Concerts

ConcertsPerformersConcert Organisers

May 2019

Mon 20May2019

Pink Noise Recorder Quintet

If it ain’t Baroque...

St Stephen’s Church, St Stephen’s St, Bristol

Fri 24May2019

Mendip Recorder Consort

A programme of German music through the last 500 years

Wells Cathedral

Sat 25May2019

Sun 09Jun2019

Purbeck Arts Week

Top quality concerts in historic churches

Purbeck, Dorset

Sat 25May2019

Mendip Recorder Consort

A programme of German music through the last 500 years

Sherborne Abbey

Sat 25May2019

Frantisek Brikcius

Bach Cello Suite no. 5

Church of St John the Baptist, Keynsham

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

Sat 01Jun2019

Mendip Recorder Consort

A selection of music by German composers from 16th-20th century

St Andrew's Church, Curry Rivel

Sat 01Jun2019

Let Trumpets Sound

Crispian Steele-Perkins and James Gough

Clifton Cathedral, Clifton Park

Thu 06Jun2019

Vivaldi: Four Seasons by Candlelight

Rising stars, Figo, return to the Clifton Festival

Clifton Cathedral, Clifton Park

Fri 07Jun2019

Summer Ayres, with Musicke in the Ayre

Ayres for lute and up to 4 voices by Dowland, Campion et al

St Andrew's Church, Peter Street, Frocester

Fri 07Jun2019

Solomon's Knot

With Jonathan Rees Baroque cello

St George's, Bristol

Sat 08Jun2019

Mendip Recorder Consort

A selection of music by German composers from 16th-20th century

Weston-super-Mare Museum

Sat 08Jun2019

Monteverdi Vespers of 1610

The Erebus Ensemble, Figo and the Clifton Festival Chamber Choir

Clifton Cathedral, Clifton Park

Tue 11Jun2019

Zalifenta

Baroque Trio

Bristol Music Club, 76 St Paul's Rd, Bristol

Fri 14Jun2019

Zalifenta

Baroque Trio

Holy Trinity Church, Church Road, Abbots Leigh

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

Sat 29Jun2019

The Cappella Singers

Sing Joyfully!

St Mary's Church, North Woodchester

Sun 30Jun2019

Bristol Chamber Choir

A Magic Carpet of Choral Music

St Stephen's Church, St Stephen's Road, Bristol

July 2019

Fri 05 - Sun 14Jul2019

Cheltenham Music Festival

The 75th Cheltenham Music Festival

Various locations in Cheltenham

Wed 10Jul2019

A Venetian Jubilee, with Musicke in the Ayre

Celebrating Strozzi 400 with the splendors of music from her birthplace

Silk Mill Gallery, Merchants Barton, Frome

Sun 14Jul2019

Catherine King and Frances Kelly

La Cecchina - The Songbird

The Old Baptist Chapel, Off Church Street, Tewkesbury

Sat 20Jul2019

Zalifenta

Music for Recorders, Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord

Church of St John the Baptist, Keynsham

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

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

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

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

Sat 17Aug2019

A Venetian Jubilee a 3, with Musicke in the Ayre

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

Peto Gardens at Iford Manor, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire

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

September 2019

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

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

Sat 21Sep2019

Lorna Tredget

Flute Sonatas

Church of St John the Baptist, Keynsham

October 2019

Thu 24 - Mon 28Oct2019

Brecon Baroque Festival

Directed by Rachel Podger

Brecon, Wales

November 2019

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

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.