Our Auction of Historically
Informed Performance
Music Instruments is Now LIVE
An Opportunity to Acquire a Piece of EMF History
The Early Music Foundation is holding an online auction of music instruments collected over five decades, encompassing keyboards, winds, strings, brass and percussion. Proceeds will go towards funding the programs and supporting the mission of the Early Music Foundation.
Bids are being accepted now through February 22, 2025 at 5 p.m. EST. We encourage interested bidders to inspect the instruments personally, or send someone to do so on their behalf.
The instruments are located at EMF’s office in New York City, and can be inspected by appointment. Please contact Daniel Guss, General Manager, at 212-749-6600 or d.guss@earlymusicny.org.
This is an exceptional opportunity for aspiring and established musicians in the field of historically informed performance, as well as for patrons and enthusiasts, who can acquire instruments in order to make them available to musicians who otherwise could not afford them.
Early Music Performance Calendar
Concerts and events throughout
the New York Area
Early Music Foundation has a new series of performance videos by ensemble members on our YouTube channel, supplemented by enlightening discussions by the artists. Here are the most recent; you can find a list of all our video and audio features in our latest newsletter.
Wind instrumentalist Wayne Hankin provides informative background and commentary to accompany four entertaining and colorful performances of medieval music on such historic instruments as hornpipes, vessel flutes, bagpipes and double pipes.
Keyboardist Dongsok Shin introduces the lautenwerck, also known as a lute-harpsichord, very likely the instrument for which J.S. Bach composed most of the works we have come to know as lute music. He follows his remarks with a performance of Bach's Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in
E-Flat, BWV 998.
Cellist and gambist Sarah Abigael Stone curates and comments upon a series of split-screen videos of Bach Chorales in which she plays all the parts on various cellos, gambas and assorted percussion instruments.
