Anne Azéma Receives Early Music America’s 2022 Thomas Binkley Award
By Nicolas QuirogaAnne Azéma, Artistic Director of The Boston Camerata, has been honored by Early Music America with the Thomas Binkley Award for outstanding work as an educator, leader of collegiate ensembles, and for her prominent contributions to the study and performance of early music.
Azéma’s teaching activities include master classes, seminars, and residences in conservatories and universities. Her most recent residencies include Boston College and the University of Kansas. Currently, Azéma is a faculty member at the Longy School of Music at Bard College.
As a lecturer and faculty member, Azéma shares her expertise regarding early vocal styles and techniques, early notation, music history, historical language, and stagecraft. In 2012 and again in 2020, she was the Robert M. Trotter Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Oregon, Eugene.
In an official statement, Azéma said, “I am moved and honored to be awarded the Thomas Binkley Award. I would like to think that my contribution as a teacher honors Tom’s vivid example as a creator, scholar, performer, and educator. I am thankful to all my students for contributing to my deeper knowledge of the human soul and for the privilege of sharing with them the joyful power of music making.”
Azéma has also contributed articles to academic and general audience publications, and has lectured at many distinguished universities, including New York University, Harvard University, MIT, Brandeis, Boston University, and Boston College in the U.S. In Europe, she has lectured at Fondazione Benetton, the Fondazioni Cini, and the Schola Cantorum Brasiliensis.
Thomas Binkley was a lutist and scholar of early music and the founding director of the Institute of Early Music at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. The Award honors leaders of collegiate early music ensembles that have made outstanding contributions to the study and performance of early music.
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