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Early Music Voices EMV presents a series of early music concerts each year by local and touring artists in Calgary, AB. Check out our current season!

Join us for our season finale concert! returns with another fascinating cross-cultural musical exploration featuring dir...
15/04/2026

Join us for our season finale concert!

returns with another fascinating cross-cultural musical exploration featuring director Kiya Tabassian with Didem Basar and Patrick Graham. They will bring us on a journey with musical treasures from medieval Spanish and Italian repertoire to Persian music from the 16th and 17th centuries, plus a few original compositions based on 13th-century Persian poetry.

Sunday, May 3, 2026 at 3 PM
Christ Church Elbow Park (3602 8th St SW, Calgary)

Tickets available at the door or online at earlymusicvoices.ca.

Our friend Calgary Bach Society presents an afternoon of choral and organ music exploring the influence of the Italian ...
12/03/2026

Our friend Calgary Bach Society presents an afternoon of choral and organ music exploring the influence of the Italian Baroque on composers like J.S. Bach and Handel.

The program features works by Lotti, Pitoni, Palestrina, Vivaldi, Strozzi, Marcello, and Schubert, with guest sopranos Hannah Pagenkopf & Lauren Woods and organist Gary Tong performing Bach’s transcription of a Vivaldi concerto.

A perfect concert for lovers of Baroque music and first-time listeners alike!

More information and tickets through Calgary Bach Choir’s website at https://www.calgarybachsociety.com/

How closely can an instrument resemble the human voice?Join us this Sunday as trombonist Maximilien Brisson (Montréal) p...
06/03/2026

How closely can an instrument resemble the human voice?

Join us this Sunday as trombonist Maximilien Brisson (Montréal) performs expressive early baroque laments with harpsichordist Christophe Gauthier and organist Luc Beauséjour. Calgary soprano Hannah Pagenkopf - Soprano joins the ensemble for a program exploring the remarkable connection between voice and instrument in 17th-century music.

Scorrete lagrime mie
Sunday, March 8, 2026 | 3 PM | Christ Church Elbow Park

More info & tickets: https://www.polariscentre.ca/emv #

Spend an afternoon immersed in the evocative sounds of early Italian Baroque music at Scorrete lagrime mie!Trombonist Ma...
05/03/2026

Spend an afternoon immersed in the evocative sounds of early Italian Baroque music at Scorrete lagrime mie!

Trombonist Maximilien Brisson, with harpsichordist Christophe Gauthier, organist Luc Beauséjour, and guest soprano Hannah Pagenkopf, will present a programme including works by Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Caccini, Sigismondo d'India, and Giovanni Battista.
This programme explores the connection between voice and instrument, both through their interaction and in the solo exploration of an instrument's capacity to evoke qualities of the voice, exemplified by the sackbut, the early form of the trombone.

Sunday March 8th, 3:00pm
Christ Church Elbow Park
3602 8th St SW
Tickets available at the door or online at earlymusicvoices.ca

Need a midday pause? Step back in time with us!This Wednesday, we’re presenting a FREE noon-hour concert with voices and...
04/02/2026

Need a midday pause? Step back in time with us!

This Wednesday, we’re presenting a FREE noon-hour concert with voices and period instruments — lute, baroque cello, and organ—performing music by John Dowland, J.S. Bach, and more.

When: Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026 | 12–1 p.m.
Where: Cathedral Church of the Redeemer, Calgary

Perfect for anyone curious about early music—or already in love with it. Come hear Calgary’s finest early music specialists bring the past to life!

More info: https://www.proartssociety.ca/early-music-voices/

10/01/2026

Join us tonight for an enchanting concert from Switzerland's Ensemble Pampinea!

January 10th at 7:30pm, Christ Church Elbow Park

May Fortuna lead you to this magical performance!

Join Ensemble Pampinea (Switzerland) for an evening of medieval music from the Ars Nova and Ars Subtilior, while you, th...
07/01/2026

Join Ensemble Pampinea (Switzerland) for an evening of medieval music from the Ars Nova and Ars Subtilior, while you, the audience, take up the role of Fortuna and decide their fate!

Let Fortuna lead you to Christ Church Elbow Park on January 10th at 7:30 pm for EMV's first concert of 2026! For this concert only, we are offering a special deal, BOGO for friends who have never been to an EMV performance! Available at the door only.

