Beauchamp Early Music Week
Malvern CollegeThis residential course is for singers and players of Renaissance instruments and has been running for many years.
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Courses
Lincoln Summer School
Lincoln UniversityOrlando Gibbons and the music of Westminster Abbey. This course, directed by Patrick Craig explores anthems by three towering musicians of Westminster Abbey, focussing on Orlando Gibbons who died in 1625 together with choral masterpieces by Robert White and Henry Purcell.
NORVIS 2025
Barnard Castle School Newgate, Barnard CastleThe 53rd NORVIS summer school - a week-long early music summer school in County Durham.
Stile Antico Summer School & Festival
Gresham's School, NorfolkThe group will teach two courses: Vocal Ensembles - a course designed to improve ensemble singing skills. Participants will be divided into small groups, normally with just one or two voices per part, and will explore a wealth of 16th and early 17th century gems. Sing with Stile - singing alongside members of Stile Antico,...
Assisi Summer School
Piazza del Comune, AssisiAssisi 2025 – Palestrina, Prince of Music, with Musical Director Rory McCleery.
Baroque Buffet
Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, HertfordshireAn increasingly popular course for those interested in Baroque performance practice using modern instruments.
Early Music Summer School
Higham Hall Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, CumbriaFor competent singers, viol and recorder players, covering music c1450-c1650.
Irish Recorder and Viol Course 2025
An Grianán, Co. LouthA course designed for players of recorders, viols and other early instruments, covering a wide repertoire from ancient to modern. Sessions include one-to-a-part groups, consort songs, trio sonatas, choir, large and small ensembles. Tutors: Ibi Aziz, Caoimhe de Paor, Pamela Flanagan, Philip Thorby, Peter Wendland.
Baroque Trios with Zarek Trio
Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, HertfordshireJoin Zarek Trio in a course focused on the baroque trio sonata.
HISS 2025
Bishop Burton College York Road, Bishop BurtonThe Historically Informed Summer School - where folk, traditional and early music meet.
Parma and the Court of Mantua
Mercure Parma Centro Stendhal , ItalyThis course is for experienced singers who want to improve their choral technique and enjoy exploring a rich mix of repertoire in a convivial social setting. Repertoire includes works by Cipriano De Rore, Jacquet De Mantua, and Claudio Monteverdi.
Country Choral Weekend – an Elizabethan Songbook
High Trenhouse, Yorkshire DalesRory Wainwright Johnston will be leading this weekend workshop in the glorious, peaceful setting of Malham Moor in the Yorkshire Dales. Covering pieces by Campion, Dowland, Gibbons, Wilbye, Pilkington and Morley, exploring both lute songs and madrigals, honing ensemble singing skills and delving into the techniques that bring this repertoire to life. Whether you're passionate...
Madrigals and Partsongs
Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, HertfordshireChamber choir and consort singing of madrigals and Partsongs.
Renaissance Viol and Recorder Course with Linarol Consort
Holland House, nr PershoreThe Linarol Consort's Renaissance Viol and Recorder course is for experienced viol and recorder players with an interest in improving their technique on Renaissance instruments and in reading from facsimile. Tutors: David Hatcher and Alison Kinder, assisted by Claire Horacek and Timothy Lin.
Banbury Early Music Festival
St Mary's Church, BanburyBanbury Early Music Festival is for early music fans and newcomers alike, to come and participate in inspiring workshops, listen to world class concerts, leaf through a myriad of music and try out early instruments until their heart's content!
Purcell for Singers & Continuo
Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, HertfordshireAn opportunity for singers and continuo players to explore Purcell's solo songs and ensemble works in detail with Emily Owen and Satoko Doi-Luck.
The Glory of Venice – Singing Holiday
San Trovaso Church, VeniceInternationally acclaimed conductor Andrea Brown will direct another splendid program of Venetian music.
Singing Baroque: From Monteverdi to Bach
Jackdaws Music Great Elm, Frome, SomersetDiscover the exquisite world of early music in Singing Baroque: From Monteverdi to Bach, with Jonathan Peter Kenny.
Rondo Viol Academy
St. Katharine's, Henley-on-ThamesIntermediate and Upper Intermediate. Run by Jacqui Robertson-Wade and Alison Kinder.
The Music of Florence 2025
St Mark's English Church, Florence , ItalyThis course, directed by Rory Wainwright Johnston, celebrates the musical achievements of renaissance Florence, both by its native composers and those drawn by the city’s dazzling éclat.
Lute Songs from England, France & Germany
Hawkwood College, StroudAn immersive exploration of lute songs from around 1600 in Northern Europe - centred on John Dowland’s best-beloved "First Book of Songes", but also welcoming repertoire from lands that he visited. Open to singers of all ranges as well as lutenists. Facilitators: Emma Kirkby, Florian Franke & Sam Brown.
Flute, Lute and Cello Baroque Weekend
Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, HertfordshireA friendly introduction for flute, lute and cello players to the rich but sometimes forbidding world of baroque chamber music.
Viol Consorts with Fretwork
Hawkwood College, StroudThis course offers viol players the chance to explore consort repertoire from the viol's Golden Age and to improve their technique along the way. Composers studied will include Jenkins, Purcell, Holborne, Lawes and Coperario.
Rondo Viol Academy
Foxhill House, Frodsham CheshirePreformed Consorts. Run by Jacqui Robertson-Wade and Alison Kinder.
Consorted Viols
Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, HertfordshireThree days of viol consort playing in preformed groups of any level, studying in depth any music chosen by the group, coached by members of the Rose Consort of Viols.
Christmas Choral Weekend with The Gesualdo Six
Hawkwood College, StroudFor centuries Christmas and the surrounding seasons have inspired composers to new heights of invention. The repertoire chosen for this course will reach across the ages: from the eternal beauty of the Tudor church right up to the twenty-first century.
The City Musick
Jackdaws Music Great Elm, Frome, SomersetExplore the rich and varied repertoire of musicians from court and city in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, with William Lyons & Richard Thomas.
Rondo Viol Academy
St. Katharine's, Henley-on-ThamesPreformed Consorts. Run by Jacqui Robertson-Wade and Alison Kinder.
Viol Consorts with Fretwork
Jackdaws Music Great Elm, Frome, SomersetThis course offers viol players the chance to explore consort repertoire from the viol’s Golden Age and to improve their technique along the way, with Joanna Levine and Richard Boothby of Fretwork.
Rondo Viol Academy
The Grange, Bury St Edmunds SuffolkAdvanced. Run by Jacqui Robertson-Wade and Alison Kinder.
Cádiz Lamentations with Bruno Campelo Muñíz
Convento de las Reparadoras, CádizAlonso Lobo ~ De lamentatione Ieremiæ Prophetæ Duarte Lobo ~ Missa pro defunctis 8 vocibus A week of study and rehearsal leading to a public performance in Cádiz.
Stirling Music Party with Rory McCleery
Church of the Holy Rude, StirlingA course in one of Scotland’s most famous churches, centred on the music of Vincente Lusitano (c.1520-1561), a Portuguese composer of African descent.
Rondo Viol Academy
Shepherd's Dene, NorthumberlandIntermediate and Upper Intermediate. Run by Jacqui Robertson-Wade and Alison Kinder.
Rondo Viol Academy
St. Katharine's, Henley-on-ThamesIntermediate and Upper Intermediate. Run by Jacqui Robertson-Wade and Alison Kinder.