Alkemie Medieval Music Ensemble http://www.alkemie.org
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Alkemie exists to explore and share the life-affirming and alternative perspectives to be experienced in the sounds of centuries past. Comprised of singer-performers playing over a dozen instruments (including vielles, harps, psaltery, gittern, recorders, douçaines, and percussion), the ensemble has a particular interest in the porous boundaries between the court and folk music of the Medieval period.

Fine Companions! Alkemie/Freelance Nun with Smoke Ring & Sibyl

Thursday, March 6, 2025 @ 6:30pm – 10:00pm (EST)
Jalopy Theatre and School of Music, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Alkemie returns to the Jalopy stage to perform music from their album a fine companion, with opening sets by friends Sibyl and Smoke Ring—t…

$25 advance, $30 at the doors ($15 student/economic need)

Alkemie: 'A Worthy Mirror' screening & digital release

Thursday, November 7, 2024 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (EST)
The Secret Loft, Ridgewood, New York, United States
Online and in-person

A Worthy Mirror represents a time-traveling dialogue with the 12th-century trobairitz—the feminine counterpart of the poet-composers known …

$15-$50 sliding scale

Alkemie: Verdant Medicine

Friday, September 27, 2024 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (EDT)
All Saints Episcopal Church, New York, NY, United States
Hildegard von Bingen — Selected works

$30-$50 ($15 student/artist/economic need)

Alkemie: Verdant Medicine

Thursday, September 26, 2024 @ 6:00pm – 7:00pm (EDT)
St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Hildegard von Bingen — Selected works

Free (register at link)

Alkemie: 'Love to My Likin': Album Release Concert

Sunday, April 14, 2024 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (EDT)
All Saints Episcopal Church, New York, NY, United States

Continuing the tradition of the troubadours, the trouvères of Northern France wrote some of the most captivating vocal music of the 13th Ce…

$30-$50 ($15 student/economic need)

Alkemie: 'Love to My Likin': Album Release Concert

Saturday, April 13, 2024 @ 4:00pm – 5:30pm (EDT)
Brooklyn Public Library – Central, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Continuing the tradition of the troubadours, the trouvères of Northern France wrote some of the most captivating vocal music of the 13th Ce…

Free (registration required)

Alkemie: Call Me Marie

Monday, January 29, 2024 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (EST)

"Call Me Marie" is a collaboration with the Grammy-nominated duo Chapter House, based on the fables told by a 12th-century woman who pen-na…

TBA

Alkemie: 'A Fine Companion' Album Release

Thursday, January 11, 2024 @ 6:45pm – 8:45pm (EST)
The Sultan Room, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Charles Mueller — Selected works

$25.14

Alkemie: Pentiment LIVE

Saturday, November 4, 2023 @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm (EDT)
ShapeShifter Lab, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Alkemie opens its 10th season with the first live concert of music from the BAFTA award-winning video game Pentiment, created by Obsidian E…

$25 ($15 student)

Alkemie: Fine Companion

Friday, June 2, 2023 @ 8:00pm – 9:45pm (EDT)
Jalopy Theatre and School of Music, Brooklyn, NY, United States

FINE COMPANION is a program of newly-composed settings of troubadour songs and texts, written in a Baroque dream-pop /shoegaze/ psychedelic…

$25

Alkemie: Awesome Is This Place

Saturday, April 29, 2023 @ 7:30pm – 10:00pm (EDT)
Online event
Shira Kammen — Selected works

$25-$50 ($15 student/economic need)

Alkemie: Awesome Is This Place

Sunday, March 12, 2023 @ 4:00pm – 5:30pm (EDT)
Brooklyn Public Library – Central, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Shira Kammen — Selected works

Free (RSVP recommended)