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[…]
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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[…]
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[…]
We’re always delighted to receive feedback about our events, whether that’s from audience members or press reviewers. Here are a few of the published press reviews covering our BREMF@home digital events. Weekend 2 films reviewed for Lark Reviews Pocket Sinfonia’s Pocket Sized Classics reviewed in The Latest Brighton Spiritato Birds, Bugs & Other Beasts reviewed[…]
The BREMF@home online events will be online for 7 days after the premiere, but as 26-30 October is half term in many UK schools, we’re aware that this will coincide with the 7 day catch up period for the first 5 events. However, if teachers would like to show any of these events in school[…]
BREMF has always been committed to participatory music-making, and this year is no different even though we are going online! On Thursday 29 October there’s a chance to learn a simple chorus from a brand new work The Whispering Dome, written by Jeremy Avis for this year’s Festival. The Whispering Dome brings together many of[…]
Filming Bird Charmer – a new collaboration with the Sussex Wildlife Trust
Uncategorised Sep 30, 2020
Recently we spent a day at Woods Mill nature reserve filming recorder player Piers Adams and Sussex Wildlife Trust naturalist James Duncan for our programme Bird Charmer, to be shown on 31 October.
Support for young artists has been the backbone of BREMF almost from the start, and our pioneering young artists scheme BREMF Live! has supported more than 300 emerging early music artists since its inception in 2007. A wonderful community has grown up around the scheme, and many of the ensembles whose lively and inspired programming[…]
By Deborah Roberts, BREMF Artistic Director On Monday 22 June I completed the 20 mile sponsored walk on the South Downs to raise funds for BREMF@home! I started around 8.30 at Devil’s Dyke with a cool wind and a chorus of skylarks. I continued west along the South Downs Way meeting many sheep, some beautiful[…]
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