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  • Medieval Music in the Dales

    Bolton Castle Nr Leyburn, North Yorkshire

    The Medieval Instrumentarium - celebrate instrument design, construction, history and - of course - playing!

  • International Pipe and Tabor Festival

    Peterborough

    The 2025 International Pipe and Tabor Festival with French guest artist Benjamin Melia. The main events will be based near the station and the cathedral.

  • EMFS Workshop: Go 4 B’roque – Viva Vivaldi 3

    Reid Memorial Church Hall, Edinburgh

    All modern strings are welcome to come and play Vivaldi in the latest Go 4 B'roque event.  Spend a morning playing some of Vivaldi's concerti for strings under the direction of Philip Redfern.

  • Renaissance Viol and Recorder Course with Linarol Consort

    Holland House, nr Pershore

    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 Horacek and Timothy Lin.

  • MEMF Workshop with Philip Thorby

    Solihull Methodist Church Blosssomfield Road, Solihull

    Workshop for voices and instruments with Philip Thorby.  There will be a short AGM at lunchtime. This workshop to mark the 540th anniversary of the death of Andrea Gabrieli, and will explore some of his 12-part works for singers, cornetts, sackbuts, recorders, curtals, strings & continuo and, depending on forces, his 16-part Gloria.  

  • NEEMF Workshop: Ludus Danielis with Trouvere

    Burley in Wharfedale Methodist Church

    Ludus Danielis - The Play of Daniel.  Workshop for singers and instrumentalists - flutes, guitar-types and bowed strings of all kinds, harp, psaltery, hurdy gurdy, percussion of all kinds.  Led by Trouvere (Gill Page and Paul Leigh) and Richard de Winter.  

  • Banbury Early Music Festival

    St Mary's Church, Banbury

    Banbury Early Music Festival is for early music fans and newcomers alike, to come and participate in inspiring workshops, listen to world class concerts, leaf through a myriad of music and try out early ​instruments until their heart's content!

  • Recorder Workshop from Sarah Jeffery / Team Recorder

    St Mary's Church, Banbury

    Join renowned recorder player and YouTube sensation, Sarah Jeffery (aka Team Recorder) for an inspiring recorder-focused intermediate-level workshop exploring early music by female composers. Delve into beautiful, lesser-known repertoire in the welcoming setting of St Mary’s Church Hall, Banbury. Limited places available! Don’t miss this unique opportunity to deepen your skills and discover the rich...

  • Multi-Instrumental and Vocal Workshop with Alison Kinder

    St Mary's Church, Banbury

    2025 marks 400 years since the death of Orlando Gibbons, one of the finest composers of the English Renaissance, so what better way to honour his legacy than by playing and singing his music together! In this special multi-instrumental and vocal workshop led by festival founder and viol player Alison Kinder, participants will dive into...

  • Purcell for Singers & Continuo

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    An opportunity for singers and continuo players to explore Purcell's solo songs and ensemble works in detail with Emily Owen and Satoko Doi-Luck.

  • EMFS Workshop: Viol Consort Café

    St Catherine's Argyle Church, Edinburgh

    If you can hold your own sight reading in a consort then come and join Jo and Thomas Green for a sociable playing morning.

  • SEMF Workshop with Emily White

    Headcorn Village Hall Kent

    The workshop will cover a wide range of music, from France, Scotland, Germany and Italy and ranging from 5 to 22 parts. Open to the following instruments: Cornetts, sackbuts, curtals/dulcians, recorders, viol and violin family, plucked continuo.

  • Brighton Early Music Festival

    Brighton

    The 2025 Brighton Early Music Festival: concerts, workshops and more, including: Saturday 27th September: Choral workshop exploring the music of Palestrina, led by Ben Vonberg-Clark. Sunday 5th October: Workshop on French baroque style for early instrumentalists at A=440, led by Sam Stadlen.  

  • NEEMF Workshop: Gibbons anthems with Bill Hunt

    Clements Hall, York Nunthorpe Rd, York

    Anthems by Orlando Gibbons - a workshop led by Bill Hunt.  For all voices, viols of all sizes and soft wind (recorders, flutes) with a supporting role for well behaved curtals in the chorus sections, organ and lute are also welcome, A=440.

