Top Italian group La Fonte Musica (‘The Roots of Music’) at Brighton Early Music Festival (BREMF) on Saturday 26 October at St George’s Kemp Town (7.30pm). Sopranos Alena Dantcheva, Francesca Cassinari; tenor Guianluca Ferrarini; medieval fiddlers Susanne Anson (upper), Toedoro Bau (lower); lute Michele Pasotti (director). Metamorphosis Trecento (‘Three Hundred Metamorphosis’) – 14th Century repertoire[…]
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BREMF Polychoral Transformations Workshop led by Gawain Glenton, Sunday 29 September 2019 – Report by Richard Whitehouse The theme of this year’s Brighton Early Music Festival is Metamorphosis and this was the basis for Gawain Glenton’s workshop for voices and instruments on 29th September. He chose pieces to demonstrate how composers used existing works to[…]
Interview for Sussex Life Magazine with BREMF Artistic Director Deborah Roberts November 2019 What first sparked your interest in Early Music?I was probably around 14 years old when I first heard some renaissance music on the radio. There was something about the whole style and the way the cadences worked that immediately appealed. From then[…]
I have long wanted to use Metamorphosis as a theme for BREMF, even though I know some had worried that its meaning in the context of music might not be clear enough to audiences. So maybe I should introduce the subject, and my reasons for choosing it. The idea of things undergoing transforming change has[…]
I woke up at 5:30am as my alarm rang without hitting snooze. It was my first event today as a trainee in Brighton Early Music Festival. I was feeling very excited to help out in our OAE Tots concert as I do love working with kids a lot! I took the train from London to[…]