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  • Come & Sing Messiah

    Beckfoot School, Bingley

    BFCS Musical Director Thomas Leech will take us through a selection from Handel's Messiah.  Sing along with our friendly and supportive choir!

  • 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.

  • Come & Sing with Stile Antico

    King's High School, Warwick

    Come and join a consort of singers from Stile Antico in singing music from their programme ‘The Golden Renaissance’ ahead of their performance at St Mary’s Church.

  • 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...

  • Spanish Vespers with Platinum Consort

    St Barnabas, Pimlico London

    This Chamber Weekender brings together a reconstructed Vespers drawn from the works of Spain’s most distinguished Renaissance composers, many of whom knew, influenced, or were aware of each other’s music.  Directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Come & Sing Vivaldi Gloria

    Christ Church, Skipton

    Come & Sing Vivaldi Gloria and other Baroque excitement with Tim Knight.

  • 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.

  • Early Music Forum Scotland Choir

    St Mark's Unitarian Church, Edinburgh

    The EMFS Choir will meet under the direction of Michael Cameron-Longden to continue exploring the music of Orlando Gibbons and his contemporaries.

  • Bach Christmas Oratorio

    St Mary's Church, Battersea London

    A series of three workshops exploring the rich tapestry of choruses, chorales and select solo movements from J.S. Bach’s Weinachtsoratorium (Christmas Oratorio).  Directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger. These workshops can be booked individually, or as a bundle. 8th November (Parts I & II) 6th December (Parts III & IV) 10th January (Parts V & VI) Three Workshop...

  • SEMF Workshop: Palestrina with David Allinson

    Challock Memorial Hall

    This workshop will explore Palestrina’s supreme mastery in the so-called ‘parody’ Mass genre.  In this type of setting, the composer bases their Mass on a pre-existing polyphonic model – generally a motet or chanson – expanding and rhapsodising on the source material in each ‘movement’.

  • SEMF Workshop with Ali Kinder

    Boxgrove Village Hall, Chichester

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

  • 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.

  • Nidderdale Messiah 2025

    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.

  • 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.

  • MEMF Workshop with Robert Hollingworth

    Solihull Methodist Church Blosssomfield Road, Solihull

    MEMF Workshop with Robert Hollingworth - a workshop for voices and instruments at pitch A=440 with free lunch.

  • 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.

  • Early Music Forum Scotland Choir

    St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh

    The EMFS Choir will meet under the direction of Michael Cameron-Longden to sing some seasonal Christmas music.  Mince pies and nibbles will be provided!

  • 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...

  • 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

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • EMFS Choir Meeting

    Polwarth Parish Church, Edinburgh

    The EMFS Choir will meet at Polwarth Parish Church under the direction of Michael Cameron-Longden to look at some songs by John Dowland.

  • London Motet & Madrigal Club Meeting

    St Michael's, 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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'.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • London Motet & Madrigal Club Meeting

    St Michael's, 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.

  • 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.

  • The Victoria Line – Choral Workshop

    St Barnabas, Pimlico London

    Take a ride on the Victoria Line as we enjoy an afternoon of motets by Tomás Luis de Victoria, the leading Spanish composer of the late Renaissance and a central figure in sacred music of the Counter-Reformation.  Educated in Rome and closely associated with the Jesuit order, his music is known for its clarity of...

  • NWEMF Workshop with David Allinson

    Didsbury Baptist Church Beaver Rd, Manchester

    From Despair to Joy: Holy Week with Tomás Luis de Victoria, a choral workshop led by David Allinson.

  • EMFS Workshop with Laurie Stras

    12 Bellevue Cres, Edinburgh

    Music and Ritual in a 16th Century Florentine Convent - Workshop for SA voices, Viols and low recorders led by Laurie Stras.

  • 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...

  • BMEMF Workshop with Ali Kinder

    St John's Church, Ludlow

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

  • 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.

  • NWEMF Workshop with Rory Wainwright Johnston

    The Harris, Preston

    Missa Ave Virgo Sanctissima by Gery de Ghersem, and other pieces from 17th century Iberia, a workshop for voices with Rory Wainwright Johnston.

  • MEMF Workshop with Katy Silverman

    St Faith and St Laurence Church, Harborne Birmingham

    Composers of the English Reformation. Katy will concentrate on John Sheppard and Robert Parsons who both composed in both English and Latin, in the traditions of Catholic polyphony and then wrote music for the new Protestant reforms.