A baroque chamber music course at A415. Theresa (violin) and Alastair (harpsichord), bring their wealth of knowledge to encourage and cajole you into stylish performances of repertoire from the early 17th to late 18th centuries.
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.
A workshop for early instrumentalists and singers led by Emily Baines. Participants should be reasonably experienced and will have the option of participating in Emily’s lunchtime concert with Blondel in Brighton on 12 October. Registration closes on 1 September 2024.
Medieval Music festival, including concerts, workshops, tuition, and more.
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. Evening sessions for all are conducted and include music for instruments and voices.
Elementary, Lower Intermediate, Pre-formed Consorts.
Friday evening concert and weekend workshop for singers and instrumentalists. Julia Bishop and David Hatcher will lead the two day workshop for singers and instrumentalist on music to include Charpentier's Te Deum.
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.
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.
Table Music – Instrumental ensemble music from 17th Century Saxony and Moravia. Pitch A=440 Hz.
With separate groups for singers and instrumentalists led by Michael Cameron-Longden and Lynne Hope, the workshop will look at some French Baroque music. The EMFS AGM will take place over the lunch break.
Vivaldi and contemporaries - a workshop for voices and orchestra. Further details TBC.
For experienced viol players with an interest on improving their technique on Renaissance instruments and in reading from facsimile.
Italian Renaissance Instrumental Canzonas, for instrumentalists.
Workshop for Voices and Instruments, details TBC. .
A workshop exploring the rich creative seam of the century’s most beloved songs - for voices and plucked strings.
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.
Music and Ritual in a Sixteenth Century Florentine Convent with Laurie Stras. A workshop for upper voices with keyboard and/or viol or harp accompaniment.
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.
Lambert de Sayve mass for four choirs, and some festive music - 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 workshop is for any number of voices and all instruments at pitch A=440 – strings, including viols, and all wind and brass. The workshop will include a selection of different pieces for the festive season by the German composer and music theorist Michael Praetorius.
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.
Join Pam Smith on Zoom for half-an-hour every morning on the run-up to Christmas for some beautiful medieval carols. You will need a treble and a tenor recorder (but feel free to play another instrument or sing if you want) and access to Zoom. Pam will play one part and you can play the other...
Explore the rich repertoire of the 17th-century string band. For baroque instruments at A=415. Tutors: Judy Tarling, Rachel Stott, Kinga Gaborjani.
Elementary, Lower Intermediate, Pre-formed Consorts.
Tribus Miraculis – Music for a Saturday after Epiphany This workshop is for all voices and instruments and Renaissance wind instruments – cornetts curtals, recorders, sackbuts and shawms – are particularly welcome. String players are also warmly invited to participate plus one continuo player, or others who come with their own instrument. A=440.
An opportunity to work on a piece of music with an internationally renowned musician in a friendly and supportive environment.
With this day of music for voices and instruments, David Allinson explores some of the sunniest music of the Renaissance: settings of texts such as Regina Cæli and Ave Maria.
The annual EEMF Epiphany party, this year slightly later than Epiphany. Philip Thorby will lead a wealth of festive music.
Three days of viol consort playing in a variety of group sizes. Tutors: Alison Crum, Peter Wendland.
For pre-formed chamber groups on period instruments. Tutors: Theresa Caudle, Mark Caudle, Claire Williams, Stephen Preston.
Recorders@Plymouth are back for their annual visit to Halsway Manor, offering an opportunity to explore the huge diversity of recorder orchestra repertoire.
Purcell Rejoice in the Lord Alway and Monteverdi Beatus Vir. Workshop with Ben England BEM, for SATB voices and strings. Pitch will be A=415.
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.
Laurie Stras of Musica Secreta leads this workshop for upper voices, all viols, lower pitch recorders and continuo. The workshop will introduce you to the fascinating record of the musical lives of Florentine nuns at the end of the Renaissance.
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.
Purcell choruses from Come ye Sons of Art and Hail bright Cecilia! for singers and baroque orchestra with Benjamin Nicholas, A=415.
Henry Purcell: King Arthur - A workshop for all voices and orchestral instruments, led by Robert Hollingworth.
Workshop for voices and instruments directed by Peter Wendland, including works by Hassler, Victoria, Lassus, Praetorius, and Zielenski.
The 2025 winter course will focus on the works of J. Sebastian Bach’s predecessors. Tutors: Philip Scriven, Andrew Millington, Peter Parshall, Peter Lea-Cox, Richard Godfrey.
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.
Plenty of opportunities to play at all levels of ability. Tutors: Jacob Heringman, Lynda Sayce, Matthew Spring, Sara Stowe, Evangelina Mascardi, Andrea Damiani.
Johann Stadlmayr’s polychoral music for the Habsburg Courts - a workshop for singers and renaissance instruments with Gawain Glenton.
The aim of the day is to enjoy the rich and varied sonorities of a Renaissance Wind Band. Applications welcome from players of Renaissance wind instruments – shawms, sackbutts, cornetts, curtals, crumhorns, recorders, etc.
Workshop on Missa Diligam Te Domine a 12 by Giovanni Valentini, for voices and instruments, led by Philip Thorby.
Palestrina workshop for voices and instruments, directed by David Allinson. Further details TBC.
This popular and highly acclaimed course provides an excellent opportunity for experienced players of viols and recorders to work on early music in a chamber setting.
A weekend of 16th and 17th century vocal music ‘apt for voyces and vyalls’, playing mainly in small groups. Tutors: Emma Kirkby, Alison Crum.
Music for the Chapel Royal, for voices, strings, and continuo, led by Christopher Roberts. NWEMF AGM over lunch.
A fun and inclusive introduction to playing and singing medieval repertoire for all instrumentalists and singers. Tutors: Emily Baines, Arngeir Hauksson (Amyas).
George Parris will tutor this workshop, for voices and instruments, on Lamentations by Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla & López Capillas.
This year LHF is presenting the festival’s first ever Come and Play, a full-day workshop led by Steven Devine and Kinga Ujszászi for those interested in period instruments and historically informed performance techniques.
Perform Charpentier's sacred masterpiece Messe pour MrMauroy. Tutors: Miguel Jaloto, Nick Shaw, Kinga Gaborjani, Gail Hennessy, Judy Tarling.
Suitable for musicians and dancers who would like to learn Medieval music and dance.
Two parallel, friendly courses for players at any level, though not beginners.
A workshop for voices and instruments with Greg Skidmore (I Fagiolini) - voices, and Sue Addison (His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts) - instruments. Music will depend on the number of singers (especially lower voices) and instrumentalists applying and will be decided upon nearer the time. Pitch is A=440.
This workshop, devised and directed by Nancy Hadden, celebrates the 500th anniversary of Palestrina's birth, featuring the richly expressive sacred music of Palestrina and his Roman contemporaries, Felice Anerio and Luca Marenzio. For voices, and instruments: viols, recorders, Renaissance flutes, cornetts, sackbuts, curtals.
Come and experience a day with brilliant instrumental music by Henry Purcell, led by Robert Hollingworth of I Fagiolini and the University of York, and baroque violin specialist Naomi Burrell. This is a day for modern instruments (strings, oboes and bassoons) at modern pitch.
Intermediate and Upper Intermediate.
Workshop for instrumentalists, followed by a short concert. Repertoire: Harmonice Musices Odhecaton.