Online Early Music Forum
OnlineEvery 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....
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Richmond Opera 2024
Normansfield Theatre, TeddingtonA fully staged performance of Handel’s opera Semele with full Baroque Orchestra. Anyone is welcome to join the chorus.
BMEMF Workshop: Weelkes with Will Dawes & Katie Bank
The Bishop's Palace, Hereford"What About Weelkes?!" - a workshop for singers.
Come & Sing Vivaldi Gloria & Byrd Mass a 4
Buckfast AbbeyCome and Sing Antonio Vivaldi Gloria, and William Byrd Mass for Four Voices, directed by Tori Longdon.
South West Baroque Orchestra Rehearsal
Culmstock Village Hall, DevonSouth 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, RiponA 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 LondonSopranos 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 SalisburyFive days of deliciously 'miserable' music, including works by Purcell, Blow, Carissimi, Child and Monteverdi.
Chamber Singing Weekend – When David Heard
St Barnabas, Pimlico LondonChamber Singing Weekender - Gombert, Tomkins and Weelkes.
SWEMF Workshop: Vivaldi’s Gloria with Ben England
West Leigh Infant School, nr Bristol BackwellWorkshop with Ben England BEM for SATB voices and strings - Choruses from Vivaldi’s Gloria. A=415Hz.
Great Round Byrd Choral Evensong
St Mary's, Ross-on-Wye HerefordshireRehearse 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-SeaCome 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
SJE Arts, OxfordMembers 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, EdinburghSettings 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
OnlineJoin 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, HarrowSopranos 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, GranadaA 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 DorsetThe 2024 winter course focusses on the works of J. Sebastian Bach, with emphasis on the chorale preludes.
Benslow LuteFest
Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, HertfordshirePlenty 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.
EEMF Workshop for Singers with Rory McCleery
Horningsea Village Hall, CambridgeSebastianist Music from Renaissance Portugal.
EMFS Viol Consort Café
St Catherine's, EdinburghA 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.
NEEMF Workshop: Polychoral music from the Polish Court with Eamonn Dougan
Clements Hall, York Nunthorpe Rd, YorkPolychoral Music from the Polish Court of Sigismund III. A workshop for voices & instruments led by Eamonn Dougan.
Handel and the Human Voice – A Singing Workshop
Grosvenor Chapel, LondonEnthusiastic 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, DevonSouth 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 Selections
St Mary's, Haddenham BucksLearn some of the choruses from Handel's Messiah, led by Paul Herrington.
Come & Sing Vivaldi Gloria Choruses
St Josephs Hall, Balerno EdinburghJoin the Pentland Singers and enjoy singing through the wonderful choruses of Vivaldi's Gloria!
London Motet & Madrigal Club Meeting
St Michael's Church, Cornhill, LondonA 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-ThamesElementary, 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
SWEMF Workshop: Renaissance Wind Band with Tim Bayley
Christ Church, CheltenhamThe aim of the day is to enjoy the rich and varied sonorities of a Renaissance Wind Band.
EMFS Choral Workshop with David Allinson
Inverleith St Serf's Church EdinburghIn Monte Oliveti - motets by Lassus, Victoria, Weelkes, Guerrero and others - a Choral workshop on early music for Palm Sunday.
Come & Sing Messiah Choruses
Christ Church, Chineham HampshireCome and enjoy learning some of the popular choruses from Handel's Messiah, led by the former King Singers members Phillip Lawson.
Medieval Music in the Dales Online
OnlineIncludes videos of performances from the 2023 live festival, plus a vocal workshop and visit to Dodd Lutherie.
Come & Sing Handel’s Messiah
Holy Sepulchre, LondonRing in the Easter Weekend by joining with fellow singers to form the chorus of Handel’s triumphant masterpiece, led by conductor Matthew Kofi Waldren.
The Benslow Baroque Opera: Handel’s Acis and Galatea
Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, HertfordshireTutors: Fernando Miguel Jalôto, Judy Tarling, Henrik Persson, Nick Shaw, Ricardo Barros. An inspiring opportunity to participate in a staged Baroque opera with amazing period costumes and scenery.
