
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
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.

Carissimi's Jephte
Join Cincinnati Camerata and Heri et Hodie for a program of early music featuring Carissimi's Jephte.

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.

Music Live at Lunch: Cincinnati Recorder Consort
Join Cincinnati Recorder Consort (CRC) for a lunchtime concert of music from the Renaissance through late Baroque periods on instruments including recorders, baroque flute, harpsichord, viol, vihuela, and cornamuse.

Early Music Rev 2025
Join us at The Loon in Northside for our yearly Early Music Rev! Some of the best music from the Baroque and earlier can be enjoyed in a lively bar environment.

The Bach Ensemble: Vespers
In the solemn ambiance of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, the Bach Ensemble Orchestra, Chorale, and St. Thomas Choristers will perform selections from Byrd, Bruckner, and Bach.

Collegium Performs Bach
Collegium Cincinnati performs concertos by Bach, including the Violin and Oboe concerto in C minor and Brandenburg Concertos 2 and 5 featuring Ashley Hall-Tigue trumpet.

Knox Presbyterian Church Traditional Worship Service
Knox presents a traditional worship service featuring music of Heinrich Schütz from Symphoniae Sacrae III (1650).

CANCELED - 2025 Tapestry Concert
Unfortunately, due to scheduling conflicts and a shortage of acts, this concert has been canceled.

Old Curiosity Shop: Elena Kraineva, Thomas Georgi, & Michael Unger
This recital for Two Violas d'Amore and Harpsichord features such famous pieces as Partia VII for Two Violas d’Amore and Basso by Biber as well as lesser-known compositions by Schuchbauer, Huberty, and Casadesus.

Ars Perpetuum: Canzoni of the Early Baroque in Italy
Ars Perpetuum brings you music from early 17th Century Italy for Baroque Harp, Bass and Tenor Sackbuts, Cornetto and recorder played on period instruments featuring instrumental Canzoni by Girolamo Frescobaldi, Bartolome de Selma y Salaverde, and others.

The Knox Music Series: An Early Valentine for Music Lovers
The Knox Music Series presents an Early Valentine for Music Lovers program of works by Bach, Mozart, Handel and Vaughan Williams.

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.

Michael Unger: Spirit of 1713
CCM professor Michael Unger will perform a solo harpsichord concert of repertoire by Johann Sebastian Bach and François Couperin.

Music Live at Lunch: Moyen Age with Heri et Hodie
Moyen Age and Heri et Hodie present a joint concert of Jewish vocal and instrumental music from the Medieval period as well as a healthy dose of the Sephardic.

Portuguese Vespers: Service & Performance
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.

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.

Brandon Jack Acker and Christopher Wilke in Concert
Chicago YouTube sensation Brandon Jack Acker and CCM Professor Dr. Christopher Wilke perform a thrilling concert of rare duets for theorbo and baroque guitar!

UK Early Music Collective
The UK Early Music Collective presents a program that includes works by J. S. Bach, Zelenka, Buhl, Crüger, Fantini, and Susato.

Portuguese Vespers: North American Premiere
Co-directors Reina Dickey and Brett Scott present the North American premiere of newly discovered gems of Portuguese Polyphony, performed by local professionals.

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.

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!

Early Music Sing-A-Long: Christmas & Advent Favorites
Come and spend a Saturday morning singing early music favorites for Christmas and Advent with special guest conductors Earl Rivers, Krista Cornish Scott, and Reina Dickey. No experience required!

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.

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)!
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!

Music Live at Lunch: Cincinnati Recorder Consort
Join the Cincinnati Recorder Consort for a lunchtime concert as part of Christ Church Cathedral’s Music Live at Lunch series.

Music Live at Lunch: Heri et Hodie
Join Heri et Hodie for a concert of music for Holy Week as part of Christ Church Cathedral’s Music Live at Lunch series.

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.

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.