Brighton Early Music Festival
Established in 2002, Brighton Early Music Festival organises a series of vibrant events in venues around Brighton & Hove. Our flagship event is our autumn Festival, taking place each October.
When
🍂Autumn festival
Fri, 2 October 2026 — Sun, 25 October 2026
About
The annual Festival takes place in October and has built a reputation for lively and inspired programming, often exploring connections with different art forms and using performance formats and spaces that challenge preconceptions of early music.
Every year BREMF programmes around specific themes designed to stimulate new attitudes to approaching and presenting music from the past. Each Festival usually consists of around 20 events, grouped around three weekends, with pre-festival events during September and early October offering opportunities to participate in workshops, find out more about programmes, and experience the Festival for the first time.
The theme for 2026 is ‘Bringers of Dreams’ and the Festival takes place 2-25 October, with opportunities to take part from 19 September. The boundaries between real and imagined, past and future, aspiration and fear become blurred when we dream. For centuries, this nebulous tideland of imagination has fuelled ideas for countless pieces of art and music, new inventions and alternative fantastical universes, and provided the backdrop for idealised visions of change. This year’s Festival explores dreams of many kinds, united by an underlying theme: a dream of home.
Throughout the year, BREMF contributes to the vibrant arts scene in Brighton and Hove through its programme of choral concerts, workshops and school projects.
Events
Polyphony Crawl
BREMF Consort of Voices
- Sat, 19 September 2026
Various
11:00am
Free
Brighton Early Music Festival
Choral Workshop
Donald Greig
- Sun, 20 September 2026
- Exeter Street Hall, Brighton
- 11:00am
- £20 (conc. available)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
Laboratory of Lullabies
Noodle Music
- Sun, 20 September 2026
- Komedia Studio, Brighton
- 2:00pm
- £8 (u12s free)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
Instrumental Workshop
William Lyons
- Sat, 26 September 2026
- St John's Church, Brighton
- 11:00am
- £20 (conc. available)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
Baroque Dance Workshop
Mary Collins
- Sun, 27 September 2026
- The Dance Space, Brighton
- 10:30am
- £10 (conc. available)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
Baroque Dance Workshop
Mary Collins
- Sun, 27 September 2026
- The Dance Space, Brighton
- 2:30pm
- £10 (conc. available)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
Early Music Open Mic
Emily Baines
- Thu, 1 October 2026
- The Rose Hill, Brighton
- 8:00pm
- Free
- Brighton Early Music Festival
City of Dreams
Monteverdi String Band
- Fri, 2 October 2026
- St George's Church, Brighton
- 7:00pm
- £18 - £25 (conc. available)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
OAE TOTS
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
- Sat, 3 October 2026
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 10:30am
- £8 (u12s free)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
OAE TOTS
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
- Sat, 3 October 2026
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 12:00pm
- £8 (u12s free)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
The Planets
Spiritato
- Sat, 3 October 2026
- St Martin's Church, Brighton
- 7:30pm
- £18 - £25 (conc. available)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
Dream Lab
- Sun, 4 October 2026
- St Augustine's, Brighton
- 1:30pm
- £20 (conc. available)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
The Fairy Queen
London Handel Players
- Fri, 9 October 2026
- St George's Church, Brighton
- 7:30pm
- £18 - £32 (conc. available)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
BREMF Emerging Artists Showcase
BREMF Emerging Artists Ensembles
- Sat, 10 October 2026
- St Paul's Church, Brighton
- 3:00pm
- West Street, Brighton BN1 2RE
- Brighton Early Music Festival
BREMF Clubnight
BREMF Emerging Artists Ensembles
- Sat, 10 October 2026
- The Rose Hill, Brighton
- 8:30pm
- £8
- Brighton Early Music Festival
Polia's Power
Artemis Consort
- Sun, 11 October 2026
- St Paul's Church, Brighton
- 7:30pm
- £16 - £25 (conc. available)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
Workshop: Transform your Dreams
The Fine Hand
- Thu, 15 October 2026
- Fabrica, Brighton
- 6:15pm
- £5 (u18s free)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
Send it by the Water
The Fine Hand
- Fri, 16 October 2026
- St George's Church, Brighton
- 7:30pm
- £18 - £25 (conc. available)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
Draw on, Sweet Night
Kieran White | Republic of Viols
- Sat, 17 October 2026
- St Nicholas Church, Brighton
- 1:00pm
- £16 (conc. available)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
Nightly Cares: A Pilgrim’s Solace
Dowland's Foundry
- Sat, 17 October 2026
- St Nicholas Church, Brighton
- 6:30pm
- £20 (conc. available)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
Amidst the Shades
Ruby Hughes
- Sat, 17 October 2026
- Fabrica, Brighton
- 9:00pm
- £20 (conc. available)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
A=415 Instrumental Workshop
Olwen Foulkes
- Sun, 18 October 2026
- The Rose Hill, Brighton
- 1:00pm
- £10 (conc. available)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
Stars of the Night
Ymnus
- Sun, 18 October 2026
- St Nicholas Church, Brighton
- 6:30pm
- £20 (conc. available)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
Brother Sun
BREMF Community Choir
- Fri, 23 October 2026
- St Paul's Church, Brighton
- 7:30pm
- £20 (conc. available)
- Brighton Early Music Festival
Location
Brighton
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