Workshops and courses throughout the country and abroad
Please check details with event organisers before turning up for an event or course, as this information comes from a variety of sources which may not all be accurate.
Information on course and event venues 

MAY 2008
9-11    Benslow. Baroque performance on modern strings (Judy Tarling)
9-11    Benslow. Voices & viols (Alison Crum & Peter Syrus)
Sat 10 BMEMF Hereford. Monteverdi madrigals (Pam White)
Sat 10 Bath. Philippa Waite Baroque dance workshop (07976 374482)
Sun 11 Birmingham. Philippa Waite Baroque dance workshop (07976 374482)
31 - 1 London. Philippa Waite Baroque dance workshop (07976 374482)
Sat 17 Farncombe. Renaissance and baroque recorder consorts (Kathy Dew).
Sat 24 Beverley.   NEEMF.   Palestrina & Victoria for singers (Peter Phillips)
18-25 Triora Musica - early music in the Ligurian Alps. Josquin and Lassus. A workshop week for experienced singers exploring the beautiful and inventive music of two giants of the renaissance, directed by Deborah Roberts (01273 823788)
Sat 17 TVEMF Waltham Abbey (joint event with EEMF) (Philip Thorby).
Sat 17 Oxford Philippa Waite/Oxford Historical Dance Society, Baroque Dance Workshop (01865 373861) http://www.freewebs.com/ohds/
24-25 Lincoln Early Music Courses (Peter & Kathleen Berg) Music Divine – English renaissance music for voices, viols & recorders (Richard Lindsay)
30-1    Wedgwood. Venice ‘Splendour of the world’ reflected in music 1400-1600 (Peter Syrus).
30-1    West Dean. Baroque trio sonatas & chamber music for recorders & continuo (Marianne Mezger & Paul Simmonds)
31 & 1 TVEMF London, St Augustine’s Kilburn (Michael Procter) (020 7485 7882)

JUNE 2008
Sat 1   Wensleydale.  NEEMF  Ensaladas for singers & players of renaissance instruments (Patxi del Amo)
Sat 7 TVEMF/SWEMF Kelmscott Manor, Oxon. Loud wind day (Tim Bailey of the York Waits).
Bookings by 16 May at the latest to Simon Pickard, 49 Little Herberts Road, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, GL53 8LL (01242 579016)
Sat 7  BMEMF
, Broxwood Court. AGM & workshop (Peter Syrus)
7-8     Lincoln Early Music Courses
(Peter & Kathleen Berg) The Symphonie & Early Hurdy Gurdy (Steve Tyler)
7-8     Milton Keynes.
Try the viol non-residential weekend for complete beginners (Sue Butler and Andrew Kerr) (0845 2000096).
Sat 7   Liverpool. Spem etc for singers (Liam Owens & Roger Wilkes) ruth@toxtethteam.org.uk
Sat 7   Haywards Heath.  SEMF consort day
Sun 8  Bedford Early Dance & Music.
15th C Italian dances (4) (Hazel Dennison).
8-14 Monteconero nr. Ancona. Lassus and Palestrina (Jeffrey Skidmore).   Lacock
Sat 14 Leamington Spa.  MEMF
Renaissance singing – vocal technique (Ghislaine Morgan)
Sat 14 NWEMF Cilcain. Songs to popish ditties – music by John Taverner, for singers (Peter Syrus).
Sat 14 Bath.  Philippa Waite Baroque dance workshop (07976 374482)
Sun 15 Birmingham.  Philippa Waite Baroque dance workshop (07976 374482).
Sun 21 West Byfleet TVEMF baroque music and dance A=415 (Julian Perkins & dance tutor) (01932 342573)
20-22 Farncombe. Viol Consorts (Alison Crum)
Sat 21 EEMF Cambridge (David Allinson) Workshop for singers on Masterworks of the Portuguese Golden Age.
Sat 28 Sheffield NEEMF The Eton Choirbook for voices & instruments (Mary Larew)

JULY 2008
5-6      London.  Philippa Waite Baroque dance
workshop (07976 374482)
Sat 5   York  NEEMF Josquin & Gombert – in exile, for voices & instruments (Robert Hollingworth)
5-12   Oakham. Tallis Scholars
summer school (0208 293991) I.tear@virgin.net
Sun 6 Bourne End.
Thames Valley Baroque Orchestra playing day (01628 621367)
Sun 6  Leeds  
International Medieval Congress. Workshop for singers on late-medieval vocal writing (0113 343 3614)
Sun 6   SEMF Weald & Downland Open Air Museum playing day.
Sun 6 Leeds. NEEMF The Chigi Codex for singers (Simon Lillystone)
Sat 12  MEMF Schütz Musikalische Exequien for singers & continuo players.  Paul Spicer
Sat 12 Bath Philippa Waite Baroque dance workshop (07976 374482)
12-13  Huddersfield. Course for new viol players run by the Viola da Gamba Soc 01904 706959).
Sun 13 Birmingham Philippa Waite Baroque dance workshop (07976 374482)
12-17  Benslow international viol summer school (Alison Crum, Roy Marks etc)
Sat 20 Farncombe.
Viol consorts for preformed groups (Alison Crum)
19-26  La Maison Verte,
Languedoc, France. Renaissance consort workshop (level 2)
20-26  Beauchamp House
Early Music Week, on music from Mantua (tbc) (Alan Lumsden, Philip Thorby, Clifford Bartlett) (01684 276825) admin@gamusic.co.uk.
25-28  Strathpeffer. Ardival harp beginners’ course (Bill Taylor). (01997 421260).
26-9    Dartington summer school
26 –1  NWEMF Summer School at University of Cumbria, Ambleside.
27-3    Cambridge Early Music summer school. English Baroque Music: Blow & Purcell (The Parley of Instruments)

