EMSI presents a full-day workshop with Montreal's La Cigale. The workshop will be divided into two sections: Morning session (10:30 - 12:00): A panel discussion: Women Composers of the Baroque and Baroque Practice - From the Written Page to the Performance Stage The morning session is FREE and all are welcome to attend. Afternoon sessions […]
Nowell Synge We Bothe Al and Som View Pricing Options Get Tickets Now A medieval Christmas celebration by the ensemble that, probably more than any other, has defined the modern approach to performance of vocal music of the Middle Ages. A gathering of music-lovers during the Christmas season today will often result in a hearty […]
In Angel's Wede: Music For Mary Queen of Scots Tickets on sale now. A brand-new program by a perennially favourite ensemble of EMSI audiences. Music from Scotland, France, England and Italy with a captivating narration by Emmy Award winner (and television and radio personality) Robert Aubry Davis. The short life of Mary Queen of Scots […]
EMSI presents a full-day workshop with the renowned Baltimore Consort! The workshop will take place on Sunday, January 28, 2024, and will be divided into two sections: Two morning sessions in the form of lecture demonstrations by the artists. The morning session is FREE and all are welcome to attend. Take advantage of this opportunity […]
L'Eterno Ritorno Get Tickets > Brilliant Canadian soprano, Myriam Leblanc is featured in a program devoted to that most captivating and tuneful Baroque musical form: the chaconne. Built on ostinato basses, grounds, chaconnes and passacaglia have inspired most composers since the 16th century and have allowed the generation of hundreds of arias and instrumental pieces. […]
We are offering Choral and Recorder Workshops on the morning of our Hallelujah and Trumpets! concert with Ensemble Caprice and Ensemble ArtChoral from Montreal. The choral workshop will be led by Ensemble Caprice's dynamic Artistic Director, Matthias Maute. Repertoire will include works by J.C. Bach, Deprez, Isaac and de Morales. The recorder workshop will be […]
Hallelujah and trumpets! The splendor of Handel’s music Tickets on sale now. The third in our series of concerts with this exciting ensemble, led by the irrepressible Matthias Maute. This time, the music of Handel is featured, including his Anthem for the Foundling Hospital. Watch an interview with Artistic Director, Matthias Maute, discussing his philosophies […]
Darkness to Light A very special joint presentation with Christ Church Cathedral, featuring the pre-eminent interpreters of Renaissance polyphony on their triumphant 50th Anniversary Tour. Tickets for this event are now on sale. (Please note, this special concert is not eligible for the Flex Pass.) Description: The journey behind this program is an obvious one […]
Flourishing The Art of the Cornetto Tickets on sale now A special concert featuring renowned German cornettist Friederike Otto on this rare and fascinating instrument and Vancouver-based Christina Hutten on harpsichord and organ. A kind of hybrid between a woodwind and a brass instrument, the cornetto was prized for its tremendous expressive flexibility, very like […]
Handel's Aci, Galatea e Polifemo The Early Music Society of the Islands Presents their 40th Season Opera Celebration! Event Dates: September 22, 24, 26 & 28, 2024 Event Time: 6:00 pm to 9:30pm Click on one of the following dates to buy Tickets: Sunday, September 22, 2024 performance Tuesday, September 24, 2024 performance Thursday, September […]
Handel's Aci, Galatea e Polifemo The Early Music Society of the Islands Presents their 40th Season Opera Celebration! Event Dates: September 22, 24, 26 & 28, 2024 Event Time: 6:00 pm to 9:30pm Click on one of the following dates to buy Tickets: Sunday, September 22, 2024 performance Tuesday, September 24, 2024 performance Thursday, September […]
Out of the Deep Buy Tickets See Special Pricing Options A pairing of the artistry and rich voice of Jonathon Adams with the passion and intensity of violinist Chloe Kim, in a program on the themes of loss and reconciliation. Born in amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton), Jonathon Adams is an Indigenous (Cree-Métis) baritone whose career has taken […]
