Stockholm Early Music Festival
Stockholm Early Music Festival | |
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Genre | Early music |
Dates | First week in June every year. |
Location(s) | Stockholm, Sweden |
Years active | 2002 and ongoing |
Founded by | Peter Pontvik |
Capacity | about 5000 |
Organised by | The largest international event for historical music in the Nordic countries. |
Website | SEMF.se |
Stockholm Early Music Festival (SEMF) is the
Concert halls
Stockholm Early Music Festival's concerts and seminars are organized in The German Church (Swe: Tyska kyrkan), The Finish Church (Swe: Finska kyrkan), The Great Church / The Cathedral Parish Hall (Swe: Storkyrkosalen), (Swe: Storkyrkosalen), The Royal Armoury (Swe: Livrustkammaren), The Medieval Museum (Swe: Medeltidsmuseet) and Mästerolofsgården. All located the Old Town of Stockholm.
Artists
Over the years, SEMF has been visited by many early music artists from various countries, including:
Some of the concerts have been broadcast by the BBC. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Cultural policy work and international profiling
SEMF operates at the cultural policy level and at the forefront of a number of early music actors in Sweden. The aim is to create a national center and stage for early music and dance. The focus for this purpose is Stockholm's oldest concert hall The Musical Palace (Swe: Musikaliska) built in 1878 at Nybrokajen 11.
In 2006, SEMF laid the foundations for the Nordic-Baltic Early Music Network (NORDEM) and has chaired its counterpart European Early Music Network (REMA) (Fra: Réseau Européen de Musique Ancienne) during the years 2011–2015. The festival's artistic director Peter Pontvik is also the initiator of European Day of Early Music.
References
- ^ "About Stockholm Early Music Festival". Retrieved 2020-09-16.
- ^ "Cultural Brands". Retrieved 2020-09-16.
- ^ "Bach Track". Retrieved 2020-09-16.
- ^ "How to combine Bach and Swedish folk music". Sveriges Radio. 2015-03-31. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
- ^ "Highlights from the 2007 Stockholm Early Music Festival". BBC Radio 3, The Early Music Show. 2008-01-12. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
- ^ "Northern Lights: Hans-Ola Ericsson". BBC Radio 3, Early Music Late. 2015-12-13. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
- ^ "Concentus Musicus Wien". BBC Radio 3, Early Music Late. 2017-02-26. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
- ^ "Ensemble Inegal in Stockholm". BBC Radio 3, Early Music Late. 2018-09-09. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
External links
- SEMF's website: www.semf.se
- NORDEM's website: www.nordem.org/
- REMA's website: www.rema-eemn.net/
- European Day of Early Music's website: www.earlymusicday.eu/