Early music festivals is a generic term for musical festivals focused on music before

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...

, or including

historically informed performance Historically informed performance (also referred to as period performance, authentic performance, or HIP) is an approach to the performance of Western classical music, classical music, which aims to be faithful to the approach, manner and style of ...

of later works. The increase in the number of

music festival A music festival is a community event with performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock, blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality, locality of musicians, or h ...

s specializing in

early music Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750). Originating in Europe, early music is a broad musical era for the beginning of Western classical m ...

is a reflection of the

early music revival :''See Historically informed performance for a more detailed explanation of this topic.'' The general discussion of how to perform music from ancient or earlier times did not become an important subject of interest until the 19th century, when E ...

of the 1970s and 1980s. Many larger festivals such as that an Aix-en-Provence Festival also include early music sections, as do, inevitably, festivals of sacred music; such as the Festival de Música Sacra do Baixo Alentejo, in

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

. Although most early music festivals are centered on commercial performance, many include also workshops. This articles includes an incomplete list of early music festivals, which may overlap with topics such as

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, list of opera festivals, and in some cases list of folk festivals.

List of festivals by country

Note this list includes festivals that are annual unless otherwise listed. Festivals which were notable, producing radio-broadcasts and recordings, but now defunct, are listed with an indent at the end of each country listing; for example Gottorfer Barockmusiktage, Germany. Festival Opera Barocca

Australia

* Brisbane Baroque - previously Hobart Baroque, ran until 2016 *MIFOH Melbourne International Festival of Organ and Harpsichord, founded by Sergio di Pieri in 1971 and run by an entirely voluntary group until the last concert in 2007. A further series of annual concerts running on the same framework (of concerts, visiting distinguished overseas musicians, and masterclasses) was operated by Professor John Griffiths from 2007-2010, a long time participant in MIFOH

Austria

* Resonanzen Konzerthaus, Vienna. * Trigonale Festival der Alten Musik,

Sankt Veit an der Glan Sankt Veit an der Glan (; sl, Šentvid ob Glini) is a town in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the administrative centre of the Sankt Veit an der Glan District. It was the historic Carinthian capital until 1518. The famous chef Wolfgang Puck was ...

Carinthia Carinthia (german: Kärnten ; sl, Koroška ) is the southernmost States of Austria, Austrian state, in the Eastern Alps, and is noted for its mountains and lakes. The main language is German language, German. Its regional dialects belong to t ...

. Sept. * Internationale Barocktage, Stift Melk. May/June. *

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol (state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the ...

Festwochen der Alten Musik The Innsbruck Festival of Early Music (German: Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik) is a festival of historically informed performances of music from the late Renaissance, Baroque and early Classical periods which takes place annually in Inn ...

. July/August.
Donaufestwochen im Strudengau
July/August

Bolivia

*Festival de Chiquitos

Belgium

* Festival van Vlaanderen, section

Musica Antiqua Bruges The MA Festival Brugge, short for the festival Musica Antiqua Bruges in Bruges, Belgium, is a festival of early music and historically informed performances, started in 1960. The program includes concerts, master classes, conferences, visits in t ...

, July/August *

Laus Polyphoniae Laus Polyphoniae is the summer edition of the Festival van Vlaanderen (Festival of Flanders)-Antwerp. Since 1994 this early music and polyphony festival takes place in the last weeks of August. Every edition has its central theme or compositor. An ...

- Festival van Vlaanderen

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

August * Festival van Vlaanderen, Gent. Sept/October. * Festival de Musique Ancienne en Wallonie * Baroque Music at Chateau of

Chimay Chimay (, wa, Chimai) is a city and Municipalities of Belgium, municipality of Wallonia located in the Hainaut Province, province of Hainaut, Belgium. In 2006, Chimay had a population of 9,774. The area is 197.10 km2 which gives a populatio ...

, Hainaut. * Festival Les Nuits de Septembre - Festival de Wallonie, Liège

Brazil

* Festival de música colonial brasileira e música antiga. July. *

Festival de Música Coral Renascentista Gil de Roca Sales A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival co ...

