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I’m Molly, and this year I had the wonderful opportunity to assist with the 2025 Brighton Early Music Festival (BREMF) as a Graduate Trainee. Discovering the BREMF Trainee Scheme I discovered the BREMF Graduate Trainee scheme while searching for ways to expand my experience in concert management and to engage with Early Music beyond academia.[...]

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We had a bumper entry this year, from people living as near as Brighton and as far away as Norwich. Thank you to all who bought quizzes (or made a donation and asked us to go away!) as well as to the brave people who actually sent in an entry. You’ve helped raise over £200[...]

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Baroque Odyssey Schools Project On Friday 17 October 2025, pupils from four Brighton primary schools came together to listen to and take part in a performance with Brighton Early Music Festival which saw children as young as six singing music by Handel and Purcell. This project was part of the Festival's commitment to education and[...]

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We've rounded up the reviews of the 2025 Festival for you to read here. The Palestrina Crawl (Andrew Connal / The Latest) Les Caractères de l'Amour (Andrew Connal / The Latest) Fine Companion (Andrew Connal / The Latest) Queen of Hearts (Eric Page / Scene Magazine) Queen of Hearts (Andrew Connal / The Latest) Music[...]

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BREMF has been running a young artist programme since 2007, and many of the ensembles and individual musicians who have been part of BREMF Live are now forging successful careers in the sector. Each spring we run a series of online training sessions via Zoom, which are aimed at helping young artists develop skills which[…]

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We had rather fewer entries this year, though lots of people donated for copies of the Quiz, which raised £250 for BREMF – so thank you to all who made donations, even if they never got round to sending in their answers. 3 entrants tied for first place, each scoring 58, so we’ve had to[…]

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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[…]

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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[…]

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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[…]

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In February and March 2023, the five ensembles who were part of our BREMF Live! young artist scheme in 2022/23 completed their year on the scheme with a series of workshops in primary schools across Sussex. The groups first received a day of training on planning and developing work for schools, led by Cherry Forbes,[...]

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October 2023 sees a return to a major series of autumn events, for the first time since 2019. As in previous years, our main festival concerts will be preceded by a series of pre-festival events including participatory workshops, family concerts, and a festival introduction day. As ever, we have to add the "subject to funding"[...]

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Between now and the end of March, BREMF will be running a series of 6 online training sessions aimed at helping young artists, particularly those playing in an ensemble to learn about some key elements of managing their career. These sessions are open to the whole sector, and can also be a useful reminder for[...]

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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[…]

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Probably because the June BREMF period was so short, fewer people bought the quiz and responded to the challenge, but it still raised well over £100 for BREMF - so thanks to all who donated, either for a copy of the quiz or to persuade the quiz seller to go away! There were 5 good[...]

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