EEMF Workshop: Valentini with Philip Thorby

St Peter's by the Waterfront, Ipswich College St, Ipswich

Giovanni Valentini Missa Diligam Te Domine a 12-part polychoral workshop for singers and instrumentalists.

London Motet & Madrigal Club Meeting

St Michael's Church, Cornhill, London

A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.

Medieval and Renaissance Consorts

Hawkwood College, Stroud

A weekend of medieval and renaissance consort music coaching and performance, with William Lyons & The City Musick.

Come & Sing with The Renaissance Singers

St Stephen's, Rochester Row London

Treasures from Latin America - Early Polyphony from Mexico, Peru and Bolivia, with Sarah Latto.

NWEMF Workshop: Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla with Clive Walkley

Quaker Meeting House, Lancaster

This workshop provides singers and instrumentalists with an opportunity to perform some of the exciting and rhythmically challenging music by the Spanish composer Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla. The main work to be studied is Padilla’s Missa sine nomine. Booking now open via the link below.

London Motet & Madrigal Club Meeting

St Michael's Church, Cornhill, London

A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.

NEEMF Workshop: The Borgias with Caius Lee

Summerhill Bowling Club, Newcastle upon Tyne

The Borgias: from sinners to saints. Join Caius Lee, Director of College Music at Worcester College, Oxford, and Director of the Florence International Singing Programme, for a day exploring the composers associated with this notorious dynasty.

Come & Sing with Stile Antico

St Clement Danes, London

During this event, you will enjoy exploring sumptuous Sevillian motets written in honour of the Virgin Mary, sacred works written by Mexican composers, and even music in the Nahuatl language of the Aztec Empire.

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.

SWEMF Workshop: Robert Parsons with David Allinson

St Peter's Church, Leckhampton Cheltenham

The reputation of Robert Parsons (c.1535–72), today rests almost entirely on the honeyed beauty of his Ave Maria, with its perfect Amen. But his other sacred music is of such high quality, and so little known, that it will be a pleasure to explore it.

Nidderdale Messiah 2024

Holy Trinity, Knaresborough

A once a year treat for singers to come together to perform Handel's amazing music & raise money for a local charity. This year's event will be conducted by Anthony Gray.

York Early Music Christmas Festival 2024

National Centre for Early Music York

A variety of concerts and other events, including a choral workshop for all presented by Robert Hollingworth, director of I Fagiolini.

London Motet & Madrigal Club Meeting

St Michael's Church, Cornhill, London

A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.

TVEMF Christmas Workshop

Amersham Community Centre Chiltern Avenue, Amersham

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

Christmas Music with Owain Park & The Gesualdo Six

Hawkwood College, Stroud

For centuries Christmas and the surrounding seasons have inspired composers to new heights of invention. The repertoire chosen for this course will reach across the ages: from the eternal beauty of the Tudor church right up to the twenty-first century.

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.

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...

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.

London Motet & Madrigal Club Meeting

St Michael's Church, Cornhill, London

A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.

Bath Bach Choir Choral Workshop: Cantata BWV 75

St Swithin's, Bath

Come and join members of Bath Bach Choir in singing Bach’s cantata Die Elenden sollen essen (BWV 75), under the direction of David Hill, Musical Director of the Choir.

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.

Come & Sing: English Chapel Royal Masters

St Mary at Hill, Eastcheap London

Explore choral masterpieces, learn about their historical and musical contexts, and brush up on singing technique with a vocal expert.

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.

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.

Open Workshop – Monteverdi Vespers of 1610

St Andrew's, Surbiton

Join Twickenham Choral for a workshop on Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 in preparation for their concert with His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornets.

Dorset Bach Cantata Club

D’Urberville Centre, Wool

Cantata 61 Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland. Cantata 182 Himmelskönig, sei willkommen.

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.

MEMF Workshop: Tomkins with Carys Lane

Coton Centre, Tamworth

The Music of Thomas Tomkins – from both his madrigal output, and his sacred output.  A workshop for voices with Carys Lane.

Monteverdi Vespers Workshop

Caversham Heights Methodist Church, Reading

Enjoy a rewarding day singing this sublime piece with former Music Director of Reading Bach Choir, JanJoost van Elburg.

Improvised Polyphony Workshop with Tim Braithwaite

Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe London

Drawing on historical visualisation and memorisation techniques, this session aims to introduce the participant to the basic building blocks of improvised counterpoint. The session is led by Tim Braithwaite, director of the Cappella Pratensis, and is open to all, whether you sing professionally, for fun, or simply enjoy listening to early music.

The Crucifixus Trilogy Chamber Weekender

St Barnabas, Pimlico London

A trilogy of Crucifixus settings by Antonio Lotti, plus Lotti’s setting of Ad Dominum cum tribularer, as well as the Salve Regina by his Venetian forebear, Francesco Cavalli.  Directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger.

London Motet & Madrigal Club Meeting

St Michael's Church, Cornhill, London

A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.

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.

BMEMF Workshop for Singers: Palestrina with David Allinson

The Trinity Centre, Shrewsbury

Join David Allinson for a day exploring Palestrina’s music, in a programme which moves from the majestic to the intimate, from the contemplative to the joyful, and which avoids well-worn and obvious pieces.

