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  • South West Baroque Orchestra Rehearsal

    Culmstock Village Hall, Devon

    South West Baroque Orchestra is the regional period instrument orchestra in the South West.  Applicants are welcome to play for a rehearsal to try out the experience of baroque playing techniques.

  • NWEMF Workshop: Recorders with Polyphonica

    All Saints, Chester

    Grace Barton with Polyphonica Recorder Trio will present a workshop for recorder players exploring how to play vocal and instrumental music of Gabrieli and his European contemporaries. Booking now open via the link below.

  • EEMF Workshop: Convent Music with Laurie Stras

    Swaffham Prior Village Hall Cambridgeshire

    Music and Ritual in a Sixteenth Century Florentine Convent with Laurie Stras. A workshop for upper voices with keyboard and/or viol or harp accompaniment.

  • Page to Performance: Medieval Music

    Halsway Manor Halsway Lane, Crowcombe, Taunton

    Come and discover Medieval music with Mary Mohan and Jude Rees.  Delve into the world of Medieval manuscripts, dance tunes, beautiful sacred music and more.

  • Consorting Viols

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Tutors: Alison Crum, John Bryan, Peter Wendland, Ibi Aziz. 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.

  • South West Baroque Orchestra Rehearsal

    Culmstock Village Hall, Devon

    South West Baroque Orchestra is the regional period instrument orchestra in the South West.  Applicants are welcome to play for a rehearsal to try out the experience of baroque playing techniques.

  • TVEMF Christmas Workshop

    Amersham Community Centre Chiltern Avenue, Amersham

    Lambert de Sayve mass for four choirs, and some festive music - for voices and instruments.

  • Gaudete! Renaissance Music for the Festive Season

    Halsway Manor Halsway Lane, Crowcombe, Taunton

    William Lyons and Richard Thomas from The City Musick will be heading to Halsway Manor for the very first time, bringing with them all the joys of the festive season during the Renaissance.

  • MEMF Christmas Workshop with Patrick Craig

    Dorridge Village Hall Solihull

    This workshop is for any number of voices and all instruments at pitch A=440 – strings, including viols, and all wind and brass.  The workshop will include a selection of different pieces for the festive season by the German composer and music theorist Michael Praetorius.

  • EMF Viol Consort Cafe

    St Catherine's Argyle Church, Edinburgh

    Viol players of all standards are welcome, players will work in small groups of similar standard and experience so everyone will be catered for!  Led by Philip Redfern and Vickie Hobson.

  • NEEMF Workshop: Medieval Christmas with Trouvere

    Clements Hall, York Nunthorpe Rd, York

    Five Centuries of a Medieval Christmas: a workshop for all instruments, led by Paul Leigh and Gill Page of Trouvere. The workshop will look at pieces from the eleventh through to the fifteenth centuries, including plainchant, paraliturgical hymns, secular music and devotional carols from as far afield as France, Sicily and England.

  • Pam’s Carols 2024

    Online

    Join Pam Smith on Zoom for half-an-hour every morning on the run-up to Christmas for some beautiful medieval carols. You will need a treble and a tenor recorder (but feel free to play another instrument or sing if you want) and access to Zoom.  Pam will play one part and you can play the other...

  • Baroque String Band

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Explore the rich repertoire of the 17th-century string band. For baroque instruments at A=415. Tutors: Judy Tarling, Rachel Stott, Kinga Gaborjani.

  • Rondo Viol Academy

    St. Katharine's, Henley-on-Thames

    Elementary, Lower Intermediate, Pre-formed Consorts.

  • MEMF Workshop with Stephanie Dyer

    Solihull Methodist Church Blosssomfield Road, Solihull

    Tribus Miraculis – Music for a Saturday after Epiphany This workshop is for all voices and instruments and Renaissance wind instruments – cornetts curtals, recorders, sackbuts and shawms – are particularly welcome.  String players are also warmly invited to participate plus one continuo player, or others who come with their own instrument.  A=440.

  • Harpsichord Clinic with John Butt

    Handel Hendrix House London

    An opportunity to work on a piece of music with an internationally renowned musician in a friendly and supportive environment.

  • NEEMF Workshop: Marian Music with David Allinson

    St Francis Church Hall, Newcastle

    With this day of music for voices and instruments, David Allinson explores some of the sunniest music of the Renaissance: settings of texts such as Regina Cæli and Ave Maria.

  • EEMF Epiphany Party

    Blyburgate Hall Beccles

    The annual EEMF Epiphany party, this year slightly later than Epiphany.  Philip Thorby will lead a wealth of festive music.

  • Consorting Viols

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Three days of viol consort playing in a variety of group sizes. Tutors: Alison Crum, Peter Wendland.

  • Baroque Chamber Music at A=415

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    For pre-formed chamber groups on period instruments. Tutors: Theresa Caudle, Mark Caudle, Claire Williams, Stephen Preston.

