Brighton Early Music Festival

Courtship and marriage, religion and customs, living, dying and remembering, eating, drinking, revelry and the seasons - celebrated in music from antiquity to the present.

Artists include: Emma Kirkby, Red Priest, The Sixteen, Joglaresa, Horses Brawl, Passacaglia, Musica Secreta the BREMF Players with Alison Bury and our 400th anniversary performance of the Monteverdi 1610 Vespers.

Friday 22nd October 8pm
St Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton
The Choral Pilgrimage 2010
Ceremony and Devotion - Music for the Tudors
The Sixteen

Saturday 23rd October 1pm
The Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton
The Early Music Show

Saturday 23rd October
St George’s Church. Kemp Town
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Musica Secreta, The BREMF Consort of Voices, Celestial Sirens

Sunday 24th October 12 noon
St Andrew’s Church, Waterloo Street, Hove
Rituals of the Seasons
I Flautisti

Sunday 24th October 7.30pm
St Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton
The Harvest Queen
Horses Brawl

Monday 25th October 9.30am – 4.30pm
The Unitarian Church
Half term recorder workshop and concert
I Flautisti

Midweek
evening talks and informal concerts

Friday 29th October 8pm
St George’s Church Kemp Town
Divine Rites – Songs of the Laudesi
Joglaresa

Saturday 30th October 1pm
The Unitarian Church, Brighton
Young Artists Showcase
Rites of Pleasure
Ensemble Amaranthos

Saturday 30th October 7.30pm
St Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton
Monteverdi, the 1610 Vespers

Saturday 30th October From 11pm
St Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton
BREMF at White Night – Ritual and Illumination

Sunday 31st October 3pm
St George’s Church Kemp Town
Delights from the Pleasure Gardens
Passacaglia

Sunday 31st October 7.30pm
St Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton
Music from the Orthodox Church
The Boyan Ensemble of Kiev

Wednesday 3rd November 6pm
The Unitarian Church, Brighton
Young Artists Showcase
O Camino de Santiago - A Medieval Rite of Passage

Wednesday 3rd November 8 pm
St Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton
The Victoria Requiem

Thursday 4th November 8 pm
St George’s Church Kemp Town
Music of Remembrance and Mythology

Saturday 6th November 10am – 3pm
The Unitarian Church and all over Brighton
The Sing Brighton! Singing Extravaganza

Saturday 6th November 3pm
St George’s Church Kemp Town
Revels, Pageants & Fireworks
The BREMF Players

Saturday 6th November 8pm
St Andrew’s Church, Waterloo Street, Hove
Unsung Heroine - the imagined history of troubadour Countess Beatriz de Dia
The Telling

Sunday 7th November 5pm and 8pm
Hove Town Hall
Better Red and Dead!

Brighton Consort