Singers

Come & Sing Vivaldi Gloria and other Baroque excitement with Tim Knight.

A day of early choral music led by Alan Taverner.

Consumed with Sorrow – Renaissance Masterpieces inspired by loss. Workshop for Voices with Angus Smith.

The EMFS Choir will meet under the direction of Michael Cameron-Longden to continue exploring the music of Orlando Gibbons and his contemporaries.

This workshop will explore Palestrina’s supreme mastery in the so-called ‘parody’ Mass genre.  In this type of setting, the composer bases their Mass on a pre-existing polyphonic model – generally a motet or chanson – expanding and rhapsodising on the source material in each ‘movement’.

Handel's Messiah - A Charity Workshop and Performance For All.

A once a year treat for singers to come together to perform Handel's amazing music & raise money for a local charity.

The life and music of Thomas Morley, a workshop for singers with Will Dawes & Katie Bank.

The EMFS Choir will meet under the direction of Michael Cameron-Longden to sing some seasonal Christmas music.  Mince pies and nibbles will be provided!

Anthems and Madrigals by Dr Orlando Gibbons and his son, Christopher. The day will be hosted by James Geer, the LCC Music Director, with Colin Hughes on piano.  The fee for the workshop, including tea, coffee and biscuits, is £26.  To reserve your place, please email your name and voice part to Margaret at: margaretsh1943@gmail.com.

Come & Sing works by Dowland, Weelkes & Copriario with City Chamber Choir, led by Stephen Jones.

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...

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.

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.

The EMFS Choir will meet at Polwarth Parish Church under the direction of Michael Cameron-Longden to look at some songs by John Dowland.

A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.

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

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

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.

A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.

Take a ride on the Victoria Line as we enjoy an afternoon of motets by Tomás Luis de Victoria, the leading Spanish composer of the late Renaissance and a central figure in sacred music of the Counter-Reformation.  Educated in Rome and closely associated with the Jesuit order, his music is known for its clarity of...

From Despair to Joy: Holy Week with Tomás Luis de Victoria, a choral workshop led by David Allinson.

Music and Ritual in a 16th Century Florentine Convent - Workshop for SA voices, Viols and low recorders led by Laurie Stras.

Missa Ave Virgo Sanctissima by Gery de Ghersem, and other pieces from 17th century Iberia, a workshop for voices with Rory Wainwright Johnston.

Composers of the English Reformation. Katy will concentrate on John Sheppard and Robert Parsons who both composed in both English and Latin, in the traditions of Catholic polyphony and then wrote music for the new Protestant reforms.

A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.

!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.

Vasari Singers and Jeremy Backhouse return with another ‘Come and Sing’ event, singing the 40-part motet, Spem in Alium, and Domenico Scarlatti’s 10-part Stabat Mater – a fantastic combination for a day’s singing.

Music Director: Tim Horton, Piano: William Munks.  A choral workshop with free public performance.

A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.

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...