Workshops and courses throughout the country and abroad
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MAY
Thur 10 WH Wigmore study group, 3pm. Psalms, sonnets & songs - the choral music of William Byrd
11-13 Benslow. Voices & viols A=415 (Alison Crum, Peter Syrus)
11-13 Benslow. Baroque performance on modern strings A=440 (Judy Tarling)
11-13 Benslow. In war and peace: the arts in 15th C Burgundy, France & England (music appreciation course) (Roderick Swanston)
Sat 12 EEMF/TVEMF Waltham Abbey. Biber Missa Bruxellensis a 24 (Philip Thorby) secretary*eemf.org.uk
Sat 12 MEMF Bach family motets (John Butt)
Tues 15 WH Wigmore study group, 3pm. Psalms, sonnets & songs - the choral music of William Byrd
Tues 15 London, Early Music Shop, 11 Denmark Street W1, 3-9pm. Facsimile launch. special guests from the early music world, performances and playing from facsimiles, impromptu consorts on the shop’s instruments, wine and nibbles, special offers Oliver.Winstone*earlymusicshop.com
Thur 17 WH Wigmore study group, 3pm. Psalms, sonnets & songs - the choral music of William Byrd
17-22 Triora, Liguria, Italy. Let your polyphony dance (for singers) (Deborah Roberts & Janet Coxwell) www.trioramusica.com
Sat 19 TVEMF St. Francis of Assisi Church, 865, Great West Road, Isleworth, TW7 5PD. “I can’t believe it’s not Gesualdo...”, a study day for voices and viols (Gerald Place) sgeraldplace*hotmail.co.uk (07801 419336)
Sat 19 Bedford Early Dance afternoon workshop. Late 16th C Italian (Anne Daye)
Sat 19 SWEMF Edington. Across the Alps by Choir for voices & loud wind (Peter Leech)
Sat 19 Huddersfield NEEMF Willaert, Hassler & G Gabrieli for singers & players (Graham Coatman)
Thur 24 London, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Silk Street, (next to the Barbican centre), 7pm. Continuo at the Cutting Edge, seminar on early 17th-century Italian continuo & the arpa doppia. Tempo & Measure in Early Music, period Philosophy & 17th-century Swordsmanship; Andrew Lawrence-King discusses new research into Continuo for harps, keyboards, theorbo, lirone etc; Simon Capp presents the Guildhall School of Music’s new arpa doppia; live demonstrations from GSMD post-grad students. In connection with the GSMD historical weaponry production of Monteverdi’s Combattimento di Tancredi & Clorinda on Fri 25th. www.gsmd.ac.uk
25-27 Benslow harpsichord course - Handel and friends (Penelope Cave)
25-27 Parcevall Hall. Recorder weekend (Sandra Foxall) (01756 720213) parcevall*bradford.anglican.org
Sat 26 NWEMF West Gallery music (Sally Drage)
Sat 26 SEMF Medieval & Renaissance workshop for instrumentalists & singers (Michael Sargeant)
26-3 Michael Procter Venice Academy. Gabrieli and Hassler
JUNE
1-3 Benslow. Hildegard of Bingen for singers & instrumentalists (Sara Stowe)
1-3 Jackdaws recorder weekend (Pamela Thorby)
Tues 5 Oxford, Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music, 5.15. Research Colloquium. The pains and pleasures of archival research: investigating singers & music books in the 15th C (Margaret Bent)
9-17 Triora, Liguria, Italy. Purcell: Dido & Aeneas for solo & ensemble singers & strings (Deborah Roberts & Julia Bishop) www.trioramusica.com
Sun 10 Headcorn Village Hall, Kent (10 mins walk from station). Baroque String Workshop on the overture and suite. Music by Bach, Handel, Telemann and others. Modern and baroque violins, violas, cellos, double basses, violones welcome. Contact judytarling*btinternet.com
10-16 Italy, Monteconero Voice Workshop with Ghislaine Morgan Lacock
Tues 12 Oxford, Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music, 5.15. Research Colloquium. ‘As soon as it is rewritten it will be published under the title seconda pratica’: Monteverdi & music theory (Abigail Ballantyne)
Sat 16 Oxford, Bate Collection, Faculty of Music. Try a viol day (Alison Kinder) admin*vdgs.org.uk (01865 723778)
Sat 16 EEMF Bury St Edmunds. Heinrich Schütz for singers & instrumentalists (Peter Syrus)
Sat 16 BMEMF Dances & choruses from the Fairy Queen for singers, dancers & instrumentalists (Andrew Wilson-Dixon & Philippa Waite)
Sat 16 London, St. Francis of Assisi, 865 Great West Road TW7 5PD. Isleworth Baroque Bach Cantatas study day for voices and orchestra, including Was mir behagt, is nur die muntre Jagd BWV 208 (The Hunt Cantata) and Es ist das Heil uns Kommen her BWV 9 (Leslie Anne Lewis and Janet Oates, with strings led by Fiona Huggett) www.isleworthbaroque.co.uk
17-23 Italy, Music at Monteconero with Patrick Craig Lacock
22-24 Kilburn choral study weekend. CANCELLED
Sat 23 SEMF nr Worthing. The Golden Age of Polish Music for voices & instruments (Graham O’Reilly)
Sat 23 SWEMF Nailsea. Early French chansons (Sermisy & Janequin) for singers, recorders & viols (Clare Griffel)
Sat 23 NWEMF Ludford & Tallis (Peter Syrus)
Sun 24 MEMF Middleton Hall. Summer evening revels and afternoon workshop (change of date)
27-29 Benslow. JS Bach & his world pt 2 (music appreciation course) (Julian Williamson)
Sat 30 TVEMF Ickenham. Sacred music by Thomas Stoltzer (Peter Syrus) jeffgill9160*waitrose.com
Sat 30 NEEMF Middlesbrough. Byrd for recorders (Sandra Foxall)
JULY 2012
6-8 Farncombe. West Gallery music (Francis Roads)
7 and 8 Opportunity for groups to play at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum 01243 811030 Education2*wealddown.co.uk www.wealddown.co.uk.
