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’.
Plenty of opportunities to play at all levels of ability. Tutors: Jacob Heringman, Lynda Sayce, Matthew Spring, Sara Stowe, Evangelina Mascardi, Andrea Damiani.
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.
The aim of the day is to enjoy the rich and varied sonorities of a Renaissance Wind Band. Applications welcome from players of Renaissance wind instruments – shawms, sackbutts, cornetts, curtals, crumhorns, recorders, etc.
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.
This workshop will focus on Baroque Dance Technique using either extracts from a variety of extant dances or dances choreographed, in the Baroque Style, by Philippa Waite.
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.
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.
This year LHF is presenting the festival’s first ever Come and Play, a full-day workshop led by Steven Devine and Kinga Ujszászi for those interested in period instruments and historically informed performance techniques.
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.
Suitable for musicians and dancers who would like to learn Medieval music and dance.
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.
Two parallel, friendly courses for players at any level, though not beginners.
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.
Come and experience a day with brilliant instrumental music by Henry Purcell, led by Robert Hollingworth of I Fagiolini and the University of York, and baroque violin specialist Naomi Burrell. This is a day for modern instruments (strings, oboes and bassoons) at modern pitch.
Intermediate and Upper Intermediate.
Workshop for instrumentalists, followed by a short concert. Repertoire: Harmonice Musices Odhecaton.
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.
Guerrero Missa Surge Propera with Huw Morgan. Pitch for the day will be A=440. Forces required are SATB voices plus strings and winds.
A course directed by Rory McCleery in a former monastery, now a small hotel, on the Adriatic coast of Italy. The repertoire is centred on the larger-scale music of the greatest composers of Spain’s Siglo de Oro: Guerrero, Lobo, Morales and Victoria.
Workshop for Singers: Rejoice and Sing! Exploring Palestrina’s Missa Confitebor tibi Domine with David Allinson.
The ‘Full Moon’ Mass – an exquisite Italian rarity from the mysterious Giuseppe Corsi da Celano, for voices and instruments.
Join Bob Porter and the Brandenburg Festival Chorus for a workshop studying choral technique and based around the Vivaldi Gloria, leading to a final performance to raise the roof of St Gabriel's.
Exploring national styles in suites and concertos by Purcell, Campra, Corelli, Vivaldi and Fasch. Tutors: Theresa Caudle, Mark Caudle, Claire Williams.
Four days of viol consort playing in a variety of group sizes with other players of an advanced and upper-intermediate level. Tutors: Alison Crum, Alison Kinder, Ibi Aziz, Peter Wendland.
A scholarly exploration of the life and music of Thomas Morley. A workshop for voices with Will Dawes and Katie Bank.
Explore a variety of music inspired by The Sixteen’s own Choral Pilgrimage.
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 sing Bach: Mass in B minor choruses with Goldsmiths Choral Union choir, conducted by Jack Apperley.
Gibbons Verse Anthems for voices and instruments, directed by Bill Hunt.
Workshop for singers and instrumentalists - Francisco Valls, Missa Scala Aretina, with Patrick Craig.
Gibbons Verse Anthems workshop for voices and strings with Clare Griffel. This workshop will explore Gibbons' wonderful legacy of verse anthems with instruments, including ‘See, see, the Word is incarnate’, which reprises the entirety of salvation history in a few astonishing pages, and ‘Behold Thou hast made my days’. Pitch will be A=440; all voices,...
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.
Chalemie's 25th Summer School in Early Music, Dance, Period Costume Making and Commedia. Leading performers from the group will direct a series of workshops on 17th/18th century music, song, dance, commedia and costume making, with a particular emphasis on the English repertoire of this period.
Come & Sing Claudio Monteverdi's glorious Beatus vir, and Alessandro Striggio's Ecce beatam lucem with the William Byrd Singers, led by Keith Orrell.
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 directed by Bill Carslake, with repertoire drawn from the larger-scale works in one of the most important sources of Tudor church music, the Baldwin Partbooks.
Chamber Weekender for Upper Voices, exploring Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, in its original setting for two vocal lines. This exquisite, haunting rendering of the Marian hymn captures Mary’s deep sorrow at the foot of the cross. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736) composed this masterwork shortly before his death at the age of 26. Directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger.
Continuo Connect and the Oxford Festival of the Arts co-present an Early Music Day comprising two daytime concerts, both by Continuo grantees, and a talk by Sir Nicholas Kenyon.
Join Richmond Opera for a joyful day of singing, featuring choruses from Handel's Alexander's Feast and more! Led by Lindsay Bramley, with Mike Keen on keyboard.