SWEMF Workshop with Bruce Saunders
Mass settings by early Tudor composers based on Westron Wynde, including Taverner’s exuberant Gloria, Tye’s angelic Sanctus and Sheppard’s luminous Agnus Dei.
Mass settings by early Tudor composers based on Westron Wynde, including Taverner’s exuberant Gloria, Tye’s angelic Sanctus and Sheppard’s luminous Agnus Dei.
This Come & Sing day is part of Levens Choir's early preparations for performances of this sublime choral work in March, 2027, to celebrate its first performance 300 years ago. Levens' distinguished Music Director, Gawain Glenton,an early music specialist, will be leading the day. Refreshments and music scores (Barenreiter - we will be singing in...
Come and Sing Handel's Messiah with Nantwich Choral Society.
William Byrd and his Circle with Sally Dunkley.
The workshop features Bach’s Cantata Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes (BWV 76), part of the Leipzig Cantata Cycle which also enthralled last year’s workshop attendees, and extracts from the Bach motet Jesu, meine Freude (BWV 227). A wonderful way to fire up February by studying a Bach Cantata alongside the choir and singers from...
This workshop, led by Dr Christopher Roberts, will explore Zelenka’s Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei in D minor ZWV26 (c.1723) and Gloria in F major ZWV30 (1724), and is open to all singers, oboes, sackbuts, bassoon, strings (violins, violas, cellos, violone/double bass) and continuo players (theorbo, organ). Pitch A = 415.
The workshop will focus on the music of Giovanni Croce, a leading Venetian composer of his day. Open to all singers and cornetts, sackbuts, curtals/dulcians, recorders, viol and violin family, plucked continuo.
Spend the afternoon with Early music specialist, Scott Inglis-Kidger, who will lead you through a selection of Tallis’s sacred works written in the turbulent years following the English Reformation.
An Early Music Love Affair - a workshop for voices and instruments with Lisa Colton. Liverpool area.
What better subject could there be for St Valentine's Day than love - sacred and profane and all stages in between? Join EEMF in Beccles on February 14th for a workshop including Gabrieli's two-choir motet Diligam Te Domine, Andreas Hakenberger's rich 12-part setting of Vulnerasti Cor Meum, Cristofano Malvezzi's 15-part A Voi, Reali Amanti, and...
This workshop will introduce you to seasonal medieval chant (including the tract Jubilate Domino, and one of the Old Hispanic Lamentations chants), together with 13th-century polyphony. All voice parts welcome.
Non-residential study weekend directed by Philip Walsh.
JS Bach: Choruses from the Christmas Oratorio with Philip Thorby, for singers and baroque orchestra (A=415).
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.
El Parnasso Hyspano - indigenous Latin American music workshop for singers and continuo.
Members of the London Handel Orchestra, along with its Principal Conductor, Richard Gowers, will guide singers through some of Handel’s most radiant choral works and choruses from works performed across the Festival. Repertoire: Laudate pueri Dominum HWV 237 O come, let us sing HWV 253 Choruses from Saul and Ode for St Cecilia's Day
Schutz: Psalmen Davids workshop with Bill Carslake.
Choruses from Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) for voices and strings.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - BWV 65 Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen - BWV 66 Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen (Choruses and chorales only) Directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger
Alonso 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.
Delve into music by Tim's favourite composer - JS Bach, together with other maestros of choral music in the impressive Grade 1 listed St Mary's Church in Whitkirk.
Prophecies and visions: chromatic music of the 1540s-1570s. Music by Lasso, Vicentino, Rore and Marenzio.
Mary, Mary, quite contrary - a workshop for singers and players.
This workshop, led by Sophia Mucke (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and Royal Academy of Music, London) and Dr Oliver Doyle, will be an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of the Guidonian Hand and Solmisation. This workshop is open to all, whether you would like to join in or observe. Being able to read music...
Victoria Lamentations and Response + Surrexit - a workshop for voices with David Allinson. Didsbury, Manchester.
