BREMF Emerging Artists

Brighton Early Music Festival’s Emerging Artists scheme (previously called BREMF Live) is one of the pre-eminent mentoring and development schemes for emerging professional early music performers in the UK.

Our 2026/27 opportunities will be advertised early in 2026, with a late March deadline for applications and auditions taking place in early May.

What we offer our musicians

As well as performance opportunities in the Festival, BREMF Emerging Artists are supported with advice, mentoring and training opportunities. A new addition for 2025 was a 4-day residency at Hawkwood College in Gloucestershire, offering the opportunity for development and growth. Alumni of the scheme are very much part of the BREMF ‘family’ and continue to be supported with references, opportunities and collaborations.

2025/2026 Participants

Ensembles

Chantefable
Londinium Consort
The Lyons Mouth
The Royal Sackbut Collective

Singers

Harriet Cameron (soprano)
Laura Coppinger (soprano)
Richard Jackson (tenor)
Allyn Wu (baritone)
Henry Saywell (bass)

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The history of BREMF Emerging Artists

Since 2007 Brighton Early Music Festival has supported almost 200 emerging musicians with training, mentoring and performance opportunities. The scheme runs from June – March and provides a year of support for participants including mentoring, training opportunities (including workshops on organisation, education, fundraising and programming), performance opportunities at Brighton Early Music Festival, and a day of workshops in Sussex primary schools.

Performance opportunities and dates vary depending on the specific project applied for, and are different for ensembles and singers. For 2025 the scheme has been rebranded as BREMF Emerging Artists.

BREMF Emerging Artists is led by Brighton Early Music Festival, working together with other partners to deliver an exciting range of training opportunities. Partners include:

  • Making Music
  • Brighton Festival
  • Royal Academy of Music
  • Birmingham Conservatoire
  • Handel & Hendrix
  • Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
  • Create Music (the music hub for Brighton & Hove and East Sussex)
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“It has been a most valuable time for us and it really made our group move forward in many ways, which wouldn’t have happened without BREMF Live”

BREMF Live ensemble participant 2016-17