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  • 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.

  • Pergolesi: Stabat Mater

    St Barnabas, Pimlico London

    Chamber Weekender for Upper Voices, exploring Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, in its original setting for two vocal lines.  This exquisite, haunting rendering of the Marian hymn captures Mary’s deep sorrow at the foot of the cross.  Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736) composed this masterwork shortly before his death at the age of 26.  Directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger.

  • Oxford Early Music Day

    Magdalen College, Oxford

    Continuo Connect and the Oxford Festival of the Arts co-present an Early Music Day comprising two daytime concerts, both by Continuo grantees, and a talk by Sir Nicholas Kenyon.

  • 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.

  • Beauchamp Early Music Week

    Malvern College

    This residential course is for singers and players of Renaissance instruments and has been running for many years.

  • Lincoln Summer School

    Lincoln University

    Orlando Gibbons and the music of Westminster Abbey. This course, directed by Patrick Craig explores anthems by three towering musicians of Westminster Abbey, focussing on Orlando Gibbons who died in 1625 together with choral masterpieces by Robert White and Henry Purcell.

  • 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.

  • NORVIS 2025

    Barnard Castle School Newgate, Barnard Castle

    The 53rd NORVIS summer school - a week-long early music summer school in County Durham.

  • Stile Antico Summer School & Festival

    Gresham's School, Norfolk

    The group will teach two courses: Vocal Ensembles - a course designed to improve ensemble singing skills.  Participants will be divided into small groups, normally with just one or two voices per part, and will explore a wealth of 16th and early 17th century gems. Sing with Stile - singing alongside members of Stile Antico,...

  • Assisi Summer School

    Piazza del Comune, Assisi

    Assisi 2025 – Palestrina, Prince of Music, with Musical Director Rory McCleery.

  • 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 Buffet

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    An increasingly popular course for those interested in Baroque performance practice using modern instruments.

  • Early Music Summer School

    Higham Hall Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria

    For competent singers, viol and recorder players, covering music c1450-c1650.

  • Baroque Week Summer School

    Queen Anne's School Caversham, Berkshire

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

  • Irish Recorder and Viol Course 2025

    An Grianán, Co. Louth

    A course designed for players of recorders, viols and other early instruments, covering a wide repertoire from ancient to modern. Sessions include one-to-a-part groups, consort songs, trio sonatas, choir, large and small ensembles. Tutors: Ibi Aziz, Caoimhe de Paor, Pamela Flanagan, Philip Thorby, Peter Wendland.

  • Baroque Trios with Zarek Trio

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Join Zarek Trio in a course focused on the baroque trio sonata.

  • HISS 2025

    Bishop Burton College York Road, Bishop Burton

    The Historically Informed Summer School - where folk, traditional and early music meet.

  • 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.

  • Parma and the Court of Mantua

    Mercure Parma Centro Stendhal , Italy

    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.  Repertoire includes works by Cipriano De Rore, Jacquet De Mantua, and Claudio Monteverdi.

  • Country Choral Weekend – an Elizabethan Songbook

    High Trenhouse, Yorkshire Dales

    Rory Wainwright Johnston will be leading this weekend workshop in the glorious, peaceful setting of Malham Moor in the Yorkshire Dales. Covering pieces by Campion, Dowland, Gibbons, Wilbye, Pilkington and Morley, exploring both lute songs and madrigals, honing ensemble singing skills and delving into the techniques that bring this repertoire to life. Whether you're passionate...

  • Early Music in the Marches Early Music Weekend

    Discoed, Powys

    A Friday night concert given by early music professionals and a two day workshop for vocalists and instrumentalists. Georg Philipp Telemann's 'Paris Quartets' This year focusses on Telemann's famous collection of music for flute, violin, viola da gamba and continuo (cello and harpsichord). Friday night concert: Marches Baroque Ensemble, playing on period instruments, will present...

  • 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.

  • Madrigals and Partsongs

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Chamber choir and consort singing of madrigals and Partsongs.

  • 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...

  • International Pipe and Tabor Festival

    Peterborough

    The 2025 International Pipe and Tabor Festival with French guest artist Benjamin Melia. The main events will be based near the station and the cathedral.

  • 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!

  • Renaissance Viol and Recorder Course with Linarol Consort

    Holland House, nr Pershore

    The Linarol Consort's Renaissance Viol and Recorder course is for experienced viol and recorder players with an interest in improving their technique on Renaissance instruments and in reading from facsimile. Tutors: David Hatcher and Alison Kinder, assisted by Claire Horacek and Timothy Lin.

  • 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.