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  • Online Early Music Forum (OEMF)

    Online

    Every Monday and Friday, In your own home, online with Jamulus software (https://jamulus.io). OEMF began just before lockdown, as the COVID19 pandemic was gathering momentum, and has continued ever since....

  • Medieval Music from around Europe for Harp

    Online

    This course is designed to open a door for you into a medieval world of single-line dance melodies and multi-voiced compositions for you to play on any kind of harp....

  • Fundamentals of playing the early Irish harp (Course 3)

    Online

    This course will teach you the the foundational skills and knowledge you need to explore the music and traditions of the early Irish harp at post-beginner level. Tutor: Alessia Bianchi.

  • Overcoming Performance Anxiety

    Online

    A six-week course for all who struggle with performance nerves. You’ll learn what performance anxiety is, why it happens, and how you can use physical and mental tools to lessen...

  • Singing Handel with Jonathan Peter Kenny

    Jackdaws Music Great Elm, Frome, Somerset

    Explore and celebrate some of Handel’s wonderful arias with an aficionado of his music.

  • Palestrina Christmas Mass Workshop

    St Mary's Church, Battersea London

    Workshop on Palestrina's Missa Hodie Christus natus est a8, directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger, and Ghislaine Morgan.

  • MEMF Christmas Workshop with Philip Thorby

    Solihull Methodist Church Blosssomfield Road, Solihull

    Music on the theme of Angels and Shepherds in the Christmas story - a vocal and instrumental workshop with Philip Thorby. There will be music by Christoph Buehl, Hans Leo...

  • Carols Through Time Workshop & Concert

    Saint Andrew's Church Hall, Marks Tey Colchester

    Candlelit concert of traditional & medieval carols from around Europe featuring a potent mix of all-time favourites and magical unknown gems.  There will also be a workshop from 3-3.45pm.

  • Carols Through Time Workshop & Concert

    St Mary's Church, Conwy

    Singing workshop prior to candlelit carol concert of traditional favourites & unknown medieval gems from around Europe.

  • 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.

  • Articulation & Rhetoric in Baroque music for Recorder Players

    Online

    With Lobke Sprenkeling's fascination and training in a multi-disciplinary approach to performance, and Michael Piraner's interest in the relationship between language and musical performance, you will learn ways to develop...

  • Pam’s Carols 2023

    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...

  • Come & Sing Handel’s Messiah

    New Theatre, Peterborough

    Handel’s Messiah is coming to Peterborough and you are invited to join in the fun. Led by conductor Matthew Kofi Waldren, CLS musicians, and an amazing line-up of soloists including internationally...

  • Online Early Music Forum

    Online

    Every Monday and Friday, In your own home, online with Jamulus software (https://jamulus.io). OEMF began just before lockdown, as the COVID19 pandemic was gathering momentum, and has continued ever since....

  • Bach Arias with Strings and Continuo at A=415

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Tutors: Emma Kirkby, Peter Harvey, Judy Tarling, Dionysios Kyropoulos. An opportunity for vocalists, string and continuo players to study the joys of Bach arias with renowned exponents of this repertoire.

  • Richmond Opera 2024

    Normansfield Theatre, Teddington

    A fully staged performance of Handel’s opera Semele with full Baroque Orchestra.  Anyone is welcome to join the chorus.

  • SWEMF Workshop for Instruments with Ali Kinder

    Freshford Village Hall, nr Bath

    ‘A Musical Banquet’ – music from Banchetto Musicale by Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630). All instruments are welcome. Pitch A=440.

  • MEMF Workshop: The Battle of Lapanto with Gawain Glenton

    Trinity Church, Stafford

    This workshop is for singers of all voice types, plus cornetts, sackbuts, dulcians and string instruments. Recorder players are welcome, but should be prepared to also sing and/or play a...

  • Bach St John Passion Choral Workshop

    Romsey Methodist Church

    Come and join Romsey Choral Society for an afternoon Workshop on Bach’s powerful and dramatic St John Passion, led by Richard Pearce.

  • Come & Sing Renaissance Masterpieces

    St Mary at Hill, Eastcheap London

    City Chamber Choir invites you to take part in this workshop on glorious key works from the Roman School Renaissance, led by CCC Music Director, Stephen Jones.

  • Choral Workshop – Handel Semele

    St Mary's Church, Battersea London

    Join Platinum Consort to explore the dramatic and thrilling choruses of Semele at their first Flagship Workshop of the year.

