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.
The London International Festival of Early Music 2026.
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.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
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.
The Annual Nidderdale "Come & Sing Messiah".
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.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
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.
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).
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.
Renaissance workshop for voices and instruments with Bill Lyons. Further details later.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
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.
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.
A workshop for voices and instruments with George Parris, plus AGM. Repertoire: Heinrich Schütz. Organiser: Ellen Sarewitz.
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.
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.