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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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, 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.

  • 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.

  • Sweetest Breaths: Monteverdi & Strozzi

    St Barnabas, Pimlico London

    This Chamber Weekender, directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger, will marry the sacred (Monteverdi Beatus Vir) with the profane (Strozzi Silentio nocivo); two sublime works, exploring rather different subject matter!

  • Singing Workshop: The Sistine Chapel

    Hexagan Music Centre, Beverley

    Join a consort of singers from Stile Antico in a wonderful session singing music from the Sistine Chapel.

  • Round Byrd – Gibbons’ 400th Anniversary

    St Mary's, Ross-on-Wye Herefordshire

    Orlando Gibbons’ 400th anniversary (Second Service / See, see the Word is incarnate). 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 to more.

  • SWEMF Workshop: Guerrero with Huw Morgan

    St Mary's Church, Yatton

    Guerrero Missa Surge Propera with Huw Morgan. Pitch for the day will be A=440.  Forces required are SATB voices plus strings and winds.

  • 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.

  • Come & Sing Vivaldi Gloria

    St Gabriel's, Pimlico London

    Join Bob Porter and the Brandenburg Festival Chorus for a workshop studying choral technique and based around the Vivaldi Gloria, leading to a final performance to raise the roof of St Gabriel's.

  • 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.

  • Come & Sing: Bach: Mass in B minor

    Queen's Gate House London

    Come and sing Bach: Mass in B minor choruses with Goldsmiths Choral Union choir, conducted by Jack Apperley.

  • 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,...

  • 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.

  • Come & Sing Monteverdi & Striggio

    Christ Church, West Didsbury Manchester

    Come & Sing Claudio Monteverdi's glorious Beatus vir, and Alessandro Striggio's Ecce beatam lucem with the William Byrd Singers, led by Keith Orrell.

  • 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.

  • Come & Sing with Richmond Opera

    Raleigh Road United Church, Richmond

    Join Richmond Opera for a joyful day of singing, featuring choruses from Handel's Alexander's Feast and more!  Led by Lindsay Bramley, with Mike Keen on keyboard.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Great Malvern Festival of Singing

    Malvern College

    The festival will be in three independent parts, with one part being an in depth look at some Music of the Renaissance and how to sing Plainsong.

  • Baroque Week Summer School

    Queen Anne's School Caversham, Berkshire

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

  • Come & Sing Vivaldi Gloria

    Old Gourock & Ashton Parish Church Gourock

    Come and join members of the Greenock Philharmonic Choir to sing Vivaldi’s popular Gloria.

  • Come & Sing Bach Magnificat

    Southwell Minster

    Come & sing Bach's Magnificat in the stunning acoustic of Southwell Minster’s Nave, led by Festival Director Marcus Farnsworth.

  • Early Music Choral Workshop with Greg Skidmore

    St Botolph, Bishopsgate London

    An exciting all-day early-music workshop directed by Greg Skidmore. William Byrd (c.1540 - 1623) Ne irascaris Domine Vigilate Orlando Gibbons (1583 - 1625) Hosanna to the son of David Robert Ramsey (c.1590 - 1644) When David heard Thomas Tallis (c.1505 - 1585) In jejunio et fletu Thomas Weelkes (1576 - 1623) O how amiable are...

  • The Gonzaga Legacy with Platinum Consort

    St Barnabas, Pimlico London

    This season of Early Nights traces the far-reaching influence of the Gonzaga court in shaping sacred music at the turn of the 17th century.

  • Medieval Music in the Dales

    Bolton Castle Nr Leyburn, North Yorkshire

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

  • Come & Sing St John Passion

    All Saints Clifton Bristol

    A chance to sing selected movements from Bach's wonderful St John Passion - in English.  Led by musical director Hilary Campbell and accompanied by Steve Kings.

  • Early Music Forum Scotland Choir

    Polwarth Parish Church, Edinburgh

    The EMFS Choir will meet under the direction of Michael Cameron-Longden to start the autumn term by looking at some music by Orlando Gibbons, in this the 400 year anniversary of his death.

  • Come & Sing Psalms

    Briantspuddle Village Hall Dorset

    A day exploring settings of psalms by Callcott, Lasso, Quarles, Tallis, Tomkins & the ubiquitous Anonymous with choir director and composer David Greenwood.  The motets are settings of psalms 23, 100 and 130. This Come & Sing is one of 6 annual workshops run since 2022 and attracts enthusiastic singers from across the south west...

