TVEMF Renaissance Day - a day of small chamber groups, for cornetts, sackbuts, curtals, recorders, viols, lutes, keyboards and other appropriate instruments, plus one-to-a-part singers with good sight reading, organised by Victoria Helby
Heavenly Harmonies - Exploring the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis from William Byrd’s ‘Great’ Service, along with motets by Byrd, Blitheman, Tomkins and Philips.
Explore some of the most intriguing string music of the baroque era in this course focusing on the 17th century - the age of ‘wonder and delight’ in the arts, in which the ability to astonish was the hallmark of every great musician - guided by baroque violinist and director of the highly acclaimed Monteverdi...
The London International Festival of Early Music 2026.
Fortnightly meeting of post-beginner to intermediate viols, tutored by professional gambist, Sarah Small.
MISSA AUDITE ME a 16 by Francesco Stivori (c.1550 – 1605), led by Philip Thorby. This workshop is for voices, wind (including cornetts, sackbuts, curtals, recorders), strings (including all sizes, but larger instruments especially welcome), and continuo (figured bass). Pitch A440.
Guest choir MD for the autumn sessions will be Kristine Donnan. All are welcome. Scores are circulated in advance.
Renaissance Italian canzonas for bowed strings, soft winds and other instruments, led by Alison Kinder.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
Dive into the rich and transportative sound of the viol and improve your ensemble’s playing in this inspiring course with expert coaching from Alison Crum and members of the renowned Rose Consort of Viols.
1535 - a year in the life of Pierre Attaingnant. A workshop for voices and instruments at A=440 with Peter Syrus.
Workshop for voices and instruments - Tomás Luis de Victoria with Huw Morgan.
Workshop for voices and instruments directed by Alison Kinder. Full details will be posted at a later date.
EMFS invites modern string players to come and play Telemann's Concerto for two recorders in A minor, and Concerto for flute and recorder in E minor, under the direction of Philip Redfern.
The Annual Nidderdale "Come & Sing Messiah".
Come and discover Medieval music with Mary Mohan, Jude Rees and Leah Stuttard. Delve into the world of Medieval manuscripts, dance tunes, beautiful sacred music and more.
Fortnightly meeting of post-beginner to intermediate viols, tutored by professional gambist, Sarah Small.
Advent Music with David Allinson. Details TBC.
Come & Sing Messiah with Basingstoke Choral Society. Details TBC.
The intended programme a month before Christmas is to be based on Hieronymous Praetorius’s response to the Gabrielis of Venice, and on some works by similar composers.
The brightest lights have nothing on the brilliance of the next composer in our matinée series: Orlande de Lassus. Born in Mons, in present-day Belgium, Lassus travelled extensively across Europe, acquiring different names along the way: Orlande de Lassus in France, Orlando di Lasso in Italy and Orlandus Lassus in Latin. Whatever the name, his...
This workshop is for voices and all instruments at pitch A=440 especially recorders, strings, brass and reeds. The workshop will explore the Christmas story through the presence of angels as Gabriel appears to Mary, a host announce Christ’s birth to the shepherds, and angels on Earth and archangels in Heaven rejoice on Christmas Day.
William Lyons and Richard Thomas from The City Musick will be heading back to Halsway Manor this Christmastide, bringing with them all the joys of the festive season during the Renaissance. Intended for players of renaissance wind, brass and strings, this course will celebrate the huge variety of sounds and styles of Christmas music heard...
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
EMFS invites modern string players to come and play Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.1 in F major, under the direction of Philip Redfern.
Castle Baroque Players' Lead Tutor Karen Silverwood and Artistic Director Seb Carrington host a workshop day on Handel's Messiah. This workshop is ideal for singers who want a chance to perform choruses from Messiah with a period-instrument orchestra, and for instrumentalists who want expert tuition in historically-influenced performance.
Christmas Workshop for voices and instruments with Philip Thorby.
Choral Workshop: Music for the Salamander King - Francois I of France, led by Andrew Kirkman. A short choral workshop, singing music from the early Renaissance.
Singers and continuo players have the chance to revel in the treasure of Purcell’s solo, ensemble and choral works, with Emily Owen and Satoko Doi-Luck.
Voices & Viols English Jacobean - a workshop for singers and viol players led by Elizabeth Dodd.
An Unusual and Excellent Nobility of Invention This workshop is about female composers of 17th century Italy and will be led by Emily White, a member of the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, who is a tutor new to MEMF.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
The Eastern Early Music Forum annual Epiphany Party with Philip Thorby.
Join Reading Bach Choir as they explore and rehearse this immense work with RBC music director Daniel Mahoney.
Three days of viol consort playing in a variety of groups exploring treasures of 16th- and 17th-century consort music. Tutors: Alison Crum, Peter Wendland.
An inspirational and encouraging weekend of exploring the style and refinement of baroque chamber music. Tutors: Rachel Beckett, Theresa Caudle, Mark Caudle, Oliver John Ruthven, Claire Williams.
