Online Events
As a result of the Covid outbreak a number of online events have become available.
Here is a quick, at-a-glance list.
Regular Events
Wednesdays 1pm. Ensemble Hesperi. Lunchtime baroque concerts www.ensemblehesperi.com
Trouvere Medieval Minstrels. Wednesday evenings 7pm on their Facebook page
Fridays 11-11.30 The Telling in Retreat. Medieval singing workshops https://www.thetelling.co.uk/in-retreat (available afterwards). 19/2-26/3 Women in Medieval Music
David Allinson Lunchtime Live every Friday at 1pm
Fridays 1pm. Eboracum Baroque spotlight concerts on YouTube and Facebook (available afterwards)
SingTheScore Friday at 6pm but available afterwards https://www.ifagiolini.com
Fridays 29 Jan to 5 March, 7pm. 6 Platinum Consort workshops, also available on demand afterwards. Bach: Jesu meine Freude at A=415. https://www.platinumconsort.com/jmf.html
SWEMF are hosting 'Early music chat' on the first Saturday of each month, alternating mornings and afternoons https://www.swemf.org.uk
February
Tues 16 Alison Kinder How to read or play from late 16th C facsimile 1 https://www.semf.org.uk
Tues 16 5.30-6.30pm. Singing Together; Apart: Gregorian Chant Workshop for Candlemas. Free, booking required. https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/singing-together-apart-gregorian-chant-workshop-for-candlemas
Tues 16 7-8pm. Zoom Cafe with Evelyn Nallen: 'A Brief History of Baroque Dance and Why It Matters to Us' - FREE for ERTA members, and £5 for non members.
Wed 17 7pm. Ann Hinchcliffe. The English Dancing Master: what do the dance titles refer to and what might Playford have meant by ‘English’? English Historical Dance Society
Thur 18 6pm Alison Crum (viols) and Roy Marks (lute). A Ground in the Air https://www.kingslynnfestival.org.uk/whats-on?vieweventdetails&eventid=782&event=Alison-Crum-viol--Roy-Marks-lute-A-Ground-in-the-Air (available afterwards)
Thurs 18 SEMF Patrick Craig. Ash Wednesday https://www.semf.org.uk
Fri 19 Platinum Consort, 7pm. Jesu meine Freude at 415 https://www.platinumconsort.com/jmf.html
Sat 20 MEMF 11am. David Hatcher talking about his Petrucci CantiB Project http://memf.org.uk
Sat 20 2pm. Emily Askew. A beginner’s guide to medieval music (playing style, ornamentation & an exploration of its connection with folk music) 3 em_askew@yahoo.co.uk
Sat 20 MEMF/EEMF/TVEMF 7pm Philip Thorby. 16th C Venice 2: The New Prometheus of Celestial Harmony http://memf.org.uk
Tues 23 Cambridge Handel Opera 6.30. Julian Perkins. Ornamenting Handel https://cambridgehandel.org.uk/events/
Tues 23 BMEMF 7.30 pm Paul Spicer 'Early and Later'. Workshop for singers, comparing settings of texts by James MacMillan with those by Tallis, Josquin Desprez, Mattheus le Maistre, Heinrich Isaac and Franz Sales. http://www.bmemf.org.uk
Wed 24 1-2pm. Andrew Gant: The Making of Handel’s Messiah. Free, booking requiredhttps://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/andrew-gant-the-making-of-handels-messiah
Fri 26 Platinum Consort, 7pm. Jesu meine Freude at 415 https://www.platinumconsort.com/jmf.html
Sat 27 MEMF 11am Robert Hollingworth - SingTheScore Extra http://memf.org.uk
Sat 27 2pm. Emily Askew. A beginner’s guide to medieval music (playing style, ornamentation & an exploration of its connection with folk music) 4 em_askew@yahoo.co.uk
