Festival Concerts

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

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5PM | ACRONYM

Amor Temporalia: Music of Bertali, Schmelzer, Valentini, and others
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston

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8PM | The Tallis Scholars & The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble

Peter Phillips, Director

Jubilate! Music of Lassus, Palestrina, Gombert, and Andrea Gabrieli
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston

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10:30PM | Aaron Sheehan, tenor & Paul O’Dette, lute

The Excellency of Wine: Songs of Love, Laughter, and Drinking by Dowland, Guédron, Moulinié, and Henry Lawes
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston

TUESDAY | JUNE 10, 2025

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5PM | Ensemble Castor with Sherezade Panthaki, soprano

Music of Keiser, Handel, Bach, and Telemann
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston

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8PM | The Boston Camerata

Anne Azéma, Director

A Gallery of Kings: On the Uses and Abuses of Power, ca. 1300
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston

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10:30PM | Pacific Musicworks with Danielle Reutter-Harrah, soprano

Stephen Stubbs, Director

Murder, Mayhem, Melancholy, and Madness: Music of Johnson, Dowland, William Lawes, Tomkins, and Purcell
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston

WEDNESDAY | JUNE 11, 2025

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5PM | The Tallis Scholars

Peter Phillips, Director

Inspired by the Sistine Chapel: Music of Morales, Palestrina, and Allegri
Emmanuel Church, Boston

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8PM | Trio Medieval with Catalina Vicens, organetto

Caritas abundant in omnia / Love abounds in everything: Music of Hildegard von Bingen and Leonel Power
Emmanuel Church, Boston

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10:30PM | The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble

Songs without words: Music of Palestrina, Victoria, Grandi, Gabrieli, and Merulo
Emmanuel Church, Boston

Doron Sherwin & Conor Hastings, cornett; Emily White, Tom Lees & Adrian France, sackbut; Nicholas Perry, tenor cornett & dulcian; Silas Wollston, organ

THURSDAY | JUNE 12, 2025

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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

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5PM | Enrico Gatti, violin, Marcello Gatti, flute & Friends

Telemann’s Paris Quartets
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston

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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

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10:30PM | Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin & Justin Taylor, harpsichord

The Power of Love: Music of Rameau, Couperin, Bach, Corelli, and others
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston

FRIDAY | JUNE 13, 2025

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9AM–4PM | Keyboard Mini-Festival

9am: Clavichord | Yi-Heng Yang | PURCHASE »
11:30am: Fortepiano | Federico Ercoli | PURCHASE »
2pm: Harpsichord | Justin Taylor | PURCHASE »

The First Lutheran Church of Boston

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5PM | Constantinople with Hana Blažíková, soprano

Kiya Tabassian, setar, voice & director

Bach & Khayyam
Emmanuel Church, Boston

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8PM | Vox Luminis

Lionel Meunier, Artistic Director

Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas: Music of Rossi and Carissimi
Emmanuel Church, Boston

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10:30PM | Concerto Romano

Alessandro Quarta, Director
Luca Cervoni, tenor

An Operatic Nanny Romp through 17th-Century Italy
Emmanuel Church, Boston

Gabriele Pro & Ana Liz Ojeda, violin; André Lislevand, viola da gamba; Giovanni Bellini, theorbo & baroque guitar; Mario Filippini, double bass; Alessandro Quarta, harpsichord

SATURDAY | JUNE 14, 2025

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5PM | ExtravaGamba!

Christel Thielmann, Director

A Feast of Favorite Consorts for 2 to 16 viols
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston

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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, Rossi, Carissimi, and Steffani
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston

Milos Valent & Dasa Valentova, violin; Sarah Darling, viola; Maxine Eilander, baroque harp; Michael Sponseller, harpsichord; David Morris, viola da gamba; Paul O’Dette, theorbo; Stephen Stubbs, baroque guitar

SUNDAY | JUNE 15, 2025

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12:30PM | Boreas Quartett Bremen

Caleb Mayo, narrator  |  Kathryn Montoya, recorder

Shakespeare in Love
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston