BRIGHTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL - United Kingdom

Brighton Early Music Festival is the premier festival of early music in the south of the UK, presenting around 25 concerts each year, many of them centred around an autumn festival season. The Festival's young artist programme, BREMF Live! is one of the pre-eminent mentoring and development schemes for young professional early music performers in Europe. The scheme offers opportunities for ensembles, and singers and instrumentalists.

Brighton Early Music Festival 2025 explores the theme of Love, with events spread across three festival weekends, each highlighting a different type of Love.

Weekend 1 (10-12 October) takes the theme of Xenia: hosting and welcoming guests, with events including the UK premiere of baroque opera, Les Caractères de l’Amour  by Mlle Duval; a concert of music by 17th-century refugee composers with Nardus Williams & Elizabeth Kenny, a appearance by string trio Ayres Extemporae, and 16th century vocal music from The Gesualdo Six.

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Weekend 2 (16-19 October) celebrates Agape: love of nature and the divine, with events including a celebration of Orlando Gibbons, Ensemble Augelletti and other performers working with local schools, BREMF's annual showcase of emerging artists - this year featuring Chantefable, Londinium Consort, The Lyons Mouth and The Royal Sackbut Collective - and convent music from Musica Secreta.

Weekend 3 (24-26 October) explores Eros: romantic desire, love and loss. Vache Baroque will be performing a programme which takes its inspiration from the writings of Oscar Wilde, followed by a lunchtime concert from German medieval specialists Per Sonat, Monteverdi's Tancredi e Clorinda with La Fonte Musica, and a concert of Lieder arranged for voice and string quartet with mezzo soprano Helen Charlston and period instrument string specialists the Consone Quartet.