Online Early Music Forum
OnlineEvery 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....
The Sixteen Choral Workshop: Oxford
SJE Arts, OxfordThis workshop will explore Casulana: Morir non puo ‘I mio core, and Lassus: Justorum animae.
Easter Early Music Course
Haberdashers' School, MonmouthThis 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.
SWEMF Workshop: Plainchant with Emma Hornby
St Monica's Home, BristolDetails TBA.
TVEMF Workshop: Spanish & Portuguese Polyphony with Owen Rees
Queen's College Chapel, OxfordPolyphony workshop for voices and instruments.
BMEMF Workshop for Orchestral Strings with Julia Bishop
Stoke Bliss & Kyre Village Hall, Worcs.A workshop to give confident players, with good sight-reading skills and on modern or baroque instruments, the opportunity to hone their baroque playing technique.
EMFS Choir Meeting: Missa l’homme armé
St Cecilia's Hall, EdinburghSettings of sections of the Missa l'homme armé by Busnois, Dufay, Guerrero, Morales, and Palestrina. New singers are always welcome.
EMFS Viol Consort Café
St Catherine's, EdinburghA sociable playing morning for viol players at all levels, working in small groups with players of similar experience, plus coaching from Susanna Pell.
Portuguese Polyphony with Patrick Craig
St Michael's Church, Lyme Regis DorsetA course for choral singers with repertoire drawn from the music of Renaissance Portugal, including the Ave Virgo sanctissima Mass of Géry de Ghersem.
Viol Consorts with members of Fretwork
Jackdaws Music Great Elm, Frome, SomersetThis course offers viol players the chance to explore consort repertoire from the viol’s Golden Age and to improve their technique along the way.
NWEMF Workshop with Gawain Glenton
Fulwood Methodist Church, Preston‘O What Evil is War’: War and Peace in 17th Century Germany, for all voices and specified instruments (A=440). Details and Application Form
SEMF Workshop: Gaudeamus with Peter Syrus
Scaynes Hill Village Hall Haywards HeathA workshop for singers and players. Peter Syrus will direct his new programme of borrowings in Spanish church music of the Golden Age.
MEMF Workshop: Madrigals with Giles Underwood
Coton Centre, TamworthMadrigals from the Triumphs of Oriana - a workshop for voices. Further details to follow.
Bach Club – Cantatas BWV 38, 39 & 40
St Mary's Church, Battersea LondonChoral workshop - choruses & chorales only.
South West Baroque Orchestra Rehearsal
Culmstock Village Hall, DevonSouth 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...
EMFS Recorder Workshop with Palisander
Dollar Academy, ClackmannanshireRecorder Workshop with Palisander Recorder Quartet, for intermediate to advanced recorder players in tutti and smaller ensemble sessions.
The Sixteen Choral Workshop: Peterborough
Peterborough CathedralThis workshop will explore Casulana: Morir non puo ‘I mio core, and Lassus: Justorum animae.
London Motet & Madrigal Club Meeting
St Michael's Church, Cornhill, LondonA London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
MESSIAH 24 Hour Drop-In
St George's Hanover Square Mayfair, LondonSingers and instrumentalists are invited to a “MESSIAH 24 hour Drop-In”. Starting at 3pm on the 25th with AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD and working through the choruses until...
Viol Consorts with Fretwork
Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, HertfordshireTutors: Emily Ashton, Richard Boothby, Jon Rees, Joanna Levine. This course offers viol players the chance to explore the consort repertoire and improve their technique along the way.
Rondo Viol Academy
Shepherd's Dene, NorthumberlandIntermediate and Upper Intermediate.
Gabrieli Comes to Lincoln
Swallowbeck Methodist Church, LincolnA day of playing and singing some of the magnificent polychoral works by Andrea & Giovanni Gabrieli, led by Greg Skidmore and Sue Addison. Further details and application form can...
Bristol Early Music Festival
All Saints Clifton BristolThe Festival includes a number of workshops - a mediaeval singing workshop with Leah Stuttard, a workshop for voices and instruments with Alison Kinder, a harpsichord workshop with Julian Perkins,...
