Concerts

ConcertsPerformersConcert Organisers

July 2019

Thu 25Jul2019

Jed Hughes (Organ)

Exeter Cathedral Summer Music Series

Exeter Cathedral, Exeter, Devon

Thu 25Jul2019

The Tallis Scholars

Reflections

Cheltenham College Chapel, Cheltenham

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

Sat 27Jul2019

Rosafresca - A lute song recital

Songs from Shakespeare's Plays

The Red Lodge Museum, Park Row, Bristol

Sun 28Jul2019

Carole Cerasi - Rivals

JS Bach and Louis Marchand / Handel and Domenico Scarlatti

The Old Baptist Chapel, Off Church Street, Tewkesbury

Mon 29Jul2019

Sat 03Aug2019

La Calisto - Francesco Cavalli

Longborough Festival Opera

New Banks Fee, Longborough, Moreton-in-Marsh

Wed 31Jul2019

Exon Singers

Tota Pulchra Es

Tavistock Parish Church, Tavistock, Devon

Wed 31Jul2019

Three Choirs Festival - Israel in Egypt

Handel (arr. Mendelssohn)

Gloucester Cathedral, College Green, Gloucester

Wed 31Jul2019

Papagena

Nuns and Roses

St Mary de Crypt, Southgate St, Gloucester

August 2019

Thu 01Aug2019

Joel Munday and Julian Trevelyan

Exeter Cathedral Summer Music Series

Exeter Cathedral, Exeter, Devon

Fri 02Aug2019

Glevum Consort

Medieval Gloucester through music

Llanthony Secunda Priory, Priory Junction, Gloucester

Sat 03Aug2019

Alison McGillivray

Bach Cello Suites

The Old Baptist Chapel, Off Church Street, Tewkesbury

Tue 06Aug2019

Passacaglia Duo

Time and Transformation

Cyder Barn, Owlpen Manor, nr Stroud

Thu 08Aug2019

Richard Lester

Exeter Cathedral Summer Music Series

Exeter Cathedral, Exeter, Devon

Sat 17Aug2019

A Venetian Jubilee a 3

With Musicke in the Ayre

Peto Gardens at Iford Manor, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire

Thu 22Aug2019

William Pert (Organ)

Exeter Cathedral Summer Music Series

Exeter Cathedral, Exeter, Devon

Sat 31Aug2019

Far from triumphing court, with Musicke in the Ayre

Lute songs associated with being outside London for one reason or another

St Thomas's Church, Salisbury, Wiltshire

Sat 31Aug2019

Meridianum Ensemble

The Nourish Festival

The Baptist Church, Bovey Tracey

September 2019

Fri 13Sep2019

Gloucester Waites

Gloucester History Festival

St Nicholas Church, Westgate Street, Gloucester

Fri 13Sep2019

A Venetian Jubilee a 3, with Musicke in the Ayre

Celebrating Strozzi 400 with the gorgeous arias, duets and trios from her birthplace

Museum of Bath Architecture, The Vineyards, The Paragon, Bath

Sat 14Sep2019

Ypotryll

Medieval Music

St Mary's Church, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham

Sun 15Sep2019

Bygonz

Gloucester History Festival

St Nicholas Church, Westgate Street, Gloucester

Sun 15Sep2019

Drake’s Viols & Janet Upton

Gloucester History Festival

St Mary De Lode Church, St Mary's Square, Gloucester

Sun 15Sep2019

In Echo

The Odhecaton 1501

Acton Court, Latteridge Rd, Iron Acton, Bristol

Sun 15Sep2019

The Lachrimae Consort

Celebrating Shakespeare

The Old Baptist Chapel, Off Church Street, Tewkesbury

Mon 16Sep2019

Ypotryll

Gloucester History Festival

St Nicholas Church, Westgate Street, Gloucester

Sat 21Sep2019

Lorna Tredget

Flute Sonatas

Church of St John the Baptist, Keynsham

Sat 21Sep2019

Ensemble Hesperi

The Pheasant's Eye

St Mary’s Church, Totnes

October 2019

Fri 04Oct2019

The Tallis Scholars

Reflections - Pre-concert Talk

St George's Bristol

Fri 04Oct2019

The Tallis Scholars

Reflections

St George's Bristol

Fri 11Oct2019

Musicke in the Ayre

Chantement Cordiale

Museum of Bath Architecture, Bath

Sat 19Oct2019

Improviso

Historically Informed Improvisation

St Mary’s Church, Totnes

Thu 24 - Mon 28Oct2019

Brecon Baroque Festival

Directed by Rachel Podger

Brecon, Wales

November 2019

Thu 07 - Sat 09Nov2019

London Festival of Early Music

London International Festival of Early Music 2019

Blackheath Halls, London

Sat 16Nov2019

Alison Howell

Organ Recital

Church of St John the Baptist, Keynsham

December 2019

Sat 07Dec2019

The York Waits

Make We Joy Now In This Fest

Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

Thu 12Dec2019

Yuletide! A Tudor Christmas with PIVA

Seasonal Music and Songs

Halsway Manor, Somerset

Sat 14Dec2019

Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments

The Longest Night

St Mary’s Church, Totnes

Fri 20Dec2019

The Waites of Gloucester

The Holly & The Ivy

Harvington Hall, Harvington Hall Lane, Kidderminster

January 2020

Sun 05Jan2020

Recorders Incorporated

Music from the Renaissance to the Early 20th Century

Church of St Cuthbert, Wells

Fri 31Jan2020

London Baroque

Les Amours Baroque

United Free Church, Totnes

February 2020

Tue 25Feb2020

PIVA - Real Roots!

Late 16th Century Popular Traditional Music

Halsway Manor, Somerset

Sat 29Feb2020

Continuum

J.S. Bach: Master of Melody and Harmony

St Mary’s Church, Totnes

April 2020

Sat 18Apr2020

Joglaresa

The Enchantress of Seville

St Mary’s Church, Totnes

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.