coREMA grants: congratulations to the laureates!

REMA is pleased to announce the six 2026 coREMA grant laureates, each receiving a €5,000 award. These innovative projects, driven by collaborations between different early music organisations, stand out for their ability to inspire the network and their commitment to key priorities: promoting environmentally sustainable practices, strengthening cooperation for a sustainable sector, and fostering inclusion and representation at all levels of musical activity.

1. Pneuma: The Sound of Fire — Early Music Concerts Adapted for Sensitive Audiences
Theme: Inclusion and Representation

Led by Phaedrus, Espurnes Barroques Festival, and Early Music Sweden, Pneuma offers early music concerts fully adapted for neurodivergent audiences and their carers, rethinking the concert experience, team training, spatial arrangements, and musical choices. The project challenges implicit norms in classical concerts, fosters dialogue on inclusion within the cultural sector, and develops a methodological guide and toolkit to facilitate the implementation of inclusive practices across Europe.

2. Early Modern Repertoire Database Cooperation
Theme: Cooperation for a Sustainable Sector

ReRenaissance, Ricercar Lab and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis collaborate on a project aimed at centralising and structuring dispersed resources on Renaissance repertoire through a shared online database. The platform provides reliable access to sources for researchers, performers, ensembles, and students, reduces duplication, strengthens visibility of works, and offers a reproducible collaborative model for other European institutions.

3. The Whispering Dome: A Cooperative Model for Sustainable Early Music Practice
Theme: Cooperation for a Sustainable Sector

The Brighton Early Music Festival, The Music Summer School and Festival and The Whispering Dome develop a sustainable cooperation model between a festival and an artistic ensemble, combining creation, teaching, and participation around early music, migration, and environmental themes. The project provides replicable formats for workshops, participatory performances, and educational resources, while engaging environmental organisations and promoting sustainable touring practices and fair remuneration.

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4. Currents of Affects — A European Journey
Theme: Transition to Green Practices

BarokkiKuopio, Sastamala Gregoriana, and the Fondazione ICONS (EUBO) implement a slow touring model combining intensive artistic residency at the Glasperlenspiel Music Festival in Estonia, followed by a flight-free tour to Finland to reduce environmental impact. It allows young European musicians to gain deep intercultural and professional experience, strengthens local engagement and artistic circulation, and offers a reproducible model for transitioning to ecological practices in the early music sector. 

5. GEMF — Taiwan “España 400” (1626–2026)
Theme: Inclusion and Representation

Led by Capella de Ministrers and the Gleam Ensemble, this project celebrates the 400th anniversary of early Spanish-Taiwanese contacts by combining research and international co-creation. It brings together artists and researchers from Taiwan, Spain, Belgium, the Philippines, Korea, and Mexico to reconstruct 17th-century Formosan soundscapes, integrate Asian traditions with Iberian repertoire, and provide an equitable framework for transcontinental cooperation, while strengthening institutional links and the visibility of repertoires on both continents.

6. MATER MISERICORDIAE
Theme: Inclusion and Representation

The Pérgamo Ensemble and the Korkyra Baroque Festival, together with the Canadian soprano Elisabeth Hetherington, are offering an international micro-residency in Croatia combining concerts, workshops, open rehearsals and community engagement. It incorporates a significant focus on accessibility through the participation of a musician with reduced mobility, creates a space for dialogue on inclusion and the sustainability of tours, and produces methodological resources for other festivals and ensembles within the REMA network.