Canada

* Montreal Baroque. June. * Vancouver Early Music Festival. August. * Pacific Baroque Festival, Victoria, B.C., February/March * Lameque International Baroque Music Festival, July

Croatia

* Rovigno Baroque Music Festival * Varaždin Baroque Evenings (Varaždinske barokne večeri), Baroque Festival since 1971. * Dubrovnik Summer Festival (Dubrovačke ljetne igre), since 1950. * Korkyra Baroque Festival (Korčulanski barokni festival). * Musical Evenings in St Donat (Glazbene večeri u sv. Donatu), since 1960.

Czech Republic

* Festival of early music at

Český Krumlov Český Krumlov (; german: Krumau, , or ''Böhmisch Krumau'') is a town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. The historic centre with the Český Krumlov Castle complex is protected by law as an urban monument reservation, and sin ...

* Letní slavnosti staré hudby (Summer festivities of early music),

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

. * Opera Barocca,

. * Summer School of Early Music Prachatice

Denmark

* Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival. October–November.

Finland

BRQ Vantaa
August. *

Sastamala Gregoriana Sastamala Gregoriana is an annual early music festival that takes place in late July in the city of Sastamala, Finland. The festival combines an international concert programme of early music from the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods, old l ...

Sastamala Sastamala () is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Pirkanmaa region. The town has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water, making it the largest municipality in the Pirkanmaa region in terms of area. The ...

. July. Since 1995.

France

Festival d'Ambronay The Ambronay Festival is a French opera festival and early music festival. The festival has been running in October for 30 years and previously produced recordings with labels such as the Auvidis label. 7 of 14 early recordings were with Jordi Sav ...

, Ambronay. Since 1980. * Festival de Beaune July. * Festival de l'Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud,

Fontevraud Abbey The Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud or Fontevrault (in French: ''abbaye de Fontevraud'') was a monastery in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near Chinon, in the former French duchy of Anjou. It was founded in 1101 by the itinerant preache ...

. Since 1975. * Festival de Musique Ancienne de Saint Sevin, Saint Sevin. August. * Musiques à la Chabotterie,

Vendée Vendée (; br, Vande) is a department in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France, on the Atlantic coast. In 2019, it had a population of 685,442.

. Since 1997. *

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

March. *

Nantes Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...

Spring. May/June * Musique ancienne, Maguelone, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone June. * Haut-Jura June. * Aix-en-Provence Festival July. * Le Festival Renaissances,

Bar-le-Duc Bar-le-Duc (), formerly known as Bar, is a commune in the Meuse département, of which it is the capital. The department is in Grand Est in northeastern France. The lower, more modern and busier part of the town extends along a narrow valley, sh ...

. July. * Musique ancienne de Callas,

Callas, Var Callas (; oc, Calàs) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. On a hill top very close to some of France's best wine growers' vineyards this ancient town looms over the valley below. I ...

. July. * Musique et Mémoire,

Faucogney-et-la-Mer Faucogney-et-la-Mer is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. See also *Communes of the Haute-Saône department The following is a list of the 539 communes in the French department ...

. July. * Rencontres de Musique Médiévale du Thoronet.

Le Thoronet Abbey Thoronet Abbey (french: L'abbaye du Thoronet) is a former Cistercian abbey built in the late twelfth and early thirteenth century, now restored as a museum. It is sited between the towns of Draguignan and Brignoles in the Var Department of Prove ...

* Festival de musique de

Conques Conques (; Languedocien dialect, Languedocien: ''Concas'') is a former Communes of France, commune in the Aveyron Departments of France, department in Southern France, in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania Regions of France, region. ...

. July–August. * Festival Baroque de Tarentaise, Albertville. August. * Le Festival International de Musique Ancienne de Simiane, Simiane-la-Rotonde. August. * Festival de Sablé,

Sablé-sur-Sarthe Sablé-sur-Sarthe (, literally ''Sablé on Sarthe''), commonly referred to as Sablé, is a commune in the Sarthe department, in the Pays de la Loire region, western France. It is about 50 km northeast of Angers. Population Geography The Va ...

