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Did you know we host two biennial competitions that alternate each year to support emerging talent? In 2024 it was the turn of our Young Ensemble Competition. Winners perform at the following year’s festival so at LIFEM25 we’re delighted to welcome back Polychroma Ensemble!

What did Telemann hear in those 18th-century Polish taverns? 🇵🇱In ‘Telemann Goes East’, Erik Bosgraaf and filoBarocco follow his footsteps, reviving lost folk melodies through Baroque imagination. An ‘educated guess’ was brought vividly to life at LIFEM24: digiboxarts.com/lifem/events/2…

Join viola da gamba player Sarah Small at Jubilee Hall on 8th May when she demonstrates how touring can be done differently! 🎻🚲 Disillusioned by the lack of support for sustainable touring, she’s cycling to venues to share her programme ‘Good Again?’🎟️ ticketsource.co.uk/aldeburgh-jubi…

When the music’s so good, you don’t need to see it, you just feel it. This audience member had his eyes closed but ears wide open at The Royal Wind Music’s concert The Orange Tree Courtyard at LIFEM24 where the ensemble performed on renaissance recorders. 🪈🎼 digiboxarts.com/lifem/events/2…

Uncorking the weekend like pros!🍷Behind the bar and behind the scenes we’re already busy plotting for an even bolder festival this year. We can’t wait to see you all again in November. 🎶 #lifem #earlymusic #music #musicfestival #london

At LIFEM24 ‘Telemann Goes East’ illuminated the intersection of written & oral traditions. Erik Bosgraaf & filoBarocco (performing entirely from memory), honoured Telemann’s engagement with Polish folk music with the spirit of a repertoire seldom recorded. digiboxarts.com/lifem/events/2…

If you missed LIFEM 2024, now’s your chance to experience its brilliance.📻 This Sunday, on BBC Radio 3’s Early Music Show, Dr Hannah French presents captivating performances by recorder virtuoso Erik Bosgraaf and harpsichordist Maciej Skrzeczkowski 🪈 Tune in here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Sounds of LIFEM - a playlist to revisit in our latest newsletter: eepurl.com/jc6j3g

If you missed our festival last year, experience its brilliance at 5pm today on BBC Radio 3’s Early Music Show when Hannah French presents captivating performances by our recorder virtuoso Erik Bosgraaf and harpsichordist Maciej Skrzeczkowski. Listen here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

In Australia recently, our Festival Director, Chris Butler, met Prof Neal Peres Da Costa, Head of Historical Performances at the SydneyConMusic. Hear Neal directing the Orchestra of the Antipodes in the Sinfonia from Part II of Bach’s cantata BWV75 here: music.apple.com/gb/album/canta… 🎺🎼

While in Sydney, our Festival Director Chris’ son offered a demonstration on the didgeridoo, producing a remarkably resonant drone that gathered smiles! 🇦🇺 It was a reminder that musical instinct and the capacity to engage with unfamiliar instruments often emerge spontaneously!

Happy Birthday to our brilliant Artistic Director, Erik Bosgraaf whose creativity, energy and bold programming continue to shape LIFEM into something truly extraordinary. Here’s to you on your special day, Erik, and to all the music and magic to come at LIFEM25! Cheers! 🍻🎶🎉

Behind The Scenes 📷 LIFEM is so much more than world-class concerts and an international early music market place - its connection, creativity, and vision. Here’s a few behind-the-scenes shots from LIFEM24 showing preparations, rehearsals and the moments you don’t see on stage!

In our latest LIFEM interview discover how a £10 recorder can spark a lifelong passion for young musicians.🪈Be part of the journey at the The Early Music Shop Recorder Festival 2025 - a brilliant chance for young recorder players to learn and be inspired. 🎟️ earlymusicshop.com/products/recor…

At the Recorder Festival 2025 the The Early Music Shop has commissioned a piece for participants to play during the massed playing sessions! The title and composers of the piece is Saltaire Variations (on recorder themes by Richard Harvey) by Bill Connor. 🪈 🎟️ earlymusicshop.com/products/recor…

Apply now to exhibit at LIFEM 2025. 🪈🎻 Have you got something special to share with the early music world? Now’s the time to get involved. Discover full details including our early bird discount here: eepurl.com/jfunRY 🎼 #lifem #earlymusic

Hooked by early music curiosity? 🤔 Ever wondered what’s behind those rich, resonant sounds you catch on BBC Radio 3? 🎼Exhibitor Jane Moulder says it best in this interview as she captures LIFEM’s magic. 🪈Showcase your work and exhibit at LIFEM25 here: lifem.org/exhibition/

Recorder Festival 2025 is tuning up at Titus Salt School with all systems go as we test-drive the The Early Music Shop recorders! 🪈 Can’t wait to kick things off tonight with the fabulous Palisander at the opening concert and festival reception! Let the music begin! 🎵

📣 We are joining forces with Oxford Festival of the Arts to present 𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗬 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖 𝗗𝗔𝗬 this July, featuring Bellot Ensemble, Linarol Consort and Nicholas Kenyon 🎶 🕐 12 July 📌 Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College 🎟️ Tickets on sale now 🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/ofa-early-musi…

Heading to The Early Music Shop Recorder Festival this weekend? Then you may like to know Dorothee Oberlinger is performing at LIFEM25! 🪈As one of early music’s most exciting performers, she brings her extraordinary artistry to London this November. LIFEM25 tickets online very soon.