PAW Festival 2026 brings together music, visual art, and poetry in a vibrant programme of nine concerts, a vocal workshop and our annual open mic poetry evening. Featuring I Fagiolini, Parnassus Ensemble, Lizzie Ball, Miloš Milivojević, Fieri Consort, Toby Carr, Liza Sommers & Grace Newcombe, Jeremy Avis, Sam Stadlen, Suntou Susso, Simo Lagnawi, Rebecca Askew,...
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2 events,Glorious renaissance polyphony for choir with historic brass. Tutors: Jeremy West, Gareth Wilson. |
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5 events,Missa Laetatus Sum by Tomás Luis de Victoria - a workshop for voices and instruments led by Deborah Catterall. Praetorius and other composers - a workshop for voices and instruments with David Hatcher.
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Come & Sing Bach Magnificat with Gloucester Choral Society Conductor: Jonathan Hope, Assistant Director of Music, Gloucester Cathedral Accompanist: Piers Maxim, Director of Music and Organist at Great Malvern Priory
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Viol players who can hold a line are invited to come and play in a session led by Jo Green in Morningside - the address will be confirmed when you register. This session is for intermediate and advanced players. |
3 events,This course is based on the music of the generation that followed Adrian Willaert and preceded Claudio Monteverdi. Directed by Eamonn Dougan. Two separate workshops for small consorts: 1) viols and strings 2) recorders (David will spend time with each ensemble, in two separate rooms). |
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5 events,Polychoral music by Heinrich Schütz, workshop for voices and instruments with Peter Wendland. The Pre-Restoration consort anthem: a trove of neglected English treasures, a workshop for singers, viols and wind (A=440), with Bill Hunt. EMFS welcome David Allinson back to Edinburgh for a full day choral workshop entitled 'A Garden Enclosed - Singing the Song of Songs', singing works by Guerrero, Victoria, Brumel and Palestrina.
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A London-based music club who meet once a month to sing repertoire from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras from Britain and Europe. |
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7 events,In this discovery day course tutors provide an introduction to the instrument, basic playing techniques and rich repertoire. The course also includes a ticket to the evening's Rose Consort of Viols concert. No previous string playing experience required. Workshop for Voices and Instruments with Dr Stephen Bullamore. Music to include large scale works for voices, strings, wind and brass at pitch A=440 by Giovanni Gabrieli (Venice), Heinrich Schütz (Dresden), Orazio Benevoli (Rome), and Heinrich Biber (Salzburg) Vocal music by Edmund Hooper and his contemporaries, with Katy Silverman. Baroque workshop for instruments at A415 with Walter Reiter. The workshop is for string players (violin and viol families), wind instruments at 415 and continuo, including plucked continuo, and will cover seventeenth century repertoire typical of the Stylus Fantasticus way of writing. Continuo Connect partner once again with Oxford Festival of the Arts to present a full weekend of Early Music at Magdalen College and New College, Oxford. Modern string players are invited to come and play Vivaldi's Concerti for 1, 2 or 4 violins under the direction of Philip Redfern. |
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Registration from 13:45 Immerse yourself in the world of Palestrina and encounter polyphony at its most poised and refined. The music of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina earned him the title Principe della Musica (the “Prince of Music”) thanks to the legend that his writing helped demonstrate to the Council of Trent how clarity of text... |
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1 event,The 2026 International Pipe and Tabor Festival will be in beautiful York, and will include playing in costume for the York Mystery Plays on Sun 28th June. |
2 events,‘Light Beyond the Veil’ for 5 from 500’s 3rd birthday. A spiritual journey from the depths to ecstasy: John Taverner’s O Wilhelme, Pastor bone Peter Philips’ Ascendit Deus Antonio Lotti’s Crucifixus Anton Bruckner’s Christus Factus es James MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn |
2 events,Join internationally acclaimed baroque violinist Rachel Podger for a joyful, hands-on exploration of ensemble playing and expressive musicianship. This short course will cover gut-string playing, connecting the breath and the bow, and also body awareness and body resonance. Rachel will introduce BOGA (a unique form of “bow-yoga”) as well as Alexander Techniques, chamber music making... |
2 events,Join David Skinner in Venice for a splendid programme of music by Adrianus Willaert. |
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4 events,Meditations on suffering set to music by Josquin, Byrd, Lassus, Willaert. Texts written from prison by Girolamo Savonarola. Workshop for singers and instrumentalists with David Hatcher, also includes BMEMF AGM. The workshop is led by Keith Orrell, its focus is on Spanish polyphony. We will look at three Spanish works, Tomas Luis de Victoria's Missa Gaudeamus and O Magnum Mysterium followed by Alonso Lobo's Versa Est In Luctum. Price £25. Refreshments will be provided. |
3 events,Treasures of the Spanish Renaissance ~ the music of the golden century: Cristóbal de Morales, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Philippe Rogier, Juan de Esquivel and Alonso Lobo. Directed by Bill Carslake. |