. August * Academie Bach,

Arques-la-Bataille Arques-la-Bataille () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-western France. The zoologist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850) was born in Arques. Geography Arques is situated near the conflue ...

. Aug. *

Festival de musique de La Chaise-Dieu The La Chaise-Dieu Music Festival is a classical music festival that takes place every year at the end of August. It is essentially devoted to sacred music and takes place mainly in the Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu. In 2016, the Festival celebrated its ...

Auvergne Auvergne (; ; oc, label=Occitan, Auvèrnhe or ) is a former administrative region in central France, comprising the four departments of Allier, Puy-de-Dôme, Cantal and Haute-Loire. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region Auverg ...

. Aug-Sept. *Festival Les Riches Heures de La Réole. Septembre * Festival baroque de Pontoise. Sept-Oct. * Festival de Lanvellec. Oct. *

Autumn. October- December * Festival Paris Baroque,

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

. November-December * Saint-Michel en Thiérache,

Saint-Michel, Aisne Saint-Michel () is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. It is also unofficially called Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache. Population Personalities * French Revolution leader Antoine Joseph Santerre, whose family m ...

. * Viola da gamba festival

Asfeld Asfeld () is a Communes of France, commune in the Ardennes (department), Ardennes Departments of France, department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France, formerly named Ecry or Ecri. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Asfeld ...

. * Orléans Bach Festival

Germany

* Bachwoche Ansbach, Ansbach summer. * Arolser Barockfestspiele. Bad Arolsen. May. * Bach-Biennale

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...

. Since 2008, biennial in July. * Festival alter Musik Bernau,

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

. * Festival Güldener Herbst,

Thuringia Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million. Erfurt is the capital and larg ...

; in Weimar, Erfurt, Meiningen, Rudolstadt, Sondershausen, Eisenach, Kühndorf, Suhl and Molsdorf. October * Händelfestspiele **

Handel Festival, Halle The Handel Festival (in German: Händel-Festspiele) in Halle an der Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, is an international music festival concentrating on the music of George Frideric Handel in the composer's birthplace. It was founded in 1922 and it grew into ...

(June) **

Handel Festival, Göttingen George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. Handel received his trainin ...

(May) **

Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe The Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe is a festival event for the works of the baroque composer George Frideric Handel. From 1977 to 1984 the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe organised the so-called ''Handel Days'', before the Baden town became th ...

(February) * Magdeburger Telemann-Festtage,

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdebur ...

* Tage Alter Musik,

Oct. * Landshuter Hofmusiktage, Landshut * Bachtage,

Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B ...

* Bachfest Leipzig,

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

. June * Montalbâne festival of Medieval music, Schloss Neuenburg, Freyburg. June. * Musica Viva, Osnabrück Land. Schloss Bad Iburg, Schloss Gesmold, Schloss Königsbrück, various churches and monasteries. September. * Tage Mitteldeutscher Barockmusik. * Tage Alter Musik Herne, Herne. November. * ,

Regensburg Regensburg or is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers. It is capital of the Upper Palatinate subregion of the state in the south of Germany. With more than 150,000 inhabitants, Regensburg is the f ...

, Whitsun * Tage Alter Musik im Saarland (TAMiS),

Saarbrücken Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is S ...

, March/April * Sanssouci,

June *

Thüringer Bachwochen The Thüringer Bachwochen (Thuringia Bach weeks) is a Baroque music festival in honor of Johann Sebastian Bach. It is the largest classical music festival in Thuringia, Germany. The artistic director since 2004 has been the Erfurt Cathedral organist ...

. March/April. * Bayreuth Baroque Sept. * Zeitfenster - Biennale Alter Musik,

. Biannual in April. * Internationales Heinrich-Schütz-Fest. Moves location, biannual. ** Gottorfer Barockmusiktage, ran from 2002-2006.

Ireland

East Cork Early Music Festival East Cork Early Music Festival is an Irish arts festival that is intended to "promote the performance and appreciation" of music written before 1750 on period instruments. Formed in 2003 under the artistic direction of Sarah Cunningham, the festiva ...

* Galway Early Music Festival
Sligo Festival of Baroque Music

Israel

* Bach in Jerusalem Festival

Italy

* Grandezze & Meraviglie, Festival Musicale Estense,

Modena Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...