  • EMFS Making Music Day and AGM

    Falkirk Trinity Church

    The EMFS annual Making Music Day workshop, directed by Michael Cameron-Longden and Lynne Hope, and tackling music by Orlando Gibbons and contemporaries.  All voices and instruments are welcome.

  • EEMF Two-Day Workshop with George Parris

    Thaxted Parish Church

    Two day event in Thaxted Church with George Parris. Heinrich Schütz Schwanengesang for voices and instruments.

  • Rondo Viol Academy

    St. Katharine's, Henley-on-Thames

    Intermediate and Upper Intermediate.  Run by Jacqui Robertson-Wade and Alison Kinder.

  • Lute Songs from England, France & Germany

    Hawkwood College, Stroud

    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. Open to singers of all ranges as well as lutenists. Facilitators: Emma Kirkby, Florian Franke & Sam Brown.

  • Flute, Lute and Cello Baroque Weekend

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    A friendly introduction for flute, lute and cello players to the rich but sometimes forbidding world of baroque chamber music.

  • BMEMF Workshop with Emily White

    The Drill Hall, Chepstow

    Female Composers of 17th Century Italy with Emily White, for singers and instrumentalists.

  • SWEMF Workshop: Andrea Gabrieli with Philip Thorby

    St Thomas Church, Thorverton

    Philip Thorby will be the musical director of this wonderful workshop, which will mark the 540th anniversary of the death of the great Andrea Gabrieli, composer and first organist at St Mark's in Venice from 1566 until his death in 1585. We will explore some of Andrea's great twelve-part works, including the psalm setting, `Benedicam...

  • Gibbons 400: Voices and Viols with Alison Kinder

    St Stephen's, Rochester Row London

    In this 400th anniversary year of the death of Orlando Gibbons, come and explore the glorious sound-world of music for voices and viols with Alison Kinder.

  • Viol Consorts with Fretwork

    Hawkwood College, Stroud

    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.

  • NEEMF Workshop with Drew Cantrill-Fenwick

    St Francis Church Hall, Newcastle

    From Darkness to Light – a journey through Early Baroque splendour for voices and instruments. An Advent come and sing & play, led by Drew Cantrill-Fenwick, pitch: A=415.

  • EMFS Workshop: Viol Consort Café

    St Catherine's Argyle Church, Edinburgh

    If you can hold your own sight reading in a consort then come and join Jo and Thomas Green for a sociable playing morning.

  • NWEMF Workshop with Gawain Glenton

    St Mary's Church Hall, Sale

    ‘The Sound of Power‘ – Johann Stadlmayr’s Polychoral Music for the Habsburg Courts, a workshop led by Gawain Glenton. The choice of repertoire for this workshop will be tailored as closely as possible to the ensemble on the day, but will hopefully include two 12-part motets: Deus qui glorificantes and Domine quis habitabit. This workshop will benefit from...

  • TVEMF Renaissance Playing Day

    White Hill Centre, Chesham

    Renaissance Playing Day (A=440), for renaissance brass and wind (including recorders), viols and other appropriate instruments, and one-to-a-part singers.

  • SEMF Workshop with Ali Kinder

    Boxgrove Village Hall, Chichester

    Workshop for voices and instruments directed by Ali Kinder, further details TBC.

  • Rondo Viol Academy

    Foxhill House, Frodsham Cheshire

    Preformed Consorts.  Run by Jacqui Robertson-Wade and Alison Kinder.

  • Page to Performance: Medieval Music

    Halsway Manor Halsway Lane, Crowcombe, Taunton

    Come and discover Medieval music with Mary Mohan, Jude Rees and Leah Stuttard. 2025’s focus will be Adam de la Halle.

  • Pam’s Carols 2025

    Online

    Join Pam Smith online via Zoom on the run up to Christmas to play some beautiful medieval carols, in aid of Cheltenham & District Samaritans.

  • Consorted Viols

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Three days of viol consort playing in preformed groups of any level, studying in depth any music chosen by the group, coached by members of the Rose Consort of Viols.

  • SWEMF Workshop with Ali Kinder

    Leckhampton Village Hall Cheltenham

    Praise and Prayer - a day for voices and instruments exploring texts on the theme of praise and entreaty.

  • Gaudete! Festive Renaissance Music

    Halsway Manor Halsway Lane, Crowcombe, Taunton

    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.

