PAW Festival 2026 brings together music, visual art, and poetry in a vibrant programme of nine concerts, a vocal workshop and our annual open mic poetry evening. Featuring I Fagiolini, Parnassus Ensemble, Lizzie Ball, Miloš Milivojević, Fieri Consort, Toby Carr, Liza Sommers & Grace Newcombe, Jeremy Avis, Sam Stadlen, Suntou Susso, Simo Lagnawi, Rebecca Askew,...
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2 events,Glorious renaissance polyphony for choir with historic brass. Tutors: Jeremy West, Gareth Wilson. |
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4 events,Missa Laetatus Sum by Tomás Luis de Victoria - a workshop for voices and instruments led by Deborah Catterall. Praetorius and other composers - a workshop for voices and instruments with David Hatcher.
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Viol players who can hold a line are invited to come and play in a session led by Jo Green in Morningside - the address will be confirmed when you register. This session is for intermediate and advanced players. |
2 events,Two separate workshops for small consorts: 1) viols and strings 2) recorders (David will spend time with each ensemble, in two separate rooms). |
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2 events,Polychoral music by Heinrich Schütz, workshop for voices and instruments with Peter Wendland. The Pre-Restoration consort anthem: a trove of neglected English treasures, a workshop for singers, viols and wind (A=440), with Bill Hunt. |
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1 event,Unique in Italy and modelled on Europe’s leading early music schools, the Institute of Early Music at the Claudio Abbado Civic School of Music attracts students from all over the world. Renowned for its teaching of the very highest standard, it combines academic study with a busy concert programme in partnership with the leading musical... |
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7 events,In this discovery day course tutors provide an introduction to the instrument, basic playing techniques and rich repertoire. The course also includes a ticket to the evening's Rose Consort of Viols concert. No previous string playing experience required. Workshop for Voices and Instruments with Dr Stephen Bullamore. Music to include large scale works for voices, strings, wind and brass at pitch A=440 by Giovanni Gabrieli (Venice), Heinrich Schütz (Dresden), Orazio Benevoli (Rome), and Heinrich Biber (Salzburg) Baroque workshop for instruments at A415 with Walter Reiter. The workshop is for string players (violin and viol families), wind instruments at 415 and continuo, including plucked continuo, and will cover seventeenth century repertoire typical of the Stylus Fantasticus way of writing. Continuo Connect partner once again with Oxford Festival of the Arts to present a full weekend of Early Music at Magdalen College and New College, Oxford. Modern string players are invited to come and play Vivaldi's Concerti for 1, 2 or 4 violins under the direction of Philip Redfern. |
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2 events,The 2026 International Pipe and Tabor Festival will be in beautiful York, and will include playing in costume for the York Mystery Plays on Sun 28th June. |
3 events,Join internationally acclaimed baroque violinist Rachel Podger for a joyful, hands-on exploration of ensemble playing and expressive musicianship. This short course will cover gut-string playing, connecting the breath and the bow, and also body awareness and body resonance. Rachel will introduce BOGA (a unique form of “bow-yoga”) as well as Alexander Techniques, chamber music making... |
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3 events,Meditations on suffering set to music by Josquin, Byrd, Lassus, Willaert. Texts written from prison by Girolamo Savonarola. Workshop for singers and instrumentalists with David Hatcher, also includes BMEMF AGM. |