The Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht ("Utrecht Early Music Festival") is an annual music festival that showcases and celebrates early European art music. The ten-day festival takes place in the Dutch city of Utrecht, and begins in August. The programme includes concerts, activities, lectures, exhibitions, and a symposium.
The primary venue is TivoliVredenburg, which opened in 2014. TivoliVredenburg is on the former site of an earlier music venue, Muziekcentrum Vredenburg. The Muziekcentrum was the festival's primary venue until it was demolished in 2008, to allow for new construction. The main concert hall of the Muziekcentrum was subsumed into the TivoliVredenburg.
Each year, the festival's organisers adopt a theme, which focuses on a particular place, time, and style in early music. The theme shapes not only the style and musical repertoire of the performances, but also the period instruments used.
Themes 2005 - Polyphony 2006 - Le nuove musiche: the Seicento in Italy 2007 - Ars audiendi: the art of listening 2008 - Siglos de Oro: Spain in the 16th century 2009 - Three Germans in England: Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn and a bit of Purcell 2010 - Louis Quatorze: Two centuries of French baroque music 2011 - Roma - Città eterna 2012 - From Sweelinck to Bach 2013 - #Europe 2014 - Habsburg: ten centuries of music from Vienna and Prague 2015 - England, my England: 2016 - La Serenissima 2017 - Sing, Fight, Cry, Pray - Music of the Reformations 2018 - The Burgundian life 2019 - Napoli – the forgotten capital of music 2020 - Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht: alternative online/offline edition 2021 - Music speaks – Let's talk 2022 - Gallantry 2023 - Revival 2024 - Seville 2025 - Museum art? 2026 - Giving Voice 2027 - Humanism 2028 - Citizens!
See also Early music revival Historically informed performance
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