade show in North America and among the largest in the world, the BEMF Exhibition features Early Music tradespeople from across the globe, with makers of period instruments, music publishers, dealers in rare books, prints, and manuscripts, and representatives from instrument societies and colleague organizations. The Exhibition is visited daily by hundreds of amateur and professional musicians, students, scholars, and enthusiasts from around the world seeking to purchase instruments, restock their libraries, renew old friendships, and immerse themselves in an unparalleled opportunity for enrichment and discovery.

With an inviting new venue - the Huntington Ballroom and Foyer at the Colonnade Hotel - only blocks from New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall where most of the evening concert take place, the 2025 BEMF Exhibition is sure to be a hub of activity. Nearby restaurants, cafés and fringe venues make this Back Bay location the perfect new home for the BEMF Exhibition.

We are still accepting registrations for the 2025 BEMF Exhibition, although space is limited. Contact Exhibition Manager Elizabeth Hardy at elizabeth@bemf.org for more information.

CD Store

Located at the BEMF Exhibition, the one-of-a-kind BEMF CD Store offers spectacular Early Music recordings for sale, including BEMF’s own GRAMMY-winning and GRAMMY-nominated series of Baroque opera recordings. Our hotly-anticipated release of the 2022 Chamber Opera Series double bill of Lully's Idyll sur la Paix and Charpentier's La Fête de Rueil will be ready just in time for the Festival! With hundreds of sought-after titles featuring Festival artists and other offerings from the field’s most distinguished ensembles, soloists, and labels, be sure to save plenty of time to peruse this extraordinary treasure chest.

Our colleagues at CRB Classical New England visited the 2023 Exhibition and shared this video spotlighting a few of the amazing Exhibitors on hand.