News Archive

Saturday 31 May 2014

Wedding hysteria with Bach! Joshua Rifkin, international frontman and Bach expert, known for his poetic interpretations of the Baroque master, visits Stockholm for the first time. During Stockholm Early Music Festival the 70 year old American maestro, together with the German soprano Ulrike Hofbauer as soloist, invites the audience to two cantatas for wedding feasts, Saturday 7 June at 9 PM in the German Church.

After 35 years of international activity and 40 CD-recordings, the Ensemble Gilles Binchois, conducted by Dominique Vellard, has assumed a special status among interpreters of sacred music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. With an excellent timbre and a dense vocal beauty, the ensemble addresses the Spanish Golden Age in its performance Friday 6 June at 9 PM in the German Church.

Thursday 24 April 2014

An exclusive world sensation that mustn´t be missed – only at Stockholm Early Music Festival! The instrument Viola organista, one of its kind, was invented and designed by Leonardo da Vinci in 1489 and has now, after 500 years of waiting, been built by the Polish musician Sławomir Zubrzycki. Its first foreign trip goes to Sweden, when the biggest festival for Early Music in the Nordic countries on Sunday 8 June in the House of Nobility presents it to the public with three unique concerts at 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm. Zubrzycki will not only tell the audience about the instrument´s background but also among others play Orlando di Lasso, Marin Marais and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. 

Tickets and complete festival programme here.

Sunday 20 April 2014

Changes in the festival programme:

Early Late Night Concert with Ensemble Flautino Friday 6 june and Saturday 7 june both starts at 11.00 pm and not at 10.45 pm. 

The ticket office by the German Chuch will be opened from 10.00 am Sunday 8 june for the ones who needs to pick up their tickets for "The Sound of Da Vinci" in Riddarhuset. 

Thursday 10 April 2014

Stockholm Early Music Festival has been listed by the English website www.theculturetrip.com as one of 10 Swedish must-see-festivals this summer! "A collection of some of the best musicians from Scandinavia and around the world come together to perform iconic and little known pieces from the baroque, renaissance and medieval periods." The article also says that the event "lends an air of sophistication and elegance to the whole idea of a music festival."

The Swedish daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet also writes about SEMF 2014, please see the short notice beside.

Friday 4 April 2014

4-8 June 2014, for the 13th consecutive year, Stockholm Early Music Festival presents about twenty international concerts - the season´s climax for the Early Music Lover. For the first time even the Swedish Arts Council has highlighted SEMF as an "event of national interest".

A brilliant festival opening is expected by L´Arpeggiata under the direction of Christina Pluhar, right now probably the most sought-after Baroque ensemble in Europe. Plausibly many in the Swedish audience will say Finally! The programme  "Mediterraneo", containing singing and dancing, takes place Wednesday 4 June in the German Church in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm. Mediterraneo has its starting point in Greek songs and Italian tarantellas (they were supposed to heal spider bites..!). A captivating musical voyage through Greece, Turkey, Spain and Portugal focusing on the beginning of the 17th century and the power of the Mediterranean Sea connecting cultures!

Book your ticket here!!

Friday 4 April 2014

In order to see and listen to Maria Keohane´s concert "From Sweden with Bach" in the German Church from the European Day of Early Music 21/3 please click here.

In order to see the Swedish Television Cultural News´ report about the European Day of Early Music 21/3 at the Stockholm Central Station, please click here.

Swedish Radio P2 broadcasts "From Sweden with Bach" on 28 May 7 pm.