  • Come & Sing Bach Passions

    Caversham Heights Methodist Church, Reading

    Come and sing some well-known choruses and chorales from Bach's timeless St Matthew and St John Passions.

  • 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.

  • SEMF Online Talk with David Allinson

    Online

    ‘Regina Caeli, Regina Mundi’: musical veneration of the Virgin Mary in the Spanish Golden Age. The talk will be recorded for those not able to hear it on the night.

  • Come & Sing Handel Choruses

    Sevenoaks School

    Enjoy a whole day singing a number of Handel’s choruses from the Messiah. The sessions will be led by Jack Apperley and Maria Forsström. Open to any singer, whatever their...

  • Choral Workshop: Bach Cantatas BWV 22 & 23

    St Swithin's, Bath

    Come and join in with members of Bath Bach Choir to sing two of Bach’s most uplifting cantatas under the direction of Musical Director, Benedict Collins Rice.

  • Consorting Viols

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Three days of viol consort playing in a variety of group sizes and exploring some lesser known repertoire in addition to ‘old favourites’. Tutors: Alison Crum, Peter Wendland.

  • Baroque Chamber Music at A=415

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Inspirational and encouraging instruction in baroque style from expert tutors. For pre-formed chamber groups on period instruments. Tutors: Theresa Caudle, Mark Caudle, Claire Williams, Stephen Preston.

  • Rondo Viol Academy

    St. Katharine's, Henley-on-Thames

    Advanced.

  • Come & Sing Vivaldi Gloria Choruses

    Reigate Park Church

    Come and sing choruses from the Vivaldi Gloria and other music, as part of Reigate and Redhill Music and Drama Festival Chorus.

  • The City Musick with William Lyons and Richard Thomas

    Jackdaws Music Great Elm, Frome, Somerset

    Explore the rich and varied repertoire of musicians from court and city in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, for wind and brass instruments: cornett, sackbut, shawm, dulcian, recorder...

  • Piva – Real Roots!

    Halsway Manor Halsway Lane, Crowcombe, Taunton

    A course exploring the Real Roots! of European traditional and renaissance music, both the music and the instruments.  The focus of the course will be playing 4 or 5 part...

  • Come & Sing Handel’s Messiah

    St Mary's Church, Nantwich Cheshire

    Come and Sing Handel's Messiah with Nantwich Choral Society, accompanied by Nantwich Sinfonia and conducted by John Naylor.

  • SEMF Workshop for Instruments with Oliver Webber

    Headcorn Village Hall Kent

    The workshop will include dances by Lorenzo Allegri written for entertainments at the Florentine court (c. 1612); a 16-part canzona by Tiburtio Massaino; Jubilate Deo in 16 parts by Lambert...

  • Come & Sing: Vivaldi & L’Estrange

    John Peel Centre, Stowmarket

    Come & Sing: Vivaldi "Gloria" & L'Estrange "Love's Philosophy" with Stowmarket Chorale, directed by William Baldry.

  • Come & Sing Monteverdi and Durante

    The Holy Sepulchre, Northampton

    Join the Northampton Chamber Choir for a day of music making in Northampton's beautiful and historic Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

  • Dorset Bach Cantata Club

    Sturminster Newton High School Bath Road, Sturminster Newton

    JS Bach Cantata 68: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt. JS Bach Cantata 102: Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben.

  • SWEMF Workshop for Instruments with Anna Stegmann

    St Thomas Church, Thorverton

    Anna Stegmann is recorder professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London and a virtuosic performer on the recorder. She tutors on the Easter Early Music Course and at...

  • NEEMF Workshop: Palestrina & de Morales with Ali Kinder

    St Francis Church Hall, Newcastle

    Renaissance Recycling – a workshop for all singers and instrumentalists led by Ali Kinder. This workshop will look at two examples of Renaissance Recycling, in both cases a kind of 'upcycling'...

  • Come & Sing Striggio

    ​Hampstead Baptist Church Heath Street, London

    Come & Sing Striggio's 40-part Mass, Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno. £50 fee, includes lunch, refreshments, and score. Contact: memaddison@hotmail.co.uk for further details and booking.

  • EMFS Making Music Day 2024

    Falkirk Trinity Church

    A workshop looking at choruses from a selection of Purcell's operas and also some 'surprise pieces'!  Starting with separate groups for singers and instrumentalists, led by Michael Cameron-Longden and Lynne...

  • 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.

  • South West Baroque Orchestra Rehearsal

    Culmstock Village Hall, Devon

    South West Baroque Orchestra is the regional period instrument orchestra in the South West.  Applicants are welcome to play for a rehearsal to try out the experience of baroque playing...

