The reputation of Robert Parsons (c.1535–72), today rests almost entirely on the honeyed beauty of his Ave Maria, with its perfect Amen. But his other sacred music is of such high quality, and so little known, that it will be a pleasure to explore it.
Music composed in response to loss 1454-1612, for singers.
A once a year treat for singers to come together to perform Handel's amazing music & raise money for a local charity. This year's event will be conducted by Anthony Gray.
Explore and celebrate some of Handel’s wonderful arias with an aficionado of his music.
Repertoire: Gibbons, Hooper and contemporaries, for singers.
A variety of concerts and other events, including a choral workshop for all presented by Robert Hollingworth, director of I Fagiolini.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
Lambert de Sayve mass for four choirs, and some festive music - for voices and instruments.
For centuries Christmas and the surrounding seasons have inspired composers to new heights of invention. The repertoire chosen for this course will reach across the ages: from the eternal beauty of the Tudor church right up to the twenty-first century.
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.
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...
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.
Workshop covering Gregorian 4-line and neume notation with Tony Berridge.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
Come and join members of Bath Bach Choir in singing Bach’s cantata Die Elenden sollen essen (BWV 75), under the direction of David Hill, Musical Director of the Choir.
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.
Explore choral masterpieces, learn about their historical and musical contexts, and brush up on singing technique with a vocal expert.
The annual EEMF Epiphany party, this year slightly later than Epiphany. Philip Thorby will lead a wealth of festive music.
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.
Join Twickenham Choral for a workshop on Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 in preparation for their concert with His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornets.
Cantata 61 Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland. Cantata 182 Himmelskönig, sei willkommen.
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.
The Music of Thomas Tomkins – from both his madrigal output, and his sacred output. A workshop for voices with Carys Lane.
Enjoy a rewarding day singing this sublime piece with former Music Director of Reading Bach Choir, JanJoost van Elburg.
Drawing on historical visualisation and memorisation techniques, this session aims to introduce the participant to the basic building blocks of improvised counterpoint. The session is led by Tim Braithwaite, director of the Cappella Pratensis, and is open to all, whether you sing professionally, for fun, or simply enjoy listening to early music.
A trilogy of Crucifixus settings by Antonio Lotti, plus Lotti’s setting of Ad Dominum cum tribularer, as well as the Salve Regina by his Venetian forebear, Francesco Cavalli. Directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger.
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.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
Workshop for voices and instruments directed by Peter Wendland, including works by Hassler, Victoria, Lassus, Praetorius, and Zielenski.
Join David Allinson for a day exploring Palestrina’s music, in a programme which moves from the majestic to the intimate, from the contemplative to the joyful, and which avoids well-worn and obvious pieces.
Messa La Luna Piena (The ‘Full Moon’ Mass) in 8 parts by Giuseppe Corsi da Celano. A workshop for singers and instruments with George Parris.
This course, directed by Gabriel Díaz, will celebrate the music of Spain’s first great composer. It will be held in the monastery of San Bernardo, in the shadow of the Alhambra in Granada’s Albaicín. The central work is the mass that Morales based on Josquin’s chanson ‘Mille regretz’.
This practical workshop, led by Tim Braithwaite, explores how Josquin and his contemporary singer-composers actually visualised their music and the compositional techniques they employed in a musical language so very different from our own.
Workshop for singers, led by Richard de Winter - songs from the Henry VIII manuscript.
Hei Mihi, Domine – Iberian Penitential Motets. A workshop for voices with David Allinson.
Whether you're new to singing Bach or a seasoned Bach Club stalwart, these workshops offer a chance to deepen your appreciation of his genius. Directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger.
Johann Stadlmayr’s polychoral music for the Habsburg Courts - a workshop for singers and renaissance instruments with Gawain Glenton.
Workshop on Missa Diligam Te Domine a 12 by Giovanni Valentini, for voices and instruments, led by Philip Thorby.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
Join the Platinum Consort to enjoy both the soloistic and consort aspects of six of the finest anthems by William Byrd. Directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger.
Palestrina workshop for voices and instruments, directed by David Allinson. Further details TBC.
A weekend of 16th and 17th century vocal music ‘apt for voyces and vyalls’, playing mainly in small groups. Tutors: Emma Kirkby, Alison Crum.
Workshop for singers with James Weeks. Repertoire: Sacred and secular works by Orlando di Lasso.
Music for the Chapel Royal, for voices, strings, and continuo, led by Christopher Roberts. NWEMF AGM over lunch.
