Amherst Early Music Festival

June 28- July 5, 2025

Baroque Academy Opera Project: Dafne (1734) by Georg Reutter

Directed and conducted by Richard Stone, Nell Snaidas stage director, Jennifer Ellis Kampani vocal coach, Lawrence Rosenwald language, Dorothy Olsson and Peggy Murray historical dance, Ronnie Snader costumes, and Paul Guttry sets and props.

Perform a role in our fully staged production with Baroque orchestra and historical dance. Sessions on period acting and performance techniques. Master class and coachings. Performance Friday, July 4, 2025.

June 29 - July 5, 2025

Ensemble Singing Intensive directed by Geoffrey Williams

Nun singet! The music of Johann Sebastian Bach provides a great opportunity to examine the marriage of text and music. Participants in this intensive course will explore the development from plainsong chant melodies into Renaissance polyphony and the end result in the German Chorale.

July 6-13, 2025

Medieval Project with Benjamin Bagby, Lawrence Rosenwald, and Lisa Solomon

The Cosmopolitan: Oswald von Wolkenstein (1377-1445)

Explore the songs of the amazingly prolific Tirolean poet and adventurer, Oswald von Wolkenstein.

July 6-13, 2025

Choral Workshop with Anna Lenti

Buxtehude, Bach, & Bach

Week one, June 29 - July 6, and Week two, July 6-13, 2025

Central Program – choose your own classes! No audition necessary.

Tuition

$730 per week. See website for room and board options