Workshops and courses throughout the country and abroad
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JANUARY
23-25 Benslow. Sight Singing (Barbara Alden)
23-26 Benslow. Viol consorts (Alison Crum, Roy Marks)
Sat 28 Moulsecoomb nr Brighton. SEMF consort day for voices & instruments
Sat 28 Bedford Early Dance and Bedford Gallery Quire. A Hardy Christmas - party with music and dancing
Sun 29 TVEMF Renaissance consort day (David Fletcher) david*tvemf.org
Sun 29 Birmingham Philippa Waite Baroque dance workshop
FEBRUARY
Thur 2 The National Opera Studio, Wandsworth, 7:30pm-9:30pm. Platinum Choral Workshops (Scott Inglis-Kidger). England Redeemed - music by William Byrd, Thomas Tallis and Christopher Tye www.platinumconsort.com
Sat 4 London Philippa Waite Baroque dance workshop
Sat 4 London, St Matthew's Church, Wandsworth Bridge Road, Fulham. Come and Sing Vivaldi 'Gloria' and Monteverdi 'Beatus Vir' with Ralph Allwood,. ¢15 (¢17 with score hire); registration and coffee 9.45, concert performance with string orchestra, 5pm. fulhamcamerata*gmail.com (0207 7362761)
Sat 4 NWEMF Carnforth. Lutheran Vespers reconstructed (Roger Wilkes) (01565 872650) mostlymusic*btinternet.com
4-5 London, King's Cross. Taborers Winter Workshop. A weekend of workshops for pipe & tabor players. Hurdy gurdy and bagpipe players also welcome
Sun 5 Morley College. Harpsichord tuning and maintenance
Sat 11 BMEMF Hereford. White, Parsons & Byrd for singers (Sally Dunkley)
Sat 11 SWEMF nr Saltash. Tudor dance and play day: Arbeau's Orchesography (Glynis Morgan)
Sat 11 MEMF Warwick. Treasures of the Renaissance with Stile Antico, for singers
Sat 11 Bedford Early Dance afternoon workshop. 15th C Italian (Hazel Dennison)
Sun 12 London Philippa Waite Baroque dance workshop
Sat 18 London, St Stephen's, Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, NW3 2PP. Siglo de Oro Renaissance singing day. The Turbulent Tudors: Choral Contrasts of the English Reformation (Patrick Allies & members of Siglo de Oro) www.siglodeoro.co.uk email: siglodeoro*hotmail.co.uk (07984 449 937)
Sat 18 Bath Philippa Waite Baroque dance workshop
Sat 18 EEMF Quy. Charpentier (Graham Sadler)
Sat 18 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
Sun 19 Birmingham Philippa Waite Baroque dance workshop
Sun 19 Challock, nr Ashford, Kent. SEMF choral workshop - the first Queen Elizabeth and England's Golden Age (David Allinson)
Thur 23 The National Opera Studio, Wandsworth, 7:30pm-9:30pm. Platinum Choral Workshops (Scott Inglis-Kidger). England Redeemed - music by William Byrd, Thomas Tallis and Christopher Tye www.platinumconsort.com
Sat 25 TVEMF Headington, Oxford (John Milsom) n.wilson-smith*ntlworld.com
Tue 28 SEMF London, British Library, 5.30. Talk and demonstration of Early Music Online
MARCH
2-4 NWEMF viol weekend - Jenkins (Ibi Aziz) ct*wordandpage.co.uk
Sat 3 SEMF Cori spezzati day at Paddock Wood musick*talk21.com
Sat 3 Bath Philippa Waite Baroque dance workshop
Sun 4 Birmingham Philippa Waite Baroque dance workshop
9-11 ` Benslow. Shakespeare & Music pt 1 (music appreciation course) (Julian Williamson, Keith Chandler)
Sat 10 TVEMF Ickenham United Reformed Church. Monteverdi Magnificat (1641) for voices, 2 violins, 4 trombones/viola da braccia and BC (Julian Perkins) davidking125*btinternet.com
Sat 10 MEMF Vivaldi: Two settings of Dixit Dominus, RV594 & RV595 for singers, including soloists, and instruments (A=415) (Neil Ferris)
Sat 10 BMEMF West Gallery workshop for singers & instrumentalists (The Mellstock Band)
Sat 10 NWEMF Westhoughton. Schutz for singers & wind players (Philip Thorby)
Sat 10 Bedford Early Dance afternoon workshop. 15th C Italian (Hazel Dennison)
10-11 London Philippa Waite Baroque dance workshop
Thur15 The National Opera Studio, Wandsworth, 7:30pm-9:30pm. Platinum Choral Workshops (Scott Inglis-Kidger). England Redeemed - music by William Byrd, Thomas Tallis and Christopher Tye www.platinumconsort.com
16-18 Benslow. Release your voice (Barbara Alden)
Sat 17 EEMF Richafort Requiem (John Milsom)
