• 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 alto or bass if they came as part of a pair with a sop or tenor!) To register, please contact JNMR84094@gmail.com.

  • 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 Jeremiah by Pedro Ruimonte, 1565-1627.

  • 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 utterly extraordinary. Singers will work through selected choruses from Messiah, focusing on the marriage of text and vocal line, examining vocal techniques and dramatic intent...

  • 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 techniques.

  • 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.

  • Come & Sing Messiah Choruses

    Christ Church, Chineham Hampshire

    Come 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

    Online

    Includes videos of performances from the 2023 live festival, plus a vocal workshop and visit to Dodd Lutherie.

  • Come & Sing Handel’s Messiah

    Holy Sepulchre, London

    Ring 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, Hertfordshire

    Tutors: 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

    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. In addition to the usual equipment (your voice and your musical talent), you will need a computer with Jamulus software (https://jamulus.io). Turn off Wi-Fi (please...

  • Easter Early Music Course

    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.

  • EMFS Choir Meeting: Missa l’homme armé

    St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh

    Settings 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 Argyle Church, Edinburgh

    A 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 Dorset

    A 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, 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.

  • 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 Heath

    A workshop for singers and players.  Peter Syrus will direct his new programme of borrowings in Spanish church music of the Golden Age.

  • 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 techniques.

  • EMFS Recorder Workshop with Palisander

    Dollar Academy, Clackmannanshire

    Recorder Workshop with Palisander Recorder Quartet, for intermediate to advanced recorder players in tutti and smaller ensemble sessions.

  • 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.

  • MESSIAH 24 Hour Drop-In

    St George's Hanover Square Mayfair, London

    Singers 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 the end. Then, starting all over again, and repeating for 24 hours. With conductors including John Rutter, Laurence Cummings, Ben England, Ralph Allwood, James Day,...

  • Viol Consorts with Fretwork

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Tutors: 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, Northumberland

    Intermediate and Upper Intermediate.

  • Gabrieli Comes to Lincoln

    Swallowbeck Methodist Church, Lincoln

    A 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 be found at www.sixteen85.co.uk.

  • Bristol Early Music Festival

    All Saints Clifton Bristol

    The 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, and two recorder workshops with Annabel Knight.

  • Fairest Isle Festival

    Isle of Wight

    Early Music Extravaganza on the Isle of Wight.

  • Dorset Bach Cantata Club

    D’Urberville Centre, Wool

    JS 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, Cumbria

    Two 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 courses.

  • NEEMF Workshop: Bach with Stephen Muir

    All Soul's Church, Leeds

    JS 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, 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 techniques.

  • 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.

  • Renaissance Polyphony at Benslow

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

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

  • BEMF Orchestral Workshop with El Gran Teatro del Mundo

    Hexagan Music Centre, Beverley

    A 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 Mundo, with Miriam Jorde oboe, Bruno Hurtadoviol, cello and Andrés Murillo violin. The workshop is open to players of Baroque oboe, traverso, bassoon, recorder and...

  • BEMF Choral Workshop with Tenebrae’s Joseph Edwards

    Hexagan Music Centre, Beverley

    The 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 and Astiterunt reges terrae.

  • Voices, Viols & Recorders Association

    Halsway Manor Halsway Lane, Crowcombe, Taunton

    An un-tutored course for experienced singers and players of early instruments.

  • Gregorian Chant: The Joys of Singing

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Tutor: 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 towards daily performances of a meditative chant sequence.

  • SEMF Workshop with Ali Kinder

    Clapham and Patching Village Hall, Worthing

    Workshop for voices and instruments.  Further details and booking forms will be available later.

  • 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.

  • Sing Saturday: Messiah

    Gloucester Cathedral

    Discover or re-ignite a passion for choral singing with Handel’s Messiah in Gloucester Cathedral, with Gloucester Choral Society directed by Adrian Partington.

  • 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 techniques.

  • NWEMF Workshop: Polychoral Music with Peter Wendland

    St Mary's Church Hall, Sale

    Polychoral music of the Renaissance & early Baroque, a workshop for singers in all voice ranges, and players of viols, cornetts, recorders (tenor downwards) & renaissance wind instruments (A=440).

  • 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.

  • Music at Monteconero

    Monteconero, Sirolo

    A course for choral singers of all ages and nationalities in a former monastery overlooking the Adriatic, centred on Renaissance music inspired by the biblical Song of Songs.  Directed by Lucy Goddard.

  • Baroque Orchestra: Music at the Dresden Court of Augustus II

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Tutors: Theresa Caudle, Mark Caudle, Claire Williams. 18th century repertoire that would have been performed by the Dresden Hofkapelle, including works by Pisendel, Heinichen and Zelenka; scored for two oboes, bassoon and strings.