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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3 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. |
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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4 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 voices and instruments with Bill Hunt. ​
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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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6 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. Save the date for this Workshop for Voices and Instruments with Dr Stephen Bullamore. Music, subject to confirmation, 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), Heinrich Biber (Salzburg), M.A Charpentier (Paris). 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. |
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1 event,‘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 |
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1 event,Join David Skinner in Venice for a splendid programme of music by Adrianus Willaert. |
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3 events,Workshop for singers and instrumentalists with David Hatcher, also includes BMEMF AGM. |
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. |