Sun 8 NEEMF Songs of the Trouvères & Troubadours (Sara Stowe)
Sat 14 London, St George's Cathedral, Southwark. Workshop for singers, run by David Allinson, with workshops by Nick Gale (Director of Music, St George’s Cathedral) on Gregorian Chant and Alistair Dixon (Chapelle du Roi) on reading English music from facsimile. The day will end with the Office of Compline according to the Sarum Use at 5pm. Repertoire will include White: Christe qui lux es et dies (III); Palestrina: Nunc dimittis (Salve nos Domine); Tallis: Te lucis ante terminum; Guerrero: Trahe me post te; Philips: Ave regina caelorum enquiries*academyofsaintcecilia.com Booking form: www.academyofsaintcecilia.com/Events/workshop.pdf (07798 791617)
15-20 Benslow international viol summer school (Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Ibi Aziz, Peter Wendland)
15-21 Christ Church Oxford as part of the 2012 Oxford Experience Programme. Introduction to Baroque Music study course (not practical). Residential or non-residential (Jonathan Darnborough & Claire-Louise Lucas) www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/details.php?id=W300-90
21-27 Trafford Hall, Chester NWEMF renaissance summer school (Grace Barton, Deborah Catterall, Elizabeth Dodd, Martin Eastwell, David Hardie, Peter Syrus)
21-28 Dartington week 1, including viol consorts (Fretwork), medieval & renaissance music (The Dufay Collective), early brass - trumpets & trombones (David Staff & Emily White), 2-week baroque opera choruses course ( Christopher Bucknall)
22-28 Churcham nr Gloucester. Beauchamp House Early Music Week. Gabrieli etc for voices, appropriate instruments and continuo (Philip Thorby, Alan Lumsden, Clifford Bartlett) holidaycourses*gamusic.co.uk
22-28 Nova Scotia. Boxwood Festival course. Celtic, folk, Klezmer and baroque flute playing (Rachel Brown etc) www.boxwood.org
28-4 College of St Hild & St Bede, Durham. NORVIS XLII early music course. Musical Director/Harpsichord: Ralph Woodward. Recorder: Alan Davis, Manfred Harras, Laura Hird, Jane Rumney & Mary Tyers. Viols: Elizabeth Dodd, Alison Kinder, Andrew Fowler, Susanna Pell & Jacqui Robertson-Wade. Lute: Martin Eastwell & Stewart McCoy. Baroque strings: Duncan Druce. Solo singing: Clare Griffel. Ensemble work, choir, orchestra, dance, lectures, concerts etc enquiries*norvis.org.uk (01652 678230) www.norvis.org.uk
28-4 Beverley. Recorder Summer School www.recordersummerschool.org.uk
28-4 Dartington week 2 including early brass - trumpets & trombones (David Staff & Emily White), Music of the Waits (William Lyons and The City Musick)
AUGUST 2012
5-12 Baroque Week Summer School at Ardingly (ex-Oxford) (Theresa Caudle, Clare Beesley, Jane Francis, Peter Lea Cox, Marion Scott, Peter Collier) p.b.collier*googlemail.com (0161 281 2502) or SAE to 13 Brackley Road, Monton Green, Eccles, Manchester M30 9LG www.baroque-week.org.uk
5-12 Cambridge Early Music Summer School Music of the Dresden Court with The Parley of Instruments
6-10 York St John University, HISS - the Historically Informed Summer School, (run under the auspices of NEEMF). Our aim is to explore the connections between traditional & folk music and early music. We particularly invite and encourage string players of all kinds to join us in 2012, in addition to singers, recorder and other wind players. www.hiss.org.uk/index.html
11-19 Mondaye, Bayeux CANCELLED
12-18 Cambridge Early Music Summer School Renaissance Music for the d’Este Dynasty for Voices and Instruments with Philip Thorby and Friends
