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Organising events which make music from the last 1000 years relevant and exciting to the audiences of today. 🎶
BRINGERS OF DREAMS: 2 -25 October 2026

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Is there a piece of music that instantly transports you home? 🎶

One Song is an audio-visual installation and community archive developed by artist Kadir Karababa with Brighton refugee and migrant communities. It explores how music carries memory, identity and a sense of belonging across borders.

Created in partnership with BREMF and Fabrica, the project invited local participants to share a song that connects them to the place they first called home.

📍 Fabrica
📅 Open daily except Mondays until 28 October
🎟️ Free entry taken in Brighton and Hove by @brightonemf

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Join us for an evening of moonlight, transformation and imagination. 🌙

In Lunaris, Anna Stegmann and Jorge Jiménez move freely between the centuries. See what happens when medieval canons merge with Luciano Berio's modern sounds, while Béla Bartók converses with Johann Sebastian Bach.

📅 Sunday 18 October, 6:30pm
📍 St Nicholas Church
🎟️ £20; under 30s half price; under 12s free Two musicians performing: one plays a wooden flute while a the other plays a violin, white swirl graphics fill the background by @brightonemf

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🎻 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙏𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙞 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 @noc.turnalia // Part 2

What connects astronomy, Tartini’s Devil, and our UK tour? Discover Jérôme Lalande: the astronomer who helped predict Halley’s Comet’s return, catalogued nearly 50,000 stars, and recorded observations of Neptune before its identity was recognised. But he also wrote about Tartini and the Devil…

Follow us as we explore the life and music of Tartini and discover some of the finest compositions of the 18th century.

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐬, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬! ✨ ↦↦↦↦↦ https://nocturnaliaensemble.com/dates/

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#earlymusic #tartini #devilstrill #nocturnaliaensemble #baroqueviolin by @brightonemf

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Another dreamy weekend ahead. 🌙

Starting on Thursday, @thefi.nehand join us for a hands-on workshop where you'll transform your dreamscape into symbols and images, creating unique graphic scores and bringing them to life through music. No musical experience required, and all ages welcome. Then on Friday evening, they take to the stage to explore the connections between medieval European song and Appalachia's ballad traditions in Send it by the Water. Blending historical performance, improvisation and folk traditions, they create a poignant journey through migration, memory, imagined homelands and the dreams we inherit.

Saturday is Dowland Day, starting with Draw on, Sweet Night, where tenor @kwhite_tenor and @republicofviols explore music of sleep, melancholy and dream-like vision. Next, we have Nightly Cares: A Pilgrim’s Solace, where lute-song experts @dowlandsfoundry are joined by award-winning actor Will Keen in a profound exploration of John Dowland’s darkest final songbook. To end the day, Ruby Hughes and @nordbergjonas make their festival debut in Amidst the Shades, a captivating and nuanced programme that weaves songs by John Dowland with the music of Robert Johnson, Henry Purcell and Errollyn Wallen in an intimate and expressive late-night duo concert.

On Sunday, @olwen.foulkes leads the A=415 Instrumental Workshop, a chance to explore some baroque chamber music repertoire together with like-minded enthusiasts. Closing out the weekend, Anna Stegmann and Jorge Jiménez bring us Lunaris, a programme for recorder and violin exploring moonlight, transformation and imagination which invites us to look upwards and to dream.

It’s the perfect way to wrap up the week. We look forward to seeing you there! by @brightonemf

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🌙 Draw on, sweet night 🌙

I’m delighted to be joining Republic of Viols for the first time for a special programme at this year’s Brighton Early Music Festival, celebrating the 400th anniversary of the death of John Dowland.

Together, we’ll explore a world of sleep, melancholy and dream-like visions, weaving Dowland’s haunting songs with the exquisite dances of Lachrimae, music by his contemporaries, and a touch of French air de cour.

The programme includes Flow, my tears, Come, heavy sleep and Time stands still — music that speaks across four centuries with extraordinary intimacy and beauty.

📍 St Nicholas Church, Brighton
📅 Saturday 17 October 2026
🕐 1pm

🎟️ Tickets £16, with half-price tickets for under-30s and free entry for under-12s.

