Friday, May 18 | 8:00 p.m. | Auer Concert Hall
Keynote Address and Performance, with a focus on Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s sonatas.
Presented in collaboration with Indiana University Historical Performance Institute’s third annual international conference: Historical Performance, Theory, Practice, and Interdisciplinarity

Pianist, conductor and scholar Robert Levin, professor emeritus at Harvard University, is widely recognized via thousands of concerts and a sweeping discography as a leading pioneer in the resurgence of the fortepiano; and, no less, as the foremost practitioner of the art of improvisation on the instrument, particularly in the style of W.A. Mozart.

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Saturday, May 19 | 10:00 a.m. | Monroe County History Museum
Bring your instruments and have fun!

The workshop will focus on the creative life of Bloomington fiddler Joe Dawson (1928-2012), who carried and shared a treasured repertoire of traditional Monroe and Brown County old-time music. He learned fiddle tunes from his grandfather, as well as other family members and neighbors, while living on the Elkinsvillearea family farm, which is now beneath the waters of Lake Monroe.

Saturday, May 19 | 1:00 p.m. | Hoagy Carmichael Room
IU Archives of Traditional Music
Presented by Alan Burdette and Grey Larsen
Presented in collaboration with Indiana University Historical Performance Institute’s third annual international conference: Historical Performance, Theory, Practice, and Interdisciplinarity

A presentation of Joe Dawson field recordings that Grey Larsen made, curated, and donated to the Archives. The collection also includes photos, video and other documents, and represents one of the most important collections of local traditional music in the Archives’ holdings.

Saturday, May 19 | 8:00 p.m. | Auer Concert Hall
“Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen” BWV 66, by J.S. Bach

Sarah Elizabeth Cranor, music director
Daniel R. Melamed, lecturer

The Bloomington Bach Cantata Project presents J. S. Bach’s cantatas in performances modeled on his own. Partners include Bloomington Early Music, the Musicology Department and Historical Performance Institute of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Sunday, May 20 | 7:00 p.m. | Unitarian Universalist Church
Celebrating the City of Bloomington's Bicentennial, 1818-2018
Directed by Grey Larsen

Featured bands from the Bloomington area are Brad Leftwich and the Hogwire Stringband (with Sam Bartlett, Abby Ladin and Linda Higginbotham), The Nailbenders (Grey Larsen, Mark Feddersen and Cindy Kallet) and Jamie Gans & Friends (with Brad Leftwich, Sam Bartlett and Grey Larsen). Special guest Dillon Bustin will perform traditional old-time folk songs of Bloomington and the region. Tamara Loewenthal will call and demonstrate a contra/square dance with selected dancers. Abby Ladin, Tamara Loewenthal and Malke Rosenfeld will add their percussive dancing talents to the program.

Wednesday, May 23 | 3:30 p.m. | MU011, Merrill Hall
A demonstration and discussion by specialist Michael Lynn,
Professor of Recorder & Baroque Flute, Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Thursday, May 23 | 7:00 p.m. | Serendipity Martini Bar
Directed and Arranged by Brady Lanier

Now in its fifth season appearing at BLEMF, HPI goes POP! is an ensemble dedicated to performing contemporary pop music, using an early music idiom. The brainchild of Brady Lanier, the goal of this project is to blur arbitrary musical boundaries and highlight the commonalities between “classical”, “early”, and “popular” music. This year’s program presents a sampling of American queer pop music from the 1970s through the present. “Queer” itself is an arbitrary category; nevertheless, the LGBTQ community has made significant contributions to both popular and historically informed music, for the
enjoyment of everyone.

Thursday, May 24 | 3:00 p.m. | First Presyterian Church
Presented in collaboration with Early Music America.
Adam Dillon and Jonathan Wasserman, directors

IU's Tarara presents “España y el Nuevo Mundo”, a program of sacred and secular repertoire inspired by the Spanish cultural sphere of influence; both domestically and in the new world.

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Thursday, May 24 | 4:30 p.m. | First Presyterian Church
Presented in collaboration with Early Music America.
Michael Lynn, director

This concert is an outgrowth of the Baroque Ensemble program at the Oberlin Conservatory this performance will show the breadth of repertoire the students work with on a regular basis. Oberlin’s Historical Performance Department is one of the oldest in the nation, having given degrees in Historical Instruments for almost 50 years.

Thursday, May 24 | 7:00 p.m. | Monroe County Courthouse Rotunda
Michael Walker and Micah Fleming, directors

A vocal and instrumental performance by members of IU's Gamma Ut organization at the Historical Performance Institute. Works by Vivaldi, Corelli, and Scarlatti.

