Note that 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,
Carinthia. Sept. • Internationale Barocktage, Stift Melk. May/June. •
Innsbrucker
Festwochen der Alten Musik. July/August. • Donaufestwochen im Strudengau. July/August •
Salzburg Whitsun Festival. May/June
Bolivia • Festival de Chiquitos
Belgium • Festival van Vlaanderen, section
Musica Antiqua Bruges, July/August •
Laus Polyphoniae - Festival van Vlaanderen
Antwerp August • Festival van Vlaanderen, Gent. Sept/October. • Festival de Musique Ancienne en Wallonie • Baroque Music at Chateau of
Chimay,
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.
Canada • Montreal Baroque. June. • Vancouver Early Music Festival. August. • Pacific Baroque Festival, Victoria, B.C., February/March •
Lamèque International Festival of Baroque Music, 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 • Letní slavnosti staré hudby (Summer festivities of early music),
Prague. • Opera Barocca,
Prague. • Summer School of Early Music Prachatice
Denmark • Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival. October–November. • Copenhagen Baroque Festival September • Baroktoberfest, Oktober
Finland • [http://www.brq.fi BRQ Vantaa. August. •
Sastamala Gregoriana,
Sastamala. July. Since 1995.
France •
Festival d'Ambronay,
Ambronay. Since 1980. •
Festival de Beaune July. • Festival de l'Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud,
Fontevraud Abbey. Since 1975. • Festival de Musique Ancienne de Saint Sevin,
Saint Sevin. August. • Musiques à la Chabotterie,
Vendée. Since 1997. •
Marseille March. •
Nantes Spring. May/June • Musique ancienne, Maguelone,
Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone June. • Haut-Jura June. •
Aix-en-Provence Festival July. • Le Festival Renaissances,
Bar-le-Duc. July. • Musique ancienne de Callas,
Callas, Var. July. • Musique et Mémoire,
Faucogney-et-la-Mer. July. • Rencontres de Musique Médiévale du Thoronet.
Le Thoronet Abbey • Festival de musique de
Conques. 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. August • Academie Bach,
Arques-la-Bataille. Aug. •
Festival de musique de La Chaise-Dieu,
Auvergne. Aug-Sept. • Festival Les Riches Heures de
La Réole. Septembre • Festival baroque de
Pontoise. Sept-Oct. • Festival de Lanvellec. Oct. •
Marseille Autumn. October- December • Festival Paris Baroque,
Paris. November–December • Saint-Michel en Thiérache,
Saint-Michel, Aisne. • Viola da gamba festival
Asfeld. • Orléans Bach Festival
Germany •
Bachwoche Ansbach,
Ansbach summer. • Arolser Barockfestspiele.
Bad Arolsen. May. • Bach-Biennale
Weimar. Since 2008, biennial in July. • Festival alter Musik Bernau,
Berlin. • Festival Güldener Herbst,
Thuringia; in Weimar, Erfurt, Meiningen, Rudolstadt, Sondershausen, Eisenach, Kühndorf, Suhl and Molsdorf. October • Händelfestspiele •
Handel Festival, Halle (June) •
Handel Festival, Göttingen (May) •
Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe (February) •
Magdeburger Telemann-Festtage,
Magdeburg • Tage Alter Musik,
Berlin Oct. • Landshuter Hofmusiktage, Landshut • Bachtage,
Potsdam •
Bachfest Leipzig,
Leipzig. 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, Whitsun • Tage Alter Musik im Saarland (TAMiS),
Saarbrücken, March/April • Sanssouci,
Potsdam June •
Thüringer Bachwochen,
Thuringia. March/April. • Bayreuth Baroque Sept. • Zeitfenster - Biennale Alter Musik,
Berlin. Biannual in April. • Internationales Heinrich-Schütz-Fest. Moves location, biannual. • Gottorfer Barockmusiktage, ran from 2002-2006.
Hungary • Early Music Festival at
Palace of Arts (Budapest). Since 2015, first quarter of the year. • Early Music Days at
palace of Eszterhaza - Fertőd June/July, since 1984
Iceland • Skálholt Music Festival,
Skálholt, summer festival since 1975 • Reykjavík Early Music Festival, since 2024
Ireland •
East Cork Early Music Festival • Galway Early Music Festival • Sligo Festival of Baroque Music
Israel •
Bach in Jerusalem Festival Italy • Grandezze & Meraviglie, Festival Musicale Estense,
Modena. September/November Since 1998 • Settimane barocche di Brescia,
Brescia. • Festival di Cremona Claudio Monteverdi,
Cremona. May. • FIMA - Festival di Musica Antica,
Urbino. July. • FTMA - Festival Toscano di Musica Antica.