January 10th, 7:30pm
Christ Church Elbow Park
Tickets available at the door, or online at earlymusicvoices.ca

Join us Friday, November 7th, for StorySinging with Jonathon Adams! In this class, Jonathon Adams, a Cree-Métis two-spir...
06/11/2025

Join us Friday, November 7th, for StorySinging with Jonathon Adams! In this class, Jonathon Adams, a Cree-Métis two-spirit baritone from amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton, AB), will guide students from the University of Calgary voice area through storytelling in baroque song!

This workshop is free to attend and open to all. Enter through the stage door and follow the signs!

Friday, November 7th
3:00 pm
Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall,
2500 University Dr NW

Then on Saturday, November 8th, hear Jonathon perform alongside Thomas Baeté and Elizaveta Miller in Mad Songs! Enjoy the enthralling program they have crafted together, featuring 16th and 17th-century English mad songs with music by Henry Purcell and his contemporaries.

Saturday, November 8th, 2025
7:30 pm
Christ Church Elbow Park
3602 8th St SW
Tickets available at the door or at 
www.earlymusicvoices.ca

See Janine Williams perform tonight, Saturday, September 27th, in the enchanting concert Saints & Lovers: Medieval Music...
27/09/2025

See Janine Williams perform tonight, Saturday, September 27th, in the enchanting concert Saints & Lovers: Medieval Music on the Margins!

Jeanine Williams (CCC) holds a Master of Counselling and a Master of Music, blending her expertise in psychology and the arts to create integrative wellness practices. As a creative practitioner and artist, she explores the intersection of expressive arts, wellness, and community. Based in Lethbridge, she is dedicated to supporting and promoting authenticity; fostering connection, resilience, and self-expression.

Saturday, September 27th, 2025
7:30 pm
Christ Church Elbow Park
3602 8th Street SW

Hannah Orr is a Canadian soprano and graduate of the University of Manitoba, where she completed her Bachelor of Music d...
27/09/2025

Hannah Orr is a Canadian soprano and graduate of the University of Manitoba, where she completed her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance. Hannah, a distinguished performer, has won several prestigious competitions, including the Provincial Music Festival in Alberta and Manitoba. She was also awarded the Tudor Bowl in her first year of undergraduate studies.
Most recently, Hannah earned 1st place in the Lawrence Genser Competition and was honoured with the "Phyllis Ilavsky Scholarship" at the 2024 Women's Musical Club Scholarship Competition. Additionally, she claimed 1st place in the Zita Bernstein German Lieder Competition.

See Hannah perform this Saturday, September 27th, in Saints & Lovers: Medieval Song on the Margins!

Saturday, September 27th, 2025
7:30 pm
Christ Church Elbow Park
3602 8th Street SW

Join us this Saturday, September 27th, for Saints & Lovers: Medieval Song on the Margins, featuring the wonderful Jaimee...
26/09/2025

Join us this Saturday, September 27th, for Saints & Lovers: Medieval Song on the Margins, featuring the wonderful Jaimee Jarvie!
Jaimee Jarvie, soprano, is an active performer, conductor and teacher in Lethbridge, Alberta, working at the University of Lethbridge Conservatory of Music. She also runs a private voice studio of nearly 40 singers and conducts the Alegre Youth Choir. She performs regularly in the vocal duo Tan & Jam, which has spent the last year hosting a series of fundraiser concerts to raise money for Lethbridge charities. Jaimee Jarvie earned her Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Lethbridge in 2013, followed by her Master of Music Degree in 2024. When she isn’t busy making music, she can be found cross-stitching the day away!

Saturday, September 27th, 2025
7:30 pm
Christ Church Elbow Park
3602 8th Street SW

We are thrilled to welcome the incredible Janet Youngdahl for Saints & Lovers: Medieval Song on the Margins!Janet Youngd...
25/09/2025

We are thrilled to welcome the incredible Janet Youngdahl for Saints & Lovers: Medieval Song on the Margins!
Janet Youngdahl is a soprano, academic and choral conductor, and serves as the Professor of Music at the University of Lethbridge. She has toured with the medieval music ensemble Sequentia and has performed on recordings with several major labels, including Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, BMG, Phillips, RCA and BIS records. A recent recipient of an SSHRC Insight grant, her work has also received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Villa I Tatti. Her work as a specialist in the chant of Hildegard von Bingen has fostered invitations to offer lectures and workshops with the University of Toronto, the University of Calgary, Boston University, Brandeis University and the American Academy in Rome.
Join us Saturday, September 27th, at 7:30 pm for a captivating program curated by Janet Youngdahl, highlighting music composed for women's voices!

Saturday, September 27th, 2025
7:30 pm
Christ Church Elbow Park
3602 8th Street SW

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