Early Music Concerts in East Anglia

Cambridge Early Music

Booking information and details of the concerts in this year’s series are available here.

The King of Hearts, Norwich

Friday 20th August 7.30pm

Musica Contemplativa Baroque Violin & Harpsichord Jennifer Bennett baroque violin, Hila Katz harpsichord Bach ~ Handel ~ Corelli ~ Mozart Tickets £10.00

Tickets for the Autumn series will go on sale in September

Details of the remaining Early Music concerts at the King of Hearts, which, unless saved, is closing in December

His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts

Thursday 16 September 2010, 7.30pm
Ipswich School, Great School

“Grand Tour” Music from England, Germany, Spain and Italy.

“His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts are, first and foremost, fine and imaginative chamber musicians” (Gramophone)
“This group is now the longest established and most respectable ensemble of its kind in the world” (Historic Brass Society)

Ipswich School Music Festival

Tickets: adults £20 / £10 concessions
Booking details here

If you have an early music concert or course to advertise, let us know via the contacts page
Always check that tickets are available before turning up to any event

Cambridge Early Music concert series – this series has been expanded and now runs from March to December

Easter at King’s – a popular series of Easter concerts and services with a substantial Early Music element

Suffolk Villages Festival
The Summer 2010 programme The theme: JS Bach and his world

Bach Cantatas Website

Workshops and concerts by Shared Voices

The King of Hearts, Norwich NR3 1LJ – “a centre for people and the Arts”
Lots of Early Music concerts and various other activities in a superb Tudor building. See panel above.

The East Anglian Academy – for those interested in the organ and early keyboard music
A series of concerts is presented each year. Details of the 2010 concerts.

Early Opera in Cambridge

Fitzwilliam Chamber Opera is a new venture at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, founded with the aim of presenting a biennial fully staged production.
In 2007 the initial opera was Handel’s Xerxes (review).
In 2009 Monteverdi's Orfeo was performed over five nights plus a matinée at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge.

Cambridge Handel Opera Group was founded with the intention of presenting fully-staged productions of Handel’s operas,
in English, every two years in the West Road Concert Hall. The most recent production was Ariodante (2009).

Early Music Performers in East Anglia

Philip Thorby, of Beccles, Suffolk		Peter Holman and the Parley of Instruments - some music samples - academic career
Capella Antiqua	Jennie Cassidy		Minstrels Gallery	Laura Cannell and Horses Brawl
Ralph Woodward	Eyehall Musick		Ravenscroft Consort	Divers Voyces
Hurstingstone Singers
Early Dance groups Norwich Early Dance Group West Gallery Quires, Waits and the like
Wyldes Noyse	Norfolk Gallery Quire		Bedford Gallery Quire	Chiltern West Gallery Quire
Colchester Waits	Kings Lynn Waites		City of Lincoln Waites Town Pipers Festival 2008

Concert Listings

Suffolk Music – a web diary of classical music concerts and events in Suffolk and the surrounding area

Kulcha – a listing of early-ish music and other events in Cambridge, and several useful links

oclassical – an interactive web site for advertising classical music performances

gerontius – searchable directories of UK choirs and choral concerts, including Early Music events

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Updated 08/07/2010. Please contact the EEMF committee with comments