BREMF 2024

Our 2024 Festival: CONNECTIONS will run Friday 11 – Sunday 27 October 2024 with pre-festival events from 7 September. You can explore our event pages below.

Booking opens on Monday 29 July 2024 for Festival Friends and Wednesday 7 August 2024 for all.

Saturday 7 September, 11.00 - 17.00

Medieval Greatest Hits - Emily Baines

A workshop for early instrumentalists and singers led by Emily Baines

Sunday 8 September, 10.30 - 12.30

Lion dance course - Palaye Seck

Learn the West African lion dance and participate in Origins on 13 October

Saturday 14 September, 10.00 - 17.00

Singing 15th Century Music - Tim Braithwaite

A workshop for experienced consort singers led by Tim Braithwaite of Cappella Pratensis

Saturday 21 September, 11.00; 12.15; 14.15; 15.30

Polyphony Crawl - BREMF Consort of Voices

Free short performances of renaissance polyphony in four churches across Brighton

Saturday 28 September, 13.00 - 16.00

Singer Songwriter Workshop - Dowland Youth Works

Free workshop for 16-25 yr olds connecting John Dowland with singer songwriters through the ages

Saturday 28 September, 18.30

Singer Songwriter Connective - Dowland Youth Works

A performance by Laurence Williams, Sam Brown & Dowland Youth Works, joined by local young performers

Wednesday 2 October, 20.00

The Telling Unchained - The Telling

The Telling as you've never seen them before: stripped back, unrehearsed and unchained!

Saturday 5 October, 10.30 & 12.00

OAE TOTS - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Come and join the OAE on a musical adventure for 2-5 year olds and their parents & carers.

Sunday 6 October, 14.00 - 17.00

Vivaldi Gloria Workshop - Christopher Monks

A choral workshop for all on Vivaldi's Gloria, led by Christopher Monks of the Armonico Consort

Friday 11 October, 19.30

Truly Madly Baroque - Red Priest

Red Priest opens the 2024 Festival in style, exploring connections between music and the madness of love

Saturday 12 October, 13.00

Musical Meeting Places - Blondel

A lunchtime concert of music from the 14th and 15th centuries

Saturday 12 October, 19.00

The Forgotten Scarlatti - Armonico Consort

Newly discovered music by Francesco Scarlatti alongside Vivaldi’s iconic Gloria

Sunday 13 October, 19.00

Origins - Various artists

An immersive show exploring ancient roots and connections via music, dance and stories from the Mediterranean, India and West Africa

Friday 18 October, 19.30

Connections of Power - Cappella Pratensis & BREMF Consort of Voices

Music for the 1468 wedding of Margaret of York to Charles the Bold of Burgundy

Saturday 19 October, 13.00

Don’t Stop the Music - Flutes & Frets

A lunchtime concert of music on an array of lutes and flutes connecting four centuries.

Saturday 19 October, 15.30

BREMF Live Showcase - BREMF Live young artist ensembles

Our popular annual showcase of the latest up and coming talent on the early music scene

Saturday 19 October, 21.00

BREMF Live Clubnight - BREMF Live young artist ensembles

Join the BREMF Live musicians for informal performances in a pub setting

Sunday 20 October, 18.30 & 20.30

Hildegard Transfigured 2 - Voice

Female vocal trio Voice returns to BREMF with a new version of their spellbinding medieval trance for the 21st century

Friday 25 October, 19.30

Smock Alley - Irlandiani

A vibrant blend of Irish and Italian baroque combined with Irish traditional music

Saturday 26 October, 13.00

Decameron Musicale - Rune

A mosaic of musical stories from medieval Europe

Saturday 26 October, 19.30

French Connections - BREMF Players & Baroque Collective Singers

Choral and orchestral concert including Carissimi's poignant early oratorio Jephte

Sunday 27 October, 19.30

Catherine & Mary: Tudor Queens Forever Entwined - Cantoría

Spanish music surrounding the stories of two queens: Catherine of Aragon and Mary I