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Julie Roset and Lucile Boulanger Honored at the 2025 French Victoires de la Musique

Early music took center stage at the 2025 Victoires de la Musique Classique, where Julie Roset was named “Vocal Revelation of the Year” and Lucile Boulanger won “Instrumental Soloist of the Year.” The awards were presented on March 5 at the Opéra de Rouen. For gambist Lucile Boulanger, the prize carries special significance, arriving 32 […]

6 March 2025

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From 19 to 23 March 2025, early music in Occitanie

As part of the European Days of Early Music, five days of festivities – from 19 to 23 March – in the Occitanie – Suds de France region celebrate the awakening of nature, movement and light around early music. Organised by the association ‘les muses en dialogue’ (which brings together two festivals in the South […]

4 March 2025

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Tölzer Knabenchor (Germany) : Bach cantatas originally from 7.3.25

On 7 March 2025, the Tölzer Knabenchor (Germany) and the Concerto München baroque orchestra, conducted by Julian Wachner, will start a series of recordings of J. S. Bach’s cantatas in a line-up that Bach had wished for his own boys’ choir in 1730 in a letter to the Leipzig city council (‘Entwurff einer wohlbestallten Kirchen […]

4 March 2025

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Registration for the Lameque Early Music Competition (Canada)

The 6th edition of the Mathieu-Duguay Early Music Competition will take place as part of the next Lamèque International Baroque Music Festival (Canada) from 24 to 26 July 2025. Aimed at encouraging the next generation and the emergence of new talent in the field of early music, this competition is open to instrumentalists aged 18 […]

21 February 2025

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Death of Bernd Feuchtner, director of the Handel Festival in Halle ( Germany)

On Wednesday 19 February, the city of Halle announced the death of the director of the Handel Festival in Halle, Bernd Feuchtner. The playwright and opera director was 75 years old. Born in Nuremberg, Bernd Feuchtner worked for more than 20 years at various theatre and opera houses in Germany, notably in Heidelberg and Karlsruhe. […]

20 February 2025

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Lion Studios, a recording studio set up by Leonardo Garcia Alarcon and Mariana Flores

At the beginning of February, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon and Mariana Flores announced the opening of Lion Studios, a recording and creative studio located in Savigny (France), between Annecy and Geneva. This former 19th-century house of 320m2 spread over two levels, is located opposite Mont-Blanc. It has a large rehearsal room of over 75m2, a spacious […]

20 February 2025

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Bach Medal for oboist Marcel Ponseele

The Bach Medal of the city of Leipzig goes to the Belgian oboist Marcel Ponseele this year. He has raised the bar for the sound and playing style of the baroque oboe to a new standard. The award will be presented during the Leipzig Bach Festival 2025 in mid-June following a concert by the artist […]

20 February 2025

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Applications for International Competition “Giovanni Legrenzi” in Clusone (Italy)

For singers & instrumentalists under 35, this prestigious competition offers: 🎤 Baroque Singing (Sept 23-27, 2025) – Apply by June 30th 🎻 Instrumental Ensembles (Oct 21-25, 2025) – Apply by July 31st Christophe Rousset will be the president of the jury 🔗 More info: www.musicamirabilis.eu

20 February 2025

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Who knows Charles Ignatius Sancho?

Have you heard of Charles Ignatius Sancho? This 18th-century composer, writer, abolitionist and entrepreneur was the first black person to vote in Great Britain. The bass-baritone Jonathan Woody, one of the most intriguing American singers of the moment, will perform a programme based on the life and music of Charles Ignatius Sancho at the Kehrein […]

20 February 2025

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German Record Critics’ Prize -first quarterly list

The German Record Critics’ Prize has published the first quarterly list of 2025. This ‘Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik’ e.V.is an independent association of160 music critics and journalists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The currently 160 critic-judges of the PdSK, divided into 32 specialist juries, have selected the following winning titles for the best list from […]

20 February 2025

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March 9-23, 2025 – “Bach and Latin America” in Stuttgart

For 15 days, the International Bach Festival Stuttgart brings renowned ensembles and soloists, as well as aspiring music professionals from all continents, to a festival with international flair in the capital of Baden-Württemberg. Numerous city institutions are involved. Latin American Music from 1600 to Today “We are a worldwide Bach family. The immense enthusiasm for […]

by Jean-Jacques Schaettel 21 January 2025

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Two Ifigenia by Caldara and Traetta in the programme of the Innsbruck Festival of Ancient Music 2025

‘Who holds the strings?’ – the Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2025 will be asking questions about fate and self-determination.

by Total Baroque 6 December 2024