  • Swansea Singers Early Music

    Parc Wern, Swansea

    Meeting most Fridays at 12:15. Contact John: j76parcw@outlook.com for further details and full address.

  • EMFS Workshop: Go 4 B’roque – Viva Vivaldi 3

    Reid Memorial Church Hall, Edinburgh

    All modern strings are welcome to come and play Vivaldi in the latest Go 4 B'roque event.  Spend a morning playing some of Vivaldi's concerti for strings under the direction of Philip Redfern.

  • Open Rehearsal with The William Byrd Singers

    Christ Church, West Didsbury Manchester

    Experience the joy of singing with one of the North West's best chamber choirs as they prepare for their 2025/26 programme, rehearsing J.S.Bach's Christmas Oratorio. This event is free but please register your interest so the organisers can ensure there is enough music and cake!

  • MEMF Workshop with Philip Thorby

    Solihull Methodist Church Blosssomfield Road, Solihull

    Workshop for voices and instruments with Philip Thorby.  There will be a short AGM at lunchtime. This workshop to mark the 540th anniversary of the death of Andrea Gabrieli, and will explore some of his 12-part works for singers, cornetts, sackbuts, recorders, curtals, strings & continuo and, depending on forces, his 16-part Gloria.  

  • Handel in Arcadia with Platinum Consort

    St Barnabas, Pimlico London

    An upper voices Chamber Weekender immersed in the beauty of Handel’s Italian duets.  Directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger.

  • Choral Workshop with Dylan McCaig

    St Mary's Church, Banbury

    Festival organiser, early music specialist and choral conductor Dylan McCaig opens the 2025 Banbury Early Music Festival with a rich and inspiring Choral Workshop exploring the expressive depth and enduring influence of Orlando Gibbons. Through the shimmering polyphony of Gibbons’ Drop, Drop, Slow Tears (5-Part), participants will uncover his unique place in English sacred music,...

  • Recorder Workshop from Sarah Jeffery / Team Recorder

    St Mary's Church, Banbury

    Join renowned recorder player and YouTube sensation, Sarah Jeffery (aka Team Recorder) for an inspiring recorder-focused intermediate-level workshop exploring early music by female composers. Delve into beautiful, lesser-known repertoire in the welcoming setting of St Mary’s Church Hall, Banbury. Limited places available! Don’t miss this unique opportunity to deepen your skills and discover the rich...

  • Multi-Instrumental and Vocal Workshop with Alison Kinder

    St Mary's Church, Banbury

    2025 marks 400 years since the death of Orlando Gibbons, one of the finest composers of the English Renaissance, so what better way to honour his legacy than by playing and singing his music together! In this special multi-instrumental and vocal workshop led by festival founder and viol player Alison Kinder, participants will dive into...

  • Byrd of Paradyse with Platinum Consort

    St Barnabas, Pimlico London

    An uplifting half-day exploration of the sacred music of William Byrd (c.1540–1623), one of the most influential composers of the English Renaissance.  Directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger.

  • Spem in Alium Choral Day

    King Edward VII Upper School, Sheffield

    This is for experienced choral singers who can sight read on the day or prepare their part in advance, so we can reduce note bashing to the minimum.  There will be one other piece worked on by each portion of the choir.  Expressions of interest invited here: https://5from500.co.uk/spem-in-alium/ Morning venue King Edward VII Upper School...

  • 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.

  • SEMF Workshop with Emily White

    Headcorn Village Hall Kent

    The workshop will cover a wide range of music, from France, Scotland, Germany and Italy and ranging from 5 to 22 parts. Open to the following instruments: Cornetts, sackbuts, curtals/dulcians, recorders, viol and violin family, plucked continuo.

  • Madrigals of Monteverdi workshop with Robert Hollingworth

    Arnside Educational Institute Carnforth

    Monteverdi's madrigals (from around 1600) are impossibly perfect miniatures, five voiced mini dramas that carry a surprising amount of musical weight.  Spend a morning exploring them (and one contemporary classic from England) in the company of Robert Hollingworth, director of I Fagiolini and co-founder of the podcast Choral Chihuahua.

  • Brighton Early Music Festival

    Brighton

    The 2025 Brighton Early Music Festival: concerts, workshops and more, including: Saturday 27th September: Choral workshop exploring the music of Palestrina, led by Ben Vonberg-Clark. Sunday 5th October: Workshop on French baroque style for early instrumentalists at A=440, led by Sam Stadlen.