Academy of Ancient Music

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In 2013-14 the Academy of Ancient Music will present its first London season exclusively at the Barbican, thereby becoming a central part of one of the world’s most vibrant artistic communities. Alongside large-scale performances in the Barbican Hall, the AAM gives five concerts at Milton Court Concert Hall, the Guildhall School’s new building, and latest addition to the growing ‘cultural quarter’ in the heart of the City of London. With a capacity of 608 seats the concert hall is the perfect venue for intimate baroque and classical performances.

The 40th anniversary season, led by Music Director Richard Egarr, displays the breadth of the AAM’s music making: starting at the dawn of the baroque with a stellar-cast performance of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (1607), and ending in the nineteenth century with Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 9 (1824). Along the way the AAM surveys the music of JS Bach, Vivaldi, Haydn and Mozart, and unearths lesser-known works of the composers of the Bach dynasty.

Highlights from the season include:

The AAM’s first London season exclusively at the Barbican, with concerts in the Barbican Hall and Milton Court Concert Hall which opens in September 2013

  • · The start of a three-year cycle of Monteverdi operas beginning with L’Orfeo (28 September 2013)
  • · Alina Ibragimova returns to direct the AAM in performances of Haydn and Mozart in the orchestra’s first concert in Milton Court Concert Hall (24 October 2013)
  • · Soprano Anna Prohaska celebrates the golden age of English baroque music (21 November 2013)
  • · Following an acclaimed debut last season Andreas Scholl returns to sing Pergolesi and is joined by soprano Camilla Tilling (31 January 2014)
  • · Violinist Richard Tognetti directs the AAM in a concert of Vivaldi and Bach inspired by the Dresden Orchestra (27 February 2014)
  • · Angelika Kirchschlager explores the vocal works of Haydn and Mozart with the AAM led by Richard Egarr from the fortepiano (March 2014)
  • · Music Director Richard Egarr directs concertos and suites by JS Bach (27 May)
  • · Richard Egarr and the AAM close its 40th birthday season with the ‘three last symphonies’ of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven (21 June 2014)