Fairest Isle Festival
Isle of WightEarly Music Extravaganza on the Isle of Wight.
NWEMF Workshop: Handl Opus Musicum with Stephanie Dyer
Didsbury Baptist Church Beaver Rd, ManchesterWorkshop for singers in all voice ranges, and players of violins, cornetts, sackbuts, curtals, recorders (tenor downwards), viols or lutes.
MEMF Workshop: Music for Nuns with Laurie Stras
Angel Centre, WorcesterMusic and Ritual in a C16th Florentine Convent - a workshop for upper voices, viols, low recorders and organ.
Choral Workshop – Venetian Voices
St Mary's Church, Battersea LondonPolychoral works by Giovanni Gabriel, Hans Leo Hassler, Giovanni Croce, and Claudio Merulo.
The Sixteen Choral Workshop: Exeter
The Hall, ExeterThis workshop will explore Casulana: Morir non puo ‘I mio core, and Lassus: Justorum animae.
Dorset Bach Cantata Club
D’Urberville Centre, WoolJS Bach Cantata 119: Preise, Jerusalem, der Herrn. JS Bach Cantata 171: Gott wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm. JS Bach Cantata 192: Nun danket alle Gott.
Viol & Recorder Consort Playing
Higham Hall Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, CumbriaTwo parallel, friendly courses offering a variety of music for players at any level except beginners. For those who wish, there are opportunities to mix and match between the two...
NEEMF Workshop: Bach with Stephen Muir
All Soul's Church, LeedsJS Bach's Cantata BWV 4 'Christ lag in Todesbanden', for singers and instrumentalists, directed by Dr Stephen Muir.
South West Baroque Orchestra Rehearsal
Culmstock Village Hall, DevonSouth 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...
Postponed TVEMF Workshop: 15th Century Popular Songs with Leah Stuttard
Bullsland Hall, Chorleywood* Postponed to 6th October 2024 in Little Chalfont - further details here* A workshop exploring the rich creative seam of the century’s most beloved songs - for voices and...
London Motet & Madrigal Club Meeting
St Michael's Church, Cornhill, LondonA London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
Renaissance Polyphony at Benslow
Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, HertfordshireTutors: Jeremy West, Gareth Wilson Glorious renaissance polyphony for choir with historic brass.
Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival
BeverleyConcerts, workshops and talks with the theme of Threads of Gold.
SWEMF Renaissance Polyphony Workshop with David Hatcher
St Thomas of Canterbury, Thorverton'The Compendium of Revelation' - further details will be available shortly on the SWEMF website.
BEMF Orchestral Workshop with El Gran Teatro del Mundo
Hexagan Music Centre, BeverleyA workshop on Baroque orchestral performance practice based on the writings of George Muffat with additional music by Corelli and Lully, directed by Julio Caballero of El Gran Teatro del...
BEMF Choral Workshop with Tenebrae’s Joseph Edwards
Hexagan Music Centre, BeverleyThe workshop is open to all voices (S/A/T/B) with some sight-singing experience. Music for the day includes Alfonso Lobo’s Versa est in luctum and Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Taedet anima...
Voices, Viols & Recorders Association
Halsway Manor Halsway Lane, Crowcombe, TauntonAn un-tutored course for experienced singers and players of early instruments.
Gregorian Chant: The Joys of Singing
Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, HertfordshireTutor: John Rowlands-Pritchard. An inclusive course for all to experience Gregorian chant in a friendly, entertaining, informative and enjoyable context. A shared exploration of its music and cultural history, works...
Come & Sing Medieval Pilgrimage Music
St Mary's Church, Holy Island NorthumberlandCome & Sing workshop with The Fountain Singers, directed by Anna Cristoni-Apel.
NEEMF Workshop: Handel with Amanda Babington
Clements Hall, York Nunthorpe Rd, YorkA workshop for voices, strings, keyboard, oboe, bassoon and recorders (alto or bass), continuo (inc bass viols), A=440.
SEMF Workshop with Ali Kinder
Clapham and Patching Village Hall, WorthingWorkshop for voices and instruments. Further details and booking forms will be available later.
EMFS Viol Consort Café
St Catherine's, EdinburghA 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.