Workshop of early music with South American links with El Parnaso Hyspano, for voices and continuo. Contact Janet Tanburn janetmtanburn@gmail.com for further details.
Polychoral Pentecost, for voices and instruments, directed by Mark Wilson.
Be part of a fully staged historically informed staging of Rameau’s one-act acte de ballet Pygmalion, working from first rehearsal to public performance in six days under the guidance of a team of leading baroque specialists. Tutors: Catarina Costa e Silva, Fernando Miguel Jalôto, Judy Tarling, Gail Hennessy, Josh Salter.
Make new friends in a week of singing and sightseeing in historic, beautiful Malta. The week is aimed at keen singers who enjoy a challenge. The course will be led by experienced choral director, David Greenwood. For more information email: casterbridge.music.uk@gmail.com. Palestrina Missa Aeterna Christi Munera Byrd Ave Verum Redford Rejoice in the Lord Parry...
Explore and deepen your knowledge of a range of baroque choruses and be part of a fully staged historically informed performance of Rameau’s Pygmalion on this Opera Project companion course led by Nicholas Shaw.
A fun and inclusive introduction to playing and singing medieval repertoire for all instrumentalists and singers. Explore the wealth and variety of musical timbres and textures found in music of the 12th-15th centuries. Tutors: Emily Baines, Arngeir Hauksson.
Missa Ave Virgo Sanctissima by Gery de Ghersem, and other pieces from 17th century Iberia, a workshop for voices with Rory Wainwright Johnston. Preston.
An inclusive course for all to experience Gregorian chant in a friendly, entertaining, informative and enjoyable context. A shared exploration of its music and cultural history, works towards daily performances of a meditative chant sequence. Tutor: John Rowlands-Pritchard.
!A la Batalla! workshop for voices with Greg Skidmore and Sue Addison. This workshop will include a mass by Victoria – details to be announced nearer the time.
A 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.
Bristol's Early Music Festival, with concerts, exhibits, workshops, and more...
An 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, finding great acclaim in music-loving courts. Open to singers of all ranges - soloists and ensemble voices - as well as lutenists, this course...
This upper-voice (SSA/SSAA) ensemble singing weekend, led by Rory Wainwright Johnston, is built around detailed, small-ensemble choral work, drawing on repertoire from the early Baroque through to the present day.
Non-residential study weekend directed by Philip Walsh.
Early Music Extravaganza on the Isle of Wight - includes concerts, workshops, talks, and more!
Music Director: Tim Horton, Piano: William Munks. A choral workshop with free public performance.
Vivaldi’s Gloria workshop for voices and strings with Ben England. Wilmslow.
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.
Led by Ben England BEM, these events offer a rare opportunity to delve into some of the most sublime works in the vocal canon, including: Allegri’s Miserere Stanford’s Bluebird Bono/U2 (arr. Bob Chilcott) MLK Tallis’ If Ye Love Me Chesnokov (arr. Gowers) Let My Prayer Arise This event will be repeated in Warrington and Wimbledon...
Led by Ben England BEM, these events offer a rare opportunity to delve into some of the most sublime works in the vocal canon, including: Allegri’s Miserere Stanford’s Bluebird Bono/U2 (arr. Bob Chilcott) MLK Tallis’ If Ye Love Me Chesnokov (arr. Gowers) Let My Prayer Arise This event will be repeated in York and Wimbledon...
Workshop for singers with the theme 'Faith as Treason'.
Vocal and instrumental polychoral music with Peter Wendland.
Led by Ben England BEM, these events offer a rare opportunity to delve into some of the most sublime works in the vocal canon, including: Allegri’s Miserere Stanford’s Bluebird Bono/U2 (arr. Bob Chilcott) MLK Tallis’ If Ye Love Me Chesnokov (arr. Gowers) Let My Prayer Arise This event will be repeated in York and Warrington...
