• Nancy Argenta, Jeanne Lamon (Canada): Christmas in Bach’s Leipzig

    Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada

    EMSI’s Christmas concert is always highly anticipated as the most entertaining of the season. This year, the towering Christmas cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach are performed by some of Canada’s […]

  • Profeti della Quinta (Israel): Il Mantovano Hebreo

    Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Il Mantovano Hebreo: Italian madrigals and Hebrew prayers by Salomone Rossi Salomone Rossi, a member of the Jewish community in Mantua, was one of the greatest Italian composers of the […]

  • Simphonie Nouvelle (Seattle): Emanuel Bach Tricentennial

    Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Visit the webpage of Jeffrey Cohan 2014 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of C.P.E. Bach. EMSI celebrates by hosting one of the world’s great keyboardists and some of Seattle’s […]

  • Boston Early Music Festival (USA): Charpentier

    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

    Boston Early Music Festival: Vocal, Chamber and Dance Ensembles (USA) Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs For the first […]

  • Monica Huggett (UK): Seventeenth-century German cantatas

    Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada

    EMSI is proud to present the Victoria debut of Harry Van der Kamp, the legendary Dutch bass with more than 120 CDs to his credit. The equally distinguished Monica Huggett […]

  • Dowland in Dublin: La Nef, Michael Slattery

    Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Doors open at 6:45 pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:10 pm. La Nef (Montreal) Michael Slattery, tenor (USA) Dowland in Dublin Could the great John Dowland have been born in Ireland? What […]

  • Monteverdi Madrigals: Pacific MusicWorks, Stephen Stubbs

    Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Doors open at 6:45 pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:10 pm. Pacific MusicWorks (Seattle) Stephen Stubbs, lute and direction (Seattle) Monteverdi Madrigals: Songs of Love and War Many of America’s leading early music specialists, […]

  • Vivaldi and his Imitators: Accademia Hermans

    Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Doors open at 6:45 pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:10 pm. Accademia Hermans (Italy) Vivaldi and his Imitators In the eighteenth century, Antonio’s Vivaldi’s works were consistently fresh, wildly popular—and widely […]

  • Bach Christmas Oratorio: Stephen Stubbs

    Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Doors open at 6:45 pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:10 pm. The Northwest Baroque Masterworks Project An exciting new collaboration with the EMSI, Early Music Vancouver, Pacific Baroque Orchestra and Pacific MusicWorks Stephen […]

  • Mozart Piano Sonatas: Kristian Bezuidenhout

    Oak Bay United Church 1355 Mitchell Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

    Doors open at 6:45 pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:10 pm. Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano (South Africa/UK) Mozart Piano Sonatas Bezuidenhout’s interpretation of Mozart has caused a sensation at the world’s major […]

  • Henry Lawes: Jeffrey Thompson, La Rêveuse

    Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Doors open at 6:45 pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:10 pm. Jeffrey Thompson, tenor La Rêveuse (France) Henry Lawes: Songs of an English Cavalier Henry Lawes lived through the troubled times […]

  • Hildegard of Bingen: VocaMe

    Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Doors open at 6:45 pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:10 pm. VocaMe Germany Sigrid Hausen, mezzo-soprano Sarah M. Newman, soprano; Petra Noskaiová, mezzo-soprano Gerlinde Sämann, soprano Michael Popp, music direction and […]

  • Handel and Haydn: Byron Schenkman & Friends

    Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Doors open at 6:45 pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:10 pm. Byron Schenkman & Friends (Seattle) Handel and Haydn: Harpsichord Concerti Byron Schenkman, one of EMSI’s favourite performers and known for […]

  • Chaconne: Ensemble Caprice

    Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Doors open at 6:45 pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:10 pm. Ensemble Caprice (Montreal) Chaconne! Voices of Eternity In the baroque era, chaconnes, with their steady harmonic progressions, were associated with […]

  • Swithun: Dialogos

    Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Doors open at 6:45 pm. Please note: there is no pre-concert talk for this event. Dialogos (France) Swithun! Music from Winchester c.1000 Dialogos explores early polyphony from Winchester (10th–11th centuries) […]

  • Praetorius Christmas Vespers

    Chapel of the New Jerusalem, Christ Church Cathedral 911 Quadra Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

    SPECIAL EVENT Doors open at 6:45 pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:10 pm. Early Music Vancouver Vocal and Instrumental Ensemble, La Rose des Vents Cornetto and Sackbut Ensemble (Montreal), St. Christopher […]

  • Dramatic Baroque Suites: Victoria Baroque Players

    Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Doors open at 6:45 pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:10 pm. Victoria Baroque Players Steven Devine, harpsichord and direction (UK) Dramatic Baroque Suites with Four Horns Spectacular large scale baroque suites […]

  • Back Before Bach: Piffaro

    Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Doors open at 6:45 pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:10 pm. Piffaro, The Renaissance Band (Philadelphia) Back Before Bach Music familiar to Bach’s father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, a Stadtpfeifer in the […]

  • Tafelmusik: House of Dreams

    Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada

    SPECIAL EVENT Doors open at 6:45 pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:10 pm. Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Toronto) House of Dreams A magical journey to the meeting places of baroque art and […]

  • Tears of St. Peter: Collegium Vocale Gent

    Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada

    SPECIAL EVENT Doors open at 6:45 pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:10 pm. Collegium Vocale Gent (Belgium) Philippe Herreweghe, director Tears of St. Peter: 21 Sacred Madrigals Founded in 1970, Collegium […]

  • J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor

    Chapel of the New Jerusalem, Christ Church Cathedral 911 Quadra Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

    Northwest Baroque MASTERWORKS PROJECT Doors open at 6:45 pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:10 pm. Arion Baroque Orchestra MONTREAL Alexander Weimann, music director Yulia Van Doren, Shannon Mercer, sopranos Krisztina Szabo, […]

  • Handel and his Rivals: Opera Arias from 18th century London

    Chapel of the New Jerusalem, Christ Church Cathedral 911 Quadra Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

    Northwest Baroque MASTERWORKS PROJECT Doors open at 6:45 pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:10 pm. Amanda Forsythe, soprano USA Pacific Baroque Orchestra Alexander Weimann, music director Possessed of astounding technique, deep […]

  • Love Makes Me Sing in the French Style

    Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Doors open at 6:45 pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:10 pm. musica fantasia Julie Ryning, soprano and percussion Katelyn Clark, clavicimbalum VANCOUVER Courtly love in the 13th and 14th centuries is […]