. September/November Since 1998 *Settimane barocche di Brescia,

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ...

. * Festival di Cremona Claudio Monteverdi,

Cremona Cremona (, also ; ; lmo, label= Cremunés, Cremùna; egl, Carmona) is a city and ''comune'' in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po river in the middle of the ''Pianura Padana'' ( Po Valley). It is the capital of th ...

. May. * FIMA - Festival di Musica Antica, Urbino. July. * FTMA - Festival Toscano di Musica Antica.

Pisa Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the cit ...

. * Festival Galuppi,

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

. * Collegio Ghislieri di Pavia - Primavera Barocca. March–June. Since 2003. * Musica Antica a Magnano, Magnano July/Sept. * Mousiké - Festival di musica antica del Mediterraneo,

Bari Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy a ...

* Musica Antica in Sicilia, Associazione ''

Antonio il Verso Antonio Il Verso (1565 – August 23, 1621) was an Italian composer. Il Verso was born at Piazza Armerina, and began his musical studies under the guidance of Pietro Vinci. He was active in Venice in the last years of the sixteenth century is giv ...

'',

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...

. December *

Piccola Accademia di Montisi The Piccola Accademia di Montisi is a music academy for harpsichord students and recent graduates located in Montisi, a hill town in the Province of Siena, in Southern Tuscany. It provides masterclasses with students playing on its collection of ...

Tuscany Tuscany ( ; it, Toscana ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of about 3.8 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence (''Firenze''). Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, art ...

. Workshops for harpsichordists. July. * Garda Trentino International Early Music Weeks, Riva del Garda. Major festivals with some early music events: * Stresa Festival. Stresa, Lake Maggiore. Some early music events. * Ravenna Festival. Some early music events. June/July. * Bolzano Festival. Some early music events. ** Alessandro Scarlatti Festival,

, Sicily, ran 1999-2002

Hungary

* Early Music Festival at

Palace of Arts (Budapest) A palace is a grand residence, especially a royal residence, or the home of a head of state or some other high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop. The word is derived from the Latin name palātium, for Palatine Hill in Rome which ...

. Since 2015, first quarter of the year.
Early Music Days
at palace of Eszterhaza - Fertőd June/July, since 1984

Latvia

* Senās mūzikas festivāls, every July in the

Rundāle Palace Rundāle Palace ( lv, Rundāles pils; german: Schloss Ruhental, formerly Ruhenthal or Ruhendahl) is one of the two major baroque palaces built for the Dukes of Courland in what is now Latvia, the other being Jelgava Palace. The palace was built i ...

. * Baroka mūzikas dienas Rēzeknē (Baroque Music Days Rezekne), every September 2005 – 2016 in Rezekne city, Latgale region and Riga.

Lithuania

Banchetto Musicale
early music festival, every September in Vilnius, since 1989

Malta

Valletta International Baroque Festival The Valletta International Baroque Festival is one of the largest music festivals of Malta. It was founded by its present Artistic Director Kenneth Zammit Tabona in 2013. The programmatic focus is on Baroque music, baroque and early music. History ...

Netherlands

* Early Music Festival, Utrecht.
Geelvinck Early Piano Festival

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...

Norway

* Festival,

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...

. * Festival,

Larvik Larvik () is a List of cities in Norway, town and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Larvik. The municipality ...

.
St.Olav Festival

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

br>Ringve International Summer Course

Poland

* ANNUM festival Tarnowskie Góry,

Chorzów Chorzów ( ; ; german: link=no, Königshütte ; szl, Chorzōw) is a city in the Silesia region of southern Poland, near Katowice. Chorzów is one of the central cities of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union – a metropolis with a population ...

* Maj z Muzyką Dawną - May with Early Music,

Wrocław Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...

* Jarosław Early Music Festival,

Jarosław Jarosław (; uk, Ярослав, Yaroslav, ; yi, יאַרעסלאָוו, Yareslov; german: Jaroslau) is a town in south-eastern Poland, with 38,970 inhabitants, as of 30 June 2014. Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), previ ...

* Misteria Paschalia,

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...