Iestyn Davies and Fretwork at Carnegie Hall Lamento Buy Tickets See Special Pricing Options Note: This concert was originally scheduled for Thursday, November 28, and has been moved to Friday, November 29 to accommodate travel plans of the artists. Countertenor Iestyn Davies makes his debut performance with EMSI, in the company of the incomparable British […]
Festive Canatas - Bach and Zelenka Joint concert presentation with Early Music Vancouver. Buy Tickets The Pacific Baroque Orchestra presents a program of festive cantatas for the season including the Gloria in excelsis Deo cantata BWV 191 by J.S. Bach with the Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Missa Nativitatis Domini (ZWV 8) of 1726. Premiered […]
Gregorius, the Holy Sinner Buy Tickets Redeem your Flex Pass Voucher(s) for This Concert The incomparable Benjamin Bagby, well-known for his virtuosic rendering of Beowulf and as co-founder of Sequentia, returns to the EMSI stage with colleagues Jasmina Črnčič and leiken, with an astonishing 12th Century tale of one man's victory over despair (sung in […]
El Parnasso - Music for voice and vihuela from 16th Century Spain Note: Due to a delay in obtaining and entry visa, the concert originally planned for February 15, Huehuetenango, is unfortunately no longer available. We are pleased, however, to be offering in its place another fine programme featuring vihuelist Ariel Abramovich and soprano Perrine […]
The Early Moderns Buy Tickets Redeem your Flex Pass Voucher(s) for This Concert The brilliant American ensemble Quicksilver -- “Revered like rock stars within the early music scene” (New York Times) -- performs a program of music from the mid-17th century, when the modern world was emerging in Europe and composers were writing revolutionary works […]
Eh bien, dansez maintenant ! Buy Tickets Redeem your Flex Pass Voucher(s) for This Concert Imagine yourself in the elegant royal court of the French Renaissance, attending a ball with the elite of courtly society. That colourful world will be captured by the French ensemble Doulce Mémoire and dancer Hubert Hazebroucq. Very far from the […]
This date is sold out. We have added a second performance on Sunday, August 24 at 2:30. For tickets, please follow this link Banquo Folk Ensemble returns for a summer concert full of light and melody; a treat for all of the senses. The concert will take place in the grand ballroom of a gorgeous Arts […]
SPECIAL CONCERT In collaboration with Early Music Vancouver Amanda Forsythe Sings Handel Buy Tickets Amanda Forsythe returns to Victoria in this program of arias by Handel originally written for Élisabeth Duparc (‘La Francesina’). We have heard this renowned singer as a soloist in large choral works, but here is a chance to experience her artistry […]
Photo credit: J Abram Photography Treasure Trove: the Cantigas de Santa Maria Just as archaeologists attempt to reconstruct entire communities from a few sherds of pottery, the odd ancient coin and the faint residue of post holes in the earth, musicologists and early music performers must contend with the rarity of original manuscripts and the […]
Brilliant Baroque After a hiatus of far too long, we are welcoming back the ever-popular Tafelmusik to Victoria. In 1730s Leipzig, J.S. Bach gathered with friends at Zimmerman's coffeehouse for weekly concerts of brilliant music, carrying on a tradition of weekly meetings by the Collegium Musicum originally founded by his friend, Georg Philip Telemann. Today, […]
Photo credit: Åsa Maria Mikkelsen Yule The celebration of Yule in Northern Europe harks back to a transition from ancient Pagan Germanic culture to the more formal spirituality of the newer Christian rite. Christmas, as we mostly now call it, gave us hymns, processions and chants, and in between, silence in church. Yule meant a […]
Bach and Khayyam The ever-popular, ground-breaking ensemble Constantinople examines two great musical geniuses, presenting arrangements of some of the most beautiful spiritual songs and arias of JS Bach in dialogue with poems of Omar Khayyam sung in Persian. Separated by time and space, the two geniuses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Persian mathematician-poet Omar Khayyam […]