Barcelona Early Music Festival

Barcelona Early Music Festival

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain. It has a trend of holding up illustrious musical events and festivals and Barcelona Early Music Festival held over here stands among some of the best musical festivals held all over the world.

This festival began in 1977. It was a risky venture setting out to ‘discover’ what early music was. Other music festivals of its kind had not even been started at the time of the Barcelona Early Music Festival. Other festivals like The Regensburg Festival and the Boston Festival of USA did not even commence until 1984 and 1985.

Barcelona Early Music Festival was born in the hands of the Caixa and this entity was the main organizer of this musical festival. There is an approximate investment of 184 million Euros as an annual budget by the Caixa in the social, educational, scientific and cultural programs.

There is the strong determination and decisions of a person called Maricarmen Palma behind pioneering this festival. She is the passionate organizer and also the ’alma mater’. She is one of the most influential and respected people in the fields of programming of music, especially in early music. Barcelona Early Music Festival gradually began to encompass new and complementary areas and slowly began to include events like family concerts, lectures and master classes with some of the greatest early music performers.

The philosophy of the festival has always been ’diversification’. This festival is also there to help people increase their existing knowledge of early music and at the same time create new audiences. The Fringe Festival is one of the most important aspects of the Barcelona Early Music Festival. This festival is set up as a competition where young groups perform and gives the selected ones a chance to perform in the context of the festival. Young talented performers also have the access to the programs that are patronized by the Caixa Foundation. A lot of interesting groups have come out from the Fringe festival that remains an integral part of the Barcelona Early Music Festival.

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