BREMF 2025

Read on below for full details of our 2025 events. Ticket booking opens on Wednesday 23 July for Festival Friends, and Monday 4 August for all. We would be delighted to welcome you as a Friend and you can join here from £40 a year.

You can also click here to see the 2025 Festival at a glance.

If you are looking for programmes from previous events, please see our event archives page.

Palestrina Crawl
Saturday 20 September, 11:00, 12:15, 14:15, 15:30

Palestrina Crawl - BREMF Consort of Voices

Free short performances of music by Palestrina in four churches across Brighton

Choral Workshop
Saturday 27 September, 11:00 - 17:00

Choral Workshop - Ben Vonberg-Clark

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

Early Music Open Mic
Thursday 2 October, 20:00

Early Music Open Mic - Emily Baines

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

Lantern Making Workshop
Saturday 4 October, 15:00 - 18:00

Lantern Making Workshop - Same Sky

Join Same Sky for a fun family crafting workshop

Puzzle Tots
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

Instrumental Workshop
Sunday 5 October, 10:30 - 17:30

Instrumental Workshop - Sam Stadlen

Workshop on French baroque style for early instrumentalists at A=440

Baroque Dance Workshop
Sunday 5 October, 14:30 - 17:30

Baroque Dance Workshop - Olwen Foulkes

Come and explore the elegance and poise of baroque dance

Les Caractères de l’Amour
Friday 10 October, 19:30

Les Caractères de l’Amour - Various Artists

UK premiere of a 1736 French baroque opera by Mademoiselle Duval

In the Shadow of the Tower
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

Fine Companion
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

Queen of Hearts
Sunday 12 October, 19:30

Queen of Hearts - The Gesualdo Six

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

Music Divine: Gibbons 400
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

Baroque Odyssey
Friday 17 October, 18:00

Baroque Odyssey -

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

SongPath Walk
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

BREMF Emerging Artists Showcase
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

BREMF Clubnight
Saturday 18 October, 21:00

BREMF Clubnight - BREMF Emerging Artists Ensembles

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

Ricordanze: A Record of Love
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

Out of the Deep
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

Contre la Douce Saison
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

La Sera del Combattimento
Saturday 25 October, 19:30

La Sera del Combattimento - La Fonte Musica

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

On the Wings of a Song
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