(This site was last updated 13th January 2025)

Plans for 2025!
We have lots of new workshops planned for next year:
March 1st, David Allinson singers workshop in Shrewsbury, repertoire: Palestrina.  OPEN FOR BOOKING

April 5th, James Weeks singers workshop in Presteigne, repertoire: di Lasso.  OPEN FOR BOOKING

May 10th, Lizzie Gutteridge instrumentalists workshop followed by a concert. At Yarpole nr Leominster, repertoire: Harmonice Musices Odhecaton.  OPEN FOR BOOKING

June 28th, Patrick Craig workshop for singers and instrumentalists, venue and repertoire to be confirmed.

October 25th, Emily White workshop for singers and instrumentalists in Chepstow, repertoire: Women composers.

November 29th, Will Dawes and Katie Bank workshop for singers at Burton Court, repertoire: Morley
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     and into 2026!
28th February, El Parnasso Hyspano, indigenous Latin American music workshop for singers and continuo, details to be confirmed.

​​Border Voices' forthcoming concert - 19th January
We are delighted to publicise Border Voices’ next concert which will be on January 19th at 7pm, in their usual venue of the Priory Church, Leominster.  The concert is dedicated to the memory of one of our founder members, Geoff Warren, who sadly died on 16th April, 2022.  
The concert will be celebrating the work of the greatest composer of Spanish Golden Age polyphony, Tomás Luis de Victoria, with the joyous Missa Dum Complerentur dies Pentecostes. The mass takes as its basis Victoria’s own eponymous motet, expanding it from the original five to six voices (seven in the final movement). It was first published by Gardane in Venice in his first book of masses in 1576 and was so popular that it was republished in Rome in 1583. 
In addition to the mass and its motet, a selection of some of Victoria’s most moving motets will be presented, some seasonal, all exceptional. 

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Saturday 30th November - Workshop for singers.
Katy Silverman, a tutor new to BMEMF led us wonderfully in a workshop of the music of Edmund Hooper and Orlando Gibbons.  Katy was a splendid tutor - confident, friendly, encouraging and good-humoured, but at the same time demanding enough to persuade us to up our game.  She gave us just the right amount of information about the composers and the background to the music.  The Bridges Centre in Monmouth was a good venue and the day ran very smoothly, enhances as ever by the refreshments and cake from Amanda and Sarah.​

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About BMEMF

The Border Marches Early Music Forum, BMEMF, exists to promote the enjoyment of early music. It doesn't matter if you're a singer or an instrumentalist; very experienced or a beginner; amateur or professional - if you enjoy early music, BMEMF is for you. We publish three newsletters a year packed with news, reviews and details of forthcoming events.  ​

• We organise regular day workshops in Herefordshire and the surrounding counties of England and Wales.
• Our workshops cater for a range of interests and abilities.
• All our workshops are led by highly-regarded specialist tutors.
• You don't have to be a member - everyone is welcome.
• Find out more on our Facebook page.

We're welcoming, friendly and very, very enthusiastic! We hope that you will browse through our website and find an event to interest you. We look forward to seeing you at one of our workshops.

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