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Early Music America


	EARLY MUSIC AMERICA

Early Music America (EMA) is the not-for-profit service organization for the field of historical performance in North America. Founded in 1985, and currently headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, EMA was formed by a group of passionate early music professionals led by Benjamin Peck, Their goal was to expand awareness of, and interest in, this important repertoire. Since then, the entire field has seen phenomenal growth in the number of performers, concerts, recordings, audience members and students.

Early Music America serves and strengthens the early music community in North America—including professionals, amateurs, and enthusiasts—and raises public awareness of early music. The goals of the society are: expand the audience for early music; serve as representative of and advocate for the field; provide information, technical assistance and referral services to professional and amateur musicians and to the public; provide performers, students and the public with publications to assist their musical activities; enhance and promote education in early music for children and adults; stimulate increased funding for the field. Early Music America wants to help ensure that future generations understand, appreciate and perform early music.

Early Music America's annual budget includes grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation, Kulas Foundation, John P. Murphy Foundation, et al. EMA earns income from dues, advertising and subscriptions.

EMA currently serves over 8,500 individuals and organizations either through memberships, magazine subscriptions or newsstand sales. The members include: professional and amateur performers, educators and scholars, early music ensembles, period instrument orchestras, concert presenters, management companies, instrument makers, colleges and universities, recording companies/radio audience enthusiasts. The early music community represents all 50 states and the District of Columbia, most Canadian provinces, and many other countries worldwide. EMA's dedicated Board of Directors, from Vancouver to Florida, includes both professionals prominent in the field, as well as those devoted to supporting this art form and its practitioners.

EMA publishes the quarterly magazine, Early Music America, where today's contemporary world of early music is brought to the homes of each member and subscriber.

As a member of EMA, you'll be listed within, and receive a personal copy of, our annual Membership Directory, a veritable "Who's Who" in North America's early music scene.

Membership benefits include: discounts on instrument insurance worldwide; educational discount on Sibelius, the music notation software for early music; online concert promotions; comprehensive early music festival and workshop listings; annual EMA Membership Directory; awards & scholarships; networking; quarterly Bulletins; Early Music America magazine; support of the field; festival and concert discounts; discounts on select early music publications; competitions & scholarships; recording discounts; technical assistance.

COMMITTEE

President
Valerie Horst

Vice-presidents
Mary Anne Ballard
Thomas Forrest Kelly
Paul Jacobson

Secretary
Charlotte Newman

Assistant secretary
Karen Flint

Treasurer
Robert Johnson

Assistant Treasurer
Robert Ganley

Executive Director
Maria Coldwell

Membership Director
Sally Mitchell

Director of Marketing
Mark Powell

EARLY MUSIC AMERICA MAGAZINE

Editor
Benjamin Dunham