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  • Medieval Music from around Europe for Harp

    Online

    This course is designed to open a door for you into a medieval world of single-line dance melodies and multi-voiced compositions for you to play on any kind of harp....

  • Fundamentals of playing the early Irish harp (Course 3)

    Online

    This course will teach you the the foundational skills and knowledge you need to explore the music and traditions of the early Irish harp at post-beginner level. Tutor: Alessia Bianchi.

  • Overcoming Performance Anxiety

    Online

    A six-week course for all who struggle with performance nerves. You’ll learn what performance anxiety is, why it happens, and how you can use physical and mental tools to lessen...

  • SWEMF Workshop: Polyphony with Graham Coatman

    Tintinhull Village Hall Yeovil

    Workshop exploring polychoral music for grand occasions by Andrea & Giovanni Gabrieli, Giovanni Croce and Claudio Monteverdi (A=440). This is an “all comers” workshop for voices, wind, string, brass and...

  • NWEMF Workshop with David Hatcher

    Didsbury Baptist Church Beaver Rd, Manchester

    Straus Missa Concertata in Echo - a workshop for voices and instruments.

  • SEMF Workshop with David Allinson

    Scaynes Hill Village Hall Haywards Heath

    Regina Caeli: Polychoral Motets for Mary. David Allinson will direct a live workshop on larger-scale works for voices and instruments.

  • Articulation Mastery Workshop for Recorders

    Online

    A special and insightful online articulation class, led by not one, but two esteemed teachers: Lobke Sprenkeling and Michael Piraner!  This unique joint class, combines two different perspectives on articulation...

  • Page to Performance: Medieval Music

    Halsway Manor Halsway Lane, Crowcombe, Taunton

    Come and discover Medieval music with Mary Mohan and Jude Rees.  Delve into the vast collection of Cantigas da Santa Maria, Medieval dance tunes, beautiful sacred music and more.

  • Consorting Viols

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    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,...

  • Benslow Recorder Festival

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Tutors: Alyson Lewin, Caroline Jones, Tabea Debus Benslow's Recorder Festival celebrates the recorder with ensemble, technique and orchestral sessions at elementary, intermediate and advanced levels.

  • MEMF Christmas Workshop with Philip Thorby

    Solihull Methodist Church Blosssomfield Road, Solihull

    Music on the theme of Angels and Shepherds in the Christmas story - a vocal and instrumental workshop with Philip Thorby. There will be music by Christoph Buehl, Hans Leo...

  • Articulation & Rhetoric in Baroque music for Recorder Players

    Online

    With Lobke Sprenkeling's fascination and training in a multi-disciplinary approach to performance, and Michael Piraner's interest in the relationship between language and musical performance, you will learn ways to develop...

  • Pam’s Carols 2023

    Online

    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...

  • Bach Arias with Strings and Continuo at A=415

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Tutors: Emma Kirkby, Peter Harvey, Judy Tarling, Dionysios Kyropoulos. An opportunity for vocalists, string and continuo players to study the joys of Bach arias with renowned exponents of this repertoire.

  • SWEMF Workshop for Instruments with Ali Kinder

    Freshford Village Hall, nr Bath

    ‘A Musical Banquet’ – music from Banchetto Musicale by Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630). All instruments are welcome. Pitch A=440.

  • MEMF Workshop: The Battle of Lapanto with Gawain Glenton

    Trinity Church, Stafford

    This workshop is for singers of all voice types, plus cornetts, sackbuts, dulcians and string instruments. Recorder players are welcome, but should be prepared to also sing and/or play a...

  • Consorting Viols

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Three days of viol consort playing in a variety of group sizes and exploring some lesser known repertoire in addition to ‘old favourites’. Tutors: Alison Crum, Peter Wendland.

  • Baroque Chamber Music at A=415

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Inspirational and encouraging instruction in baroque style from expert tutors. For pre-formed chamber groups on period instruments. Tutors: Theresa Caudle, Mark Caudle, Claire Williams, Stephen Preston.