EEMF Workshop: Celano with George Parris

Castle Street Methodist Church, Cambridge

Messa La Luna Piena (The ‘Full Moon’ Mass) in 8 parts by Giuseppe Corsi da Celano.  A workshop for singers and instruments with George Parris.

Morales in Granada 2025

Monasterio de San Bernardo, Granada

This course, directed by Gabriel Díaz, will celebrate the music of Spain’s first great composer.  It will be held in the monastery of San Bernardo, in the shadow of the Alhambra in Granada’s Albaicín.  The central work is the mass that Morales based on Josquin’s chanson ‘Mille regretz’.

The Renaissance Singers – Josquin Workshop

St Stephen's, Rochester Row London

This practical workshop, led by Tim Braithwaite, explores how Josquin and his contemporary singer-composers actually visualised their music and the compositional techniques they employed in a musical language so very different from our own.

MEMF Workshop with David Allinson

Collegiate Church of Saint Mary, Stafford Saint Marys Place, Stafford

Hei Mihi, Domine – Iberian Penitential Motets.  A workshop for voices with David Allinson.

Platinum Consort Bach Club Workshop

St Mary's Church, Battersea London

Whether you're new to singing Bach or a seasoned Bach Club stalwart, these workshops offer a chance to deepen your appreciation of his genius. Directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger.

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.    

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.

London Motet & Madrigal Club Meeting

St Michael's Church, Cornhill, London

A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.

The Earth Quakes Chamber Weekender

St Barnabas, Pimlico London

Join the Platinum Consort to enjoy both the soloistic and consort aspects of six of the finest anthems by William Byrd.  Directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger.

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).

NEEMF Workshop with Robert Hollingworth

St James URC, Newcastle

A joint NEEMF/ABCD workshop with Robert Hollingworth in Newcastle, exploring familiar and unknown music to encircle Palm Sunday, including Victoria's Tenebrae. Further details on the NEEMF website Further details on the ABCD website

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.

Round Byrd Choral Evensong

St Mary's, Ross-on-Wye Herefordshire

Evensong for the eve of Palm Sunday (Hosannah to the son of David – Gibbons / Wood in F). Round Byrd is an occasional choir focussing on the “performance” of English Cathedral Music from the 16th and 17th Centuries in a liturgical context.  New singers are always welcome to come to a single event or...

London Motet & Madrigal Club Meeting

St Michael's Church, Cornhill, London

A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.

Come & Sing: Vivaldi and Handel

Holy Sepulchre, London

Ring in the Easter Weekend by joining with fellow singers to form the chorus of Vivaldi’s Gloria and Handel’s Coronation Anthems.

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.

Singing Weekend with Tim Knight

Whalley Abbey Clitheroe

Music will be taken from 'The Oxford Book of Tudor Anthems' and 'The Oxford Book of English Madrigals'.

Tenby: A Portuguese Requiem 2025

St Mary’s Church, Tenby Pembrokeshire

A course directed by Patrick Craig in the historic Pembrokeshire port, centred on the six-part Requiem of the Portuguese composer Manuel Cardoso (c. 1566-1650), interspersed with funerary motets by other Portuguese composers

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.

Come & Sing Benevoli’s Mass

Ryde School Isle of Wight

Come and experience the thrill of singing in Benevoli's four-choir Missa Benevola, led by Robert Hollingworth.

Come & Sing Bach’s Mass in B Minor

St Matthew's, Croydon

Join the Croydon Bach Choir for an exhilarating workshop under the expert guidance of Music Director, Tim Horton. Open to singers of all levels who can follow a score.

MEMF Workshop with Rory McCleery

Emmanual Church, Loughborough

Music of Protest from Renaissance Portugal - join popular tutor Rory McCleery for an exploration of this fascinating and beautiful repertoire, including plangently expressive motets and mass movements by Duarte Lobo, Manuel Cardoso and Estêvão Lopes Morago.

Venetian Voices Workshop

St Mary's Church, Battersea London

Dive into the polychoral grandeur of Venetian sacred music, characterised by cori spezzati and radiant harmonies, with Scott Inglis-Kidger (Director) and Ghislaine Morgan (Associate Musical Director).

EMFS Choral Workshop with Angus Smith

Inverleith St Serf's Church Edinburgh

'Consumed With Sorrow', a workshop singing a selection of Renaissance masterpieces including works by Josquin, Dufay, Ockeghem, Robert White and others, led by Angus Smith.

Dorset Bach Cantata Club

D’Urberville Centre, Wool

JS Bach Cantata 118: O Jesu Christ, mein’s lebens Licht. JS Bach Cantata 146: Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal. JS Bach Motet BWV 230: Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden.

London Motet & Madrigal Club Meeting

St Michael's Church, Cornhill, London

A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.

Benevoli Workshop with Robert Hollingworth

All Saints Clifton Bristol

A workshop for singers led by Robert Hollingworth, on the 4-choir Missa Benevola, by the 17th-century Franco-Italian composer Orazio Benevoli.