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  • The Glory of Venice Singing Holiday with Andrea Brown

    San Trovaso Church, Venice

    A chance to sing glorious Italian choral music in a splendid church overlooking the canals of Venice.  Programme includes works by Monteverdi, Rovetta, Grandi, Cavalli and Lotti.

  • Charles Burney Early Music Festival

    The Charles Burney Early Music Festival returns for a third year to celebrate the life of one of King’s Lynn's most distinguished residents.  Events include chamber concerts, a talk and...

  • 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....

  • Choral workshop for all on Vivaldi’s Gloria

    The Dance Space, Brighton

    A workshop open to all, including families.  Discover the joys of singing this highly accessible music. No experience needed.  Led by Christopher Monks of the Armonico Consort.  Registration closes on...

  • The Sixteen Choral Workshop: Exeter

    The Hall, Exeter

    The Sixteen Choral Workshops are a rare and rewarding opportunity for keen amateur singers to explore a variety of music inspired by The Sixteen’s own Choral Pilgrimage. This workshop will...

  • Monteverdi Vespers with Paul McCreesh

    St Peter's Church, Hammersmith Black Lion Lane, London

    Monteverdi Vespers workshop, organised by Petros Singers; led by Paul McCreesh, with the Gabrieli Consort and Players.  

  • MEMF Workshop: Purcell with Simon Harper

    Angel Centre, Worcester

    This is a workshop for singers and one keyboard player, exploring some of the sacred anthems by Henry Purcell, regarded as one of England's greatest composers of the Baroque period.

  • Bach Cantata Workshop: BWV 80 &106

    St George's, Folkestone

    An opportunity to work on a couple of the church cantatas of J.S.Bach, “Ein Feste Burg” and “Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit”, with conductor Duncan Lord and accompanist Kevin...

  • Come & Sing Purcell with James Weeks

    Durham Cathedral

    James Weeks leads an inspiring day exploring the brilliant, varied and stunningly expressive church music of Henry Purcell.  This special workshop takes place in the magnificent Chapter House of Durham...

  • Dorset Bach Cantata Club

    Sturminster Newton High School Bath Road, Sturminster Newton

    Cantata 29 Wir danken dir, Gott. Cantata 63 Christen, ätzet diesen Tag. ​

  • Rondo Viol Academy

    St. Katharine's, Henley-on-Thames

    Intermediate and Upper Intermediate.

  • 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...

  • SEMF Workshop: Morley with Will Dawes & Katie Banks

    Findon Village Hall, West Sussex

    In this workshop, Katie and Will take you on a sung exploration of Thomas Morley’s life and music; the programme will include both his secular and his sacred music in...

  • NWEMF Workshop: Voices & Viols with Elizabeth Dodd

    St Mary's Church Hall, Sale

    Apt for voices & viols - Music from Jacobean England Singing with viols and viol playing with singers is a special and unique experience with a particularly English repertoire consisting...

  • EEMF Workshop: Valentini with Philip Thorby

    St Peter's by the Waterfront, Ipswich College St, Ipswich

    Giovanni Valentini Missa Diligam Te Domine a 12-part polychoral workshop for singers and instrumentalists.

  • 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.

  • Medieval and Renaissance Consorts

    Hawkwood College, Stroud

    A weekend of medieval and renaissance consort music coaching and performance, with William Lyons & The City Musick.

  • Come & Sing with The Renaissance Singers

    St Stephen's, Rochester Row London

    Treasures from Latin America - Early Polyphony from Mexico, Peru and Bolivia, with Sarah Latto.

  • EMFS Viol Consort Cafe

    St Catherine's Argyle Church, Edinburgh

    Viol players of all standards are welcome, players will work in small groups of similar standard and experience so everyone will be catered for!  Led by Philip Redfern and Vickie...

  • NWEMF Workshop: Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla with Clive Walkley

    Quaker Meeting House, Lancaster

    This workshop provides singers and instrumentalists with an opportunity to perform some of the exciting and rhythmically challenging music by the Spanish composer Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla. The main work...

  • 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...

  • NWEMF Workshop: Recorders with Polyphonica

    All Saints, Chester

    Grace Barton with Polyphonica Recorder Trio will present a workshop for recorder players exploring how to play vocal and instrumental music of Gabrieli and his European contemporaries. Booking now open...

  • NEEMF Workshop: The Borgias with Caius Lee

    Summerhill Bowling Club, Newcastle upon Tyne

    The Borgias: from sinners to saints. Join Caius Lee, Director of College Music at Worcester College, Oxford, and Director of the Florence International Singing Programme, for a day exploring the...

  • Come & Sing with Stile Antico

    St Clement Danes, London

    During this event, you will enjoy exploring sumptuous Sevillian motets written in honour of the Virgin Mary, sacred works written by Mexican composers, and even music in the Nahuatl language...

  • EEMF Workshop: Convent Music with Laurie Stras

    Swaffham Prior Village Hall Cambridgeshire

    Music and Ritual in a Sixteenth Century Florentine Convent with Laurie Stras. A workshop for upper voices with keyboard and/or viol or harp accompaniment.

  • Page to Performance: Medieval Music

    Halsway Manor Halsway Lane, Crowcombe, Taunton

    Come and discover Medieval music with Mary Mohan and Jude Rees.  Delve into the world of Medieval manuscripts, dance tunes, beautiful sacred music and more.

  • Consorting Viols

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Tutors: Alison Crum, John Bryan, Peter Wendland, Ibi Aziz. Three days of viol consort playing in preformed groups of any level, studying in depth any music chosen by the group,...