. Easter *

Mikołaj Radomski Mikołaj is the Polish cognate of given name Nicholas, used both as a given name and a surname. It may refer to people: In Polish (or Polish-Lithuanian) nobility: * Mikołaj Firlej (died 1526), Polish nobleman, Hetman, diplomat, and expert of so ...

(Early Music Festival), Radom * International Festival Wratislavia Cantans,

Forum Musicum

Early Music Academy

Portugal

*Encontros de Música Antiga de Loulé - Francisco Rosado, EMAL-FR, every October since 1999,

Loulé Loulé () is a city and municipality in the region of Algarve, district of Faro, Portugal. In 2011, the population of the entire municipality was 70,622 inhabitants, in an area of approximately . The municipality has two principal cities: Loulé ...

*West Coast Early Music Festival, Oeiras,

Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...

*SIMA - Série ibérica de Música Antiga, Castelo Branco *Festival Internacional de Música Barroca de Faro, FIMBF, Faro *Fora do Lugar - Early Music(s) International Festival, Idanha-a-Nova (UNESCO Creative City of Music)

Romania

* Bucharest Early Music Festival,

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

* Miercurea Ciuc Early Music Festival, Miercurea Ciuc

Russia

* Sankt Petersburg International Early Music Festival,

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

Serbia

Belgrade Early Music Festival Belgrade ( , ;, ; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 million ...

Slovakia

* "Dni starej hudby" - Days of early music,

Bratislava Bratislava (, also ; ; german: Preßburg/Pressburg ; hu, Pozsony) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Slovakia. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, it is estimated to be more than 660,000 — approxim ...

Slovenia

* Radovljica Early Music Festival, Radovljica, Velesovo and

Ljubljana Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center. During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the ar ...

. August. * Seviqc Brežice – Festival Brezice,

Brežice Brežice (; german: Rann ) is a town in eastern Slovenia in the Lower Sava Valley, near the Croatian border. It is the seat of the Municipality of Brežice. It lies in the center of the Brežice Plain ( sl, Brežiško polje), which is part of the ...

Spain

* Festival Jordi Savall,

Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the north ...

, since 2021. * Festival de Música Antigua de Barcelona,

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

, since 1977. * Festival de Música Antigua Iberoamericana " Domingo Marcos Durán". Cáceres. * Festival de Música Antigua de Daroca,

Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...

, since 1979. August. * Festival de Música Antigua de Sevilla,

Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...

. * Festival de Música Antigua,

Gijón Gijón () or () is a city and municipality in north-western Spain. It is the largest city and municipality by population in the autonomous community of Asturias. It is located on the coast of the Cantabrian Sea in the Bay of Biscay, in the cent ...

. * Festival de Música Antigua de Úbeda y Baeza. Úbeda and

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since 1997. * Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada * Música Antigua Aranjuez,

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. * Musica Antigua Aracena,

Aracena Aracena () is a town and municipality located in the province of Huelva, south-western Spain. , the city has a population of 7,814 inhabitants. The town derived its name from the Sierra de Aracena, which is part of the Sierra Morena system. Arac ...

. ** Trobadories d'en Guillem de Bergueda,

Berga Berga () is the capital of the ''comarca'' (county) of Berguedà, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is bordered by the municipalities of Cercs, Olvan, Avià, Capolat and Castellar del Riu. History Berga derives its name from ...

Berguedà Berguedà () is an inland comarca (county) in Catalonia, Spain, lying partly in the Pyrenees and Pre-Pyrenees, and partly in the Catalan Central Depression. Geography The northern half of Berguedà, known as Alt Berguedà (“Upper Berguedà� ...

. Named after Guilhem de Berguedan. ran 2006-2007 ** Festival de Música Antigua de Sant Martí Vell, Gironès. * Festival Internacional de Música Antigua de Xàtiva, Valencia

Sweden

* Drottningholm Palace Theatre August. * Göteborg International Organ Academy. August. * NoMeMus. Nordic festival for Medieval music. During Söderköpings Gästabud. August/September. * Palladium Baroque.

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...