Glorious renaissance polyphony for choir with historic brass. Tutors: Jeremy West, Gareth Wilson.
This course is based on the music of the generation that followed Adrian Willaert and preceded Claudio Monteverdi. Directed by Eamonn Dougan.
Polychoral music by Heinrich Schütz, workshop for voices and instruments with Peter Wendland. Lancaster.
Save the date for this Workshop for Voices and Instruments with Dr Stephen Bullamore. Music, subject to confirmation, 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), Heinrich Biber (Salzburg), M.A Charpentier (Paris).
Vocal music by Edmund Hooper and his contemporaries, with Katy Silverman.
Workshop for singers and instrumentalists with David Hatcher, also includes BMEMF AGM.
Treasures of the Spanish Renaissance ~ the music of the golden century: Cristóbal de Morales, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Philippe Rogier, Juan de Esquivel and Alonso Lobo. Directed by Bill Carslake.
Chalemie Summer School in Early Music, Dance, Period Costume Making and Commedia. Leading performers from the group will direct a series of workshops on 17th/18th century music, song, dance, commedia and costume making, with a particular emphasis on the English repertoire of this period.
This mixed-voice early music workshop marks 400 years since John Dowland with an in-depth exploration of his complete published lute-song output. Working in small mixed-voice ensembles, the weekend will focus on Dowland’s music as shared ensemble repertoire, with attention to text, rhetoric, tuning, contrapuntal clarity and ensemble contact.
Workshop for voices and instruments, with Clare Griffel. Details TBC.
Summer School for Enthusiasts of Early Music, both instrumentalists and singers, offering full board or daily attendance. Spread over 6 days the course is ably led by David Hatcher and David Allinson, allowing participants to enjoy a high standard of music making.
The Song of Songs: sacred love songs by Palestrina, Lassus, L’Héritier, Gombert and others. For Voices and Viols. Spend time with like-minded musicians, and develop your skills under the guidance of a world-class team of tutors: course director and vocal tutor Clare Wilkinson, vocal tutors Carys Lane, Giles Underwood and Nicholas Hurndall Smith, and viol...
The Baroque course will focus on Purcell’s semi-opera Dioclesian. Applications are invited from dancers, proficient singers and confident players of gut-strung Baroque instruments, with Baroque bows, bass viol, violone, recorder, baroque flute, oboe, bassoon, lute family and harpsichord/organ. Pitch: A=415.
NORVIS is the full week-long early music summer school in County Durham which they are proud to describe as one of the UK’s longest-established and friendliest. They teach recorders, Baroque flutes, viols, lutes and early guitars, harpsichords and voices. Repertoire from early Renaissance to late Baroque.
This mixed-voice workshop centres on a varied programme of choral music connected by texts reflecting different aspects of love — playful, devotional, reflective, and lyrical — set across a wide stylistic range. Working in small to medium mixed-voice groups, singers will explore how different composers treat similar themes in very different musical ways.
Workshop for voices and instruments with Stephanie Dyer. Chester.
Five-day Come & Sing event culminating in a full-scale, baroque-pitch performance including Bach's Cantata 140 ("Wachet auf"), Cantata 147, and the Magnificat in D major, led by Ben England BEM.
Simon Harper tutors a workshop for singers on the theme of Saints and Angels, to include pieces by composers such as Victoria, Sweelinck, Weelkes and Philips. Further details to be confirmed.
Workshop for voices and instruments on Hans Leo Hassler, with Gawain Glenton.
Music from the Odhecaton workshop for voices and instruments with Lizzie Gutteridge. Bolton.
Five-day Come & Sing event culminating in a full-scale, baroque-pitch performance including Bach’s Cantata 140 (“Wachet auf”), Cantata 147, and the Magnificat in D major, led by Ben England BEM.
1535 – a year in the life of Pierre Attaingnant - a workshop for voices and instruments with Peter Syrus. Bramhall, Stockport.
Christmas Workshop for voices and instruments with Philip Thorby.
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