Dr Jeremy Coleman and Dr Mariella Cassar-Cordina (Department of Music Studies, School of Performing Arts, UM) are members of the Management Committee of the EU COST Action ‘EarlyMuse: A New Ecosystem of Early Music Studies’, and will be attending two days of meetings in Padova, Italy, on 12-13 September 2023, to review the past year and plan the year ahead.

Early music, in all its breadth, and all its experimental dimensions, has been foundational to musicology as an academic discipline, and continues to play, in changing configurations, an essential role in the training courses and research programmes of musicologists. The COST Action ‘EarlyMuse’, a European research network that runs from 2022 to 2026, aims to take this academic and artistic movement in new directions in both research and training by strengthening collaborative practices between all the stakeholders. Rethinking the scientific and experimental field, as well as the material and symbolic value of early music and its modes of promotion in the digital age and in the post-pandemic period, offers tremendous opportunities to revalorise a major part of European musical heritage. For more information and to keep up to date with the Action, visit our webpage.

Additionally, Dr Coleman is leader of Working Group 5 (Policies) and his report on the Working Group’s first meeting in Barcelona, February 2023, has been recently published on the ‘EarlyMuse’ website.