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  • Viol Consorts with members of Fretwork

    Jackdaws Music Great Elm, Frome, Somerset

    This course offers viol players the chance to explore consort repertoire from the viol’s Golden Age and to improve their technique along the way.

  • BMEMF Workshop for Singers: Palestrina with David Allinson

    The Trinity Centre, Shrewsbury

    Join David Allinson for a day exploring Palestrina’s music, in a programme which moves from the majestic to the intimate, from the contemplative to the joyful, and which avoids well-worn and obvious pieces.

  • EEMF Workshop: Celano with George Parris

    Castle Street Methodist Church, Cambridge

    Messa La Luna Piena (The ‘Full Moon’ Mass) in 8 parts by Giuseppe Corsi da Celano.  A workshop for singers and instruments with George Parris.

  • Morales in Granada 2025

    Monasterio de San Bernardo, Granada

    This course, directed by Gabriel Díaz, will celebrate the music of Spain’s first great composer.  It will be held in the monastery of San Bernardo, in the shadow of the Alhambra in Granada’s Albaicín.  The central work is the mass that Morales based on Josquin’s chanson ‘Mille regretz’.

  • Benslow Lutefest

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Plenty of opportunities to play at all levels of ability. Tutors: Jacob Heringman, Lynda Sayce, Matthew Spring, Sara Stowe, Evangelina Mascardi, Andrea Damiani.

  • The Renaissance Singers – Josquin Workshop

    St Stephen's, Rochester Row London

    This practical workshop, led by Tim Braithwaite, explores how Josquin and his contemporary singer-composers actually visualised their music and the compositional techniques they employed in a musical language so very different from our own.

  • MEMF Workshop with David Allinson

    Collegiate Church of Saint Mary, Stafford Saint Marys Place, Stafford

    Hei Mihi, Domine – Iberian Penitential Motets.  A workshop for voices with David Allinson.

  • Platinum Consort 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.

  • TVEMF Workshop: Stadlmayr with Gawain Glenton

    Chorleywood War Memorial Hall

    Johann Stadlmayr’s polychoral music for the Habsburg Courts - a workshop for singers and renaissance instruments with Gawain Glenton.    

  • SWEMF Workshop: Renaissance Winds with Tim Bayley

    Christ Church, Cheltenham

    The aim of the day is to enjoy the rich and varied sonorities of a Renaissance Wind Band.  Applications welcome from players of Renaissance wind instruments – shawms, sackbutts, cornetts, curtals, crumhorns, recorders, etc.

  • NWEMF Workshop with Philip Thorby

    Didsbury Baptist Church Beaver Rd, Manchester

    Workshop on Missa Diligam Te Domine a 12 by Giovanni Valentini, for voices and instruments, led by Philip Thorby.

  • 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.

  • The Earth Quakes Chamber Weekender

    St Barnabas, Pimlico London

    Join the Platinum Consort to enjoy both the soloistic and consort aspects of six of the finest anthems by William Byrd.  Directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger.

  • Baroque Dance Weekend Workshop

    Claverton Down Community Hall, Bath

    This workshop will focus on Baroque Dance Technique using either extracts from a variety of extant dances or dances choreographed, in the Baroque Style, by Philippa Waite.

  • Easter Early Music Course 2025

    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.

  • Voices and Viols

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    A weekend of 16th and 17th century vocal music ‘apt for voyces and vyalls’, playing mainly in small groups. Tutors: Emma Kirkby, Alison Crum.

  • Revelry and Refinement: Medieval Band Camp

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    A fun and inclusive introduction to playing and singing medieval repertoire for all instrumentalists and singers. Tutors: Emily Baines, Arngeir Hauksson (Amyas).

  • NEEMF Workshop with Robert Hollingworth

    St James URC, Newcastle

    A joint NEEMF/ABCD workshop with Robert Hollingworth in Newcastle, exploring familiar and unknown music to encircle Palm Sunday, including Victoria's Tenebrae. Further details on the NEEMF website Further details on the ABCD website

  • MEMF Workshop with George Parris

    St Faith and St Laurence Church, Harborne Birmingham

    George Parris will tutor this workshop, for voices and instruments, on Lamentations by Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla & López Capillas.

  • Round Byrd Choral Evensong

    St Mary's, Ross-on-Wye Herefordshire

    Evensong for the eve of Palm Sunday (Hosannah to the son of David – Gibbons / Wood in F). 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...

  • 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.

  • Baroque Oratorio

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Perform Charpentier's sacred masterpiece Messe pour MrMauroy. Tutors: Miguel Jaloto, Nick Shaw, Kinga Gaborjani, Gail Hennessy, Judy Tarling.

  • 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.

  • Singing Weekend with Tim Knight

    Whalley Abbey Clitheroe

    Music will be taken from 'The Oxford Book of Tudor Anthems' and 'The Oxford Book of English Madrigals'.

  • Viol and Recorder Consort Playing

    Higham Hall Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria

    Two parallel, friendly courses for players at any level, though not beginners.

  • 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.

  • Rondo Viol Academy

    Shepherd's Dene, Northumberland

    Intermediate and Upper Intermediate.

  • 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.

  • Renaissance Polyphony

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Glorious renaissance polyphony for choir with historic brass. Tutors: Jeremy West and Gareth Wilson.

  • 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.

  • Voices, Viols & Recorders Association

    Halsway Manor Halsway Lane, Crowcombe, Taunton

    An un-tutored course for experienced singers and players of early instruments.  Non-fixed ensembles of recorders and viols form the main part of the week with a variety of small singing groups depending on participants.

  • Portuguese Polyphony in Braga

    Hotel Vila Gale, Braga , Portugal

    This course is for experienced singers who want to improve their choral technique and enjoy exploring a rich mix of repertoire in a convivial social setting.  Musical Director: David Ogden.

  • Gregorian Chant: The Joys of Singing

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    An inclusive course for all to experience Gregorian chant in a friendly, entertaining, informative and enjoyable context. Tutor: John Rowlands-Pritchard.

  • 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.

  • Music at Monteconero 2025

    Monteconero, Sirolo

    A course directed by Rory McCleery in a former monastery, now a small hotel, on the Adriatic coast of Italy.  The repertoire is centred on the larger-scale music of the greatest composers of Spain’s Siglo de Oro: Guerrero, Lobo, Morales and Victoria.

  • 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.

  • Baroque Orchestra: A European Odyssey

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Exploring national styles in suites and concertos by Purcell, Campra, Corelli, Vivaldi and Fasch. Tutors: Theresa Caudle, Mark Caudle, Claire Williams.

  • Summer Viols

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Four days of viol consort playing in a variety of group sizes with other players of an advanced and upper-intermediate level. Tutors: Alison Crum, Alison Kinder, Ibi Aziz, Peter Wendland.

  • 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.

  • The Chalemie Summer School

    Uppingham School, Oakham Rutland

    Chalemie's 25th Summer School in Early Music, Dance, Period Costume Making and Commedia.  Leading performers from the group will direct a series of workshops on 17th/18th century music, song, dance, commedia and costume making, with a particular emphasis on the English repertoire of this period.

  • 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.

  • Skipton 2025: The Baldwin Partbooks

    Holy Trinity Church, Skipton North Yorkshire

    A course directed by Bill Carslake, with repertoire drawn from the larger-scale works in one of the most important sources of Tudor church music, the Baldwin Partbooks.