The Boston Camerata

Now celebrating its 72nd season, the Boston Camerata occupies a unique place in the densely populated universe of European and American early music ensembles. Founded in 1954, when the field was in its infancy, the Boston Camerata has achieved its prominence in large part because of its willingness to engage meaningfully with many kinds of historical repertoires across the centuries, from the early Middle Ages to the 19th century, and from places and cultures from the Middle East to Latin America to early New England, with frequent stops in Renaissance and Baroque periods in Europe.

Under the leadership of Anne Azéma, the Boston Camerata continues to create new concert and recorded productions in Boston and elsewhere. These typically combine scholarship, much of it original, with high performance standards maintained by a distinguished roster of outstanding vocal soloists and instrumentalists. The ensemble has a rich history of collaboration, at home and on tour, with partners as varied as the Trinity Boston Choristers, Longy School of Music, Tero Saarinen Dance Company, and the Shaker Community of Sabbathday Lake, Maine.

In addition to live and often staged performances, the Boston Camerata has an extensive media catalog, including two recent, critically acclaimed Harmonia Mundi CDs. The full discography can be viewed at bostoncamerata.org.

Outside of its regular concert series, the Boston Camerata has performed at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2024), the Centennial Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (2025), the Boston Early Music Festival (2025), at festivals in Finland, France, Germany, and Austria (2025), and will tour the U.S. in spring 2027.