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 2025/26 opportunities are now open for applications CLICK HERE to find out more.

What we offer our musicians

BREMF Emerging Artists are supported with advice, mentoring and training opportunities, as well as performance opportunities and the chance to become involved in festival projects. Alumni of the scheme are very much part of the BREMF ‘family’ and continue to be supported with references, opportunities and collaborations.

BREMF Emerging Artists will be involved in the 2025 Festival on 18 October 2025 (live showcase performance for ensembles) and 10 October 2025 (Duval Les Genies programme with BREMF Emerging Artists vocal soloists).

2024/2025 Participants

Ensembles

The Lowe Ensemble
Minerva Baroque
Nocturnalia Ensemble
Triple Fipple recorder trio

Singers

Sumei Bao-Smith (soprano)
Emilia Bertolini (soprano)
Emily Brown Gibson (soprano)
Sophie Timms (mezzo-soprano)
Bradyn Debysingh (tenor)

See past participants

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