Explore the rich and varied repertoire of musicians from court and city in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, for wind and brass instruments: cornett, sackbut, shawm, dulcian, recorder (at 440) and crumhorn.
A focussed three days to help you improve tone and technique through the wonderful flute repertoire of the 18th century. Tutors: Georgia Browne, Benedict Williams.
Paratum cor meum – My heart is ready... to sing! A workshop for singers and players
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
Music to Die For Workshop for voices with Will Dawes (conductor) and Katie Bank (music historian).
This is the 11th PIVA Real Roots! course at Halsway, where you will be exploring the world of late 16th-century popular music - this year concentrating on music from Germany.
A special two-day workshop at the National Centre for Early Music in York, to celebrate 50 years of the North West Early Music Forum. This is a chance to experience multi-part and polychoral works under the guidance of two outstanding tutors and long-standing friends of NWEMF, David Allinson and Gawain Glenton.
Benslow's annual feast for lutenists and allied instruments of all abilities, devised and presented with The Lute Society. Tutors: Sami Brown, Jacob Heringman, Lynda Sayce, Matthew Spring, Sara Stowe, Kristiina Watt.
Renaissance workshop for voices and instruments with Bill Lyons. Further details later.
An instrumental workshop with Lizzie Gutteridge. Repertoire to be advised.
Playing for Dance – Dances Through the Ages Workshop for instruments with Peter Barnard and Kate Billmore of deMowbray’s Musicke.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
Spend a week revelling in glorious baroque harmonies putting together choral and orchestral music in honour of St Cecilia by Henry Purcell and his contemporaries, from first rehearsal to public performance.. Tutors: Naomi Burrell, Gail Hennessy, Fernando Miguel Jalôto, Gavin Kibble, Nicholas Shaw.
Explore a range of baroque techniques and repertoire for natural trumpet with period brass specialist Richard Thomas.
This course offers viol players the chance to explore consort repertoire from the viol’s Golden Age and to improve their technique along the way. Composers studied will include Jenkins, Purcell, Holborne, Lawes and Coperario. There may also be time for a session or two on technical trouble-shooting for those interested.
Explore the wealth and variety of musical timbres and textures found in music of the 12th-15th centuries. Tutors: Emily Baines, Arngeir Hauksson.
A workshop for voices with tutor Katy Silverman. Repertoire to be advised. Organiser: Robert Harris.
Music of the English post-Restoration period, for singers, strings, and keyboard at A415, a workshop led by Ben England.
Workshop for voices and instruments. Didsbury, Manchester. Details TBC.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
Explore the early history of the baroque solo sonata, from the era of Merula and Fontana through to Bach and Handel. Tutors: Naomi Burrell, Satoko Doi-Luck, Gavin Kibble.
Experience the world of Gregorian chant in this inclusive, friendly and informative course led by John Rowlands-Pritchard.
Music to Die For A workshop exploring English Renaissance elegies by Byrd, Weelkes, Ward, Purcell and their contemporaries, with Will Dawes and Katie Bank.
Consumed with Sorrow – the development of compositional styles across Burgundy, the Low Countries, Spain, Italy and England from the 1450s to the 1550s, featuring Robert White’s Lamentations. Chester. Details TBC.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
Glorious renaissance polyphony for choir with historic brass. Tutors: Jeremy West, Gareth Wilson.
This one-day course introduces the key aspects of playing the baroque cello. We will explore, playing without the spike, posture, the baroque bow and temperaments through practical music making. Tutor: Jacob Garside.
A workshop for voices and instruments with George Parris, plus AGM. Repertoire: Heinrich Schütz. Organiser: Ellen Sarewitz.
Finesse your Baroque orchestral skills and learn little-known repertoire with tuition from experts in the field of early music, Theresa Caudle, Mark Caudle, and Claire Williams.
Experience the bliss of dedicated days exploring the viol, with expert tuition from the world-class Rose Consort of Viols. Tutors: Ibi Aziz, Alison Crum, Alison Kinder, Peter Wendland.
Want to know if the viol is for you? Join us for this discovery day course in which tutors provide an introduction to the instrument, basic playing techniques and rich repertoire. No previous string playing experience is required! Tutor: Sam Stadlen.
Sulpitia Cesis and her contemporaries in Modena, for voices and instruments. Wilmslow. Details TBC.
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 singers with David Allinson - further details TBC.
Baroque Dancing - a workshop for dancers and strings. Lancaster. Details TBC.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
The Beauchamp Early Music Course is a practical, creative and social experience for adult amateur musicians. Focusing on Renaissance and early Baroque repertoire, participants sing and play some of the greatest music written in the 16th and 17th centuries. Held over 6 days 18th - 23rd July 2027, for both residential and non-residential attendees, our...
Workshop for voices and instruments with Rory McCleery. Salford. Details TBC.
Veni, dilecte mi’: Intertwining the secular and sacred in music from the Song of Songs. A workshop for voices with Greg Skidmore. Liverpool. Details TBC.
TVEMF Christmas Workshop with David Hatcher - details TBC.