Unique in Italy and modelled on Europe’s leading early music schools, the Institute of Early Music at the Claudio Abbado Civic School of Music attracts students from all over the world. Renowned for its teaching of the very highest standard, it combines academic study with a busy concert programme in partnership with the leading musical...
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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... |
3 events,Join David Skinner in Venice for a splendid programme of music by Adrianus Willaert. |
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5 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. |
4 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. |
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5 events,Chalemie 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.
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Music for the death of Prince Henry in 1612 - a workshop for voices led by Patrick Craig. |
5 events,This mixed-voice early music workshop marks 400 years since John Dowland with an in-depth exploration of his complete published lute-song output. Working in small mixed-voice ensembles, the weekend will focus on Dowland’s music as shared ensemble repertoire, with attention to text, rhetoric, tuning, contrapuntal clarity and ensemble contact. *More tenors and basses needed!* |
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Summer Meeting with optional lunch. 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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4 events,Dowland 400 workshop for voices, lutes, viols, recorders and other appropriate softer instruments with Lynda Sayce. Exploring some of Dowland's most famous and lesser known works, ranging through all of his song collections. Pitch A440. Praise and Prayer - a day for voices and instruments exploring texts on the theme of praise and entreaty, led by Ali Kinder. 15th century popular songs - a workshop for voices and plucked strings (A=440) with Leah Stuttard. |
3 events,The Song of Songs: sacred love songs by Palestrina, Lassus, L’Héritier, Gombert and others. For Voices and Viols. Spend time with like-minded musicians, and develop your skills under the guidance of a world-class team of tutors: course director and vocal tutor Clare Wilkinson, vocal tutors Carys Lane, Giles Underwood and Nicholas Hurndall Smith, and viol... Summer School for Enthusiasts of Early Music, both instrumentalists and singers, offering full board or daily attendance. Spread over 6 days the course is ably led by David Hatcher and David Allinson, allowing participants to enjoy a high standard of music making. |
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Step up to the jukebox and explore the music of Josquin des Prez. He was a central figure of the Franco-Flemish school and arguably the most influential composer of his generation. His works, which were circulated widely across Europe in the early age of music printing, were admired for their expressive text-setting and clarity of... |
3 events,Workshop for Voices - John Taverner Masses & Motets with Patrick Allies. |
3 events,The Baroque course will focus on Purcell’s semi-opera Dioclesian. Applications are invited from dancers, proficient singers and confident players of gut-strung Baroque instruments, with Baroque bows, bass viol, violone, recorder, baroque flute, oboe, bassoon, lute family and harpsichord/organ. Pitch: A=415. |
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For experienced cornett, sackbut and curtal players. For more information please contact TVEMF Chair: chair@tvemf.org.uk. |
3 events,John Blow (1649-1708) Venus and Adonis "A Masque for the Entertainment of the King", directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger Desire, pursuit, and a fatal misjudgement: when Venus urges her lover to prove himself in the hunt, a fleeting moment of bravado sets in motion one of mythology’s most devastating endings. In this compact but beautifully crafted... |
6 events,NORVIS is the full week-long early music summer school in County Durham which they are proud to describe as one of the UK’s longest-established and friendliest. They teach recorders, Baroque flutes, viols, lutes and early guitars, harpsichords and voices. Repertoire from early Renaissance to late Baroque. Courses available in choral singing, vocal ensembles, solo singing, baroque orchestra, baroque chamber music, renaissance ensembles and singing, harpsichord and organ. Course tutors include Robert Hollingworth and I Fagiolini, The Lyons Mouth, James Gilchrist, Steven Devine, Gail Hennessy, Gavin Kibble, The Brook Street Band, The City Musick, Jane Chapman & David Titterington. Polyphonica are delighted to be returning to Northampton to deliver the annual Polyphonica workshop day again in August 2026. Suitable for mixed ability players but not complete beginners. |
6 events,Patrick Craig, taking over the Assisi residency, has put together a wonderful programme of music for the saints including - of course - St Francis. |