Friday, May 25 | 4:30 p.m. | Trinity Episcopal Church
Presented in collaboration with Early Music America.

Peabody’s B’more Bach Ensemble performs music of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries. They are comprised of selected graduate (MM, GPD, and DMA) students from the Historical Performance Department at John Hopkins University. Members have performed professionally with ensembles such as American Bach Soloists, Apollo’s Fire/Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, Burning River Baroque, Mountainside Baroque, Michigan Bach Collective, Musica
Spira, the Nashville Symphony, Tempesta di Mare/Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, and the Washington Bach Consort.

Friday, May 25 | 7:00 p.m. | Auer Concert Hall

RUMORE TERRIBLE
Martin Bernstein, recorder
Salomé Gasselin, viola da gamba

MÉLISANDE MCNABNEY, harpsichord

VOYAGE SONIQUE
Augusta McKay Lodge and Jeffrey Girton, violin
Keiran Campbell, cello
Robert Warner, harpsichord
Dušan Balarin, theorbo (guest)

Enjoy performances by some of the most impressive emerging talent across the United States. The concert, presented in partnership with Early Music America will be livestreamed by IUMusicLive!

Friday, May 25 | 9:00 p.m. | Serendipity Martini Bar

Featured artists include Brady Lanier & Jon Wasserman, Doodlesack, Duo Pandolfi, La Luna La Mía, Voyage Sonique, and Peter Lim & Craig Slagh.

Saturday, May 26 | 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Bloomington City Hall Atrium and B-Line Trail
Bring your kids and have fun!

Performances include Renaissance Bagpipes (10am), Bloomington Quarry Morris Dancers (B-Line Trail, 11am), Baroque guitar and voice; 17th-C Spanish Romances (12pm).

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Saturday, May 26 | 3:00 p.m. | First Presbyterian Church
Julie Andrijeski, director

Enjoy a concert by graduate students in Case Western Reserve University’s Historical Performance Practice program, with the addition of Dr. Peter Bennett, musicologist and teacher of harpsichord at CWRU and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Debra Nagy acted as guest director for this program, when it was first presented last September.

Saturday, May 26 | 4:30 p.m. | First Presbyterian Church
Adam Knight Gilbert, director
“O virgo splendens: Devotional Music of Iberia”

Hopeful pilgrims prayed, sang, and danced their way across Spain to worship at the shrines of Santiago de Compostela and the Abbey of Santa Maria de Monsterrat. The songs they left behind are reserved in some of the greatest collections of sacred song in European history. This program will present selections of devotional song from the thirteenth-century Cantigas de Santa Maria, the fourteenth-century Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, and contrafacta over the Cantigas d’Amigo of Martin Codax. To illustrate continuities in Spanish sacred music, the program will close with villancicos from the early Spanish Renaissance built on the earliest ground bass progressions.

Saturday, May 26 | 7:00 p.m. | Auer Concert Hall

RACHELL ELLEN WONG, violin

ADRIANA RUIZ, soprano and BENJAMIN KATZ, harpsichord

COSTANOAN TRIO
Derek Tam, fortepiano
Cynthia Black, violin
Frédéric Rosselet, cello

Enjoy performances by some of the most impressive emerging talent across the United States. The concert, presented in partnership with Early Music America will be livestreamed by IUMusicLive!

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Sunday, May 27 | 3:00 p.m. | Trinity Episcopal Church

Les Ordinaires, meaning The Ordinaries to the King, brings to life the grandeur and intimacy of  quintessential 18th century chamber music. Performing on copies of 17th-18th century instruments, the ensemble features the traverso, viola da gamba, and theorbo, which together were known as the Royal Trio. Comprised of leaders in Historically Informed Performance, members perform extensively throughout the United States and collaborate with top period ensembles including Boston Baroque, New York Baroque, Chatham Baroque, Bourbon Baroque, The Vivaldi Project, Smithsonian Chamber Players, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Glimmerglass Opera and the Wolf Trap Opera Company.

Sunday, May 27 | 7:00 p.m. | Auer Concert Hall
A Concert in Memory of Victor Harnack

Led by Jacobs School alumna, Ingrid Matthews, this magnificent ensemble will perform works by Handel, Bach, Rossi, and Vivaldi. A featured work on the program, Bach's Concerto No. 1 in D Minor for harpsichord and orchestra, will be performed by Jory Vinikour.

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