VdGS - Concerts

Concerts, Lectures & other Events

Items are taken from Early Music News, Thames Valley Early Music Forum, and from viol consorts and ensembles themselves, with thanks.

You are strongly advised to check on concert dates, times etc., with the organisers.

If you would like to list a concert here, please submit your event via our online form. Please also look at 'Useful links' in the right for concert series, ensemble's diaries and concert halls.

31 October, 2026 19:30 - Memento Mori: Early music of darkness and light. A concert by Ensemble Tramontana

Venue: Blackheath Quaker Meeting House, Lawn Terrace, London SE3 9LL

In this season when the veil between worlds thins, we glimpse both sides of it through 13th- to 17th-century music. Cheerful and sombre dances form the skeleton of the programme, including a rare Danse Macabre. Fleshing these pieces out are lighthearted chansons, dark ballads, and polyphonic madrigals and motets about activities of life, strange intermediary beings, and some very serious reflections on death and what might follow.

Expect voices, recorders of many sizes, viols, a touch of hurdy-gurdy, and that curious creature the crumhorn! Enjoy yourself while you can, since Death may arrive at any time…

Starting after dark at 7:30. Interval to include light refreshments.

Timea Gazdag – soprano
Shirley Vaughan – soprano, recorder, crumhorn
Paul Gregory – recorder, crumhorn
Matthew Male – recorder, crumhorn
Amanda Seaborn – recorder, crumhorn, viol
Eszter Komáromi – viol
Esha Neogy – viol
Talia Hunter – hurdy-gurdy

Join us before it’s too late!

https://EnsembleTramontana.com

Tickets: £10 on the door

21 November, 2026 (11:00 - 17:00) - A musical menagerie - a workshop with Ali Kinder for voices and instruments including viols

Venue: Fishbourne Church Hall (‘St Peter’s Place’), Fishbourne Rd West, Fishbourne, Chichester, PO19 3XT

A workshop being run by the Southern Early Music Forum for voices and instruments with Ali Kinder. Full details at https://docs.semf.org.uk/Flyer_Fishbourne_Ali_Kinder_Nov_2026.pdf

Tickets: Southern Early Music Forum Tickets website

22 November, 2026 (11:00 - 12:30) - The Republic of Viols' Autumn tour - music by Dowland and his contemporaries

Venue: Kino-Teatr - 43-49 Norman Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, TN38 0EG

Republic of Viols' Autumn tour presents Dowland's monument of Renaissance music, Lachrimae, alongside songs and dances by him and his contemporaries

Tickets: Tickets website

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