Academy of Ancient Music

04/08/2026

Could you be the person we're searching for? We're on the look-out for a new Development & Events Co-ordinator to join our fundraising team.

If you love working on events and building relationships with members and stakeholders, with strong attention to detail and organisational skills, we'd like to hear from you.

Deadline: 31 August at 5.30pm

Find out more and apply >
https://aam.co.uk/vacancies/

28/07/2026

Calling aspiring baroque string players! An exciting opportunity has just opened up via our friends at The Music Summer School and Festival in Gresham.

A limited number of fully funded places are now available on the Baroque Orchestra Course (1–8 August 2026), for one violinist, and two viola players to join them on a 100% scholarship, with accommodation and catering included.

Whether you’re a current student, a professional musician, or a passionate amateur with an interest in historical performance, they'd love to hear from you!

More info at https://www.mssf.org.uk/events-courses/baroque-orchestra-3/ or email a short biography/CV to [email protected]

17/07/2026

First performed on this day, 17 July, in 1717, here's Suite No.2 in D major, Alla Hornpipe, from Handel's Water Music.

Originally performed in a concert on the Thames for King George I by a floating orchestra alongside the Royal Barge, it's performed on here on period instruments by Academy of Ancient Music.

13/07/2026

Not a bad office for the day! Here’s a glimpse into our latest filming project - any guesses for what we are playing?

07/07/2026

Streaming now! Our performance of Bach's monumental and exhilarating Mass in B minor with the BBC Singers, recorded earlier in the year for BBC Radio 3 in Concert.

Listen via BBC Sounds >>

The BBC Singers and Academy of Ancient Music perform Bach’s monumental masterpiece.

01/07/2026

Soprano Anna Dennis and tenor Ed Lyon perform the final duet from Monteverdi's opera L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea), with Academy of Ancient Music.

See AAM perform the full opera in concert, live at London's Barbican Hall, on Tuesday 17 November 2026.

More info and tickets: https://aam.co.uk/concerts/lincoronazione-di-poppea/

Filmed at Milton Court Concert Hall, 2026.

Anna Dennis (Poppea)
Ed Lyon (Nerone)

Laurence Cummings (director & harpsichord)
Reiko Ichise (viola da gamba)
William Carter (theorbo)
Kristiina Watt (theorbo)
Joy Smith (harp)

23/06/2026

Our new recording of Arthur Sullivan's Songs for Tenor with David Webb, conducted by John Andrews for Resonus Classics, is now available to stream!

We're delighted to have been part of this project, making the first recording of Gilbert and Sullivan on period instruments, offering a sound closer to that heard in Victorian drawing rooms, concert halls and band stands than the modern pit.

Listen now on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube, Tidal and more:
http://bit.ly/4eX9GYG

19/06/2026

A handful of front stalls seats just released for Serse TONIGHT! £18 - snap them up for a night of brilliant music-making (and perhaps a glass of something cold on the terrace before heading into the lovely air-conditioned Barbican Hall).

Handel's Serse
Cast including Paula Murrihy, Louise Alder, Rachel Redmond and Rebecca Leggett

Barbican Hall, London
Friday 19 June, 7.00pm

Book via https://aam.co.uk/concerts/handels-serse-2026/

18/06/2026

"Ealing comedy meets commedia del arte..."

Ahead of Handel's Serse at Barbican Hall this Friday, music director Laurence Cummings writes in Opera Now about a score that is "brimming over with invention, drama and exquisite composition" - and why it flummoxed Handel's original audience.

Read more: https://www.opera-now.com/content/features/laurence-cummings-conducts-handels-serse-at-barbican-hall-blog

Barbican Hall, London
Friday 19 June, 7.00pm

Tickets and more info: https://aam.co.uk/concerts/handels-serse-2026/

15/06/2026

Discover more about Handel's opera Serse ahead of our performance later this week, in this discussion with AAM music director Laurence Cummings, Handel expert Dr Ruth Smith, and soprano Rachel Redmond, hosted by Olwen Foulkes.