Concerts

ConcertsPerformersConcert Organisers

March 2019

Sat 23Mar2019

Vision

The Imagined Testimony of Hildegard von Bingen

St Mary's Church, Totnes

Sun 24Mar2019

Out of the Deep

Nova directed by Bruce Saunders

All Saints, Pembroke Road, Clifton BS8 3ED

Fri 29Mar2019

Bach and Before - harpsichord recital

A harpsichord recital by the remarkable Satoko Doi-Luck

Chapel Arts, Knapp Road, Cheltenham GL50 3QQ

Sat 30Mar2019

Cheltenham Bach Choir

JS Bach St John Passion

Cirencester Parish Church, 5 Market Place, Cirencester GL7 2NX

Sat 30Mar2019

VOCES8

Painswick Music Society

St Mary’s Church, Painswick, Gloucestershire

Sat 30Mar2019

Wellington Choral Society

JS Bach St Matthew Passion

St John's Church, Wellington

Sat 30Mar2019

Exultate Singers

A European Easter

St George's, Bristol

Sun 31Mar2019

Bach Cantatas

An afternoon concert by Cheltenham Bach Choir

St Matthew’s Church, Clarence Street, Cheltenham GL50 3PL

April 2019

Sat 06Apr2019

Bristol Bach Choir

St John Passion

St George's, Bristol

Wed 10Apr2019

Hay Music: Dancing with Bach

Alice Earll Violin

Booth's Bookshop Cinema, Hay-on-Wye

Sat 13Apr2019

Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir

Tenebrae - Light out of darkness

Milton Abbey, Dorset

Sun 14Apr2019

Marian Consort

Breaking the Rules: A Concert Drama

St George's, Bristol

Tue 16Apr2019

Ex Cathedra

St Matthew Passion

St George's, Bristol

Sat 20Apr2019

Bath Camerata

JS Bach and MacMillan motets

St George's, Bristol

Sat 27Apr2019

Syrinx - Blast from the Past

St Mary's Church, Totnes

May 2019

Thu 02May2019

I Fagiolini

Da Vinci 500

St George's, Bristol

Fri 03 - Sun 05May2019

Bristol Early Music Festival

Bristol Early Music Festival - Sponsored by SWEMF

All Saints, Pembroke Road, Bristol

Sun 05May2019

The Anatomy of Genius

Nova directed by Bruce Saunders

All Saints, Pembroke Road, Clifton BS8 3ED

Sat 11May2019

Una comida musical, with Musicke in the Ayre

C17 Spanish songs with baroque guitar and lute

Old Theatre Royal, Bath (the Masonic Hall)

Sun 19May2019

Sat 08Jun2019

Blackdowns Early Music Projects

BEMP Spring Festival

Venues in Wellington and Culmstock

Sun 19May2019

Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir

Alexander's Feast

Wimborne Minster, Dorset

Fri 31May2019

Sun 02Jun2019

Worcestershire Early Music Festival

Various Locations in Worcester

June 2019

Sat 01 - Sat 08Jun2019

Clifton Festival

Clifton International Festival of Music

Clifton, Bristol

Fri 07Jun2019

Solomon's Knot

With Jonathan Rees Baroque cello

St George's, Bristol

Fri 14Jun2019

The York Waits

The White Rose and the Red

Huntingdon Hall, Worcester

Sat 15Jun2019

The York Waits

The White Rose and the Red

St James Church, Kingston, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset

Sun 16Jun2019

The York Waits

The White Rose and the Red

Acton Court, Latteridge Rd, Iron Acton, Bristol

Fri 21Jun2019

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Vivaldi and Contemporaries

St George's, Bristol

July 2019

Thu 25Jul2019

The Tallis Scholars

Reflections

Cheltenham College Chapel, Cheltenham GL53 7LD

Sat 27Jul2019

Sat 24Aug2019

Dartington Summer School

More than 90 concerts and events across four weeks

Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon

Sat 27Jul2019

Somerset Chamber Choir

JS Bach St John Passion

Wells Cathedral

December 2019

Sat 07Dec2019

The York Waits

Make We Joy Now In This Fest

Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

Performers

Bristol Bach Choir
Bristol Bach Choir, directed by Christopher Finch, is one of the South West’s finest choral groups.

Bristol Choral Society
Bristol Choral Society is conducted by Hilary Campbell and is known as one of the leading big city choirs in the UK.

Bristowe Consort
The Bristowe Consort of Recorders was founded in 1998 and has six players and performs several times a year in the Bristol Area.

Cheltenham Bach Choir
Founded in 1946, the Cheltenham Bach Choir is one of the foremost choral societies in the South West of England.

Collegium Singers
Collegium Singers is a chamber choir based in Somerset. We have developed a reputation for excellent performances of interesting programmes.

Devon Baroque
Devon Baroque is the principal orchestra in the South West specialising in baroque and early classical music played on period instruments and in appropriate style.

East Cornwall Bach Choir
The East Cornwall Bach Choir is an auditioned choir of amateur singers, currently about 40 strong, based in Liskeard, East Cornwall.

Ensemble Ypotryll
Named after a mythical monster, Ypotryll consists of soprano Karen Jones & multi-instrumentalists Simon Pickard and Rachel Tedd performing medieval music.

Exeter Bach Society
The Exeter Bach Society was founded in 1995 by Alderman Ramon Yeo, an accomplished organist and admirer of Bach’s many compositions.

Exultate Singers
Exultate Singers is an accomplished chamber choir of 45 singers based in Bristol, founded in September 2002 by its conductor, David Ogden.

Gloucester Waites
The Waites of Gloucester are modelled on the band of musicians run by the City of Gloucester in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Harmonia Sacra
Formed by their conductor, Peter Leech, in 2009, principally for the performance of late Renaissance and Baroque choral works, as well as contemporary choral music.

Musica Mundi
Musica Mundi is a baroque chamber music group based in the Southwest of England.

Musicke in the Ayre
An umbrella project created in 2010 by lutenist/luthier Din Ghani to perform C16/17th music for solo voice(s) and plucked string with singers from across the country, having Bath as its centre of gravity.

Peter Leech
A musician with diverse skills and interests, Peter Leech has over 25 years experience as a choral and orchestral conductor, composer and musicologist.

Rosafresca
Three musicians with a passion for Early, Renaissance, Spanish, Moorish and Elizabethan Music came together in the summer of 2009 to form Rosafresca.

Somerset Chamber Choir
Formed in 1984, Somerset Chamber Choir has established a fine reputation for staging the highest quality concerts of choral music in Somerset.

Torbay Singers
The Torbay Singers was formed in summer 1967 through a merger of the Torquay Philharmonic Society and the Lansdowne Singers.

Toute Ensemble
Toute Ensemble is a group of eight musicians, playing early instruments including recorders, windcaps shawms, dulcians, sackbut, small pipes and lute.

Concert Organisers

Blackdowns Early Music Projects
Blackdowns Early Music Projects were principally conceived to draw together groups of experienced singers to work under the expert guidance of specialist music directors on programmes of infrequently performed early music.

Dillington House, Ilminster
Dillington House in Somerset offers a varied programme of lectures, courses and concerts.

Music in the Castle
Organising concerts for the public and concerts for schools in Powderham Castle, near Exeter.

St George’s, Bristol
Over 250 events each year, including classical, jazz, blues, folk and world music as well as family concerts and talks.

Totnes Early Music Society (TEMS)
TEMS offers a series of six early music concerts each year, featuring top professional musicians from the early music and folk fields, and music ranging from Medieval to late Baroque.