Come & Sing Vivaldi Gloria Choruses
Come and sing choruses from the Vivaldi Gloria and other music, as part of Reigate and Redhill Music and Drama Festival Chorus.
Come and sing choruses from the Vivaldi Gloria and other music, as part of Reigate and Redhill Music and Drama Festival Chorus.
Come and Sing Handel's Messiah with Nantwich Choral Society, accompanied by Nantwich Sinfonia and conducted by John Naylor.
Come & Sing: Vivaldi "Gloria" & L'Estrange "Love's Philosophy" with Stowmarket Chorale, directed by William Baldry.
Join the Northampton Chamber Choir for a day of music making in Northampton's beautiful and historic Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
JS Bach Cantata 68: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt. JS Bach Cantata 102: Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben.
Anticipating Easter - Victimae Paschali settings for voices and instruments A=440.
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' from a short initial motet or chanson into an entire mass.
Workshop for Voices featuring settings of Song of Songs texts by 16th-century composers from various European countries.
Come & Sing Striggio's 40-part Mass, Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno. £50 fee, includes lunch, refreshments, and score. Contact: memaddison@hotmail.co.uk for further details and booking.
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 Hope, coming together in the afternoon.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
"What About Weelkes?!" - a workshop for singers.
Come and Sing Antonio Vivaldi Gloria, and William Byrd Mass for Four Voices, directed by Tori Longdon.
A wonderful opportunity to perform Handel's Messiah from scratch, with no rehearsal, under the baton of John Dunford, conductor of Ripon and Wetherby Choral Societies. Bring your own Novello score or just come to listen and enjoy. Proceeds in aid of Yorkshire Cancer Research.
Sopranos and tenors most welcome for this single day event singing Palestrina's Missa Æterna Christi Munera and John IV of Portugal Crux fidelis. To register, please contact JNMR84094@gmail.com.
Five days of deliciously 'miserable' music, including works by Purcell, Blow, Carissimi, Child and Monteverdi.
Chamber Singing Weekender - Gombert, Tomkins and Weelkes.
Workshop with Ben England BEM for SATB voices and strings - Choruses from Vivaldi’s Gloria. A=415Hz.
Rehearse and sing evensong in a single afternoon with Round Byrd. Including Purcell, Hear my Prayer. Gibbons 2nd evening service. Byrd Miserere Mei.
Come and join Clacton Choral Society for a morning learning and singing two 16th century Spanish masterpieces “Ego sum panis vivus” by Tomas Luis de Victoria and “Peccantum me quotidie” by Cristobal de Morales., led by Michael Danes.
Members of Stile Antico will lead and coach participants in music by Victoria, Palestrina, Morales and Lusitano, in four to twelve parts.
Settings of sections of the Missa l'homme armé by Busnois, Dufay, Guerrero, Morales, and Palestrina. New singers are always welcome.
Join Leah Stuttard to learn and sing some seasonal medieval music. Live on Zoom plus access via private link to a video of each session. £10 each session or £25 for all three. Email leah@leahstuttard.com to enrol.
Sopranos and tenors most welcome for this single day event singing Casciolini's beautiful Missa brevis in a minor and John IV of Portugal Crux fidelis. (We could squeeze in an alto or bass if they came as part of a pair with a sop or tenor!) To register, please contact JNMR84094@gmail.com.
A course for choral singers held in the Monasterio de San Bernardo, close to the Alhambra Palace in Granada. The repertoire will be based on the largely six-part Lamentations of Jeremiah by Pedro Ruimonte, 1565-1627.
Sebastianist Music from Renaissance Portugal.
Polychoral Music from the Polish Court of Sigismund III. A workshop for voices & instruments led by Eamonn Dougan.
Enthusiastic amateur singers and Handel enthusiasts are invited to join LHF Musical Director Laurence Cummings and leading Handel scholar Ruth Smith to explore just how Handel’s vocal writing is so utterly extraordinary. Singers will work through selected choruses from Messiah, focusing on the marriage of text and vocal line, examining vocal techniques and dramatic intent...
Learn some of the choruses from Handel's Messiah, led by Paul Herrington.
Join the Pentland Singers and enjoy singing through the wonderful choruses of Vivaldi's Gloria!
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
'I am troubled on every side!': music by Tallis and his contemporaries, for singers and instruments (A=440). Details and Application Form
In Monte Oliveti - motets by Lassus, Victoria, Weelkes, Guerrero and others - a Choral workshop on early music for Palm Sunday.
Come and enjoy learning some of the popular choruses from Handel's Messiah, led by the former King Singers members Phillip Lawson.