  • York Early Music Christmas Festival

    National Centre for Early Music York

    The York Early Music Christmas Festival was created in 1997 to introduce audiences to the extraordinary wealth of music associated with Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, from the Medieval to the Baroque, intertwined with the sagas, stories and tales of the north.

  • EMFS Workshop: Viol Consort Café

    St Catherine's Argyle Church, Edinburgh

    If you can hold your own sight reading in a consort then come and join Jo and Thomas Green for a sociable playing morning.

  • NEEMF Christmas Workshop with Andrew Fowler

    North Road Methodist Church, Durham

    Christmas with the Shepherds, a workshop for singers (all voices), players of soft wind (recorders, flutes, sackbut and curtal) and strings are all welcome.  Pitch: A=440Hz.

  • EMFS Workshop: Go 4 B’roque – Classic Corelli

    Reid Memorial Church Hall, Edinburgh

    Tackle one of the best Christmas pieces written - Corelli's magnificent Concerto Grosso in G minor, the Christmas Concerto - under the direction of Philip Redfern.  All modern string players are welcome.

  • Workshop with Stephanie Dyer a22 – All Instruments Welcome

    Saint Andrew's Church Hall, Marks Tey Colchester

    Bring vocal and instrumental Renaissance works to life in this ensemble performance workshop for winds – cornetts, curtals, recorders, sackbuts and shawms – and string players, with continuo very welcome for those who can supply their own instruments.  Modern string, wind and brass instruments are also warmly invited, provided they are able to read concert-pitch...

  • NEEMF Workshop with Lizzie Gutteridge

    Clements Hall, York Nunthorpe Rd, York

    A party in Ausburg - music of the early 16th century German Town and Dance bands - a workshop for instruments at A=440 pitch.

  • Come & Sing/Play Handel & Bach

    St. Michael and All Angels, Nottingham

    Come and Sing/Play Handel: Dixit Dominus and C P E Bach: Magnificat with Director: Richard Roddis, Répétiteur: Michael Overbury, and Instrumental Specialist: Kelly McCusker.

  • Consorting Viols

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Three days of viol consort playing in a variety of group sizes and exploring some lesser-known repertoire in addition to ‘old favourites’. Tutors: Alison Crum, Peter Wendland.

  • Baroque Chamber Music at A=415

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Inspirational and encouraging instruction in baroque style from expert tutors. For pre-formed chamber groups on period instruments. Tutors: Rachel Beckett, Theresa Caudle, Mark Caudle, Claire Williams, Oliver John Ruthven.

  • The City Musick

    Jackdaws Music Great Elm, Frome, Somerset

    Explore the rich and varied repertoire of musicians from court and city in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, with William Lyons & Richard Thomas.

  • NEEMF Workshop: Zelenka with Chris Roberts

    Northallerton Methodist Church

    This workshop, led by Dr Christopher Roberts, will explore Zelenka’s Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei in D minor ZWV26 (c.1723) and Gloria in F major ZWV30 (1724), and is open to all singers, oboes, sackbuts, bassoon, strings (violins, violas, cellos, violone/double bass) and continuo players (theorbo, organ).  Pitch A = 415.

  • SEMF Renaissance Workshop with Gawain Glenton

    Headcorn Village Hall Kent

    The workshop will focus on the music of Giovanni Croce, a leading Venetian composer of his day. Open to all singers and cornetts, sackbuts, curtals/dulcians, recorders, viol and violin family, plucked continuo.

  • Rondo Viol Academy

    St. Katharine's, Henley-on-Thames

    Preformed Consorts.  Run by Jacqui Robertson-Wade and Alison Kinder.

  • NWEMF Workshop with Lisa Colton

    The Tung Auditorium, Liverpool

    An Early Music Love Affair - a workshop for voices and instruments with Lisa Colton. This workshop is a joint venture with the University of Liverpool, and is designed to bring together experienced early music performers with accomplished singers from the University of Liverpool Chamber Choir, and some instrumentalists.

  • EEMF Epiphany Party with Philip Thorby

    Blyburgate Hall Beccles

    What better subject could there be for St Valentine's Day than love - sacred and profane and all stages in between?  Join EEMF in Beccles on February 14th for a workshop including Gabrieli's two-choir motet Diligam Te Domine, Andreas Hakenberger's rich 12-part setting of Vulnerasti Cor Meum, Cristofano Malvezzi's 15-part A Voi, Reali Amanti, and...

