Thames Valley Early Music Forum
This page is updated after the latest Tamesis newsletter appears, so if your concert is in our area (London, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire) you can send details (in the text of an email, not a flyer) to tamesis @ tvemf.org.uk
Concerts
Please check details with concert organisers before turning up for a concert, as this information comes from a variety of sources which may not all be accurate. Concerts are in the evening unless otherwise stated, and known start times other than 7.30 are given.
'*' Venue information available HERE
You’ll find more early music concerts listed here: https://www.continuoconnect.com/event-list
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August
30 6pm St Mary's Church, Frensham, GU10 3EA. 'sisters in song' admission: Free with retiring collection for church funds. https://www.frenshamchurches.org.uk/sisters-in-song
30-31 The Vache, Chalfont St Peter. Vache Baroque summer festival circus opera – Campra: LeCarnaval de Venisewww.vachebaroque.com
September
6-7 The Vache, Chalfont St Peter. Vache Baroque summer festival circus opera – Campra: Le Carnaval de Venise. Also shorter relaxed performance on the 7th www.vachebaroque.com
21 7pm, Dorchester Abbey. Elgar Lux Aeterna for unaccompanied choir, Tchaikovsky Symphony no 5, Simon Proctor Concerto for sackbut and orchestra WORLD PREMIERE www.osj.org.uk
23 St Martin-in-the-Fields 7pm – 8pm. Vision – The Imagined Testimony of Hildegard von Bingen: More info & tickets: https://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/calendar/vision-the-imagined-testimony-of-hildegard-von-bingen/
26 7pm St Bartholomew-the-Great, West Smithfield, EC1A 9DS. A mosaic of stories from Early Modern Europe with medieval ensemble Rune. Rune explores music and stories from the 14th and 15th centuries based around themes of The Decameron by Boccaccio c.1348.
https://greatstbarts.churchsuite.com/events/fymsflrf27-28 Banbury Early Music Festival (workshops and concerts) www.banburyearlymusicfestival.weebly.com
October
Fri 3 *Little Missenden Festival, 8pm. Monteverdi String Band, Hannah Ely (sop) madrigals & instrumental music by Monteverdi and his contemporaries
10-26 Brighton Early Music Festival
Sat 11 *Little Missenden Festival, 8pm. Stile Antico. Renaissance polyphony by Josquin, Palestrina, Byrd, Victoria etc
Sun 12 *Little Missenden Festival, 3pm. Chelys Viol Consort. Orlando Gibbons
Sat 8 7:30pm St Mary's Church, Charlbury, Chipping Norton, OX7 5NA. More than a Woman https://soundshistorical.weebly.com/diary.html
Sat 25 18:30 free entry. All Saints Church, Crondall, GU10 5QF. Choral works by Gibbons & others. Ad hoc singers.
November
8 St Mary Magdalene, Paradise Road, Richmond TW9 1SN 7.30pm. Breaking the Rules - London
The extraordinary life and visceral music of 16th/17th-century composer-prince Carlo Gesualdo
More info & tickets: https://www.thetelling.co.uk/events/btr-london
December
Fri 5 *Little Missenden Festival, 8pm. Siglo de Oro & the Spinacino Consort. ‘Hey for Christmas’ – seasonal music under Cromwell
Updated 31-08-2025