The Early Music Centre has organised the annual International Music Festival Bratislava Early Music Day, as one of the most important musical events in the Slovak capital city, since 1996.

With well known specialists from home and abroad, the festival's programming ranks among the leading music festivals not only in Slovakia, but also in an international context. Ensembles that have performed include El concierto Espanol, Les Pages et Chantres de la Chapelle, Concerto Pollacco, Ensemble Baroque de Nice, Musica Antiqua Praha, Musica Aeterna Bratislava, and also the conductors and soloists Andrew Parrott, Steven Stubbs, John Toll, Pascal Dubreuil, Emily van Evera, Elisabeth Wallfisch, Monica Huggett, Eric Hoeprich, and György Vashegyi.

The creation of the festival's programme is built on some basic principals which add an extraordinary hallmark to this international event. Besides performing European music of previous centuries at a level compatible with the highest European standards, the festival also systematically reveals earlier treasures of little known music from Slovakia. Either by performances from composers coming from this region, or works by European composers found in Slovak archives which give evidence of the important musical past of this country.

Another aspect of the festival programme is the parallel organizing of seminars, workshops, and lectures by international celebrities, which meet with great interest from music students. By this means, the Early Music Centre partially compensates for the lack of professional education in the field of early music performance, which is not a regular part of the study programmes at music schools in Slovakia.

No less interesting in the programme of the Early Music Days is the regular inclusion of a work by a contemporary Slovak composer (mostly premieres). This enables an interesting confrontation of the performance of contemporary music on period instruments. The aim of the Early Music Centre is not only to give opportunities for Slovak composers, but also to accentuate the up-to-date ideals of historical interpretation, whilst at the same time, demonstrating the openness and possibility of an active and creative approach to revitalising the music of the past.

Among projects prepared by the Early Music Centre for the coming years, we would like to mention the plan to present the Viennese Kaiserliche Hofkapelle-repertoire. The Imperial Chapel often performed in Pressbourg/Bratislava, especially on the occasion of coronations.