Early Music Festival
Our signature event is the yearly Early Music Festival, now held at the Morven Museum and Garden in Princeton, NJ, where audiences can enjoy a smorgasbord of mini-concerts in a walk-in/walk-out setting.
Our 15th Early Music Festival will be held on Saturday, October 24, 2020. For more information on Morven Museum and Garden, visit www.morven.org.
Performing Ensembles for 2019 Festival
1:00 - La Spirita Consort of Viols &
Riverview Early Music
(joint performance)
2:00 - Spectra Musica
2:30 - Princeton Pro Musica
Chamber Chorus
3:00 - The Practitioners of Musick
3:30 - Musica Dolce
4:00 - Mostly Motets
4:30 - * In the Orientation Room *
New documentary films
about the joy of playing Early
Music
In the Atrium:
1:00-3:00 - Children's string
ensembles directed by
Louise McClure
12:30 - Youth Orchestra of Bucks County
Honors String Quartet
1:00 - In the Orientation Room*
New documentary films
about the joy of playing Early
Music
1:30 - Generations Baroque Ensemble
2:00 - Metamorphosis as Rhetoric in
Renaissance & Baroque Music
Lecture by Lewis Baratz
2:30 - La Fiocco
4:30 - Instrumental Petting Zoo
*Three excerpts from the documentary Music is my Passion, directed by Bert Shapiro:
- Music is my Second Language
- The Ahah Moment
- The Piffaro Sound
Festival Press
In March 2009, Early Music America published an article about the Guild's October 2008 Early Music Festival at the Grounds For Sculpture (pdf courtesy of EMA, all rights reserved.)
2014 marked the Guild's Tenth Anniversary of performing at the Grounds For Sculpture. The festivities concluded with "Purcell Jam," where participating groups, individual musicians, and audience members performed Purcell's Come Ye Sons of Art. Video created by Janet Palumbo from the live recording and from photos by Suzette Lucas and Steve Kyle.