BREMF Emerging Artists

Brighton Early Music Festival’s Emerging Artists scheme is one of the pre-eminent mentoring and development schemes for emerging professional early music performers in the UK. We are delighted to be working with our 2026-27 Emerging Artists between now and March 2027.

What we offer our musicians

As well as performance opportunities in the Festival, BREMF Emerging Artists are supported with advice, mentoring and training opportunities as well as 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.

2026/2027 Participants

Ensembles

Bruegel Consort
Les Acolytes
Themelion
Thow Cornwall Duo

Singers

Ruby Skilbeck (soprano)
Emma Warner (soprano)
Laura Toomey (alto)
Hugo Williamson (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 (Sussex music hub lead organisation)
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“An amazing opportunity for emerging ensembles to work on their music, group vision and collaboration with other artists.”

BREMF Emerging Artists participant 2025-26