Includes videos of performances from the 2023 live festival, plus a vocal workshop and visit to Dodd Lutherie.
Ring in the Easter Weekend by joining with fellow singers to form the chorus of Handel’s triumphant masterpiece, led by conductor Matthew Kofi Waldren.
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.
Every Monday and Friday, In your own home, online with Jamulus software (https://jamulus.io). OEMF began just before lockdown, as the COVID19 pandemic was gathering momentum, and has continued ever since. In addition to the usual equipment (your voice and your musical talent), you will need a computer with Jamulus software (https://jamulus.io). Turn off Wi-Fi (please...
This workshop will explore Casulana: Morir non puo ‘I mio core, and Lassus: Justorum animae.
Details TBA.
Polyphony workshop for voices and instruments.
Settings of sections of the Missa l'homme armé by Busnois, Dufay, Guerrero, Morales, and Palestrina. New singers are always welcome.
A course for choral singers with repertoire drawn from the music of Renaissance Portugal, including the Ave Virgo sanctissima Mass of Géry de Ghersem.
‘O What Evil is War’: War and Peace in 17th Century Germany, for all voices and specified instruments (A=440). Details and Application Form
A workshop for singers and players. Peter Syrus will direct his new programme of borrowings in Spanish church music of the Golden Age.
Madrigals from the Triumphs of Oriana - a workshop for voices. Further details to follow.
Choral workshop - choruses & chorales only.
This workshop will explore Casulana: Morir non puo ‘I mio core, and Lassus: Justorum animae.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
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 the end. Then, starting all over again, and repeating for 24 hours. With conductors including John Rutter, Laurence Cummings, Ben England, Ralph Allwood, James Day,...
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 be found at www.sixteen85.co.uk.
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, and two recorder workshops with Annabel Knight.
Early Music Extravaganza on the Isle of Wight.
Workshop for singers in all voice ranges, and players of violins, cornetts, sackbuts, curtals, recorders (tenor downwards), viols or lutes.
Music and Ritual in a C16th Florentine Convent - a workshop for upper voices, viols, low recorders and organ.
Polychoral works by Giovanni Gabriel, Hans Leo Hassler, Giovanni Croce, and Claudio Merulo.
This workshop will explore Casulana: Morir non puo ‘I mio core, and Lassus: Justorum animae.
JS Bach Cantata 119: Preise, Jerusalem, der Herrn. JS Bach Cantata 171: Gott wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm. JS Bach Cantata 192: Nun danket alle Gott.
JS Bach's Cantata BWV 4 'Christ lag in Todesbanden', for singers and instrumentalists, directed by Dr Stephen Muir.
* Postponed to 6th October 2024 in Little Chalfont - further details here* A workshop exploring the rich creative seam of the century’s most beloved songs - for voices and plucked strings.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
Tutors: Jeremy West, Gareth Wilson Glorious renaissance polyphony for choir with historic brass.
Concerts, workshops and talks with the theme of Threads of Gold.
'The Compendium of Revelation' - further details will be available shortly on the SWEMF website.
The workshop is open to all voices (S/A/T/B) with some sight-singing experience. Music for the day includes Alfonso Lobo’s Versa est in luctum and Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Taedet anima and Astiterunt reges terrae.
An un-tutored course for experienced singers and players of early instruments.
Tutor: John Rowlands-Pritchard. 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.
Come & Sing workshop with The Fountain Singers, directed by Anna Cristoni-Apel.
A workshop for voices, strings, keyboard, oboe, bassoon and recorders (alto or bass), continuo (inc bass viols), A=440.
Workshop for voices and instruments. Further details and booking forms will be available later.
Discover or re-ignite a passion for choral singing with Handel’s Messiah in Gloucester Cathedral, with Gloucester Choral Society directed by Adrian Partington.
The event will celebrate East Anglian madrigalists of the Jacobean period, John Wilbye, George Kirbye, and John Ward.
This workshop will explore Casulana: Morir non puo ‘I mio core, and Lassus: Justorum animae.
This workshop will explore Casulana: Morir non puo ‘I mio core, and Lassus: Justorum animae.
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).
Choral workshop - choruses & chorales only.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
A course for choral singers of all ages and nationalities in a former monastery overlooking the Adriatic, centred on Renaissance music inspired by the biblical Song of Songs. Directed by Lucy Goddard.
Sing Victoria's magnificent Requiem in the majestic cathedral in Burgos, Spain.
Sing Henry Purcell's Dido & Aeneas (abridged) with Platinum Consort.