THE 2016 York Early Music Festival will present three concerts under its NCEM Platform Artists programme during the July 8 to 16 event.

These hour-long showcases will feature Cantata per Flauto in a new venue for the festival, the York Cemetery Chapel, in Cemetery Road, on July 11 at 6pm; Cecilia Bernardini and Keiko Shichijo at the National Centre for Early Music, Walmgate, on July 13 at 2pm and the Sollazzo Ensemble at All Saints Church, North Street, on July 15 at 4pm.

"As well as inviting established musicians from across the world, we pride ourselves on supporting an ever-increasing number of emerging ensembles, sheltering under the NCEM Platform banner," says festival administrative director Delma Tomlin. "You might like to join in the fun and get their autographs while you can."

German recorder player Tabea Debus, now studying with esteemed York musician Pamela Thorby at the Royal Academy of Music, will explore Shakespeare's off-stage and on-stage world in instrumental pieces and songs by Byrd,Purcell and Thomas Linley the Younger in her Cantata per Flauto concert with viola da gamba player Kate Conway and harpsichordist Pawel Siwezak.

Cecilia Bernardini, violin, and Keiko Shichijo, fortepiano, who appeared in the festival's Jumpstart Jr Day in 2014, return to York to perform sonatas by Schubert and Beethoven, the first light and carefree, the second contemplative, linked in between by Schubert's dreamily romantic Impromptu in G flat major.

As winners of the 2015 York Early Music Festival International Young Artists Competition, The Sollazzo Ensemble are invited to play at this summer's festival. In Parle Qui Veut, Moralistic Songs of the Late Middle Ages, they will highlight a favourite theme in late Medieval song – reflections on human nature – in works by Francesco Landini, Jacopo da Bologna and Jacob de Senleches, among others.

The full festival programme can be found at ncem.co.uk/yemf; tickets are on sale through that website and on 01904 658338.