REMA elected a new executive committee at the extraordinary General Assembly in York on the 10th of July. Dori Lopez is the new President for REMA. Dori Lopez is directror of cultural affairs in the department of culture and tourism for the Government of Navarra (Spain). She is also responsable for the Estella festival.
Björn Ross is the new sercetary and Alexandre Santos the treasurer of REMA.
Björn Ross is the director of the Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival (Denmark).
Alexandre Santos is the artistic director of the Casa da Musica in Porto (Portugal) and he is also the director of the early music festival in the same organization.
REMA celebrates its 10th anniversary as part of the 2010 York Early
Music Festival (Friday 9 July, 2.00pm) with a special conference
entitled ‘Early Music: The End of a Movement’.
Chaired by Professor John Bryan of Huddersfield University, with an
international line-up of guest speakers - Graham Dixon (Managing Editor,
BBC Radio 3); Robert Hollingworth (Singer and Director of I Fagiolini);
Chiara Banchini (Educationalist and Director of Ensemble 415); Frans de
Ruiter (President, European House of Culture) and Philippe Beaussant
(Musicologist and Founder of the Centre de Musique Baroque de
Versailles), the conference sets out to question the existence of an
‘early music movement’ as such by exploring the possibility that if
historically informed performance practice is so well accepted is there
any need for a ‘movement’ at all.
This conference poses a fascinating question - guaranteed to stimulate
lively debate amongst members and audience alike.
Admission to the event is free to members of the public attending the
Festival who are advised to book ticket in advance to avoid
disappointment. Contact the NCEM Box Office on 01904 658338 or book
online at: www.ncem.co.uk <http://www.ncem.co.uk/>.
Twenty-five years ago Musica organised a
forum around the historical performance practice. Now it is time to
re-think about the future of "Early Music".
Was stylistic faithfulness to be cherished indefinitely in terms of
obeisance to a dogma? What about contemporary interpretations of early
music? To what extent do sources need to be respected? Are intersemiotic
adaptations acceptable, too?
With a view to making the discussion more productive, Musica took the
initiative in 2009 to organize a new forum for an exchange of opinions.
Flanders Music Centre, REMA (Réseau Européen de Musique Ancienne) and
AMUZ decided to endorse this initiative.
The publication Musica Antiqua Revisited. On the future of the past combines both letters between Sigiswald Kuijken and Björn Schmelzer and
a summary of the debate, held in 2009.
You can download the publication. If you want to order a free copy, send
an email to info@musica.be.
For more information and reactions to the publication: Bart De Vos, bart.devos@musica.be
At the board meeting on the 23th April two new REMA-members were elected:
The festival of early music of Caceres (Spain) and the Associazione Ghislierimusica (Italy).
The REMA DIRECTORY 2010 listing the REMA members with all the useful information to make exchanges (teams /e-mail addresses/addresses/budgets/regions etc) is released. The REMA DIRECTORY is an advantage reserved to members only. If you did not receive it yet by E-mail please contact Marie Koefoed-Gouy.