Since 1975 the San Francisco Early Music Society (SFEMS) has presented high quality concerts, up-to-date publications, and some of the best education programs available anywhere. All this has contributed to the Bay Area’s reputation as one of America’s leading centers for the performance of early music. Find out more about SFEMS, and how you can become a member.

What does SFEMS do?

• Concerts
  SFEMS produces at least eight major chamber concerts annually and maintains a special commitment to locally-based performers and ensembles. Read about our exciting 2009-2010 concert season, and order tickets on-line.

• Workshops
  SFEMS offers one of the most comprehensive summer early music programs in the United States, led by a faculty of international artists in residence.
  
  Our three adult workshops (Baroque, Medieval and Renaissance, and Recorder) offer instrumental and vocal master classes, lectures, coached ensembles, and recitals, and provide opportunities for musicians and dancers at a variety of levels to improve their ensemble skills, performance techniques, and teaching abilities.
  
  We also offer a Music Discovery Workshop for children ages 7-15.
  
  General information about the 2010 summer workshops is available now, and more detailed information will be available soon.

  Our 2009 summer workshops are now but a memory, but you can still read about them to get a flavor of what we offer at our workshops.
  
  

• Directory
  SFEMS maintains a directory of early music in the Bay Area, including concert series and festivals, instrument makers, music societies, performing groups, performers and teachers, publishers, stores and services, and schools and workshops.

• Affiliates
  Since 1980 SFEMS has assisted groups that share the Society's commitments to music for educational purposes, artistic excellence, a historically informed approach, and operation on a not-for-profit basis.

• Newsletters
  SFEMS publishes a monthly newsletter with articles about local events and groups, and a complete calendar of early music concerts. Past newsletters are available for downloading in PDF format.

• Other early music links

• Locations of SFEMS events

Online ordering from SFEMS via our secure forms

• Purchase concert tickets for the 2009-2010 season..
• Online enrollment for the summer 2010 workshops will be available in early spring of 2010.
• Join SFEMS.
• Donate to SFEMS.