Festival Oude Muziek
The Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht (Utrecht Early Music Festival) is an annual music festival that showcases and celebrates early European art music. The ten-day festival takes place in the Dutch city of Utrecht, and begins in August. The programme includes concerts, activities, lectures, exhibitions, and a symposium.
The primary venue is TivoliVredenburg, which opened in 2014. TivoliVredenburg is on the former site of an earlier music venue, Muziekcentrum Vredenburg. The Muziekcentrum was the festival's primary venue until it was demolished in 2008, to allow for new construction. The main concert hall of the Muziekcentrum was subsumed into the TivoliVredenburg.
Each year, the festival's organisers adopt a theme, which focuses on a particular place, time, and style in early music. The theme shapes not only the style and musical repertoire of the performances, but also the period instruments used.
== Themes ==
2005 - Polyphony
2006 - Le nuove musiche: the Seicento in Italy
2007 - Ars audiendi: the art of listening
2008 - Siglos de Oro: Spain in the 16th century
2009 - Three Germans in England: Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn and a bit of Purcell
2010 - Louis Quatorze: Two centuries of French baroque music
2011 - Roma - Città eterna
2012 - From Sweelinck to Bach
2013 - #Europe
2014 - Habsburg: ten centuries of music from Vienna and Prague
2015 - England, my England:
2016 - La Serenissima
2017 - Sing, Fight, Cry, Pray - Music of the Reformations
2018 - The Burgundian life
2019 - Napoli – the forgotten capital of music
2020 - Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht: alternative online/offline edition
2021 - Music speaks – Let's talk
2022 - Gallantry
2023 - Revival
2024 - Seville
2025 - Museum art?
2026 - Giving Voice
2027 - Humanism
2028 - Citizens!
Early music revival
Historically informed performance

== External links ==
Official website
 Media related to Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht at Wikimedia Commons