REMA Early Music Day
Every year on 21 March - on Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday and the first day of spring - a variety of events are offered by participants across the globe, all celebrating the many faces of Early Music. Concerts, masterclasses, videos... anyone can add their own contribution, making Early Music Day a meeting place for audiences and professionals!
A global, participative celebration of Early Music
The goal of early music day is to create a living event for the early music community in the broadest sense: performance, education, research, experiences... Each year, hundreds of early music lovers take part in the celebration by organising concerts, events, and happenings, taking place simultaneously all over the world.
An online event
Early Music Day is an important online event as well, with countless online contributions and concerts being live streamed, reaching audiences worldwide.
Partnership and media
A strong partnership with the media is essential to the impact and visibility of Early Music Day. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has been a partner of the event since its first edition in 2013. Partnerships between REMA members/other organisers involved in the project and local, regional and national media in each country complement the European aspect.
The goal of early music day is to create a living event for the early music community in the broadest sense: performance, education, research, experiences... Each year, hundreds of early music lovers take part in the celebration by organising concerts, events, and happenings, taking place simultaneously all over the world.
An online event
Early Music Day is an important online event as well, with countless online contributions and concerts being live streamed, reaching audiences worldwide.
Partnership and media
A strong partnership with the media is essential to the impact and visibility of Early Music Day. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has been a partner of the event since its first edition in 2013. Partnerships between REMA members/other organisers involved in the project and local, regional and national media in each country complement the European aspect.
2026 AMBASSADORS
To embody this new edition, REMA welcomes two leading recorder artists as ambassadors: Lucie Horsch and Sarah Jeffery — inspiring musicians who champion early music on international stages and across digital communities.
Sarah Jeffery — Performer, educator and digital pioneer
Sarah Jeffery is one of the world’s foremost promoters of the recorder and performs regularly all over the globe as a soloist and chamber musician, from Brazil to Singapore, Finland to Australia. Recent accolades range from Best of Classical Music in the NRC for production While We Live, composing/musical direction for short film Recorder Rewrite for the Venice Biennale with artist Song-Ming Ang, and the nomination for Best Media at the prestigious REMA Early Music Awards.
Sarah was appointed as Professor of Recorder at the Royal College of Music in London in 2022. She holds positions including honorary Vice-President of the Society of Recorder Players and is the President of the National Youth Recorder Orchestra UK. Passionate about furthering music education, her popular YouTube channel Team Recorder has gathered more than 220,000 subscribers and aims to make music education more accessible.
Sarah is currently published by both Hal Leonard, with whom she recently released the best-selling official Hal Leonard Recorder Method; and Schott Music, with whom she released her second anthology in 2024. Her debut album Constellations was released in 2018, for which she gained rare permission to arrange Steve Reich’s Vermont Counterpoint, and she is currently signed to label TRPTK for upcoming recordings.
Sarah hails from Derbyshire in the UK, growing up steeped in English folk dance. She studied recorder at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where she graduated cum laude under the tuition of Jorge Isaac and Walter van Hauwe.
Lucie Horsch — A leading virtuoso of the new generation
Lucie Horsch — A leading virtuoso of the new generation
First acclaimed as a child prodigy, Lucie Horsch began studying the recorder at the age of five and attracted national attention at nine through a televised performance in Amsterdam. She has since developed into a stylish Baroque virtuoso with a wide-ranging artistic curiosity that embraces historical performance, contemporary creation and folk-inspired repertoire.
She performs regularly as a soloist with leading orchestras and ensembles including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, B’Rock Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, working with conductors such as Barbara Hannigan, Maxim Emelyanychev, Andrew Manze and Richard Egarr. Lucie is a frequent guest at major international venues and festivals, among them Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Philharmonie de Paris, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Konzerthaus Vienna, the Rheingau and Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festivals, and the Festival de Pâques d’Aix-en-Provence.
In recognition of her exceptional artistry, Lucie was awarded a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2022 and, from the 2024/25 season, has been appointed a Junge Wilde artist at the Konzerthaus Dortmund. A strong advocate for new music, she has commissioned and premiered works by composers such as Lotta Wennäkoski, Freya Waley-Cohen, Kate Moore and Calliope Tsoupaki.
Her debut album Vivaldi received the Edison Klassiek Award in 2017, while Baroque Journey reached No. 1 in the UK Classical Charts and was awarded an Opus Klassik Prize. Her third album Origins explored folk and traditional music from around the world and won the Edison Klassiek Audience Award in 2023. Her most recent release, The Frans Brüggen Project, recorded with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century using historic instruments from Brüggen’s own collection, received an Edison Award in 2025.
She is also an accomplished pianist and mezzo-soprano, holding master’s degrees with distinction in both fortepiano and voice.
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