We are so pleased that BREMF’s artistic director Deborah Roberts has been awarded a BEM (Medal of the Order of the British Empire) in the King’s Birthday Honours today, 15 June 2024. Deborah says: “I am of course extremely grateful for this recognition, but would like to make clear that I have always worked for the[…]
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The theme for 2024 is Connections, and Artistic Director Deborah Roberts says “If we start with the premise that everything is connected, it’s then a question of selecting some musical and cultural connections that have had a major impact in the past, and that have a continuing power to connect with us now.” Here’s your[…]
As well as planning for the 2024 Festival (more news to come very soon), BREMF is working with our BREMF Live young artist ensembles this spring on a series of online training development sessions which are also open to the wider sector. Between now and the end of March, BREMF will be running a series[…]
Congratulations and thanks to everyone who made a donation to BREMF for the Quiz, and even more congratulations to those brave souls who decided to send in their entries. Here are the results: 60 – Nick Boston & Kevin Edwards of Brighton 59½ – Chris & Kate Darwin of Hove (winners of the first ever[…]
Thanks to all who entered – somewhat fewer than usual, but there were fewer opportunities to buy! The outright winner, and therefore the proud recipient of the £30 Waitrose voucher, is Nick Boston from Brighton, with 56½. The runner-up, winning the £10 book token, is Hilary Ougham, also from Brighton – the only person who[…]
We’re busy planning for our 2022-23 season which will have the theme of TRANSITION. This feels like a particularly apt theme for this point in time, while we’re navigating the seismic changes of the past two years, and trying to work out where we can get back to doing things more ‘normally’, and where some[…]
Many thanks to all who bought the quiz. You have helped raise a lot of money for BREMF. We had quite a few completed quizzes back, with several first-time entrants – thank you and congratulations for sticking with it. Believe it or not, we had a four-way tie at the top, with 4 entries gaining[…]
We were delighted to hear recently that our artistic director Deborah Roberts has been awarded Brighton & Hove Arts Council’s Outstanding Contribution to the Arts Award for 2021. Each year Brighton & Hove Arts Council selects an individual they believe has made a significant difference to the not-for-profit arts scene in the area, and of[…]
Congratulations to Alan and Dena Mynett, who, after several years of loyal participation, have won the BREMF Quiz this time with 58½. Commiserations to Hilary Ougham and Katy Stoddard, who were both just pipped at the post on 58. Thanks to all who were brave enough to send in their entries, and congratulations to the[…]
We’re excited to be collaborating with medieval ensemble The Telling to show Clare Norburn’s new play with music Love in the Lockdown, streaming in 9 short episodes between 4 March and 23 May 2021. Love in the Lockdown follows medieval musician Emilia (played by Rachael Stirling) and playwright Giovanni (Alex Newman) in the early stages of[…]
By Cathy Boyes, BREMF Festival Producer – originally written for Making Music’s Highnotes Magazine As readers of this site will know, BREMF has recently presented an online Festival of 10 filmed events on YouTube and Facebook under the title ‘BREMF@home’. Each film was ‘premiered’ at a set date and time, and then stayed online for[…]
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