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Little Baroque Company warm up backstage before their performance of Bach’s Coffee Cantata at BREMF 2014. Photo: Robert Piwko

“ arguably the best showcase of early music in the country” Classical Music Magazine, December 2012

An out-of-the ordinary Supporters’ Scheme for an out-of-the ordinary Festival Cited as “nothing if not inventive” (BBC Radio 3) and “intriguingly unconventional” (The Telegraph), BREMF is a truly innovative festival.

But our innovation doesn’t stop with our programming: we have drawn on our creative streak in devising our Artistic Directors’ Circle, which will allow you to get closer to the creative process and planning behind the UK’s most innovative early music festival.

Classical Music’s 2011 review of the festival gives you a sense of how carefully we programme: “Much of the special appeal of Brighton Early Music Festival (BREMF) is in the curator-like approach of Clare Norburn and Deborah Roberts to unify programmes under a thematic umbrella.

Many festivals simply choose a theme and cram programmes into it: not so with BREMF. The level of thoughtfulness with which the dance theme had been addressed in the programming was very heartening.”

As a member of the Artistic Directors’ Circle you can directly experience the momentum of that “curator-like approach”. You can find out more about some of the artistic decisions made by the Artistic Directors, get to visit some intriguing venues and meet festival artists.

Artistic Directors’ Circle There are two levels at which you can support and get involved:

£500-£999 Benefits include: • S eat reservations at any concerts you attend. This includes priority reservations of the very best Ringside seats (where you have already booked and paid for top price tickets) for all concerts.

Many of our church venues provide a magical setting but there are only a limited number of seats where you can get the very best experience of the performance.

• Access to a special drinks reception after two concerts each festival with an opportunity to meet some of the performers.

Dancer Steven Player appearing as Will Kemp with The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments at BREMF 2014. Photo: Robert Piwko

• Emails from the Co-Artistic Directors, including early festival planning and “behind the scenes information”.

• I nvitation to a special festival launch and preview with the Artistic Directors in the spring/summer to hear about early plans of the festival.

• A memento document of the festival with pictures, press quotes, comments from the artists, audience and Artistic Directors.

• F ree programmes, invitation to a Friends reception, access to open rehearsals and acknowledgement in concert programmes as per our Friends scheme.

£1,000-£4,999 Benefits include: • The benefits listed above.

• a festival poster signed by the Artistic Directors and some of the festival artists.

• a n invitation to a special informal social event with the Artistic Directors in February/March to hear about early planning of the festival.

• a n exclusive opportunity to attend one of the Early Music Live! training days in London to see the young professional ensembles work with education specialists and the Artistic Directors.

•O ther opportunities, where possible, to meet and hear from the artists.

£5,000+ Concert Benefactor There are further opportunities to support the festival by underwriting the costs of a concert.

Contact Clare Norburn, Artistic Director to find out more about the opportunities available: 020 7281 6864 clare@bremf.org.uk

Join the BREMF Artistic Directors’ Circle today and start your deeper relationship with BREMF right now.

You are our present and our future

Other ways to get involved and support the festival If you would like to support our work but are not able to commit to £500 or £1000 a year in one lump sum, then here are a number of ways you can still support us and play your part: Pay in Instalments: please do consider joining the Artistic Directors’ Circle and supporting us by paying in instalments. Contact Clare Norburn for further information: 020 7281 6864 clare@bremf.org.uk Friends Scheme: Alternatively, BREMF also runs a Friends scheme which offers a range of ways to support the festival starting at £50. Please see www.bremf.org.uk/friends or call 01273 833746 Volunteer: we are always seeking volunteers to help with the running of the festival. There are many ways you can get involved – both year round and in the run up and during the festival. Email volunteer@bremf.org.uk or call Mike Clemens on 01273 833746 Thank you for supporting BREMF! BREMF is a Registered Charity: number 1097288

So you could play an enormously important role in realising our present and ensuring our future.

• You can help to bring leading early music artists to Brighton to take to the festival stage.

• You can make a real difference supporting the next generation of young professional performers.

• You can help us to inspire local children to get involved with music.

How to sign up Simply complete the enclosed Artistic Directors Membership form and Gift Aid Declaration.

“ You gain privileged access to the creative process, with the satisfaction of seeing works of art come to life that might not have existed without your help. You have the thrill of contact... with artists of rare energy and imagination... For a relatively small outlay you can have an impact.”

Andrew Clark on major gift philanthropy in the arts: The Financial Times, 22nd February 2008

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The Borromini Quartet’s workshop with Brighton primary school children

We are aware that you will receive requests for support from many arts organisations. So we wanted to explain why we at the Brighton Early Music Festival need your help. Essentially, it boils down to three reasons: • Firstly, even if we sell out in the biggest venues, all our concerts make a loss from ticket sales alone.

• Add to that our free year round provision for young professional ensembles and an education programme which reaches 1500 local children each year.

• And finish with the fact that BREMF is a small registered charity with none of the core or regular Arts Council funding that many other arts organisations are lucky enough to receive.