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...
A fully staged performance of Handel’s opera Semele with full Baroque Orchestra. Anyone is welcome to join the chorus.
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.
Come and sing choruses from the Vivaldi Gloria and other music, as part of Reigate and Redhill Music and Drama Festival Chorus.
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.
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.
JS Bach Cantata 68: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt. JS Bach Cantata 102: Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben.
Come and Sing Handel's Messiah with Nantwich Choral Society, accompanied by Nantwich Sinfonia and conducted by John Naylor.
Join the Northampton Chamber Choir for a day of music making in Northampton's beautiful and historic Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Come & Sing: Vivaldi "Gloria" & L'Estrange "Love's Philosophy" with Stowmarket Chorale, directed by William Baldry.
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 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.
Workshop for Voices featuring settings of Song of Songs texts by 16th-century composers from various European countries.
Anticipating Easter - Victimae Paschali settings for voices and instruments A=440.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Come and Sing Antonio Vivaldi Gloria, and William Byrd Mass for Four Voices, directed by Tori Longdon.
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.
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.
Chamber Singing Weekender - Gombert, Tomkins and Weelkes.
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.
Workshop with Ben England BEM for SATB voices and strings - Choruses from Vivaldi’s Gloria. A=415Hz.
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.
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.
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.