2025 Festival | June 8-15, 2025
Festival Concerts
In addition to the Festival Operas, each Festival presents a series of concerts showcasing the most accomplished artists and ensembles in early music. For our 2025 Festival—Power & Love—we will be offering 18 Festival Concerts plus the Organ & Keyboard Mini-Festivals.
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MONDAY | JUNE 9, 2025
5PM | ACRONYM
Amor Temporalia: Music of Bertali, Schmelzer, Valentini, and others
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston
8PM | The Tallis Scholars & The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble
Peter Phillips, Director
Jubilate! Music of Lassus, Palestrina, Gombert, Andrea Gabrieli, and Giovanni Gabrieli
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston
10:30PM | Aaron Sheehan, tenor & Paul O’Dette, lute & theorbo
The Excellency of Wine: Songs by Dowland, Guédron, Moulinié, and Henry Lawes
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston
TUESDAY | JUNE 10, 2025
5PM | Ensemble Castor with Sherezade Panthaki, soprano
Inspiring Genius – Precious Friendships: Music of Keiser, Handel, Bach, and Telemann
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston
8PM | The Boston Camerata
Anne Azéma, Director
A Gallery of Kings: Uses and Abuses of Power, ca. 1300
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston
10:30PM | Pacific MusicWorks with Danielle Reutter-Harrah, soprano
Stephen Stubbs, Director
Murder, Mayhem, Melancholy, and Madness: Music of Dowland, William Lawes, Purcell, and others
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston
WEDNESDAY | JUNE 11, 2025
5PM | The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips, Director
Inspired by the Sistine Chapel: Music of Palestrina, Allegri, Morales, and others
Emmanuel Church, Boston
8PM | Trio Mediæval with Catalina Vicens, organetto
Love abounds in everything: Music of Hildegard von Bingen and Leonel Power
Emmanuel Church, Boston
10:30PM | The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble
Songs without words: Music of Palestrina, Victoria, Grandi, Giovanni Gabrieli, and Merulo
Emmanuel Church, Boston
THURSDAY | JUNE 12, 2025
9AM–4PM | Organ Mini-Festival
9am: Part One | Kola Owolabi | PURCHASE »
11:30am: Part Two | Catalina Vicens, organetto | PURCHASE »
2pm: Part Three | Erica Johnson | PURCHASE »
The First Lutheran Church of Boston
5PM | Enrico Gatti, violin, Marcello Gatti, flute & Friends
Flatteusement, Vivement & Tendrement: The power of love and affection in Paris
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston
8PM | Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
Robert Mealy, Orchestra Director
Caroline Copeland & Hubert Hazebroucq, dancers
Rivers of Splendor: Handel’s & Telemann’s Water Music
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston
10:30PM | Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin & Justin Taylor, harpsichord
The Power of Love: Music of Francoeur, Couperin, Eccles, Bach, Corelli, and others
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston
FRIDAY | JUNE 13, 2025
9AM–4PM | Keyboard Mini-Festival
9am: Clavichord | Yi-Heng Yang | PURCHASE »
First Church Boston
11:30am: Fortepiano | Federico Ercoli | PURCHASE »
2pm: Harpsichord | Justin Taylor | PURCHASE »
The First Lutheran Church of Boston
5PM | Constantinople with Hana Blažíková, soprano
Kiya Tabassian, setar, voice & director
Bach & Khayyam
Emmanuel Church, Boston
8PM | Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, Artistic Director
Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas: Music of Carissimi and Förster
Emmanuel Church, Boston
10:30PM | Concerto Romano with Luca Cervoni, tenor
Alessandro Quarta, Director
Arnalta’s Café: An Operatic Nanny Romp through 17th-Century Italy
Emmanuel Church, Boston
SATURDAY | JUNE 14, 2025
5PM | ExtravaGamba!
Christel Thielmann, Director
From Byrd to Purcell and Beyond: Music for 2 to 16 viols
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston
10:30PM | Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble & Friends
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Emőke Baráth, Amanda Forsythe, Danielle Reutter-Harrah & Teresa Wakim, soprano
Aaron Sheehan & Jason McStoots, tenor | Christian Immler, bass-baritone
Starry, Starry Night: Music of Monteverdi, Luigi Rossi, Carissimi, and Steffani
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston
SUNDAY | JUNE 15, 2025
12:30PM | Boreas Quartett Bremen
Caleb Mayo, narrator | Kathryn Montoya, recorder
Shakespeare in Love
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston