SWEMF Workshop with Tim Bayley
Music for renaissance winds with Tim Bayley.
Music for renaissance winds with Tim Bayley.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
An inclusive course for all to experience Gregorian chant in a friendly, entertaining, informative and enjoyable context. A shared exploration of its music and cultural history, works towards daily performances of a meditative chant sequence. Tutor: John Rowlands-Pritchard.
This course will explore the early history of the solo Sonata, from the era of Merula and Fontana through to Bach and Handel. Participants will study the arts of melody, accompaniment and the interface between them. Tutors: Naomi Burrell, Gavin Kibble, Satoko Doi-Luck.
!A la Batalla! workshop for voices with Greg Skidmore and Sue Addison. This workshop will include a mass by Victoria – details to be announced nearer the time.
With Victoria Helby - for baroque instruments (A=415) and solo singers.
A Party in Augsburg - Music of the early 16th century German Town and Dance bands This workshop is for players of all Medieval & Renaissance instruments at A=440. Players of loud winds are encouraged to also bring a quieter alternative instrument with them for occasional calmer moments. There will be a few pieces in...
Explore, Hear and Play! No musical experience is necessary. In celebration of a recent bequest of Baroque and Renaissance instruments St Mary’s Music School is opening its doors to anyone who would like to learn about, hear, try to play, or share expertise in, early wind, brass and stringed instruments (viols and vielle). The afternoon...
A course in one of Scotland’s most famous churches, centred on the music of Vincente Lusitano (c.1520-1561), a Portuguese composer of African descent.
Bristol's Early Music Festival, with concerts, exhibits, workshops, and more...
An immersive exploration of lute songs from around 1600 in Northern Europe - centred on John Dowland’s best-beloved "First Book of Songes", but also welcoming repertoire from lands that he visited, finding great acclaim in music-loving courts. Open to singers of all ranges - soloists and ensemble voices - as well as lutenists, this course...
This upper-voice (SSA/SSAA) ensemble singing weekend, led by Rory Wainwright Johnston, is built around detailed, small-ensemble choral work, drawing on repertoire from the early Baroque through to the present day.
Non-residential study weekend directed by Philip Walsh.
Intermediate and Upper Intermediate. Run by Jacqui Robertson-Wade and Alison Kinder.
Early Music Extravaganza on the Isle of Wight - includes concerts, workshops, talks, and more!
Music Director: Tim Horton, Piano: William Munks. A choral workshop with free public performance.
Come and sing the choruses from Vivaldi’s momentous Gloria in D major, and learn about the fascinating history of this work. For voices, oboe, trumpet, strings and continuo.
La Fèsta de ƚa Sènsa: Venetian Music for Ascension - a workshop for singers and instrumentalists.
PAW Festival 2026 brings together music, visual art, and poetry in a vibrant programme of nine concerts, a vocal workshop and our annual open mic poetry evening. Featuring I Fagiolini, Parnassus Ensemble, Lizzie Ball, Miloš Milivojević, Fieri Consort, Toby Carr, Liza Sommers & Grace Newcombe, Jeremy Avis, Sam Stadlen, Suntou Susso, Simo Lagnawi, Rebecca Askew,...
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
An un-tutored course for experienced singers and players of early instruments. Non-fixed ensembles of recorders and viols form the main part of the week with a variety of small singing groups depending on participants. Evening sessions for all are conducted and include music for instruments and voices.
Led by Ben England BEM, these events offer a rare opportunity to delve into some of the most sublime works in the vocal canon, including: Allegri’s Miserere Stanford’s Bluebird Bono/U2 (arr. Bob Chilcott) MLK Tallis’ If Ye Love Me Chesnokov (arr. Gowers) Let My Prayer Arise This event will be repeated in Warrington and Wimbledon...
Led by Ben England BEM, these events offer a rare opportunity to delve into some of the most sublime works in the vocal canon, including: Allegri’s Miserere Stanford’s Bluebird Bono/U2 (arr. Bob Chilcott) MLK Tallis’ If Ye Love Me Chesnokov (arr. Gowers) Let My Prayer Arise This event will be repeated in York and Wimbledon...
A full weekend of music-making, inspiration and discovery, including concerts, playing sessions and more.
Workshop for singers with the theme 'Faith as Treason'.
Vocal and instrumental polychoral music with Peter Wendland.
Led by Ben England BEM, these events offer a rare opportunity to delve into some of the most sublime works in the vocal canon, including: Allegri’s Miserere Stanford’s Bluebird Bono/U2 (arr. Bob Chilcott) MLK Tallis’ If Ye Love Me Chesnokov (arr. Gowers) Let My Prayer Arise This event will be repeated in York and Warrington...
Led by Grace Newcombe with Liane Sadler & Colin Heller. Following Friday's fusion of folk and medieval sound worlds, and ahead of her recital of medieval song, Grace Newcombe invites singers to step inside the soundscape themselves. This immersive workshop explores the luminous textures of 15th-century polyphony alongside 13th-century Middle English song.c Open to confident...
Glorious renaissance polyphony for choir with historic brass. Tutors: Jeremy West, Gareth Wilson.
Missa Laetatus Sum by Tomás Luis de Victoria - a workshop for voices and instruments led by Deborah Catterall.
Praetorius and other composers - a workshop for voices and instruments with David Hatcher.
Two separate workshops for small consorts: 1) viols and strings 2) recorders (David will spend time with each ensemble, in two separate rooms).
This course is based on the music of the generation that followed Adrian Willaert and preceded Claudio Monteverdi. Directed by Eamonn Dougan.
Polychoral music by Heinrich Schütz, workshop for voices and instruments with Peter Wendland.
The Pre-Restoration consort anthem: a trove of neglected English treasures, a workshop for voices and instruments with Bill Hunt.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
Summer Viols, directed by Alison Crum and Alison Kinder.
In this discovery day course tutors provide an introduction to the instrument, basic playing techniques and rich repertoire. The course also includes a ticket to the evening's Rose Consort of Viols concert. No previous string playing experience required.
Save the date for this Workshop for Voices and Instruments with Dr Stephen Bullamore. Music, subject to confirmation, to include large scale works for voices, strings, wind and brass at pitch A=440 by Giovanni Gabrieli (Venice), Heinrich Schütz (Dresden), Orazio Benevoli (Rome), Heinrich Biber (Salzburg), M.A Charpentier (Paris).
Vocal music by Edmund Hooper and his contemporaries, with Katy Silverman.
Baroque workshop for instruments at A415 with Walter Reiter. The workshop is for string players (violin and viol families), wind instruments at 415 and continuo, including plucked continuo, and will cover seventeenth century repertoire typical of the Stylus Fantasticus way of writing.
Workshop for singers and instrumentalists with David Hatcher, also includes BMEMF AGM.
Treasures of the Spanish Renaissance ~ the music of the golden century: Cristóbal de Morales, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Philippe Rogier, Juan de Esquivel and Alonso Lobo. Directed by Bill Carslake.
Chalemie Summer School in Early Music, Dance, Period Costume Making and Commedia. Leading performers from the group will direct a series of workshops on 17th/18th century music, song, dance, commedia and costume making, with a particular emphasis on the English repertoire of this period.
This mixed-voice early music workshop marks 400 years since John Dowland with an in-depth exploration of his complete published lute-song output. Working in small mixed-voice ensembles, the weekend will focus on Dowland’s music as shared ensemble repertoire, with attention to text, rhetoric, tuning, contrapuntal clarity and ensemble contact. *More tenors and basses needed!*
Summer Meeting with optional lunch. A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
Workshop for voices and instruments, with Clare Griffel. Details TBC.
Dowland 400 workshop for voices, lutes, viols, recorders and other appropriate softer instruments with Lynda Sayce. Details TBC.
Praise and Prayer - a workshop for all singers and instruments, led by Ali Kinder.
15th century popular songs - a workshop for voices and plucked strings (A=440) with Leah Stuttard.
Summer School for Enthusiasts of Early Music, both instrumentalists and singers, offering full board or daily attendance. Spread over 6 days the course is ably led by David Hatcher and David Allinson, allowing participants to enjoy a high standard of music making.
The Song of Songs: sacred love songs by Palestrina, Lassus, L’Héritier, Gombert and others. For Voices and Viols. Spend time with like-minded musicians, and develop your skills under the guidance of a world-class team of tutors: course director and vocal tutor Clare Wilkinson, vocal tutors Carys Lane, Giles Underwood and Nicholas Hurndall Smith, and viol...
Workshop for Voices with Patrick Allies - details TBC.
The Baroque course will focus on Purcell’s semi-opera Dioclesian. Applications are invited from dancers, proficient singers and confident players of gut-strung Baroque instruments, with Baroque bows, bass viol, violone, recorder, baroque flute, oboe, bassoon, lute family and harpsichord/organ. Pitch: A=415.
NORVIS is the full week-long early music summer school in County Durham which they are proud to describe as one of the UK’s longest-established and friendliest. They teach recorders, Baroque flutes, viols, lutes and early guitars, harpsichords and voices. Repertoire from early Renaissance to late Baroque.
Courses available in choral singing, vocal ensembles, solo singing, baroque orchestra, baroque chamber music, renaissance ensembles and singing, harpsichord and organ. Course tutors include Robert Hollingworth and I Fagiolini, The Lyons Mouth, James Gilchrist, Steven Devine, Gail Hennessy, Gavin Kibble, The Brook Street Band, The City Musick, Jane Chapman & David Titterington.
A course designed for players of recorders, viols and other early instruments, covering a wide repertoire from ancient to modern. Sessions include one-to-a-part groups, workshops, consort songs, trio sonatas, choir, large and small ensembles. Tutors: Ibi Aziz, Caoimhe de Paor, Pamela Flanagan, Peter Wendland, Philip Thorby.
Now in its 16th year, this international summer school explores common grounds between early, folk and traditional music. All singers and instrumentalists welcome. Classes for lute/theorbo, viols, recorders, renaissance wind, early brass, Baroque strings & continuo. Especially welcoming strong singers (potential soloists). Rich programme of music marking anniversaries of de Lalande, Cavalli, Weelkes and Dowland,...
This mixed-voice workshop centres on a varied programme of choral music connected by texts reflecting different aspects of love — playful, devotional, reflective, and lyrical — set across a wide stylistic range. Working in small to medium mixed-voice groups, singers will explore how different composers treat similar themes in very different musical ways.
Renaissance ‘Back-to-School’ – Music for Learning & Scholarship, a workshop for voices and instruments with Stephanie Dyer. Chester.
Music for the Feast of the Holy Cross - a workshop for voices only with Patrick Craig.
Workshop for voices and instruments at A440 with Mark Wilson. Details to follow. Venue Stafford.
Feast of Fools - a workshop for singers and all instrumentalists, led by Dr Leah Stuttard.
Intermediate and Upper Intermediate. Run by Jacqui Robertson-Wade and Alison Kinder.
Five-day Come & Sing event culminating in a full-scale, baroque-pitch performance including Bach's Cantata 140 ("Wachet auf"), Cantata 147, and the Magnificat in D major, led by Ben England BEM.
Simon Harper tutors a workshop for singers on the theme of Saints and Angels, to include pieces by composers such as Victoria, Sweelinck, Weelkes and Philips. Further details to be confirmed.
Polychoral Pentecost, for voices and instruments, directed by Mark Wilson.
The Linarol Consort's Renaissance Viol and Recorder course is for experienced viol and recorder players with an interest in improving their technique on Renaissance instruments and in reading from facsimile. Tutors: David Hatcher and Alison Kinder, assisted by Claire Horácek and Timothy Lin.
Music from the Odhecaton workshop for voices and instruments with Lizzie Gutteridge. Bolton.
Large-scale music by Hassler for voices and instruments, with Gawain Glenton. Details TBC.
Hans Leo Hassler - Large scale music for voices and instruments with Gawain Glenton, Waltham Abbey.
John Hancorn will conduct choruses from Samson and Saul for singers and instrumentalists at A440. Further details later.
Workshop for voices and instruments with Andrea Brown - details TBC.
Five-day Come & Sing event culminating in a full-scale, baroque-pitch performance including Bach’s Cantata 140 (“Wachet auf”), Cantata 147, and the Magnificat in D major, led by Ben England BEM.
1535 – a year in the life of Pierre Attaingnant - a workshop for voices and instruments with Peter Syrus. Bramhall, Stockport.
Workshop for voices and instruments - Tomás Luis de Victoria with Huw Morgan, further details TBC.
Workshop for voices and instruments directed by Alison Kinder. Full details will be posted at a later date.
TVEMF Renaissance Day - details TBC.
Advent Music with David Allinson. Details TBC.
Christmas Workshop for voices and instruments with Philip Thorby.
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