. Feb. *

Stockholm Early Music Festival Stockholm Early Music Festival (SEMF) is the Nordic region's largest international festival for early music, which since 2002 takes place in early June every year in Stockholm, Sweden. SEMF lasts for a week and focuses on repertoire from Medieva ...

. The largest international event for historical music in the Nordic countries. First week in June since 2002. * Söderköpings Gästabud. Medieval fayre in

Söderköping Söderköping is a locality and the seat of Söderköping Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 6,992 inhabitants in 2010. Söderköping is, despite its small population, for historical reasons normally still referred to as a ''town''. ...

. August/September. * Trollhättans TIDIG MUSIK-dagar. Early music days in Trollhättan. May.

Switzerland

* Early Music Festival - La Folia. Rougemont. May/June. * Festival Alte Musik Zürich. March. * Nox Illuminata,

Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...

, cf. Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. * Festival Bach de Lausanne. Oct/Nov. * Festival Musikdorf Ernen. Ernen, Switzerland. July. * Bachwochen Thun,

Thun , neighboring_municipalities= Amsoldingen, Heiligenschwendi, Heimberg, Hilterfingen, Homberg, Schwendibach, Spiez, Steffisburg, Thierachern, Uetendorf, Zwieselberg , twintown = , website = www.thun.ch Thun (french: Thoune) ...

, August/September * Cantar di Pietre. Lugano, Switzerland. October–November.

United Kingdom

* Birmingham Early Music Festival. *

Brighton Early Music Festival Brighton Early Music Festival is an annual English music festival which includes concerts, workshops and other educational events in Brighton and Hove. The festival explores the connections between classical music, folk music and world music fr ...

, Oct/Nov. *

English Bach Festival The English Bach Festival was an annual UK classical music festival which ran from 1963 to 2009. It was founded by the Greek-born harpsichordist and singer Lina Lalandi (1920–2012) and the English musicologist Jack Westrup who were co-directors d ...

(ran from 1963 to 2009) * Leicester Early Music Festival. June. * Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music,

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

. May. *

York Early Music Festival The York Early Music Festival is an England, English arts festival devoted mainly to European classical music, classical music from the 18th century and earlier. It was established in 1977, and takes place in York each July, organised by the Nati ...

, July. * The London International Festival of Early Music. Three-day festival and instrument fair. November. * London Handel Festival. Feb-April. * Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival,

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, May. * Spitalfields Festival, London. June. * Cotswold Early Music Festival, Cirencester. June. * Edinburgh International Festival, some early music events. Aug/Sept.

United States

* American Bach Soloists Festival & Academy. San Francisco, California. Since 2010. * Amherst Early Music Festival.

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.
Aston Magna Music Festival
Great Barrington, Massachusetts. * Baldwin Wallace

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Carmel Bach Festival The Carmel Bach Festival (CBF) began in 1935 as a four-day series of concerts at the Sunset School Auditorium and the Carmel Mission Basilica. Over the years, it grew to a three-week series of concerts, recitals, master classes, lectures, and open ...

* Bloomington Early Music Festival,

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*Berkeley Festival & Exhibition, presented by The San Francisco Early Music Society. Since 1990. *

Boston Early Music Festival The Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) is a non-profit organization founded in 1980 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. to promote historical music performance. It presents an annual concert series in Boston and New York City, produces opera recordi ...

.
Boulder Bach Festival
Boulder, Colorado * Carmel Bach Festival,

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. *

Indianapolis Early Music Indianapolis Early Music (IEM) is a non-profit organization established in Indianapolis in 1966 to organize concerts featuring music of the medieval, renaissance, baroque, and early classic eras. Since 1966, it has produced the annual Indianap ...

Festival, Indiana. Since 1966. * Houston Early Music Festival,

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. * Madison Early Music Festival,

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. Since 2000. * New York Early Music Celebration,

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. Since 2004. * Piccolo Spoleto Festival Early Music Series,

Charleston, South Carolina Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint o ...

. * Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, Santa Cruz, California. * Texas Toot - The Texas Early Music Festival. Workshops. * Twin Cities Early Music Festival and Baroque Instrumental Program. Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. Since 2014. * Washington Early Music Festival],

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Washington Early Music Festival

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