MEMF Workshop with Gawain Glenton
Schütz and his world - for sackbuts, cornetti and voices.
Schütz and his world - for sackbuts, cornetti and voices.
Classical, early, world music & theatre shows and a workshop at multiple venues across Liverpool with some exciting, pioneering & international musicians lined up: The Sixteen, The Telling & The Linarol Consort.
Byrd: Sing Joyfully Stanford: Magnificat (double choir) Monteverdi: Cantate Domino Schutz: Unser Herr, Jesus Christ Ēriks Ešenvalds: Salutation
Come and Sing Handel's Messiah with Bradford Festival Choral Society, led by BFCS Musical Director Thomas Leech. Part of the Saltaire Festival.
Tutors: Joe Crouch and Sam Evans. Celebrating Bach's incredibly fertile Weimar and Köthen years, exploring works of his contemporaries along the way. The course is for singers and those playing baroque instruments at A=415 pitch.
Join Christ's Hospital Choral Society for a "Sing in a Day" workshop with Peter Allwood, to learn Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas".
Workshop for Singers.
A one-day choral conference for anyone leading or involved in singing includes sessions on period performance practice for voices, with guest presenters Professor Martin Ashley, William Hunt and Andrew Parrott, discussing the voice in the time of Gibbons and JS Bach. There is also a trade exhibition throughout the day.
Come and Sing Handel’s Coronation Anthems.
Hilary Campbell will lead the afternoon of music-making featuring the choruses from Vivaldi's Gloria, beautiful music from the Baroque era.
An exploration of the riches of secular vocal music from the Renaissance to the 20th century.
Non-residential study weekend directed by Chris Brown.
An afternoon exploring Bach’s B Minor Mass.
Workshop for Voices and Instruments.
Missa Dominus Regnavit.
A Cherubim choral weekend under the direction of baroque expert Greg Skidmore. Familiar anthems, Rejoice in the Lord, Thou knowest Lord, choruses from Dido and The Fairy Queen, and instrumental music, glees and catches.
Cantatas BWV 24-26, Choruses & Chorales only. Director: Scott Inglis-Kidger.
A choral workshop exploring music by Manuel Cardoso, Felipe de Magalhães and Duarte Lobo, led by Dr David Allinson.
Masses, motets, madrigals; from Lamentations to Lieder, witty chansons to obscene carnival songs: no Renaissance composer was more prolific or varied than Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594). We contrast his settings with those of others, composers he definitely met or may have known, others he could not possibly have encountered.
Songs of Love and Death – the music of Leonhard Lechner Athesinus - workshop for Voices and Instruments.
Sing Handel's Messiah with orchestra and soloists, conducted by Lyn Lloyd-Jones. Optional preliminary rehearsals on Sundays 2nd and 16th October at 7.30pm.
A workshop for voices and instruments on the music of Constanzo Porta, with AGM.
Workshop for Singers on the Lambeth Choirbook (postponed from 24th September).
Workshop focussing on the full-textured choral music of the Geistlich Chormusik (Op.11), published in 1648. The programme, to commemorate the 350th anniversary of Schütz’s death, is crowned by the astonishing late setting of the Magnificat, Meine Seele erhebt den Herren for double choir.
An afternoon of music making in learning, rehearsing and performing Vivaldi's Gloria.
Come and Sing Handel's Messiah with Great Milton Singers - Directed by Kate Billimore.
A three-day exhibition with a full programme of workshops, lecture recitals, talks and makers’ demonstration recitals, plus concerts and evensong at St Michael & All Angels Church.
Workshop for Voices and Instruments.
A workshop for voices with a new Tutor Anita Datta - Madrigals based on Bird Song.
More music inspired by the two Marys, with an emphasis on Spanish/Portuguese composers. For voices plus strings and lower soft wind.
The Anerio brothers, born in Rome to a trombone-playing father, were among the most significant composers of the post-Palestrina generation. The workshop will explore a number of sacred works by both composers for a variety of vocal forces. Further Details from the Organiser (pdf).
Come and Sing a selection of choruses from Handel's Messiah with Hurst Green Singers, directed by James M Meaders.
Members of Stile Antico lead a ‘Come and Sing’ day at the University Church in Oxford, focusing on polychoral repertoire from Renaissance Rome.
Join The Gesualdo Six to hear their fresh take on two historic pieces of Renaissance Polyphony.
In the run-up to Christmas, The Telling singer Clare Norburn presents four workshops on Zoom to guide you through how to sing a range of beautiful traditional and medieval carols.
John Dunstaple - context and contenance - workshop for Singers ATB.
Music for Advent and Christmas The Wales Early Music Forum Cymru, supported by BMEMF, is running its third workshop. Emma Gibbins has chosen a splendid repertoire with works by Parsons, Ravenscroft, Guerrero, Victoria and many more. *Note change of venue from Cardiff to Abergavenny*
Led by celebrated soprano and experienced vocal trainer Mhairi Lawson, explore a golden gem of 18th Century vocal repertoire, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. This choral workshop is for sopranos and altos only.