  • Rondo Viol Academy

    St. Katharine's, Henley-on-Thames

    Advanced.

  • The City Musick with William Lyons and Richard Thomas

    Jackdaws Music Great Elm, Frome, Somerset

    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...

  • Piva – Real Roots!

    Halsway Manor Halsway Lane, Crowcombe, Taunton

    A course exploring the Real Roots! of European traditional and renaissance music, both the music and the instruments.  The focus of the course will be playing 4 or 5 part...

  • SEMF Workshop for Instruments with Oliver Webber

    Headcorn Village Hall Kent

    The workshop will include dances by Lorenzo Allegri written for entertainments at the Florentine court (c. 1612); a 16-part canzona by Tiburtio Massaino; Jubilate Deo in 16 parts by Lambert...

  • SWEMF Workshop for Instruments with Anna Stegmann

    St Thomas Church, Thorverton

    Anna Stegmann is recorder professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London and a virtuosic performer on the recorder. She tutors on the Easter Early Music Course and at...

  • NEEMF Workshop: Palestrina & de Morales with Ali Kinder

    St Francis Church Hall, Newcastle

    Renaissance Recycling – a workshop for all singers and instrumentalists led by Ali Kinder. This workshop will look at two examples of Renaissance Recycling, in both cases a kind of 'upcycling'...

  • EMFS Making Music Day 2024

    Falkirk Trinity Church

    A workshop looking at choruses from a selection of Purcell's operas and also some 'surprise pieces'!  Starting with separate groups for singers and instrumentalists, led by Michael Cameron-Longden and Lynne...

  • South West Baroque Orchestra Rehearsal

    Culmstock Village Hall, Devon

    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...

  • Winter Organ Course 2024

    St Michael's Church, Lyme Regis Dorset

    The 2024 winter course focusses on the works of J. Sebastian Bach, with emphasis on the chorale preludes.

  • Benslow LuteFest

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Plenty of opportunities to play at all levels of ability, and to socialise with like-minded early music enthusiasts. Tutors: Fred Jacobs, Jacob Heringman, Lynda Sayce, Matthew Spring, Sara Stowe.

  • EMFS Viol Consort Café

    St Catherine's Argyle Church, Edinburgh

    A sociable playing morning for viol players at all levels, working in small groups with players of similar experience, facilitated by Vickie Hobson and Philip Redfern.

  • South West Baroque Orchestra Rehearsal

    Culmstock Village Hall, Devon

    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...

  • Rondo Viol Academy

    St. Katharine's, Henley-on-Thames

    Elementary, Lower Intermediate, Pre-formed Consorts.

  • NWEMF Workshop with Lisa Colton

    Liverpool Parish Church Chapel Street

    'I am troubled on every side!': music by Tallis and his contemporaries, for singers and instruments (A=440). Details and Application Form

  • Medieval Music in the Dales Online

    Online

    Includes videos of performances from the 2023 live festival, plus a vocal workshop and visit to Dodd Lutherie.

  • The Benslow Baroque Opera: Handel’s Acis and Galatea

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Tutors: Fernando Miguel Jalôto, Judy Tarling, Henrik Persson, Nick Shaw, Ricardo Barros. An inspiring opportunity to participate in a staged Baroque opera with amazing period costumes and scenery.

  • Easter Early Music Course

    Haberdashers' School, Monmouth

    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.

  • EMFS Viol Consort Café

    St Catherine's Argyle Church, Edinburgh

    A sociable playing morning for viol players at all levels, working in small groups with players of similar experience, plus coaching from Susanna Pell.

  • Viol Consorts with members of Fretwork

    Jackdaws Music Great Elm, Frome, Somerset

    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.

  • NWEMF Workshop with Gawain Glenton

    Fulwood Methodist Church, Preston

    ‘O What Evil is War’: War and Peace in 17th Century Germany, for all voices and specified instruments (A=440). Details and Application Form

  • SEMF Workshop: Gaudeamus with Peter Syrus

    Scaynes Hill Village Hall Haywards Heath

    A workshop for singers and players.  Peter Syrus will direct his new programme of borrowings in Spanish church music of the Golden Age.