  • Recorder Orchestra Weekend 2025

    Halsway Manor Halsway Lane, Crowcombe, Taunton

    Recorders@Plymouth are back for their annual visit to Halsway Manor, offering an opportunity to explore the huge diversity of recorder orchestra repertoire.

  • SWEMF Workshop with Ben England

    West Leigh Infant School, nr Bristol Backwell

    Purcell Rejoice in the Lord Alway and Monteverdi Beatus Vir.  Workshop with Ben England BEM, for SATB voices and strings.  Pitch will be A=415.

  • The City Musick with William Lyons and Richard Thomas

    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, for wind and brass instruments: cornett, sackbut, shawm, dulcian, recorder (at 440) and crumhorn.

  • Rondo Viol Academy

    St. Katharine's, Henley-on-Thames

    Advanced.

  • PIVA – Real Roots!

    Halsway Manor Halsway Lane, Crowcombe, Taunton

    Exploring the world of late 16th-century popular music, as heard in both court and country.

  • NWEMF Workshop with Laurie Stras

    Wilmslow URC

    Laurie Stras of Musica Secreta leads this workshop for upper voices, all viols, lower pitch recorders and continuo.  The workshop will introduce you to the fascinating record of the musical lives of Florentine nuns at the end of the Renaissance.

  • 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.  Work at 415 or 440Hz, with availability of one harpsichord playable at either pitch, plus Higham’s transposable electric pianos. Tutors: Katharine May and Michael Sanderson.

  • SEMF Workshop with Peter Wendland

    Headcorn Village Hall Kent

    Workshop for voices and instruments directed by Peter Wendland, including works by Hassler, Victoria, Lassus, Praetorius, and Zielenski.

  • Winter Organ Course 2025

    St Michael's Church, Lyme Regis Dorset

    The 2025 winter course will focus on the works of J. Sebastian Bach’s predecessors. Tutors: Philip Scriven, Andrew Millington, Peter Parshall, Peter Lea-Cox, Richard Godfrey.

  • Viol Consorts with members of 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.

  • Benslow Lutefest

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Plenty of opportunities to play at all levels of ability. Tutors: Jacob Heringman, Lynda Sayce, Matthew Spring, Sara Stowe, Evangelina Mascardi, Andrea Damiani.

  • TVEMF Workshop: Stadlmayr with Gawain Glenton

    Chorleywood War Memorial Hall

    Johann Stadlmayr’s polychoral music for the Habsburg Courts - a workshop for singers and renaissance instruments with Gawain Glenton.    

  • SWEMF Workshop: Renaissance Winds with Tim Bayley

    Christ Church, Cheltenham

    The aim of the day is to enjoy the rich and varied sonorities of a Renaissance Wind Band.  Applications welcome from players of Renaissance wind instruments – shawms, sackbutts, cornetts, curtals, crumhorns, recorders, etc.

  • NWEMF Workshop with Philip Thorby

    Didsbury Baptist Church Beaver Rd, Manchester

    Workshop on Missa Diligam Te Domine a 12 by Giovanni Valentini, for voices and instruments, led by Philip Thorby.

  • Easter Early Music Course 2025

    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.

  • Voices and Viols

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    A weekend of 16th and 17th century vocal music ‘apt for voyces and vyalls’, playing mainly in small groups. Tutors: Emma Kirkby, Alison Crum.

  • 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. Tutors: Emily Baines, Arngeir Hauksson (Amyas).

  • MEMF Workshop with George Parris

    St Faith and St Laurence Church, Harborne Birmingham

    George Parris will tutor this workshop, for voices and instruments, on Lamentations by Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla & López Capillas.

  • Come & Play with London Handel Festival

    Royal Academy of Music London

    This year LHF is presenting the festival’s first ever Come and Play, a full-day workshop led by Steven Devine and Kinga Ujszászi for those interested in period instruments and historically informed performance techniques.

  • Baroque Oratorio

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Perform Charpentier's sacred masterpiece Messe pour MrMauroy. Tutors: Miguel Jaloto, Nick Shaw, Kinga Gaborjani, Gail Hennessy, Judy Tarling.

  • A Day of Medieval Music and Dance

    Higham Hall Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria

    Suitable for musicians and dancers who would like to learn Medieval music and dance.

  • Viol and Recorder Consort Playing

    Higham Hall Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria

    Two parallel, friendly courses for players at any level, though not beginners.

  • When in Rome – Renaissance music from the Eternal City

    Swallowbeck Methodist Church, Lincoln

    A workshop for voices and instruments with Greg Skidmore (I Fagiolini) - voices, and Sue Addison (His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts) - instruments. Music will depend on the number of singers (especially lower voices) and instrumentalists applying and will be decided upon nearer the time. Pitch is A=440.

  • NEEMF Workshop: Palestrina with Nancy Hadden

    Clements Hall, York Nunthorpe Rd, York

    This workshop, devised and directed by Nancy Hadden, celebrates the 500th anniversary of Palestrina's birth, featuring the richly expressive sacred music of Palestrina and his Roman contemporaries, Felice Anerio and Luca Marenzio.  For voices, and instruments: viols, recorders, Renaissance flutes, cornetts, sackbuts, curtals.

