Handel’s Messiah is coming to Peterborough and you are invited to join in the fun. Led by conductor Matthew Kofi Waldren, CLS musicians, and an amazing line-up of soloists including internationally renowned mezzo-soprano Yvonne Howard, you will have the opportunity to join us for the performance as part of the chorus, singing from the auditorium.
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...
Tutors: Emma Kirkby, Peter Harvey, Judy Tarling, Dionysios Kyropoulos. An opportunity for vocalists, string and continuo players to study the joys of Bach arias with renowned exponents of this repertoire.
A fully staged performance of Handel’s opera Semele with full Baroque Orchestra. Anyone is welcome to join the chorus.
‘A Musical Banquet’ – music from Banchetto Musicale by Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630). All instruments are welcome. Pitch A=440.
This workshop is for singers of all voice types, plus cornetts, sackbuts, dulcians and string instruments. Recorder players are welcome, but should be prepared to also sing and/or play a different instrument. A = 440.
Come and join Romsey Choral Society for an afternoon Workshop on Bach’s powerful and dramatic St John Passion, led by Richard Pearce.
Playing for Dance - a workshop for instrumentalists led by Peter Barnard and Kate Billmore of de Mowbray's Musicke.
Come & Sing with York Musical Society, led by David Pipe.
City Chamber Choir invites you to take part in this workshop on glorious key works from the Roman School Renaissance, led by CCC Music Director, Stephen Jones.
Join Platinum Consort to explore the dramatic and thrilling choruses of Semele at their first Flagship Workshop of the year.
Come and sing some well-known choruses and chorales from Bach's timeless St Matthew and St John Passions.
A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe.
A talk by harpist Leah Stuttard, preceded by TVEMF AGM at 7.30pm. Talk - open to all; AGM - TVEMF members only.
‘Regina Caeli, Regina Mundi’: musical veneration of the Virgin Mary in the Spanish Golden Age. The talk will be recorded for those not able to hear it on the night.
Enjoy a whole day singing a number of Handel’s choruses from the Messiah. The sessions will be led by Jack Apperley and Maria Forsström. Open to any singer, whatever their experience.
Come and join in with members of Bath Bach Choir to sing two of Bach’s most uplifting cantatas under the direction of Musical Director, Benedict Collins Rice.
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.
Inspirational and encouraging instruction in baroque style from expert tutors. For pre-formed chamber groups on period instruments. Tutors: Theresa Caudle, Mark Caudle, Claire Williams, Stephen Preston.
The annual EEMF Epiphany party with Philip Thorby.
A joyful exploration of Purcell's "The Fairy Queen".
Advanced.
Come and sing choruses from the Vivaldi Gloria and other music, as part of Reigate and Redhill Music and Drama Festival Chorus.
Explore the rich and varied repertoire of musicians from court and city in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, for wind and brass instruments: cornett, sackbut, shawm, dulcian, recorder (at 440) and crumhorn.
A course exploring the Real Roots! of European traditional and renaissance music, both the music and the instruments. The focus of the course will be playing 4 or 5 part harmony.
Come and Sing Handel's Messiah with Nantwich Choral Society, accompanied by Nantwich Sinfonia and conducted by John Naylor.
The workshop will include dances by Lorenzo Allegri written for entertainments at the Florentine court (c. 1612); a 16-part canzona by Tiburtio Massaino; Jubilate Deo in 16 parts by Lambert de Sayve, and Giovanni Gabrieli’s Canzona in echo a 12.
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.
Anna Stegmann is recorder professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London and a virtuosic performer on the recorder. She tutors on the Easter Early Music Course and at Jackdaws in Somerset. This workshop is open to all players of not only recorders but also renaissance wind instruments and viols. Anna will be exploring...
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.
South West Baroque Orchestra is the regional period instrument orchestra in the South West. Applicants are welcome to play for a rehearsal to try out the experience of baroque playing techniques.
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.
The 2024 winter course focusses on the works of J. Sebastian Bach, with emphasis on the chorale preludes.
Plenty of opportunities to play at all levels of ability, and to socialise with like-minded early music enthusiasts. Tutors: Fred Jacobs, Jacob Heringman, Lynda Sayce, Matthew Spring, Sara Stowe.
Sebastianist Music from Renaissance Portugal.
A sociable playing morning for viol players at all levels, working in small groups with players of similar experience, facilitated by Vickie Hobson and Philip Redfern.
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...
South West Baroque Orchestra is the regional period instrument orchestra in the South West. Applicants are welcome to play for a rehearsal to try out the experience of baroque playing techniques.
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.
Elementary, Lower Intermediate, Pre-formed Consorts.
'I am troubled on every side!': music by Tallis and his contemporaries, for singers and instruments (A=440). Details and Application Form
The aim of the day is to enjoy the rich and varied sonorities of a Renaissance Wind Band.
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.
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.
Details TBA.
Polyphony workshop for voices and instruments.
A workshop to give confident players, with good sight-reading skills and on modern or baroque instruments, the opportunity to hone their baroque playing technique.
Settings of sections of the Missa l'homme armé by Busnois, Dufay, Guerrero, Morales, and Palestrina. New singers are always welcome.
A sociable playing morning for viol players at all levels, working in small groups with players of similar experience, plus coaching from Susanna Pell.
A course for choral singers with repertoire drawn from the music of Renaissance Portugal, including the Ave Virgo sanctissima Mass of Géry de Ghersem.
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.