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  • NWEMF Workshop with Laurie Stras

    Wilmslow URC

    Laurie Stras of Musica Secreta leads this workshop for upper voices, all viols, lower pitch recorders and continuo.  The workshop will introduce you to the fascinating record of the musical...

  • MEMF Workshop: Tomkins with Carys Lane

    Coton Centre, Tamworth

    The Music of Thomas Tomkins – from both his madrigal output, and his sacred output.  A workshop for voices with Carys Lane.

  • Monteverdi Vespers Workshop

    Caversham Heights Methodist Church, Reading

    Enjoy a rewarding day singing this sublime piece with former Music Director of Reading Bach Choir, JanJoost van Elburg.

  • Improvised Polyphony Workshop with Tim Braithwaite

    Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe London

    Drawing on historical visualisation and memorisation techniques, this session aims to introduce the participant to the basic building blocks of improvised counterpoint. The session is led by Tim Braithwaite, director...

  • 17th & 18th Century Chamber Music Workshop

    Higham Hall Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria

    For pre-formed chamber groups (with or without singer) who should bring at least 4 pieces to work on which can be at varying stages of readiness.  Work at 415 or...

  • The Crucifixus Trilogy Chamber Weekender

    St Barnabas, Pimlico London

    A trilogy of Crucifixus settings by Antonio Lotti, plus Lotti’s setting of Ad Dominum cum tribularer, as well as the Salve Regina by his Venetian forebear, Francesco Cavalli.  Directed by...

  • 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.

  • SEMF Workshop with Peter Wendland

    Headcorn Village Hall Kent

    Workshop for voices and instruments directed by Peter Wendland, including works by Hassler, Victoria, Lassus, Praetorius, and Zielenski.

  • Winter Organ Course 2025

    St Michael's Church, Lyme Regis Dorset

    The 2025 winter course will focus on the works of J. Sebastian Bach’s predecessors. Tutors: Philip Scriven, Andrew Millington, Peter Parshall, Peter Lea-Cox, Richard Godfrey.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.