AUGUST 2008
2-9      NORVIS XXXVIII
(Northumbrian Recorder and Viol School) College of St. Hild and St. Bede, Durham City. Recorders, viols, singing, harpsichord, lute, baroque strings etc. (Ralph Woodward Musical Director, Alan Davis, Elizabeth Dodd, Duncan Druce, Martin Eastwell, Andrew Fowler, Alison Kinder, Terry Gill, Clare Griffel, Manfred Harras, Laura Hird, Stewart McCoy, David Pinto, Jacqui Robertson, Jane Rumney, Mary Tyers) (01652 678230).
2-9    Beverley.
Recorder summer school (01642 310628)
3-9    Surrey. Woodhouse
recorder week (01306 627332)
3-10 Oxford Baroque Chamber Music Week
(A+415/440) at Headington School (0161 281 2502) or SAE to 13 Brackley Road, Monton Green, Eccles, Manchester M30 9LG.
3-10   Cambridge Early Music Summer School. Renaissance music for voices & instruments: the Triumphs of Maximilian (Philip Thorby & friends)
4-10    East of England Liturgical Music Course (0118 326 6319) www.liturgicalmusic.co.uk.
12-17 Oxford. Chalemie summer school (Matthew Spring, Kate Jackson, Bill Tuck, Sara Stowe, Barbara Segal, Barry Grantham, Ian Chipperfield)
15-25 Cardiff Philippa Waite Baroque dance summer-school.
15-17  Worcester Early Music Weekend - 10 events in 3 days including concerts and workshops, for all ages.
16-23  Dublin. Irish recorder & viol summer school.
25-31  Malvern Liturgical Music Course (0118 326 6319).
22-24  West Dean. Songs to the lute & guitar (Michael Fields)

SEPTEMBER 2008
5 - 7   Cambridge, King's College Choral Weekend (Michael Procter) A unique opportunity to take full part in a choral service in the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge (01908 510003).
Sat 6   SEMF Chori Spezzati day
13-20 La Maison Verte, Languedoc, France. Renaissance consort workshop (level 1 for experienced consort singers)
19-21 Benslow. Bach cantatas for choir & orch (A=440) (Jeremy Jackman & Deborah Young).
Sat 20 MEMF Blow anthems for singers & insts (Peter Leech)
20-25 Venice. Large scale Venetian music of the 16th century (Robert Hollingworth) Lacock
Sat 27 Oxford, Magdalen College School TVEMF Jeffrey Skidmore
Sat 27 Horsmonden SEMF consort day

OCTOBER 2008
Sat 4   Farncombe.
Renaissance and baroque recorder consorts (Kathy Dew)
Sat 4   SWEMF
AGM workshop on John Blow (Peter Leech)
4-5      Lincoln Early Music Courses
(Peter & Kathleen Berg) Renaissance settings of Super Flumina Babylonis for voices plus viols & recorders (Alan Lumsden)
Sat 11  SEMF Bosham. Schütz etc workshop (Alan Lumsden) pat.stewart@watermusic.me.uk
Sat 11  EEMF Elsworth nr Cambridge. Blow: Venus & Adonis (Peter Holman).
19-25  Wells. Liturgical music course (Alistair Dixon) (0118 326 6319)
24-26  Farncombe. Recorder ensemble (Andrew Collis)

NOVEMBER 2008
Sat 1    SEMF
Cori Spezzati day
Sat 8   TVEMF Burnham. Baroque chamber music playing day (Victoria Helby)
13-16  Greenwich International Music Festival and Exhibition
28-30  Benslow
. Viol consorts
Sat 29  St. Andrew's in the Westland, Newcastle under Lyme. NEMA AGM, hosted by NWEMF. Tutor and Margo Milner Lecture by Clive Walkley on the music of Esquivel. The workshop is for singers & instruments suitable for an Iberian church ie cornetts, sackbuts, shawms, bass curtal and organ continuo.

DECEMBER 2008
Sun 7   TVEMF Christmas event at Amersham (Philip Thorby)

JANUARY 2009
Sat 10   SEMF Chori spezzati day
16-18  Farncombe. Viol Consorts (Alison Crum)

FEBRUARY 2009
Sat 7    SEMF Chori spezzati day

MARCH 2009
Sat 7    SEMF
Chori spezzati day
Sat 7   NWEMF AGM and workshop (Philip Thorby)

APRIL 2009
17-19  
Interforum Handel weekend
   
DECEMBER 2009
Sun 6 TVEMF Amersham Christmas event (Jeffrey Skidmore)
            

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