Early Music Concerts in the South West, or Online
- 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.
- Musicke in the Ayre
An umbrella project by lutenist/luthier Din Ghani to perform C16/17th music for solo voice(s) and plucked string with singers from across the country, centred in Bath.
- South West Baroque Orchestra
South West Baroque Orchestra plays Baroque music to a high standard and performs concerts throughout the South West.
- 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.
- 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 by lutenist/luthier Din Ghani to perform C16/17th music for solo voice(s) and plucked string with singers from across the country, centred in Bath.
- 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.
- South West Baroque Orchestra
South West Baroque Orchestra plays Baroque music to a high standard and performs concerts throughout the South West.
- 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.
Including concerts organised by SWEMF and by other organisations
See also: The Yeovil Chamber Choir Concert Directory.
The Garbarek Project
Improvised saxophone with choral favourites including Hildegard of Bingen
St Luke's Church, Wellsway, Bath BA2 2BD
Brandenburg 4 - Echoes of the Baroque
South West Baroque Orchestra's first performance in Totnes
St. John's Church, Bridgetown, Totnes TQ9 5AB
Organ Concert with Margaret Phillips in Wells
A rare opportunity to hear 16th century music on the Goetze and Gwynn Wingfield organ
St Cuthbert's Church, St Cuthbert Street, Wells. BA5 2AW
Lute Song Concert
Award winning tenor Daniel Thomson and Sam Brown, “the Eric Clapton of the lute”, present Facets of Time, a dramatic performance based around Elizabethen England’s most iconic artists, William Shakespeare and John Dowland.
Not Just Sundaes Community Cafe, Trinity Church, South St, Wareham BH20 4LU
Secular and sacred - a musical pilgrimage with Musicke in the ayre
From England via France and Spain to Italy, the birthplace of the Baroque
St Mary the Virgin, Bathwick, Bath BA2 4EB
Passacaglia Duo at the Old Chapel Court Concerts
Made in Italy - Baroque music for recorder, flute and harpsichord by Handel, Barsanti, Corelli, Vivaldi and Scarlatti
Old Baptist Chapel, off Church Street, Tewkesbury GL20 5RZ
Piety and Play in Versailles, with Musicke in the Ayre
Sacred and secular pieces for up to 3 sopranos from 17th century France
The Silk Mill, Merchants Barton, Frome BA11 1PT
Brandenburg 4 - Echoes of the Baroque
South West Baroque Orchestra Lunchtime Concert at Sherborne Abbey
Sherborne Abbey, Abbey Close, DT9 3LQ
Brandenburg 4 - Echoes of the Baroque
South West Baroque Orchestra Afternoon Tea Concert at Ven House, Milborne Port
Ven House, Milborne Port DT9 5RA
Music of the Renaissance
Nova's Renaissance favourites, including Josquin, Ockeghem, Senfl and Clemens
All Saints Church, Pembroke Road, Bristol, BS8 3ED
Piety and Play in Versailles, with Musicke in the Ayre
Sacred and secular pieces for up to 3 sopranos from 17th century France
Iford Manor Gardens, nr Bradford, BA15 2ifBA
Nathaniel Mander at the Old Chapel Court Concerts
The Virtuoso Harpsichord - Bach’s grand Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue alongside beautiful 17th century French works by D’Anglebert and virtuosic pieces by Handel and Scarlatti.
Old Baptist Chapel, off Church Street, Tewkesbury GL20 5RZ
Oliver Webber & Steven Devine at the Old Chapel Court Concerts
‘Con Arte e Maestria’ – the Art of the Flourish. Virtuoso violin ornamentation from the dawn of the Italian Baroque.
Old Baptist Chapel, off Church Street, Tewkesbury GL20 5RZ
The Choral Pilgrimage 2025: Wells
A programme for inner peace, combining medieval sounds with the contemporary voices of Arvo Pärt, Will Todd and Anna Clyne.
Wells Cathedral
The Choral Pilgrimage 2025: Tewkesbury
A programme for inner peace, combining medieval sounds with the contemporary voices of Arvo Pärt, Will Todd and Anna Clyne.
Tewkesbury Abbey, Church Street, Tewkesbury, GL20 5RZ
The Choral Pilgrimage 2025: Truro
A programme for inner peace, combining medieval sounds with the contemporary voices of Arvo Pärt, Will Todd and Anna Clyne.
Truro Cathedral
Christmas Choral Concert with The Gesualdo Six
Join The Gesualdo Six at St Laurence Church in Stroud and step into an enchanting sequence of festive works.
St Laurence Church, Stroud