Beckemeyer makes his second appearance at the EMA festival, this time as part of the Young Performers’ Festival with Tonos del Sur, an ensemble founded by Sarah Cranor.

About the Young Performers’ Festival

Since 2010, Early Music America (EMA) has been proud to bring together college and university ensembles throughout North America to perform at the nation’s leading early music festivals in Berkeley, CA, Bloomington, IN, and Boston, MA.

About Tonos del Sur

Tonos del Sur is an historically-informed ensemble comprised of musicians interested in exploring music from the Americas around the Spanish colonization. We aim to bring this early music of the New World to today’s ears, with special interest in how European art music intersects with indigenous musics and languages, the role of music in religion, and how this is relevant to our music-making today. Highlights from the ensemble include music from Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Mexico, and Ecuador, some of which this ensemble has unique access to in this region. We performed the earliest surviving indigenous opera from Bolivia Opera San Francisco Xavier sung and narrated in Chiquitano, Luís Alvarez Pinto Te Deum for Classical ensemble, and portions of Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco La Púrpura de la Rosa, guest co-directed by Nell Snaidas. The ensemble’s leader is baroque violinist Sarah Cranor.