12-19 Assisi (David Allinson) Run by Singers
14-19 Oxford. Chalemie Summer School (Sara Stowe, Matthew Spring, Adam Woolf, Katie Hodges, Tim Bayley, Barbara Segal, Barry Grantham) www,chalemie.co.uk (020 7700 4293) chalemie*thorn.demon.co.uk
17-27 Cardiff Philippa Waite Baroque dance summer school
18-25 Irish course
19-28 Aestas Musica course, Croatia. Rachel Brown (flute) Adrian Butterfield and Laura Vadjon (violins), Anne Marie Dragosits (harpsichord), Mary Collins (dance), Catherine Denley (voice), Dada Ruza (choir). www.aestasmusic.com
25-1 La Maison Verte, Languedoc. Chamber choir week. 600 years of great choral music, from the early Renaissance to the present day (Joel Thomas and Francis Steele)
26-31 Lacock. Music in León, Spain, for choral singers and players of early instruments (Carlos Aransay with the sackbut quartet Il Nuovo Chiaroscuro)
SEPTEMBER
Sat 1 NWEMF Renaissance masses (David Allinson)
14-16 Jackdaws. Stylish baroque (Theresa Caudle)
14-16 Cambridge. Willaert, de la Rue CANCELLED
Sat 15 SWEMF West Bay. Workshop for viols, voices & recorders (Ann Lyall & Mike Bailey)
Sat 15 TVEMF Ickenham United Reformed Church. James Weeks Phillips & Sweelinck for singers n.wilson-smith*ntlworld.com (0208 933 7908)
Sat 15 SEMF loud wind day
16-22 Lacock. Croatia. Trogir music week for choral singers (JanJoost van Elburg)
Sat 22 EEMF Elsworth nr Cambridge. Linley for singers & baroque orchestra (Peter Holman)
Sat 29 SWEMF Thorverton. Baroque playing day (Dick Little & Sylvia Davies)
Sat 29 SEMF Cori spezzati day at Paddock Wood musick*talk21.com
OCTOBER
5-7 Brecon. One-to-a-part recorder consorts (Margaret Westlake) (01874 625346)
Sat 6 SEMF Bosham. Workshop for voices & instruments (David Hatcher)
Sat 13 NWEMF Josquin & Lassus (David Hatcher)
8-14 Lacock. Singing in Venice (Eamonn Dougan)
18-21 Leeds. Schola Gregoriana www.scholagregoriana.org
Sat 20 SWEMF Thorverton (Ralph Woodward)
Sat 27 SEMF Cori spezzati day at Paddock Wood musick*talk21.com
Sat 27 BMEMF Ledbury. Music from the court of King John of Portugal for singers (Owen Ross)
Sat 27 Burnham. Baroque chamber music day (Victoria Helby) secretary*tvemf.org
27-28 MEMF Giovanni Gabrieli vocal & instrumental music (Philip Thorby)
NOVEMBER
Sat 3 SWEMF. Henry VIII music for singers, recorders & strings (Ralph Allwood)
Sat 3 NWEMF Machaut & Dunstable (John Leigh Dixon)
Sat 3 SEMF consort day
8-10 Greenwich Exhibition (Thursday to Saturday)
Sat 10 NWEMF Machaut & Dunstaple (Leigh Nixon)
Sat 17 TVEMF (with NEMA) London. Workshop for voices & instruments (Ralph Allwood) kategordon1001*yahoo.co.uk
Sat 24 SEMF Cori spezzati day at Paddock Wood musick*talk21.com
DECEMBER
Sun 2 TVEMF A German Christmas (Philip Thorby) and Christmas lunch secretary*tvemf.org
27-30 Brecon. House party for one-to-a-part recorder and viol players (0117 9501012)
MARCH 2013
Sat 9 TVEMF Headington Community Centre (John Milsom) n.wilson-smith*ntlworld.com
APRIL 2013
4-10 Easter Early Music Course for recorder and viol players. St George's School, Ascot. Tutors will include: Philip Thorby, Eileen Silcocks, Marion Scott, Emma Murphy, Alison Kinder, David Hatcher, Jane Francis. Small consort groups; small and large ensembles; polychoral works; technical studies. Contact Geri Coop info*easterearlymusiccourse.org.uk (07971 388509) www.easterearlymusiccourse.org.uk
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