Sat 27 John Hancorn and Richard Wigmore 4pm. Bach St Matthew Passion sing and play 415 https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing?eid=13870&
March
Tues 2 SEMF 7.30. Alison Kinder How to read or play from late 16th C facsimile 2 https://www.semf.org.uk
Thurs 4 TVEMF David Allinson. Surrexit pastor bonus — motets of hope and resurrection by L’Héritier, Victoria and others http://tvemf.org
Fri 5 Platinum Consort, 7pm. Jesu meine Freude at 415 https://www.platinumconsort.com/jmf.html
Sat 6 BMEMF am AGM http://www.bmemf.org.uk/
Sat 6 SWEMF 2.30pm. Talk by David Allinson: Old favourites revisited https://www.swemf.org.uk
Sat 2.30 Rachel Harris. Violin masterclass - baroque repertoire for solo violin https://www.brookstreetband.co.uk/brook-street-band-home/
Sat 6 MEMF/EEMF/TVEMF 7pm Philip Thorby. 16th C Venice 3. Bellezza e Bontà http://memf.org.uk
Thurs 11 BMEMF 7.30-9 Lizzie Gutteridge (Instruments) http://www.bmemf.org.uk/
Sat 13 MEMF 11am Robert Hollingworth – SingTheScore Extra http://memf.org.uk
Sat 13 NEEMF 2pm George Kennaway, ‘It’s baroque, but not as we know it: C19th editions of baroque string music’, https://www.neemf.org.uk/
Sat 13 4-5.45. Masterclass with Lisete da Silva Bull - an introduction to French baroque repertoire. Zoom
Tues 16 BMEMF 7.30 pm David Allinson 'Compare and Contrast' workshop for singers. Settings of Psalm 42 by Cardoso and Taverner. http://www.bmemf.org.uk
19-21 Medieval Music in the Dales online festival
Sat 20 MEMF/EEMF/TVEMF 7pm. Philip Thorby. 16th C Venice 4: Musica Nova http://memf.org.uk
Thurs 25 MEMF 7.30 Alison Kinder - Renaissance Classics for instrumentalists (singers allowed) http://memf.org.uk
Sat 27 MEMF 11am Robert Hollingworth - SingTheScore Extra http://memf.org.uk
Mon 29 TVEMF Patrick Craig 8pm Stabat Mater http://tvemf.org
Tues 30 Cambridge Handel Opera 6.30. Julian Perkins and Dionysius Kyropoulos. Speaking in tones (recitative) https://cambridgehandel.org.uk/events/
April
Tues 13 SEMF 7.30. Talk by Laurie Stras of Musica Secreta: “Dare to declare who you are - Convent music of the medieval and Renaissance periods”. Scores and instrumental parts will be provided https://www.semf.org.uk
Fri 16 NEEMF 3pm Lisa Colton, 'Sources of medieval music from the north-east of England' https://www.neemf.org.uk
Sat 17 MEMF 11am Elam Rotem (some may remember him as a SingTheScore Extra guest) talking about Salamone Rossi http://memf.org.uk
Thurs 22 BMEMF 7.30 pm Rory McCleery 'Compare and Contrast' workshop. Guerrero's 'Ave Virgo Sanctissima', other settings of the motet, and movements from Juan Esquivel's mass of the same name.
Mon 26 TVEMF 8pm. Andrew Griffiths. Venetian music for the feast of the Ascension. http://tvemf.org
Tues 27 Cambridge Handel Opera preparing for Tamerlano 6.30. Julian Perkins and Dionysios Kyropoulos. Production dynamics https://cambridgehandel.org.uk/events/
May
Sat 8 NEEMF 10.30am-12noon, Playing Josquin – an illustrated talk with singing/playing opportunities by Zoom with Jacob Heringman www.neemf.org.uk
Tues 18 TVEMF Patrick Craig Melodramatic Motets programme exploring the artistic inspirations behind the vivid music of Giaches de Wert. http://tvemf.org
June
Sat 5 MEMF All day workshop with Patrick Craig in Loughborough (virtual if necessary) http://memf.org.uk
Updated 16-02-2021