Sun 18 NEEMF multi-choir workshop for singers & instrumentalists (Eileen Silcocks)
Sat 24 SWEMF West Bay. Workshop for viols, voices & recorders (Ann Lyall & Mike Bailey)
Sun 25 Morley College. Harpsichord tuning and maintenance B
30-1 Benslow lutefest (Stewart McCoy, Jeni Melia, Sarah Groser etc)
APRIL
1 - 7 Ascot, St George's School. Easter Early Music Course for recorder and viol players.. Small consort groups, small and large ensembles, multi-choir works, technical studies (Philip Thorby, Eileen Silcocks, Marion Scott, Emma Murphy, Alison Kinder, David Hatcher, Jane Francis) (07971 388509) nfo*easterearlymusiccourse.org.uk www.easterearlymusiccourse.org.uk
Sat 7 SEMF Cori spezzati day at Paddock Wood musick*talk21.com
9-15 Benslow baroque opera - Handel's Semele (Jack Edwards, John Flinders, Julian Perkins, Judy Tarling)
Sat 14 SEMF Eastbourne. Muses, monsters & magpies - music to celebrate a Medici wedding for voices & appropriate instruments (Philip Thorby)
Sat 14 Bedford Early Dance afternoon workshop. 15th C Italian (Hazel Dennison)
14-15 London Philippa Waite Baroque dance workshop
Sun 15 EEMF Cambridge. Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden (John Butt)
Sat 21 TVEMF Dufay's motet and mass Ave Regina Celorum for singers (Eamonn Dougan) hugh4*blueyonder.co.uk
Sat 28 NWEMF Bach workshop (Paul Spicer)
Sat 28 BMEMF Ludlow Byzantine chant workshop for singers (Alexander Lingas)
MAY
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 Brussels Mass (Philip Thorby)
Sat 12 MEMF Bach family motets (John Butt)
17-22 Triora, Liguria, Italy. Let your polyphony dance (for singers) (Deborah Roberts & Janet Coxwell) www.trioramusica.com
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)
Thur 24 London, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Silk Street, (next to 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)
26-3 Michael Procter Venice Academy. Gabrieli and Hassler
JUNE
1-3 Benslow. Hildegard of Bingen for singers & instrumentalists (Sara Stowe)
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
17-23 Italy, Music at Monteconero with Patrick Craig Lacock
Sat 16 EEMF Peter Syrus
Sat 16 BMEMF Dances & choruses from the Fairy Queen
Sat 16 Oxford, Bate Collection, Faculty of Music. Try a viol day (Alison Kinder) admin*vdgs.org.uk (01865 723778)
22-24 Kilburn weekend leading to High Mass on Sunday morning. Probably Giovanni Gabrieli for voices and instruments (Michael Procter
Sat 23 SEMF nr Worthing. Workshop for voices & instruments
Sat 23 SWEMF Nailsea. French chansons (Crecquillon etc) for singers, recorders & viols (Clare Griffel)
Sun 24 MEMF Middleton Hall. Summer evening revels and afternoon workshop
27-29 Benslow. JS Bach & his world pt 2 (music appreciation course) (Julian Williamson)
Sat 30 TVEMF Ickenham (Peter Syrus) jeffgill9160*waitrose.com
Sat 30 NEEMF Middlesbrough. Byrd for recorders (Sandra Foxall)
JULY
6-8 Farncombe. West Gallery music (Francis Roads)
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)
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
AUGUST 2012
5-12 Oxford Baroque Week 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
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. 17th/18th century music, song, dance, commedia and costume making, with a particular emphasis on the English repertoire of this period.
17-27 Cardiff Philippa Waite Baroque dance summer school
SEPTEMBER
Sat 15 SWEMF West Bay. Workshop for viols, voices & recorders (Ann Lyall & Mike Bailey)
Sat 22 EEMF Elsworth nr Cambridge. Linley (Peter Holman)
Sat 29 SWEMF Thorverton. Baroque playing day (Dick Little & Sylvia Davies)
OCTOBER
Sat 6 SEMF Bosham. Workshop for voices & instruments (David Hatcher)
Sat 20 SWEMF Thorverton (Ralph Woodward)
27-28 SEMF Giovanni Gabrieli vocal & instrumental music (Philip Thorby)
NOVEMBER
Sat 3 SWEMF. Henry VIII music for singers, recorders & strings (Ralph Allwood)
DECEMBER
Sun 2 TVEMF Christmas workshop (Philip Thorby) and Christmas lunch secretary*tvemf.org
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