Join Jonathan Peter Kenny and Exeter Bach Society for a 'Come & Sing' workshop on J S Bach's Christmas Oratorio.
Come and Sing Messiah Tour UK & Ireland, led by Ben England BEM and Mark Strachan BEM.
Miserere & Motets. Director: Scott Inglis-Kidger. Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa: Miserere - O vos omnes. Gesualdo (completed by Igor Stravinsky): Tres Sacrae Cantiones.
Explore and celebrate some of Handel’s wonderful arias with an aficionado of his music.
Join Clare Norburn to learn to sing some medieval & traditional carols ahead of the Carol Concert in Conwy.
Vivaldi: Magnificat RV 610 in G minor. Director: Scott Inglis-Kidger. Associate Musical Director: Ghislaine Morgan.
Join Clare Norburn to learn to sing some medieval & traditional carols ahead of the Carol Concert in Cardiff.
Join Clare Norburn to learn to sing some medieval & traditional carols ahead of the Carol Concert in Mistley.
Come and Sing Messiah Tour UK & Ireland, led by Ben England BEM and Mark Strachan BEM.
In this special workshop led by Richard de Winter, participants will learn some simple and some not-so-simple Christmas music from the Medieval Period, and investigate how to adapt singing style to location, whilst touring different rooms of Strangers’ Hall.
Seasonal fun for voices and Instruments.
Benevoli Mass for four choirs c 1650 - expect a wonderful day with one of our favourite Tutors to get you in the spirit of Christmas!
Join Clare Norburn to learn to sing some medieval & traditional carols ahead of the Carol Concert in Stroud Green.
The Mystical Marriage - a workshop for Singers and Instrumentalists for the Christmas season - with music by Teodoro Riccio, Melchior Frank and Andrea Gabrieli.
Join Pam Smith on Zoom 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 from her music room, and you can play...
Music in honour of Mary and the infant Jesus, including works by Victoria, Praetorius and Melchior Franck. Open to all voices and players of renaissance wind and strings (A=440).
Come and Sing Messiah Tour UK & Ireland, led by Ben England BEM and Mark Strachan BEM.
Julian Perkins and Cambridge Handel Opera return for a further exploration of Handel's continuo cantatas. Come and explore these neglected gems of the baroque repertoire with leading specialists in historical performance practice and the music of Handel.
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.
Come & Sing choruses from Bach St John Passion with the Whitehall Choir - conductor Joanna Tomlinson.
Byrd and the birth of the "consort anthem", for voices and "soft" instruments such as viols and recorders.
Choral Workshop led by David Pipe.
English Catholic Composers in Exile.
Come and Sing or Play J S Bach: Magnificat & Cantata 21 with Sinfonia Chorale Director: Richard Roddis Organist: Michael Overbury Instrumental Specialist: Nicolette Moonen
A choral singing workshop with Barnet Choral Society and their new director Rory McCleery for a day exploring borrowing in the music of Georg Friedrich Handel.
Spem is a favourite for singers who have already performed it, and a 'can't-miss' opportunity for those who haven't.
Come and sing Handel's Dixit Dominus, Pergolesi's Magnificat and Monteverdi's Beatus Vir with the Vivace Chorus led by Jeremy Backhouse with Francis Pott at the piano.
Choral workshop on William Byrd.
Handel - Coronation Anthems, and Parry - I was Glad.
Join Hereford Chamber Choir for a morning of singing, led by Music Director Simon Harper. A varied a cappella programme on the theme of water, exploring its natural beauty in partsongs by Elgar and Finzi, alongside sacred motets by Cardoso and Palestrina conveying the power of water’s life-giving quality and the significance of water and...
Repertoire: JS Bach - St John Passion (sung in German) Director: David Hill
Come & Sing Vivaldi Gloria with Laudamus Chamber Choir.
My Heart is Inditing - an exploration of settings by Purcell and Handel for singers and instrumentalists (A=440).
Come and Sing three pieces by the exceptional Elizabethan composer, William Byrd: Laudibus in Sanctis, Mass for Four Voices and Ave Maria.
This event has been cancelled. A workshop focussing on the wonderful music of the Bach family. The Bachs were a large dynasty of hugely talented composers and musicians whose legacy continues to resonate centuries after they were active.
Non-residential study weekend - Sat: pm/evening | Sun: am/pm. Finish about 17:30. Conductor Tim Brown (Clare College, Cambridge, DBCC President). Everyone welcome. DBCC sing everything in German. Music available to download from the DBCC website.
A morning workshop on Handel's Samson, led by Harry Bradford, and accompanied by Colin Spinks.
Byrd and his contemporaries for voices and instruments, directed by John Bryan.
Sacred Settings by Marc-Antoine Charpentier including his Magnificat H78 and Dixit Dominus H204. In association with Keble Early Music Festival. For voices, baroque wind, strings and continuo (A=415).