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Donate The American Musicological Society (AMS) is pleased to announce the inaugural recipients of the Society’s new Early Music Organizational Grants. Early Music Organizational Grants provide funding to support programming aimed at the study, teaching, and performance of music before c. 1600 by members of the Coalition of Music Organizations. These grants support programs that build, strengthen, and sustain the research skills needed to knowledgeably study, teach, perform, and illuminate music and musical cultures in the period before c. 1600. Congratulations to the recipients!
Early Music in Columbus (Friends of Early Music, Inc.)
Project: Sequentia performs The Wanderer: Songs of Travel from the Early Middle Ages
This grant will support Early Music in Columbus’s presentation of the ensemble Sequentia, featuring Benjamin Bagby (voice, Anglo-Saxon harps) and Norbert Rodenkirchen (medieval transverse flutes), in its 2026–27 concert season.
In addition to the performance, Early Music in Columbus will sponsor an educational collaboration with the Ohio State University School of Music. Benjamin Bagby will present a lecture and discussion on the Lectures in Music Studies series to musicology and music theory students and faculty. Norbert Rodenkirchen will present the medieval flute to the large and vibrant flute studio of Katherine Borst Jones.
University of North Texas Division of Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology
Project: Denton Waites: An Accessible Pre-1600 Ensemble for Students and Community at the University of North Texas
This grant will establish Denton Waites, a pilot early music ensemble at the University of North Texas open to both students, faculty, and community members. The ensemble focuses exclusively on repertory before 1600 and emphasizes direct, immersive contact with early music: participants will play and sing from original notation, including facsimiles and part books, guided by a professional early music director. Participants will explore medieval and Renaissance music hands-on, using crumhorns, recorders, viols, and voices.
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