  • Baroque Orchestral Workshop with Robert Hollingworth & Naomi Burrell

    Ryde School Isle of Wight

    Come and experience a day with brilliant instrumental music by Henry Purcell, led by Robert Hollingworth of I Fagiolini and the University of York, and baroque violin specialist Naomi Burrell. This is a day for modern instruments (strings, oboes and bassoons) at modern pitch.

  • Rondo Viol Academy

    Shepherd's Dene, Northumberland

    Intermediate and Upper Intermediate.

  • NWEMF Workshop with Deborah Catterall

    University of Cumbria Lancaster

    The music of Johannes Prioris, Palestrina and Josquin, for voices, viols, lower recorders and sackbuts.  Lancaster.

  • TVEMF Baroque Chamber Music Day

    White Hill Centre, Chesham

    Baroque Chamber Music Day (A=415) with Victoria Helby, for one-to-a-part singers as well as instrumentalists.

  • Renaissance Polyphony

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Glorious renaissance polyphony for choir with historic brass. Tutors: Jeremy West and Gareth Wilson.

  • Voices, Viols & Recorders Association

    Halsway Manor Halsway Lane, Crowcombe, Taunton

    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.

  • NWEMF Workshop with George Parris

    All Saints, Chester

    The ‘Full Moon’ Mass – an exquisite Italian rarity from the mysterious Giuseppe Corsi da Celano, for voices and instruments.

  • Baroque Orchestra: A European Odyssey

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Exploring national styles in suites and concertos by Purcell, Campra, Corelli, Vivaldi and Fasch. Tutors: Theresa Caudle, Mark Caudle, Claire Williams.

  • Summer Viols

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Four days of viol consort playing in a variety of group sizes with other players of an advanced and upper-intermediate level. Tutors: Alison Crum, Alison Kinder, Ibi Aziz, Peter Wendland.

  • SWEMF Workshop: Gibbons Verse Anthems with Clare Griffel

    St Monica's Chapel, Bristol

    Gibbons Verse Anthems workshop for voices and strings with Clare Griffel. This workshop will explore Gibbons' wonderful legacy of verse anthems with instruments, including ‘See, see, the Word is incarnate’, which reprises the entirety of salvation history in a few astonishing pages, and ‘Behold Thou hast made my days’. Pitch will be A=440; all voices,...

  • The Chalemie Summer School

    Uppingham School, Oakham Rutland

    Chalemie's 25th 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.

  • MEMF Workshop: Schein with Alison Kinder

    Knowle Village Hall, Solihull

    Schein’s Banchetto Musicale – a workshop for instruments (recorders, strings, brass and reeds at pitch A=440) with Alison Kinder.

  • Cambridge Early Music Baroque Summer School

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Weldon/Purcell The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island.  Offered in collaboration with the Academy of Ancient Music (AAM), directed by Laurence Cummings.  Pitch: A=415.

  • Beauchamp Early Music Week

    Malvern College

    This residential course is for singers and players of Renaissance instruments and has been running for many years.

  • Cambridge Early Music Renaissance Summer School

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Charles V and the Spanish Golden Age: music for an empire where the sun never sets - music by Morales, Guerrero, Anchieta, Vasquez, Crecquillon, Victoria and others.  For voices and viols, with Clare Wilkinson, Carys Lane, Giles Underwood, Alison Crum and Alison Kinder.

  • NORVIS 2025

    Barnard Castle School Newgate, Barnard Castle

    The 53rd NORVIS summer school - a week-long early music summer school in County Durham.

  • Baroque Buffet

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    An increasingly popular course for those interested in Baroque performance practice using modern instruments.

  • Early Music Summer School

    Higham Hall Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria

    For competent singers, viol and recorder players, covering music c1450-c1650.

  • Baroque Week Summer School

    Queen Anne's School Caversham, Berkshire

    The theme for 2025 is Visiting Vienna: Exploring Music at the Habsburg Court.

  • Irish Recorder and Viol Course 2025

    An Grianán, Co. Louth

    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, consort songs, trio sonatas, choir, large and small ensembles. Tutors: Ibi Aziz, Caoimhe de Paor, Pamela Flanagan, Philip Thorby, Peter Wendland.

  • Baroque Trios with Zarek Trio

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Join Zarek Trio in a course focused on the baroque trio sonata.

  • HISS 2025

    Bishop Burton College York Road, Bishop Burton

    The Historically Informed Summer School - where folk, traditional and early music meet.

  • Early Music in the Marches Early Music Weekend

    Discoed, Powys

    A Friday night concert given by early music professionals and a two day workshop for vocalists and instrumentalists. Georg Philipp Telemann's 'Paris Quartets' This year focusses on Telemann's famous collection of music for flute, violin, viola da gamba and continuo (cello and harpsichord). Friday night concert: Marches Baroque Ensemble, playing on period instruments, will present...

  • Medieval Music in the Dales

    Bolton Castle Nr Leyburn, North Yorkshire

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