The BEMF season runs through mid-May, and includes performances by the Venice Baroque Orchestra (performing the recently discovered work Andromeda liberata, which may be by Antonio Vivaldi), the Tallis Scholars, the Ensemble Caprice, Kristian Bezuidenhout and Jan Kobow, the Hilliard Ensemble, Tragicomedia, and the Akademie f‹r Alte Musik Berlin. Performances take place in venues in the Boston area.

In the summer of 2005, the thirteenth annual Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition will present Johann Mattheson's 18th-century opera Boris Goudenow.

The Boston Early Music Festival was founded in 1980, and is dedicated to concerts of early music performed with historically appropriate instruments.