A series of three workshops exploring the rich tapestry of choruses, chorales and select solo movements from J.S. Bach’s Weinachtsoratorium (Christmas Oratorio). Directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger. These workshops can be booked individually, or as a bundle. 8th November (Parts I & II) 6th December (Parts III & IV) 10th January (Parts V & VI) Three Workshop...
The London International Festival of Early Music 2025.
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’.
Workshop for voices and instruments directed by Ali Kinder, further details TBC.
Handel's Messiah - A Charity Workshop and Performance For All.
Preformed Consorts. Run by Jacqui Robertson-Wade and Alison Kinder.
Come and discover Medieval music with Mary Mohan, Jude Rees and Leah Stuttard. 2025’s focus will be Adam de la Halle.
Join Pam Smith online via Zoom on the run up to Christmas to play some beautiful medieval carols, in aid of Cheltenham & District Samaritans.
Three days of viol consort playing in preformed groups of any level, studying in depth any music chosen by the group, coached by members of the Rose Consort of Viols.
Tackle some of Purcell's marvellous music for celebrations under the direction of Philip Redfern. All modern string players are welcome.
A once a year treat for singers to come together to perform Handel's amazing music & raise money for a local charity.
Praise and Prayer - a day for voices and instruments exploring texts on the theme of praise and entreaty.
The life and music of Thomas Morley, a workshop for singers with Will Dawes & Katie Bank.
William Lyons and Richard Thomas from The City Musick will be heading back to Halsway Manor this Christmastide, bringing with them all the joys of the festive season during the Renaissance.
The York Early Music Christmas Festival was created in 1997 to introduce audiences to the extraordinary wealth of music associated with Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, from the Medieval to the Baroque, intertwined with the sagas, stories and tales of the north.
MEMF Workshop with Robert Hollingworth - a workshop for voices and instruments at pitch A=440 with free lunch.
If you can hold your own sight reading in a consort then come and join Jo and Thomas Green for a sociable playing morning.
Christmas with the Shepherds, a workshop for singers (all voices), players of soft wind (recorders, flutes, sackbut and curtal) and strings are all welcome. Pitch: A=440Hz.
Valls Missa Scala Aretina for singers and instruments with Patrick Craig.
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!
Tackle one of the best Christmas pieces written - Corelli's magnificent Concerto Grosso in G minor, the Christmas Concerto - under the direction of Philip Redfern. All modern string players are welcome.
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.
One singer's life in 16th-century England, talk on Zoom by Dr. Kerry McCarthy (open to everyone) at 7.30pm, followed by TVEMF AGM (TVEMF members only) at 8.30pm.
Workshop for voices and instruments at A=440 with David Hatcher.
Bring vocal and instrumental Renaissance works to life in this ensemble performance workshop for winds – cornetts, curtals, recorders, sackbuts and shawms – and string players, with continuo very welcome for those who can supply their own instruments. Modern string, wind and brass instruments are also warmly invited, provided they are able to read concert-pitch...
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.
A party in Ausburg - music of the early 16th century German Town and Dance bands - a workshop for instruments at A=440 pitch.
Come and Sing/Play Handel: Dixit Dominus and C P E Bach: Magnificat with Director: Richard Roddis, Répétiteur: Michael Overbury, and Instrumental Specialist: Kelly McCusker.
Three days of viol consort playing in a variety of group sizes and exploring some lesser-known repertoire in addition to ‘old favourites’. Tutors: Alison Crum, Peter Wendland.
Zoom Talk given by Patrick Craig on Orlando Gibbons and the Music of Westminster Abbey.
Inspirational and encouraging instruction in baroque style from expert tutors. For pre-formed chamber groups on period instruments. Tutors: Rachel Beckett, Theresa Caudle, Mark Caudle, Claire Williams, Oliver John Ruthven.
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...
Explore the rich and varied repertoire of musicians from court and city in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, with William Lyons & Richard Thomas.
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.
Preformed Consorts. Run by Jacqui Robertson-Wade and Alison Kinder.
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. This workshop is a joint venture with the University of Liverpool, and is designed to bring together experienced early music performers with accomplished singers from the University of Liverpool Chamber Choir, and some instrumentalists.
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.
The EMFS Choir will meet at Polwarth Parish Church under the direction of Michael Cameron-Longden to look at some songs by John Dowland.
Non-residential study weekend directed by Philip Walsh.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
Real Roots! Exploring the world of late 16th-century popular music. The core of the programme will consist of playing in a mixture of large and small ensembles, as well as a range of other options each day, including a focus on ensemble techniques, ornamentation and will hopefully also include some vocal sessions.
JS Bach: Choruses from the Christmas Oratorio with Philip Thorby, for singers and baroque orchestra (A=415).
This course offers viol players the chance to explore consort repertoire from the viol’s Golden Age and to improve their technique along the way, with Joanna Levine and Richard Boothby of Fretwork.
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, with tutors John Sloboda and Rafael Montero.
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
Go4B'rque will meet under the direction of Philip Redfern to look at Rameau's 'Les Indes Galantes'.
Online workshop on the interpretation of baroque music for players of recorder and other instruments. This workshop will examine two movements of the Trio in G minor Opus 1 no. 3 for 3 recorders (flutes) by Johann Mattheson.
Advanced. Run by Jacqui Robertson-Wade and Alison Kinder.
Plenty of opportunities to play at all levels of ability, and to socialise with like-minded early music enthusiasts. Tutors: Bor Zuljan, Peter Croton, Jacob Herringman, Lynda Sayce, Matthew Spring, Sara Stowe.
Schutz: Psalmen Davids workshop with Bill Carslake, for voices and instruments, A=440.
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 looking at music for Mary, Mother of Jesus, and music for Mary Magdalen.
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...
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
Did trills in the baroque always start on the note above the written note? This online workshop gives some simple examples of where to place trills and how to execute them dispelling the myth that trills in the baroque always started on the note above the main note.
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.
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.
This popular and highly acclaimed course provides an excellent opportunity for experienced players of viols and recorders to work on early music in a chamber setting.
How often do we play early music based on songs without the text present? This is very common for ensembles especially when playing 16th century music. Most of the music from this period arranged for recorders is vocal music but without the text present how do we know if it is true to the original...
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.
Repertoire: Très Élégant, the music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Workshop for instrumentalists.
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.
Following on from Trills in the Baroque for Recorder Players Part 1, this workshop provides fingerings, technical exercises to increase control, and examples in the context of standard recorder repertoire.