  • South West Baroque Orchestra Rehearsal

    Culmstock Village Hall, Devon

    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...

  • EMFS Recorder Workshop with Palisander

    Dollar Academy, Clackmannanshire

    Recorder Workshop with Palisander Recorder Quartet, for intermediate to advanced recorder players in tutti and smaller ensemble sessions.

  • MESSIAH 24 Hour Drop-In

    St George's Hanover Square Mayfair, London

    Singers and instrumentalists are invited to a “MESSIAH 24 hour Drop-In”.  Starting at 3pm on the 25th with AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD and working through the choruses until...

  • Viol Consorts with Fretwork

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Tutors: Emily Ashton, Richard Boothby, Jon Rees, Joanna Levine. This course offers viol players the chance to explore the consort repertoire and improve their technique along the way.

  • Rondo Viol Academy

    Shepherd's Dene, Northumberland

    Intermediate and Upper Intermediate.

  • Gabrieli Comes to Lincoln

    Swallowbeck Methodist Church, Lincoln

    A day of playing and singing some of the magnificent polychoral works by Andrea & Giovanni Gabrieli, led by Greg Skidmore and Sue Addison. Further details and application form can...

  • Bristol Early Music Festival

    All Saints Clifton Bristol

    The Festival includes a number of workshops - a mediaeval singing workshop with Leah Stuttard, a workshop for voices and instruments with Alison Kinder, a harpsichord workshop with Julian Perkins,...

  • Fairest Isle Festival

    Isle of Wight

    Early Music Extravaganza on the Isle of Wight.

  • Viol & Recorder Consort Playing

    Higham Hall Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria

    Two parallel, friendly courses offering a variety of music for players at any level except beginners. For those who wish, there are opportunities to mix and match between the two...

  • NEEMF Workshop: Bach with Stephen Muir

    All Soul's Church, Leeds

    JS Bach's Cantata BWV 4 'Christ lag in Todesbanden', for singers and instrumentalists, directed by Dr Stephen Muir.

  • South West Baroque Orchestra Rehearsal

    Culmstock Village Hall, Devon

    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...

  • Renaissance Polyphony at Benslow

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Tutors: Jeremy West, Gareth Wilson Glorious renaissance polyphony for choir with historic brass.

  • BEMF Orchestral Workshop with El Gran Teatro del Mundo

    Hexagan Music Centre, Beverley

    A workshop on Baroque orchestral performance practice based on the writings of George Muffat with additional music by Corelli and Lully, directed by Julio Caballero of El Gran Teatro del...

  • Voices, Viols & Recorders Association

    Halsway Manor Halsway Lane, Crowcombe, Taunton

    An un-tutored course for experienced singers and players of early instruments.

  • SEMF Workshop with Ali Kinder

    Clapham and Patching Village Hall, Worthing

    Workshop for voices and instruments.  Further details and booking forms will be available later.

  • EMFS Viol Consort Café

    St Catherine's Argyle Church, Edinburgh

    A sociable playing morning for viol players at all levels, working in small groups with players of similar experience, facilitated by Vickie Hobson and Philip Redfern.

  • South West Baroque Orchestra Rehearsal

    Culmstock Village Hall, Devon

    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...

  • NWEMF Workshop: Polychoral Music with Peter Wendland

    St Mary's Church Hall, Sale

    Polychoral music of the Renaissance & early Baroque, a workshop for singers in all voice ranges, and players of viols, cornetts, recorders (tenor downwards) & renaissance wind instruments (A=440).

  • Baroque Orchestra: Music at the Dresden Court of Augustus II

    Benslow Music Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    Tutors: Theresa Caudle, Mark Caudle, Claire Williams. 18th century repertoire that would have been performed by the Dresden Hofkapelle, including works by Pisendel, Heinichen and Zelenka; scored for two oboes,...