It’s always extremely special to return to BREMF, a festival that believed in me as a young artist.

I hope you can join us!

🎫 Book via the BREMF website.

This recital is supported by a grant from @continuofoundation

#BREMF2026 #BrightonEarlyMusicFestival #JohnDowland #EarlyMusic #dowland400 taken in St Nicholas' Church, Brighton by @brightonemf

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🌿 Round off the festival with a SongPath Walk through Stanmer Park!

Join us for an afternoon of nature, singing and wellbeing, finishing with a refreshing glass of apple juice in Home Farm Orchard. A lovely way to bring the 2026 festival to a close. ☁️🌙

📅 Sunday 25 October, 1:30pm–3:30pm
📍 Stanmer Park
🎟️ £10; under 12s free by @brightonemf

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What a weekend!

This past weekend saw @londonhandelplayers take to the stage on Friday with Purcell's The Fairy Queen featuring our BREMF Emerging Artists vocal soloists @rubyskilbeckmusic @emmawarner2 @lauralouisetoomey & @hugojwilliamson (plus EA alumnus @allyn.wu).

On Saturday it was the turn of the Emerging Artists ensembles @lesacolytes.uk @bruegel_consort @vega_consort & @themelionensemble, who presented an afternoon Showcase and evening Clubnight @the_rose_hill.

And we rounded off the weekend on Sunday with a very atmospheric performance from @artemis_consort

We also took the time to drop in on the @onesongproject exhibition, running at @fabricagallery in association with BREMF until 28 October. by @brightonemf

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🌟Lovers of early music!🎶
Brighton Early Music Festival is halfway through, if you haven’t yet had a chance to catch any of the events there are still plenty to enjoy - concerts, workshops, talks - ask the things to please music lovers’ ears and souls!

All details of events at www.bremf.org.uk
@brightonemf

#earlymusic #concerts #emergingartists #periodinstruments #workshops by @brightonemf

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Few rooms could suit Purcell’s The Fairy Queen as well as St George’s Church, where Brighton Early Music Festival presented the 1692 semi-opera on Friday night. The high vaults and clean Georgian lines lent the music a crisp, detailed elegance, as though the building had been drawn to the score’s measure. Its Kemp Town setting, in Brighton’s queer heartland, felt apt for a work devoted to enchantment, disguise and desire....

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🧚A truly magical Fairy Queen performance from @londonhandelplayers, directed by @adrianbutterfield8348 and with staging & choreography by Mary Collins.

And fantastic performances from the 8-strong cast of singers - BREMF EA soloists & London Handel Players Young Artists:
@benedict.munden @basso_fionn @merce.bruguera @allyn.wu @hugojwilliamson @lauralouisetoomey @emmawarner2 @rubyskilbeckmusic

Plus wonderful dancers Mary Collins, Stephen Player, Kath Waters, Anne Deller, @ayarobertson and @fernando.fs.santiago

#earlymusic #emergingartists #brightonearlymusicfestival #brightonevents bremf2026 taken in Brighton by @brightonemf

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Always a highlight of Brighton Early Music Festival - the BREMF Emerging Artists Showcase. Rich and graceful French repertoire played with style by @lesacolytes.uk , then dreamy lute songs with strong characterisation and expression from @vega_consort . After obligatory sumptuous cake, the @themelionensemble gave us polished and accomplished Handel & Leclair in Italian mode, before the @bruegel_consort concluded with a smooth blend and even ensemble in complex Fayrfax. @brightonemf #earlymusic #BREMF taken in St Paul's Church, Brighton by @brightonemf

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Take a look behind the scenes at rehearsals for tonight's production starring the @londonhandelplayers and this year's emerging artist singers: @rubyskilbeckmusic
@emmawarner2
@lauralouisetoomey and @hugojwilliamson. Plus London Handel Players Young Artists: @merce.bruguera @benedict.munden and @basso_fionn. With BREMF Emerging artist alumnus @allyn.wu

#emergingartists #brightonevents #bremf2026 #brightonearlymusicfestival earlymusic by @brightonemf

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