The musicians of the Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) have been travelling to Bremen on a regular basis for many years, making several successful recordings in the Sendesaal, including their Grammy Award-winning 2014 recording of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s »La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfer«. These world-famous musicians have also been regular guests at the Musikfest Bremen.

In November 2008, the Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble made its debut in Boston with John Blow’s »Venus and Adonis« and Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s »Actéon«. The ensemble brings together a selection of outstanding young singers, who perform both as soloists and as part of the ensemble in fine operatic works and other rarities from the repertoire.

2008 also saw the creation of the Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble, who soon after made their debut in the newly launched Chamber Opera Series. As the chamber music core of the BEMF Orchestra, the ensemble performs on a project-by-project basis under the direction of Paul O’Dette, Stephen Stubbs, or the orchestra’s director, Robert Mealy. They bring together leading Baroque instrumentalists from around the world.

The ensemble’s artistry is evident in their numerous recordings, many of which have won international awards. The ensembles have also undertaken successful tours with their chamber opera productions, including a North American tour of Handel’s »Acis and Galatea« (2011), another one with works by Charpentier (2014), and their European tour of »The Dragon of Wantley« (2025), an extravagant and colourful Baroque romp which delighted last year’s Musikfest audience.