  • SWEMF Workshop: Robert Parsons with David Allinson

    St Peter's Church, Leckhampton Cheltenham

    The reputation of Robert Parsons (c.1535–72), today rests almost entirely on the honeyed beauty of his Ave Maria, with its perfect Amen. But his other sacred music is of such...

  • Nidderdale Messiah 2024

    Holy Trinity, Knaresborough

    A once a year treat for singers to come together to perform Handel's amazing music & raise money for a local charity. This year's event will be conducted by Anthony...

  • York Early Music Christmas Festival 2024

    National Centre for Early Music York

    A variety of concerts and other events, including a choral workshop for all presented by Robert Hollingworth, director of I Fagiolini.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • TVEMF Christmas Workshop

    Amersham Community Centre Chiltern Avenue, Amersham

    Lambert de Sayve mass for four choirs, and some festive music - for voices and instruments.

  • Gaudete! Renaissance Music for the Festive Season

    Halsway Manor Halsway Lane, Crowcombe, Taunton

    William Lyons and Richard Thomas from The City Musick will be heading to Halsway Manor for the very first time, bringing with them all the joys of the festive season...

  • Christmas Music with Owain Park & The Gesualdo Six

    Hawkwood College, Stroud

    For centuries Christmas and the surrounding seasons have inspired composers to new heights of invention. The repertoire chosen for this course will reach across the ages: from the eternal beauty...

  • MEMF Christmas Workshop with Patrick Craig

    Dorridge Village Hall Solihull

    This workshop is for any number of voices and all instruments at pitch A=440 – strings, including viols, and all wind and brass.  The workshop will include a selection of...

  • EMF Viol Consort Cafe

    St Catherine's Argyle Church, Edinburgh

    Viol players of all standards are welcome, players will work in small groups of similar standard and experience so everyone will be catered for!  Led by Philip Redfern and Vickie...

  • NEEMF Workshop: Medieval Christmas with Trouvere

    Clements Hall, York Nunthorpe Rd, York

    Five Centuries of a Medieval Christmas: a workshop for all instruments, led by Paul Leigh and Gill Page of Trouvere. The workshop will look at pieces from the eleventh through...

  • Pam’s Carols 2024

    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...

  • Baroque String Band

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Explore the rich repertoire of the 17th-century string band. For baroque instruments at A=415. Tutors: Judy Tarling, Rachel Stott, Kinga Gaborjani.

  • Rondo Viol Academy

    St. Katharine's, Henley-on-Thames

    Elementary, Lower Intermediate, Pre-formed Consorts.

  • MEMF Workshop with Stephanie Dyer

    Solihull Methodist Church Blosssomfield Road, Solihull

    Tribus Miraculis – Music for a Saturday after Epiphany This workshop is for all voices and instruments and Renaissance wind instruments – cornetts curtals, recorders, sackbuts and shawms – are...

  • 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.

  • Harpsichord Clinic with John Butt

    Handel Hendrix House London

    An opportunity to work on a piece of music with an internationally renowned musician in a friendly and supportive environment.

  • Bath Bach Choir Choral Workshop: Cantata BWV 75

    St Swithin's, Bath

    Come and join members of Bath Bach Choir in singing Bach’s cantata Die Elenden sollen essen (BWV 75), under the direction of David Hill, Musical Director of the Choir.

  • NEEMF Workshop: Marian Music with David Allinson

    St Francis Church Hall, Newcastle

    With this day of music for voices and instruments, David Allinson explores some of the sunniest music of the Renaissance: settings of texts such as Regina Cæli and Ave Maria.

  • Come & Sing: English Chapel Royal Masters

    St Mary at Hill, Eastcheap London

    Explore choral masterpieces, learn about their historical and musical contexts, and brush up on singing technique with a vocal expert.

  • EEMF Epiphany Party

    Blyburgate Hall Beccles

    The annual EEMF Epiphany party, this year slightly later than Epiphany.  Philip Thorby will lead a wealth of festive music.

  • Consorting Viols

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Three days of viol consort playing in a variety of group sizes. Tutors: Alison Crum, Peter Wendland.

  • Baroque Chamber Music at A=415

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    For pre-formed chamber groups on period instruments. Tutors: Theresa Caudle, Mark Caudle, Claire Williams, Stephen Preston.

  • Recorder Orchestra Weekend 2025

    Halsway Manor Halsway Lane, Crowcombe, Taunton

    Recorders@Plymouth are back for their annual visit to Halsway Manor, offering an opportunity to explore the huge diversity of recorder orchestra repertoire.

  • SWEMF Workshop with Ben England

    West Leigh Infant School, nr Bristol Backwell

    Purcell Rejoice in the Lord Alway and Monteverdi Beatus Vir.  Workshop with Ben England BEM, for SATB voices and strings.  Pitch will be A=415.

  • Open Workshop – Monteverdi Vespers of 1610

    St Andrew's, Surbiton

    Join Twickenham Choral for a workshop on Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 in preparation for their concert with His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornets.

  • 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...

  • Dorset Bach Cantata Club

    D’Urberville Centre, Wool

    Cantata 61 Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland. Cantata 182 Himmelskönig, sei willkommen.

  • SEMF Talk by Patrick Craig

    Online

    Palestrina 500 and the glories of Rome. In this Zoom talk Patrick will celebrate the extraordinary life and career of this ever-inspiring composer who made his home in the city...

  • Rondo Viol Academy

    St. Katharine's, Henley-on-Thames

    Advanced.

  • PIVA – Real Roots!

    Halsway Manor Halsway Lane, Crowcombe, Taunton

    Exploring the world of late 16th-century popular music, as heard in both court and country.