Festival Concert Series
All events are part of the Amherst Early Music Festival, June 29 to July 13, 2025 on the campus of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. All concerts are at 7:30 pm, except the opera, which begins at 8 pm.
Tuesday, July 1, 7:30 p.m.
Stolen Roses: Xavier Diaz-Latorre, Baroque lute
Enter the magical world of early plucked strings, with a program of solo works for lute by Biber, Bach, Telemann, Westhoff and Weiss, and others with the virtuoso lutenist Xavier Diaz-Latorre
Der getreue Music-Meister - Baroque Academy Faculty Concert
Thursday, July 3, 7:30 p.m.
With Baroque Academy Faculty: Julie Andrijeski violin, Phoebe Carrai cello, Kathryn Cok harpsichord, Saskia Coolen recorder, Sarah Cunningham viol, Heather Miller Lardin double bass, Kathie Stewart flute, and Wouter Verschuren bassoon.
Baroque Opera: Dafne by Georg Reutter (1708 - 1772)
Friday, July 4, 8:00 p.m.
Musical direction by Richard Stone and stage direction by Nell Snaidas, with Jennifer Ellis Kampani, vocal coach, Lawrence Rosenwald, language coach, Dorothy Olsson and Peggy Murray, historical dance, Ronnie Snader, costumes, and Paul Guttry, sets and props.
Georg Reutte's Dafne (1734), is a festa teatrale composed for the imperial family in Vienna. Drawn from Ovid’s Metamorphoses of classical antiquity, the opera sets the myth of woodland nymph Daphne, her desperate flight from Apollo, lovesick from Cupid’s poisoned arrow, and her magical transformation
Faculty Concert: A Wunderkammer of Early Music I
Saturday, July 5, 7:30 p.m.
A variety show of early music through the ages performed by wonderful AEM faculty using many different instruments and voices. Program will include music from Germany and the German lands: Medieval love songs, Renaissance consort music, high Baroque sonatas, and fantasies that will delight and inspire!
LECTURE
Tuesday, July 8, 7:30 p.m.
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AEM lectures are free and open to the public!
Sarah Jeffery, recorder
Thursday, July 10, 7:30 p.m.
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Buxtehude, Bach, & Bach
Friday, July 11, 7:30 p.m.
The Festival's Choral Workshop, directed by Anna Lenti
Program will include pieces by Dieterich Buxtehude (1637 – 1707): Herzlich lieb hab ich dic, O Herr, BuxWV41, Johann Ludwig Bach (1677-1731) Unsere trubsal, and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-175) Nach dir Herr verlanget mich, BWV 150.
Faculty Concert: Wunderkammer of Early Music II
Saturday, July 12, 7:30 p.m.
A variety show of early music through the ages performed by wonderful AEM faculty using many different instruments and voices. Program will include music from Germany and the German lands: Medieval love songs, Renaissance consort music, high Baroque sonatas, and fantasies that will delight and inspire!
