Brighton Early Music Festival
BrightonWorkshops and Performances with the theme "Connections".
Workshops and Performances with the theme "Connections".
Intermediate and Upper Intermediate.
South West Baroque Orchestra is the regional period instrument orchestra in the South West. Applicants are welcome to play for a rehearsal to try out the experience of baroque playing techniques.
Apt for voices & viols - Music from Jacobean England Singing with viols and viol playing with singers is a special and unique experience with a particularly English repertoire consisting of madrigals, motets, verse anthems and consort anthems (A=415). Applications now open via the link below.
Giovanni Valentini Missa Diligam Te Domine a 12-part polychoral workshop for singers and instrumentalists.
A weekend of medieval and renaissance consort music coaching and performance, with William Lyons & The City Musick.
NEEMF AGM and workshop - Cristόbal de Morales: Missa Mille Regretz.
Viol players of all standards are welcome, players will work in small groups of similar standard and experience so everyone will be catered for! Led by Philip Redfern and Vickie Hobson.
Double choir Lassus workshop, for voices and instruments.
This workshop provides singers and instrumentalists with an opportunity to perform some of the exciting and rhythmically challenging music by the Spanish composer Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla. The main work to be studied is Padilla’s Missa sine nomine. Booking now open via the link below.
Here is the chance to play your Baroque stringed instruments (A=415) under the Tutorship of Oliver Webber. Further details TBC.
Join Pam Smith on Zoom for a day playing beautiful music from its original notation. The repertoire will be taken from the Choirbook for Philip the Fair and Juana of Castile c.1504-6.
South West Baroque Orchestra is the regional period instrument orchestra in the South West. Applicants are welcome to play for a rehearsal to try out the experience of baroque playing techniques.
Grace Barton with Polyphonica Recorder Trio will present a workshop for recorder players exploring how to play vocal and instrumental music of Gabrieli and his European contemporaries. Booking now open via the link below.
Come and discover Medieval music with Mary Mohan and Jude Rees. Delve into the world of Medieval manuscripts, dance tunes, beautiful sacred music and more.
Tutors: Alison Crum, John Bryan, Peter Wendland, Ibi Aziz. Three 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.
South West Baroque Orchestra is the regional period instrument orchestra in the South West. Applicants are welcome to play for a rehearsal to try out the experience of baroque playing techniques.
Christmas Workshop for Voices and Instruments.
William Lyons and Richard Thomas from The City Musick will be heading to Halsway Manor for the very first time, bringing with them all the joys of the festive season during the Renaissance.
This is a workshop for voices and instruments at pitch A=440, to celebrate Christmas.
Viol players of all standards are welcome, players will work in small groups of similar standard and experience so everyone will be catered for! Led by Philip Redfern and Vickie Hobson.
Five Centuries of a Medieval Christmas: a workshop for all instruments, led by Paul Leigh and Gill Page of Trouvere. The workshop will look at pieces from the eleventh through to the fifteenth centuries, including plainchant, paraliturgical hymns, secular music and devotional carols from as far afield as France, Sicily and England.
Elementary, Lower Intermediate, Pre-formed Consorts.
Workshop for voices and instruments, with David Allinson, Newcastle. Details TBC.
Recorders@Plymouth are back for their annual visit to Halsway Manor, offering an opportunity to explore the huge diversity of recorder orchestra repertoire.
Explore the rich and varied repertoire of musicians from court and city in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, for wind and brass instruments: cornett, sackbut, shawm, dulcian, recorder (at 440) and crumhorn.
Advanced.
Exploring the world of late 16th-century popular music, as heard in both court and country.
For pre-formed chamber groups (with or without singer) who should bring at least 4 pieces to work on which can be at varying stages of readiness. Work at 415 or 440Hz, with availability of one harpsichord playable at either pitch, plus Higham’s transposable electric pianos. Tutors: Katharine May and Michael Sanderson.
Further details TBC.
Fairy Queen workshop led by John Hancorn. Details TBC.
Workshop for voices and instruments directed by Peter Wendland. Further details TBC.
This course offers viol players the chance to explore consort repertoire from the viol’s Golden Age and to improve their technique along the way.
A workshop for singers and renaissance instruments with Gawain Glenton.
Palestrina workshop for voices and instruments, directed by David Allinson. Further details TBC.
Intermediate and Upper Intermediate.
An un-tutored course for experienced singers and players of early instruments. Non-fixed ensembles of recorders and viols form the main part of the week with a variety of small singing groups depending on participants.
Gibbons Verse Anthems for voices and instruments, directed by Bill Hunt. Further details TBC.
Workshop for singers and instrumentalists, led by Trouvere (Gill Page and Paul Leigh) and Richard de Winter at Burley-in-Wharfedale Methodist Church. Ludus Danielis - The Play of Daniel. Details TBC.
Valls Missa Scala Aretina.