Early Music Festival embraces Universe

There’s a universal feel to this year’s Galway Early Music (GEM) Festival which will take place in Galway City from Friday to Sunday, May 27-29, with a wide variety of in-person and online events.

The theme is Musica & Scientia, with a focus on music and the stars; the harmony of the planets in their orbits; the music of mathematics and geometry; music in art; and the music at the heart of the universe.

“We’re going full ‘steam’ ahead this year and placing music and art at the centre of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), as it was from the time of Pythagoras right up to the Baroque era,” says Festival Director, Maura Ó Cróinín. “The idea that the universe is based on harmony and proportion, and that this is expressed not only in the sciences of mathematics, geometry and astronomy, but also in music opens a new way of experiencing the wonderful music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras.”

The festival starts with The Astrolabe, a concert following the movement of scientific and musical ideas from the Middle East to Europe in the Medieval period. This will be presented by tenor Wolodymyr Smishkewych and Friends. Discovering Light will be a celebration of the celestial sky with baroque flutist and astral photographer, Teddie Hwang, and harpsichordist Yonit Kosovske.

In Listening to Pictures, the renowned Orlando Consort will present a show focusing on leading Renaissance painters and composers. California-based Alphabet Baroque Club with guest soprano Ruth Cunningham, will perform From Chaos to Lawes, a concert that highlighting diverse aspects of science.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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