Open Call for 10 promising Early Music ensembles
The Sustainable EEEMERGING (S-EEE) programme will support 10 promising Early Music ensembles for the years 2026 and 2027, considering them as key partners to ensure a diverse and high-quality artistic scene across Europe.
Launched in 2014, EEEMERGING was born out of a twofold understanding: firstly, Early Music embraces a European dimension in repertory, education and performance and therefore needs to be promoted cooperatively at the European level. Secondly, small ensembles, both attractive to concert programmers and agile in terms of repertory, are the ideal vehicles for transmitting this music that remains rooted in our contemporary, ever-evolving, world.
Taking into account the achievements of the EEEMERGING and EEEMERGING+ programmes, Sustainable-EEEMERGING (2024-2027) moves forward to keep pace with the changing environment, making sustainability one of the core values of the project, while aiming to have an impact on the Early Music ecosystem. For instance, the project will take action to ensure the soundness of professional careers for artists with an historically informed approach, but also to increase the opportunities for the dissemination and reception of Early Music repertoires across Europe by adopting more sustainable practices from an environmental, economic and social point of view.
The project will be carried out through a series of actions defined and implemented by a consortium of 13 organisations and a circle of over 20 partners (promoters, networks, alumni), in cooperation with a community of musicians who have been supported by the programme over the last 10 years.
S-EEE is supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
The S-EEE young ensembles support programme
In implementing this project, all partners have a keen focus on sustainability, of course, but also on diversity in terms of repertoire, social and gender equity, geographical balance, for example. While artistic quality is paramount, imagination, experimentation and attention to a plurality of audiences, outreach projects or sustainability issues, matter.
Following their audition and interview, the selected Ensembles will benefit from a tailor-made Learning programme adapted to each ensemble’s needs. It will be based on the skills necessary to embrace a more sustainable career for musicians, including entrepreneurial skills, care for mental and physical health, definition of an artistic identity and promotion etc… This will be worked out in relation with the sustainability issues specific to musicians and ensembles (e.g. limiting ecological impacts, working conditions…).
