Our annual festival takes place in St Michael & All Angels church in Blackheath, London. For more information read About Us.
If you have any questions or queries regarding the festival please don’t hesitate to get in touch with one of our team.
Contact Us
About Us
Contact Details
London International Festival of Early Music
Stanway Green Stables
Worlingworth
Suffolk
IP13 7NY
Email: ann@lifem.org
Press & Media Enquiries
Email: media@lifem.org
Meet the Team
Chris Butler - Festival Director
chris@lifem.org
Chris Butler is a career music publisher who holds multiple directorships including Wise Music Group and the Performing Right Society. He is a past chairman of the UK Music Publishers’ Association, MCPS and ICMP.
He acquired The Early Music Shop, LIFEM’s principal supporter, in 2018 and created LIFEM as a CIO in 2020.
Erik Bosgraaf - Artistic Director
erik@lifem.org
Erik Bosgraaf is generally considered to be one of the world’s leading recorder players, and definitely the most adventurous. His repertoire extends from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons to tomorrow’s music, and Erik’s recording of Jacob van Eyck’s Der Fluyten Lust-hof set a new standard and led to his international breakthrough.
Erik has appeared at the Boston Early Music Festival, the International Handel Festival in Göttingen, Germany and the London International Festival of Early Music. He is also a visiting professor at the Cracow Music Academy (Poland), Amsterdam Conservatoire (Netherlands) and Tsing Hua University (Taiwan), and gives masterclasses all over the world.
Ann Barkway - Executive Producer
ann@lifem.org
Having come from a music publishing background, Ann has now run her own consultancy company for the past 12 years, working with such organisations as Britten Pears Arts, Mahogany Opera and BBC Learning.
She is now executive Producer for LIFEM, Development Director for The Early Music Shop, and is also Chair of Trustees at Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall, Suffolk.
LIFEM Trustees
Carolin Barnfield
Chris Butler
Anthony Millyard
Susannah Simons