  • PIVA Real Roots!

    Halsway Manor Halsway Lane, Crowcombe, Taunton

    Real Roots!  Exploring the world of late 16th-century popular music.  The core of the programme will consist of playing in a mixture of large and small ensembles, as well as a range of other options each day, including a focus on ensemble techniques, ornamentation and will hopefully also include some vocal sessions.

  • Viol Consorts with Fretwork

    Jackdaws Music Great Elm, Frome, Somerset

    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, with Joanna Levine and Richard Boothby of Fretwork.

  • 17th & 18th Century Chamber Music Workshop

    Higham Hall Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria

    For pre-formed chamber groups (with or without singer) who should bring at least 4 pieces to work on which can be at varying stages of readiness.

  • BMEMF Workshop – El Parnasso Hyspano

    Belmont Abbey, Hereford

    El Parnasso Hyspano - indigenous Latin American music workshop for singers and continuo, with tutors John Sloboda and Rafael Montero.

  • EMFS Workshop: Go4B’rque

    Reid Memorial Church Hall, Edinburgh

    Go4B'rque will meet under the direction of Philip Redfern to look at Rameau's 'Les Indes Galantes'.

  • Rondo Viol Academy

    The Grange, Bury St Edmunds Suffolk

    Advanced.  Run by Jacqui Robertson-Wade and Alison Kinder.

  • Lute Fest in association with The Lute Society

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Plenty of opportunities to play at all levels of ability, and to socialise with like-minded early music enthusiasts. Tutors: Bor Zuljan, Peter Croton, Jacob Herringman, Lynda Sayce, Matthew Spring, Sara Stowe.

  • NEEMF Workshop with Patrick Craig

    Summerhill Bowling Club, Newcastle upon Tyne

    Mary, Mary, quite contrary - a workshop for singers and players looking at music for Mary, Mother of Jesus, and music for Mary Magdalen.

  • Workshop: The Guidonian Hand

    Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe London

    This workshop, led by Sophia Mucke (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and Royal Academy of Music, London) and Dr Oliver Doyle, will be an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of the Guidonian Hand and Solmisation. This workshop is open to all, whether you would like to join in or observe.  Being able to read music...

  • Trills in the Baroque for Recorder Players Part 1

    Online

    Did trills in the baroque always start on the note above the written note?  This online workshop gives some simple examples of where to place trills and how to execute them dispelling the myth that trills in the baroque always started on the note above the main note.

  • EEMF Workshop: Indigenous meets Baroque

    Castle Street Methodist Church, Cambridge

    Workshop of early music with South American links with El Parnaso Hyspano, for voices and continuo. Contact Janet Tanburn janetmtanburn@gmail.com for further details.

  • Easter Early Music Course

    Haberdashers' School, Monmouth

    This popular and highly acclaimed course provides an excellent opportunity for experienced players of viols and recorders to work on early music in a chamber setting.

  • Deep Dive Online Recorder Workshop Series: Interpretation for Beginners Part 4

    Online

    How often do we play early music based on songs without the text present? This is very common for ensembles especially when playing 16th century music.  Most of the music from this period arranged for recorders is vocal music but without the text present how do we know if it is true to the original...

  • Baroque Opera Project: Rameau’s Pygmalion

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Be part of a fully staged historically informed staging of Rameau’s one-act acte de ballet Pygmalion, working from first rehearsal to public performance in six days under the guidance of a team of leading baroque specialists. Tutors: Catarina Costa e Silva, Fernando Miguel Jalôto, Judy Tarling, Gail Hennessy, Josh Salter.

  • BMEMF Workshop with Ali Kinder

    St John's Church, Ludlow

    Repertoire: Très Élégant, the music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier.  Workshop for instrumentalists.

  • Revelry and Refinement: Medieval Band Camp

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    A fun and inclusive introduction to playing and singing medieval repertoire for all instrumentalists and singers. Explore the wealth and variety of musical timbres and textures found in music of the 12th-15th centuries. Tutors: Emily Baines, Arngeir Hauksson.

  • Trills in the Baroque for Recorder Players: Part 2

    Online

    Following on from Trills in the Baroque for Recorder Players Part 1, this workshop provides fingerings, technical exercises to increase control, and examples in the context of standard recorder repertoire.

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