Events

The Cincinnati Early Music Festival takes place in February each year. The ultimate goal is for this list to include any early music performance in Cincinnati whose organizers want to share it. You can also see events in calendar form instead of as a list or add the full schedule to your Google Calendar or iCal.


The Four Elements: Air
Mar
9

The Four Elements: Air

7HB presents the third installment of their 2024-2025 season with “The Four Elements: Air.” Celebrate warmer weather and the oncoming spring with a program of music inspired by springtide winds, fluttering wings, stately dances, and the music of the spheres. Presented as part of St. Barnabas’ “St. B @ 3” concert series.

View Event →
Rosary Meditation with Zachary Carrettin
Feb
22

Rosary Meditation with Zachary Carrettin

St. Gertrude Church welcomes Zachary Carrettin, one of the world’s most distinguished baroque violinists, to present a musical meditation on the glorious mysteries of the rosary with organist Christopher Holman that features Italian masterpieces of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

View Event →
Early Keyboard Day
Feb
8

Early Keyboard Day

Drs. Micaela Schmitz and Michael Unger present a day of talks and demonstrations on early keyboards that will conclude with a concert by the two presenters. Keyboard players will have opportunities to try their hand at the various instruments.

View Event →
Portuguese Vespers: Service & Performance
Feb
2

Portuguese Vespers: Service & Performance

  • The Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Chains (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Co-directors Reina Dickey and Brett Scott present the North American premiere of newly discovered gems of Portuguese Polyphony, performed by local professionals. After the service, the group will perform additional selections of sacred polyphony.

View Event →
The Four Elements: Water
Feb
2

The Four Elements: Water

7HB continues their 2024-2025 season with “The Four Elements: Water.” Explore the movement and mystery of life-giving water through music: gently rolling rivers, tempestuous storms at sea, icy realms, and flowing tears of both joy and sadness.

View Event →
Early Music Sing-A-Long
Feb
1

Early Music Sing-A-Long

Love singing early music? Let’s do it together! All are welcome to join. Bring a smartphone or tablet if you have one, and be sure to RSVP so we can have enough music and coffee to go around.

View Event →
The Four Elements: Earth
Nov
17

The Four Elements: Earth

7HB commences their 2024-2025 season with “The Four Elements: Earth.” Join us for music which evokes pastoral landscapes, warm hearths and windows, swirling leaves, and the repose and stillness which autumn brings. This concert will also feature a lute concerto written by our friend and frequent collaborator Chris Wilke!

View Event →
Bass Club Cincinnati
Nov
9

Bass Club Cincinnati

Please join Bass Club Cincinnati for this special concert! Jim Lambert will highlight his Viennese Violone; the special sound of this instrument will enchant you while he plays the Dittersdorf Concerto #2. The lecture/demo will include several other pieces, and Jim will answer any questions you have about the instrument and the music of the period.

View Event →
Summer: Four Seasons with Seven Hills
Jul
14

Summer: Four Seasons with Seven Hills

Don’t miss 7HB’s sizzling season finale “Summer: Four Seasons with Seven Hills” featuring Baroque violinist Parastoo Heidarinejad soloing Vivaldi’s Summer concerto from The Four Seasons and Bach’s quadruple harpsichord concerto in A Minor (an arrangement of a four-violin concerto by Vivaldi)!

View Event →
Spring: Four Seasons with Seven Hills
May
19

Spring: Four Seasons with Seven Hills

Celebrate the arrival of warmer weather and longer days with Seven Hills Baroque as we offer our third of four Four Seasons with Seven Hills installments, featuring Spring from Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons - one of the most beloved and widely recognized pieces of classical music!

View Event →
A Lenten Prism
Mar
24

A Lenten Prism

Conducted by L. Brett Scott and Krista Cornish Scott. Featuring excerpts from Musikaliches Exequien and The Seven Last Words of Jesus on the Cross by Heinrich Schutz, these well-known works are interwoven by rarely performed gems from Sulpitia Cesis, Leone Leoni, Maria Perucona and Lucrezia Vizzana, sung from the balcony as a "cloistered" ensemble featuring Christopher Wilke, theorbo.

View Event →
Music Live at Lunch: Moyen Âge
Mar
19

Music Live at Lunch: Moyen Âge

Come enjoy a little medieval music on your lunch break at Christ Church Cathedral’s “Music Live at Lunch” with Moyen Âge, a Cincinnati-based early music ensemble that’s been performing medieval music since 2017.

View Event →