Founded in 2013, Alkemie calls Brooklyn home, but our music knows no bounds. In addition to our New York City concerts, we’ve had the privilege of performing on series including the Amherst Early Music Festival, Arizona Early Music Society, Cambridge Society for Early Music, Capitol Early Music Series, Five Boroughs Music Festival, Johns Hopkins Program in Arts, Humanities & Health, Music Before 1800, and the European Early Music Network’s virtual Early Music Day festival. In 2024 we made our debut at the Berkeley Early Music Festival with Chanticleer, and collaborated with Amanda Gookin’s Forward Music Project to commission and debut 11 new works by women and non-binary composers. 

Equally passionate about recording, we curated, composed, and recorded music for the Peabody and BAFTA award-winning video game Pentiment, and released multiple new albums in the 2023-24 season, including “A Fine Companion,” a dream-pop/shoegaze/psychedelic rock album of troubadour songs that “skillfully transforms troubadour texts into dreamily contemporary journeys,” and “Love to My Liking” which “teem[s] with a rustic, down-home swagger” (Early Music America). Both albums are on the Bright Shiny Things label.

Alkemie has been in residence at Fairmont State University and members have designed workshops and educational outreach programs for the Capitol Early Music Series, Ramaz High School (NYC), Fordham University, Case Western Reserve University, the Strathmore Arts Center, Amherst Early Music Festival, Pinewoods, the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin, and through the Early Music Access Project.

Time travel with us to look at our [current day] future through the telescope of the past and be inspired by alternative realities—we can't wait to share this journey with you!