Explore a variety of music inspired by The Sixteen’s own Choral Pilgrimage.
A fun and inclusive introduction to playing and singing medieval repertoire for all instrumentalists and singers. Tutors: Emily Baines, Arngeir Hauksson (Amyas).
A joint NEEMF/ABCD workshop with Robert Hollingworth in Newcastle, exploring familiar and unknown music to encircle Palm Sunday, including Victoria's Tenebrae. Further details on the NEEMF website Further details on the ABCD website
George Parris will tutor this workshop, for voices and instruments, on Lamentations by Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla & López Capillas.
Evensong for the eve of Palm Sunday (Hosannah to the son of David – Gibbons / Wood in F). Round Byrd is an occasional choir focussing on the “performance” of English Cathedral Music from the 16th and 17th Centuries in a liturgical context. New singers are always welcome to come to a single event or...
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
Ring in the Easter Weekend by joining with fellow singers to form the chorus of Vivaldi’s Gloria and Handel’s Coronation Anthems.
Perform Charpentier's sacred masterpiece Messe pour MrMauroy. Tutors: Miguel Jaloto, Nick Shaw, Kinga Gaborjani, Gail Hennessy, Judy Tarling.
Music will be taken from 'The Oxford Book of Tudor Anthems' and 'The Oxford Book of English Madrigals'.
Explore a variety of music inspired by The Sixteen’s own Choral Pilgrimage.
A course directed by Patrick Craig in the historic Pembrokeshire port, centred on the six-part Requiem of the Portuguese composer Manuel Cardoso (c. 1566-1650), interspersed with funerary motets by other Portuguese composers
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 the thrill of singing in Benevoli's four-choir Missa Benevola, led by Robert Hollingworth.
Join the Croydon Bach Choir for an exhilarating workshop under the expert guidance of Music Director, Tim Horton. Open to singers of all levels who can follow a score.
Music of Protest from Renaissance Portugal - join popular tutor Rory McCleery for an exploration of this fascinating and beautiful repertoire, including plangently expressive motets and mass movements by Duarte Lobo, Manuel Cardoso and Estêvão Lopes Morago.
Dive into the polychoral grandeur of Venetian sacred music, characterised by cori spezzati and radiant harmonies, with Scott Inglis-Kidger (Director) and Ghislaine Morgan (Associate Musical Director).
'Consumed With Sorrow', a workshop singing a selection of Renaissance masterpieces including works by Josquin, Dufay, Ockeghem, Robert White and others, led by Angus Smith.
JS Bach Cantata 118: O Jesu Christ, mein’s lebens Licht. JS Bach Cantata 146: Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal. JS Bach Motet BWV 230: Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
A workshop for singers led by Robert Hollingworth, on the 4-choir Missa Benevola, by the 17th-century Franco-Italian composer Orazio Benevoli.
The music of Johannes Prioris, Palestrina and Josquin, for voices, viols, lower recorders and sackbuts. Lancaster.
Baroque Chamber Music Day (A=415) with Victoria Helby, for one-to-a-part singers as well as instrumentalists.
Ben England will direct music by Purcell for singers, strings, and continuo at baroque pitch (A=415).
Explore a variety of music inspired by The Sixteen’s own Choral Pilgrimage.
Glorious renaissance polyphony for choir with historic brass. Tutors: Jeremy West and Gareth Wilson.
This Chamber Weekender, directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger, will marry the sacred (Monteverdi Beatus Vir) with the profane (Strozzi Silentio nocivo); two sublime works, exploring rather different subject matter!
Join a consort of singers from Stile Antico in a wonderful session singing music from the Sistine Chapel.
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.
Weelkes and Gibbons singing workshop with Tim Brown - details TBC.
Palestrina, Anerio and Victoria Marian music for the Feast of the Visitation. A workshop for singers with Patrick Craig.
This course is for experienced singers who want to improve their choral technique and enjoy exploring a rich mix of repertoire in a convivial social setting. Musical Director: David Ogden.
An inclusive course for all to experience Gregorian chant in a friendly, entertaining, informative and enjoyable context. Tutor: John Rowlands-Pritchard.
Misa en Granada, sacred and secular works by Pedro de Escobar, led by Richard MacKenzie.
Orlando Gibbons’ 400th anniversary (Second Service / See, see the Word is incarnate). Round Byrd is an occasional choir focussing on the “performance” of English Cathedral Music from the 16th and 17th Centuries in a liturgical context. New singers are always welcome to come to a single event or to more.