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The Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) is universally recognized as a leader in the field of early music. Since its founding in 1980 by leading practitioners of historical performance in the United States and abroad, BEMF has promoted early music through a variety of diverse programs and activities, including an annual concert series that brings the early music's brightest stars to the Boston concert stage, and the biennial week-long Festival and Exhibition recognized as the "world's leading festival of early music" (The Times, London). Most recently, BEMF initiated a project to record some of its groundbreaking work in the field of Baroque opera; the first in this series, the 2003 Festival centerpiece Ariadne by Johann Georg Conradi, was met with enormous audience and critical praise, including a nomination for a 2005 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. BEMF's next recording project will re-capture the glory of the 2001 Festival centerpiece, Jean-Baptiste Lully's Thesee, and is scheduled to be released prior to the North American premiere of Lully's Psyche at the June 2007 Festival & Exhibition. Through its programs BEMF has earned its place as North America's premier presenting organization for conservators and performers of music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods and has secured Boston's reputation as "America's early music capital" (The Boston Globe).

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