Following up on the results of the 2022 Survey, this year's questionnaires will look at the situation of the Early Music after facing the series of challenges of the past years. Pandemics, war, climate change, digital innovations, inflation... how are these affecting the activities of Early Music organisations in Europe? Which strategies are implemented, what future are they designing?
All actors of the Early Music field are encouraged to contribute by taking these 5 short surveys focusing on digital practices, diversity, audiences, funding and sustainability. An additional survey aimed at promoters and ensembles will look at the modes of dialogue and negotiation leading to concert programming.

Deadline for entries: 8 December 2024

 

In 2023, the aim of the Studies was to draw up a picture of what early music represents for the individuals who practise it - in short, to seek a definition of early music as an experience. Twenty people involved in early music (musicologists, journalists, music critics, label directors, teachers, artists, instrument makers, programmers and researchers) were interviewed. The result is a three-part investigation that looks at early music from the angle of individual experience, but also typing different paradigms: what are its cornerstones, its perspectives, and its vanishing points? What individual and collective dynamics are at play in the study, research, practice, and appreciation of Early Music? What relationships to time, space, the world, oneself and others does Early Music bring?

This first study was related to activities from 2019-2021. It targeted promoters as they were the core of REMA’s membership during the years surveyed. The results can be seen as a photography of the state of programming, in 5 parts: Artistic programming, Finances, Audiences, Digital practices and Social and green responsibility. It took the effects of the covid crisis into account, using 2019 as a reference year, and documented the level of recovery of the sector from that crisis. This survey was done in cooperation with Henallux, Haute Ecole de Namur Liège Luxembourg, and its laboratory Fors.