• 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...

  • Gibbons & Son Choral Workshop

    St Thomas Church Hall, Lewes

    Anthems and Madrigals by Dr Orlando Gibbons and his son, Christopher. The day will be hosted by James Geer, the LCC Music Director, with Colin Hughes on piano.  The fee for the workshop, including tea, coffee and biscuits, is £26.  To reserve your place, please email your name and voice part to Margaret at: margaretsh1943@gmail.com.

  • SWEMF Workshop with Bruce Saunders

    St Peter's, Bristol Henleaze

    Mass settings by early Tudor composers based on Westron Wynde, including Taverner’s exuberant Gloria, Tye’s angelic Sanctus and Sheppard’s luminous Agnus Dei.

  • Come & Sing St Matthew Passion

    Arnside Educational Institute Carnforth

    This Come & Sing day is part of Levens Choir's early preparations for performances of this sublime choral work in March, 2027, to celebrate its first performance 300 years ago.  Levens' distinguished Music Director, Gawain Glenton,an early music specialist, will be leading the day. Refreshments and music scores (Barenreiter - we will be singing in...

  • Choral Workshop with Bath Bach Choir

    St Mary's Church, Bathwick Bath

    The workshop features Bach’s Cantata Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes (BWV 76), part of the Leipzig Cantata Cycle which also enthralled last year’s workshop attendees, and extracts from the Bach motet Jesu, meine Freude (BWV 227). A wonderful way to fire up February by studying a Bach Cantata alongside the choir and singers from...

  • NEEMF Workshop: Zelenka with Chris Roberts

    Thirsk & Sowerby Town Hall

    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.

  • Tallis in Wonderland: Choral Workshop

    St Barnabas, Pimlico London

    Spend the afternoon with Early music specialist, Scott Inglis-Kidger, who will lead you through a selection of Tallis’s sacred works written in the turbulent years following the English Reformation.

  • 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...

  • SWEMF Workshop with Emma Hornby

    St Monica's Chapel, Bristol

    This workshop will introduce you to seasonal medieval chant (including the tract Jubilate Domino, and one of the Old Hispanic Lamentations chants), together with 13th-century polyphony. All voice parts welcome.

  • Come & Sing with London Handel Festival

    Grosvenor Chapel, London

    Members of the London Handel Orchestra, along with its Principal Conductor, Richard Gowers, will guide singers through some of Handel’s most radiant choral works and choruses from works performed across the Festival. Repertoire: Laudate pueri Dominum HWV 237 O come, let us sing HWV 253 Choruses from Saul and Ode for St Cecilia's Day

  • Bach Club XVII – Choral Workshop

    St Mary's Church, Battersea London

    Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - BWV 65 Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen - BWV 66 Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen (Choruses and chorales only) Directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger

  • Come & Sing Bite-sized Bach & Friends

    St Mary's Church, Whitkirk Leeds

    Delve into music by Tim's favourite composer - JS Bach, together with other maestros of choral music in the impressive Grade 1 listed St Mary's Church in Whitkirk.

  • 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.

  • BMEMF Workshop with Ali Kinder

    St John's Church, Ludlow

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

  • MEMF Workshop with Greg Skidmore & Sue Addison

    Swallowbeck Methodist Church, Lincoln

    !A la Batalla! workshop for voices with Greg Skidmore and Sue Addison.  This workshop will include a mass by Victoria – details to be announced nearer the time.

  • Bristol Early Music Festival

    All Saints Clifton Bristol

    Bristol's Early Music Festival, with concerts, exhibits, workshops, and more...

  • MEMF Workshop: Colossal Baroque with Stephen Bullamore

    St Mary Magdalene Church, Newark-on-Trent

    Save the date for this Workshop for Voices and Instruments with Dr Stephen Bullamore. Music, subject to confirmation, to include large scale works for voices, strings, wind and brass at pitch A=440 by Giovanni Gabrieli (Venice), Heinrich Schütz (Dresden), Orazio Benevoli (Rome), Heinrich Biber (Salzburg), M.A Charpentier (Paris).

  • BMEMF Workshop with David Hatcher

    Bishopswood Village Hall, Herefordshire

    Workshop for singers and instrumentalists with David Hatcher, also includes BMEMF AGM.

  • BMEMF Workshop with Simon Harper

    The Bishop's Palace, Hereford

    Simon Harper tutors a workshop for singers on the theme of Saints and Angels, to include pieces by composers such as Victoria, Sweelinck, Weelkes and Philips.  Further details to be confirmed.

  • NWEMF Workshop with Peter Syrus

    1535 – a year in the life of Pierre Attaingnant - a workshop for voices and instruments with Peter Syrus.  Bramhall, Stockport.