Pisa. • Festival Galuppi,
Venice. • 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 • Musica Antica in Sicilia, Associazione
Antonio il Verso,
Palermo. December •
Piccola Accademia di Montisi,
Tuscany. 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,
Palermo, Sicily, ran 1999-2002
Latvia • Senās mūzikas festivāls, every July in the
Rundāle Palace. • 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 Baroque Festival Netherlands •
Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht. • Geelvinck Early Piano Festival,
Amsterdam.
Norway • Festival,
Bergen. • Festival,
Larvik. • St.Olav Festival,
Trondheim.Ringve International Summer Course
Poland • ANNUM festival
Tarnowskie Góry,
Chorzów • Maj z Muzyką Dawną - May with Early Music,
Wrocław • Jarosław Early Music Festival,
Jarosław • Misteria Paschalia,
Kraków. Easter •
Mikołaj Radomski (Early Music Festival),
Radom • International Festival
Wratislavia Cantans,
Wrocław • Forum Musicum,
Wrocław • Early Music Academy,
Wrocław Portugal • Encontros de Música Antiga de Loulé - Francisco Rosado, EMAL-FR, every October since 1999,
Loulé • West Coast Early Music Festival,
Oeiras,
Lisbon • 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) • CásterAntiqua - Ovar Early Music Festival, Ovar
Romania • Bucharest Early Music Festival,
Bucharest • Miercurea Ciuc Early Music Festival,
Miercurea Ciuc Russia • Sankt Petersburg International Early Music Festival,
Saint Petersburg Serbia •
Belgrade Early Music Festival Slovakia • "Dni starej hudby" - Days of early music,
Bratislava.
Slovenia • Radovljica Early Music Festival,
Radovljica,
Velesovo and
Ljubljana. August. • Seviqc Brežice – Festival Brezice,
Brežice.
Spain • Festival Jordi Savall,
Catalonia, since 2021. • Festival de Música Antigua de Barcelona,
Barcelona, since 1977. • Festival de Música Antigua Iberoamericana "
Domingo Marcos Durán".
Cáceres. • Festival de Música Antigua de Daroca,
Zaragoza, since 1979. August. • Festival de Música Antigua de Sevilla,
Seville. • Festival de Música Antigua,
Gijón. •
Festival de Música Antigua de Úbeda y Baeza.
Úbeda and
Baeza since 1997. • Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada • Música Antigua Aranjuez,
Aranjuez. • Musica Antigua Aracena,
Aracena. • Trobadories d'en Guillem de Bergueda,
Berga,
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. Feb. •
Stockholm Early Music Festival. The largest international event for historical music in the Nordic countries. First week in June since 2002. • Söderköpings Gästabud. Medieval fayre in
Söderköping. 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, cf.
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. • Festival Bach de Lausanne. Oct/Nov. •
Festival Musikdorf Ernen.
Ernen, Switzerland. July. • Bachwochen Thun,
Thun, August/September •
Cantar di Pietre.
Lugano, Switzerland. October–November.
United Kingdom • Medieval Music in the Dales, Yorkshire. September. • Birmingham Early Music Festival. •
Brighton Early Music Festival, Oct/Nov. •
English Bach Festival (ran from 1963 to 2009) • Leicester Early Music Festival. June. • Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music,
London. May. •
York Early Music Festival, 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,
Yorkshire, 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.
New London, Connecticut. • Aston Magna Music Festival. Great Barrington, Massachusetts. •
Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival • Bloomington Early Music Festival,
Indiana • Berkeley Festival & Exhibition, presented by The San Francisco Early Music Society. Since 1990. •
Boston Early Music Festival. • Boulder Bach Festival. Boulder, Colorado •
Carmel Bach Festival,
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. •
English Bach Festival •
Indianapolis Early Music Festival, Indiana. Since 1966. • Houston Early Music Festival,
Houston, Texas. • Madison Early Music Festival,
Madison, Wisconsin. Since 2000. • New York Early Music Celebration,
New York City. Since 2004. • Piccolo Spoleto Festival Early Music Series,
Charleston, South Carolina. • 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],
Washington, D.C. ==See also==