Purbeck Art Weeks Festival 2026
PAW Festival 2026 brings together music, visual art, and poetry in a vibrant programme of nine concerts, a vocal workshop and our annual open mic poetry evening. Featuring I Fagiolini,...
PAW Festival 2026 brings together music, visual art, and poetry in a vibrant programme of nine concerts, a vocal workshop and our annual open mic poetry evening. Featuring I Fagiolini,...
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
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...
Led by Ben England BEM, these events offer a rare opportunity to delve into some of the most sublime works in the vocal canon, including: Allegri’s Miserere Stanford’s Bluebird Bono/U2...
Led by Ben England BEM, these events offer a rare opportunity to delve into some of the most sublime works in the vocal canon, including: Allegri’s Miserere Stanford’s Bluebird Bono/U2...
A full weekend of music-making, inspiration and discovery, including concerts, playing sessions and more.
Workshop for singers with the theme 'Faith as Treason'.
Vocal and instrumental polychoral music with Peter Wendland.
Led by Ben England BEM, these events offer a rare opportunity to delve into some of the most sublime works in the vocal canon, including: Allegri’s Miserere Stanford’s Bluebird Bono/U2...
Led by Grace Newcombe with Liane Sadler & Colin Heller. Following Friday's fusion of folk and medieval sound worlds, and ahead of her recital of medieval song, Grace Newcombe invites...
Glorious renaissance polyphony for choir with historic brass. Tutors: Jeremy West, Gareth Wilson.
Missa Laetatus Sum by Tomás Luis de Victoria - a workshop for voices and instruments led by Deborah Catterall.
This course is based on the music of the generation that followed Adrian Willaert and preceded Claudio Monteverdi. Directed by Eamonn Dougan.
Polychoral music by Heinrich Schütz, workshop for voices and instruments with Peter Wendland.
The Pre-Restoration consort anthem: a trove of neglected English treasures, a workshop for voices and instruments with Bill Hunt.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
Summer Viols, directed by Alison Crum and Alison Kinder.
In this discovery day course tutors provide an introduction to the instrument, basic playing techniques and rich repertoire. The course also includes a ticket to the evening's Rose Consort of...
Save the date for this Workshop for Voices and Instruments with Dr Stephen Bullamore. Music, subject to confirmation, to include large scale works for voices, strings, wind and brass at...
Vocal music by Edmund Hooper and his contemporaries, with Katy Silverman.
Workshop for singers and instrumentalists with David Hatcher, also includes BMEMF AGM.
Treasures of the Spanish Renaissance ~ the music of the golden century: Cristóbal de Morales, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Philippe Rogier, Juan de Esquivel and Alonso Lobo. Directed by Bill...
Chalemie 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...
This mixed-voice early music workshop marks 400 years since John Dowland with an in-depth exploration of his complete published lute-song output. Working in small mixed-voice ensembles, the weekend will focus...
Summer Meeting with optional lunch. A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
Workshop for voices and instruments, with Clare Griffel. Details TBC.
Dowland 400 workshop for voices, lutes, viols, recorders and other appropriate softer instruments with Lynda Sayce. Details TBC.
Praise and Prayer - a workshop for all singers and instruments, led by Ali Kinder.
Summer School for Enthusiasts of Early Music, both instrumentalists and singers, offering full board or daily attendance. Spread over 6 days the course is ably led by David Hatcher and...
The Song of Songs: sacred love songs by Palestrina, Lassus, L’Héritier, Gombert and others. For Voices and Viols. Spend time with like-minded musicians, and develop your skills under the guidance...
The Baroque course will focus on Purcell’s semi-opera Dioclesian. Applications are invited from dancers, proficient singers and confident players of gut-strung Baroque instruments, with Baroque bows, bass viol, violone, recorder,...
NORVIS is the full week-long early music summer school in County Durham which they are proud to describe as one of the UK’s longest-established and friendliest. They teach recorders, Baroque...
Courses available in choral singing, vocal ensembles, solo singing, baroque orchestra, baroque chamber music, renaissance ensembles and singing, harpsichord and organ. Course tutors include Robert Hollingworth and I Fagiolini, The...
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, workshops, consort songs, trio sonatas, choir,...
Now in its 16th year, this international summer school explores common grounds between early, folk and traditional music. All singers and instrumentalists welcome. Classes for lute/theorbo, viols, recorders, renaissance wind,...
This mixed-voice workshop centres on a varied programme of choral music connected by texts reflecting different aspects of love — playful, devotional, reflective, and lyrical — set across a wide...
Renaissance ‘Back-to-School’ – Music for Learning & Scholarship, a workshop for voices and instruments with Stephanie Dyer. Chester.
Feast of Fools - a workshop for singers and all instrumentalists, led by Dr Leah Stuttard.
Intermediate and Upper Intermediate. Run by Jacqui Robertson-Wade and Alison Kinder.
Five-day Come & Sing event culminating in a full-scale, baroque-pitch performance including Bach's Cantata 140 ("Wachet auf"), Cantata 147, and the Magnificat in D major, led by Ben England BEM.
Simon Harper tutors a workshop for singers on the theme of Saints and Angels, to include pieces by composers such as Victoria, Sweelinck, Weelkes and Philips. Further details to be...
Polychoral Pentecost, for voices and instruments, directed by Mark Wilson.
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....
Music from the Odhecaton workshop for voices and instruments with Lizzie Gutteridge. Bolton.
Large-scale music by Hassler for voices and instruments, with Gawain Glenton. Details TBC.
Workshop for voices and instruments with Andrea Brown - details TBC.
Five-day Come & Sing event culminating in a full-scale, baroque-pitch performance including Bach’s Cantata 140 (“Wachet auf”), Cantata 147, and the Magnificat in D major, led by Ben England BEM.
1535 – a year in the life of Pierre Attaingnant - a workshop for voices and instruments with Peter Syrus. Bramhall, Stockport.
Workshop for voices and instruments - Tomás Luis de Victoria with Huw Morgan, further details TBC.
TVEMF Renaissance Day - details TBC.
Christmas Workshop for voices and instruments with Philip Thorby.