BREMF 2025

We’re looking forward to welcoming you to our 2025 Festival events.

Click on the individual event pages below for more information or click here to book tickets for all events.

If you are unable to book online, you can download a postal booking form. Tickets will also be available on the door subject to availability.

Saturday 27 September, 11:00 - 17:00

Choral Workshop - Ben Vonberg-Clark

Choral workshop exploring the music of Palestrina, led by Ben Vonberg-Clark

Thursday 2 October, 20:00

Early Music Open Mic - Emily Baines

A relaxed early music open mic and jam session led by Emily Baines

Saturday 4 October, 10:30 & 12:00

Puzzle Tots - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

An engaging and interactive concert for 2-5 year olds and their parents or carers

Saturday 4 October, 14:30 - 18:30

Instrumental Workshop - Sam Stadlen

Workshop on French baroque style for early instrumentalists at A=415Hz. Note new date and pitch.

Saturday 4 October, 15:00 - 18:00

Lantern Making Workshop - Same Sky

Join Same Sky for a fun family crafting workshop and make lanterns inspired by the sea and its creatures

Sunday 5 October, 10:30 - 13.30 & 14:30 - 17:30

Baroque Dance Workshop - Olwen Foulkes

Come and explore the elegance and poise of baroque dance. New morning session added due to demand.

Friday 10 October, 19:30

Les Caractères de l’Amour - Various Artists

UK premiere of a 1736 French baroque opera by Mademoiselle Duval

Saturday 11 October, 13:00

In the Shadow of the Tower - Nardus Williams & Elizabeth Kenny

Music by 17th-century refugee composers, alongside lute songs by Dowland and Purcell

Saturday 11 October, 19:30

Fine Companion - Ayres Extemporae

An evening celebrating hospitality, including tunes from Playford's Dancing Master alongside music by Italian violinist Carbonelli, who was official purveyor of wine to George II

Sunday 12 October, 19:30

Queen of Hearts - The Gesualdo Six

16th-century polyphony inspired by devotion to queens - both earthly and divine

Thursday 16 October, 19:30

Music Divine: Gibbons 400 - BREMF Consort of Voices

Exploring the spiritual depth and expressive beauty of Gibbons sacred music, to mark 400 years since his death

Friday 17 October, 18:00

Baroque Odyssey - Various Artists

A young traveller encounters the beauty and power of the sea in this immersive community performance based around Telemann's Water Music

Saturday 18 October, 11:00 - 13:00

SongPath Walk - Joanna Harries & special guests

Join us for an uplifting and interactive morning of song in the tranquil setting of Stanmer Park

Saturday 18 October, 15:30

BREMF Emerging Artists Showcase - BREMF Emerging Artists Ensembles

A showcase of short performances from four talented and exciting early music ensembles

Saturday 18 October, 21:00

BREMF Clubnight - BREMF Emerging Artists Ensembles

Join the BREMF Emerging Artists ensembles for informal performances in a pub setting

Sunday 19 October, 19:30

Ricordanze: A Record of Love - Musica Secreta

Atmospheric polyphony for female voices, discovered in a 16th-century convent in Florence

Friday 24 October, 19:30

Out of the Deep - Vache Baroque

Exploring love, isolation and redemption in an absorbing journey of words and music inspired by Oscar Wilde

Saturday 25 October, 13:00

Contre la Douce Saison - Per Sonat

A journey through medieval France with music from the trouvères, poet-composers who sang of courtly love

Saturday 25 October, 19:30

La Sera del Combattimento - La Fonte Musica

Monteverdi’s dramatic operatic scena 'Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda'

Sunday 26 October, 19:30

On the Wings of a Song - Helen Charlston & Consone Quartet

An intimate evening of Lieder in new arrangements for voice and string quartet