  • Come & Sing Messiah

    St John's Church, Ripon

    A wonderful opportunity to perform Handel's Messiah from scratch, with no rehearsal, under the baton of John Dunford, conductor of Ripon and Wetherby Choral Societies. Bring your own Novello score...

  • Come & Sing Palestrina Day

    Holy Trinity, Winchmore Hill London

    Sopranos and tenors most welcome for this single day event singing Palestrina's Missa Æterna Christi Munera and John IV of Portugal Crux fidelis. To register, please contact JNMR84094@gmail.com.

  • More Mournful Music with Rory McCleery

    Sarum College Salisbury

    Five days of deliciously 'miserable' music, including works by Purcell, Blow, Carissimi, Child and Monteverdi.

  • Great Round Byrd Choral Evensong

    St Mary's, Ross-on-Wye Herefordshire

    Rehearse and sing evensong in a single afternoon with Round Byrd. Including Purcell, Hear my Prayer.  Gibbons 2nd evening service.  Byrd Miserere Mei.

  • Come & Sing Victoria & Morales

    St James', Clacton-on-Sea

    Come and join Clacton Choral Society for a morning learning and singing two 16th century Spanish masterpieces “Ego sum panis vivus” by Tomas Luis de Victoria and “Peccantum me quotidie”...

  • Come & Sing with Stile Antico

    St John the Evangelist, Oxford

    Members of Stile Antico will lead and coach participants in music by Victoria, Palestrina, Morales and Lusitano, in four to twelve parts.

  • EMFS Choir Meeting: Missa l’homme armé

    Stockbridge Parish Church, Edinburgh

    Settings of sections of the Missa l'homme armé by Busnois, Dufay, Guerrero, Morales, and Palestrina. New singers are always welcome.

  • Sing in the Spring with Leah Stuttard

    Online

    Join Leah Stuttard to learn and sing some seasonal medieval music.  Live on Zoom plus access via private link to a video of each session. £10 each session or £25...

  • Come & Sing Casciolini Day

    St Mary's, Harrow

    Sopranos and tenors most welcome for this single day event singing Casciolini's beautiful Missa brevis in a minor and John IV of Portugal Crux fidelis. (We could squeeze in an...

  • Granada Lamentations with Gabriel Díaz

    Monasterio de San Bernardo, Granada

    A course for choral singers held in the Monasterio de San Bernardo, close to the Alhambra Palace in Granada. The repertoire will be based on the largely six-part Lamentations of...

  • Winter Organ Course 2024

    St Michael's Church, Lyme Regis Dorset

    The 2024 winter course focusses on the works of J. Sebastian Bach, with emphasis on the chorale preludes.

  • Benslow LuteFest

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Plenty of opportunities to play at all levels of ability, and to socialise with like-minded early music enthusiasts. Tutors: Fred Jacobs, Jacob Heringman, Lynda Sayce, Matthew Spring, Sara Stowe.

  • EMFS Viol Consort Café

    St Catherine's Argyle Church, Edinburgh

    A sociable playing morning for viol players at all levels, working in small groups with players of similar experience, facilitated by Vickie Hobson and Philip Redfern.

  • Handel and the Human Voice – A Singing Workshop

    Grosvenor Chapel, London

    Enthusiastic amateur singers and Handel enthusiasts are invited to join LHF Musical Director Laurence Cummings and leading Handel scholar Ruth Smith to explore just how Handel’s vocal writing is so...

  • South West Baroque Orchestra Rehearsal

    Culmstock Village Hall, Devon

    South West Baroque Orchestra is the regional period instrument orchestra in the South West.  Applicants are welcome to play for a rehearsal to try out the experience of baroque playing...

  • Come & Sing Vivaldi Gloria Choruses

    St Josephs Hall, Balerno Edinburgh

    Join the Pentland Singers and enjoy singing through the wonderful choruses of Vivaldi's Gloria!

  • 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.

  • Rondo Viol Academy

    St. Katharine's, Henley-on-Thames

    Elementary, Lower Intermediate, Pre-formed Consorts.

  • NWEMF Workshop with Lisa Colton

    Liverpool Parish Church Chapel Street

    'I am troubled on every side!': music by Tallis and his contemporaries, for singers and instruments (A=440). Details and Application Form

  • EMFS Choral Workshop with David Allinson

    Inverleith St Serf's Church Edinburgh

    In Monte Oliveti - motets by Lassus, Victoria, Weelkes, Guerrero and others - a Choral workshop on early music for Palm Sunday.