Thames Valley Early Music Forum
Online Zooms, Workshops & Courses
throughout the country & 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. N.B. the email addresses are not active links to defeat address-gathering software.
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APRIL
Thu 14 Canterbury. David Allinson workshop for Maundy Thursday Tallis Lamentations & Penitential music Choral Workshop: Maundy Thursday, 14 April 2022 | David Allinson
Sat 16 London, Freemasons’ Hall, Covent Garden. Bach: Mass in B minor workshop for singers (Ivor Setterfield) Bach - Mass in B Minor - Singing Workshop Tickets, Sat 16 Apr 2022 at 12:00 | Eventbrite
18-20 *Higham Hall Viol course (Elizabeth Dodd)
Sun 24 *NEEMF performing day at Temple Newsam
28-14/7 City Lit online course, 10.30-12.40, on Medieval Music, a vessel for chivalry & prayer (Karen Betley) Medieval music: a vessel for chivalry and prayer | Online Course | Performing arts | City Lit
28-7/7 City Lit online course, 6-7.30pm. Classical Music module 1 – medieval to early baroque (Neil Luck) Exploring classical music: module 1 | Online Course | Performing arts | City Lit
Sat 30 *SEMF Scaynes Hill. Machaut and the Magic of the Mediaeval. For voices & instruments (Lizzie Gutteridge)
Sun 30 *NWEMF Didsbury. Lassus for voices & instruments (Philip Thorby)
MAY
2-5 * Benslow. Gregorian Chant: The Joys of Singing (John Rowlands-Pritchard)
6-8 Bristol Early Music Festival
Sat 7 *BMEMF. Workshop for instrumentalists - A Musical Banquet: suites by Johann Hermann Schein (Alison Kinder)
Sat 7 *NEEMF Leeds. Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli for voices & instruments (John Dunford)
8-15 *Run by Singers. Avila (David Allinson)
Fri 13 *EEMF 8pm online talk by Patrick Craig – Music for all the Saints
13-15 Worcester. The Ninth Festival of the International Guild of Town Pipers http://www.townwaits.org.uk/fest2021.shtml
Sat 14 *NWEMF Didsbury. Bassano for recorders
14-15 Dorset Bach Cantata Club non-residential weekend Choir and orchestra | Dorset Bach Cantata Club (info073404.wixsite.com)
15-20 *Lacock. Ambleside Music Week – Esquivel (Eamonn Dougan)
Fri 20 Irish Recorder and Viol Course zoom, 7.30pm, by Ibi Aziz. Meet the time-travelling, age-defying 16th century viol virtuoso Martin Jacobus Delamouche through his journal, recounting his experiences amongst the different echelons of music life in Europe. IRVC Zoom Events – Irish Recorder and Viol Course
20-22 *Benslow. Voices and Viols (Alison Crum, Peter Syrus)
Sat 21 *SWEMF Cheltenham. Workshop for singers (Angus Smith)
Sat 21 *MEMF Dorridge. Rosenmüller for voices & instruments (Will Carslake)
Sat 21 *Platinum Consort workshop for singers. Handel: Dixit Dominus
23-26 *Benslow. The Music of Marc’ Antonio Ingegneri (Gareth Wilson & Jeremy West)
27-30 Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival
Fri 27 London, Holy Trinity Church, Stroud Green, 5pm. Singing workshop (The Telling) thetelling.co.uk
Sat 28 * NWEMF Didsbury. Bassano Recorder Workshop (Marion Scott)
28-29 *Cambridge Woodwind Makers. Baroque & modern oboe reed making
Sun 29 *TVEMF Amersham. Workshop for singers & appropriate instruments on Schütz, the German Orpheus (Andrew Griffiths) simone.theiss@tvemf.org
30-2 *Benslow. Baroque Orchestra. Handel Concerti grossi op.3 (Theresa Caudle, Mark Caudle, Claire Williams)
30-3 *Cambridge Woodwind Makers. Recorder making (Tim Cranmore)
JUNE
Thur 2 *Wales EMF Cymru. St David's, Pembrokeshire. Tomkins and music for the Chapel Royal, for singers and instrumentalists (Huw Williams) Book via *BMEMF
3-5 *Higham Hall. Recorder consorts, mainly renaissance (Elizabeth Dodds)
Sat 4 *SEMF Chichester, St. George’s Church. Handel: Israel in Egypt for voices & suitable instruments (John Hancorn)
Sat 4 WEMFC. St David’s, Pembs. Workshop for singers (Huw Williams)
Sat 11 *EEMF Cambridge. ‘O sing unto the Lord a new song!’ - Psalm motets of the Renaissance for singers (David Allinson)
Sat 11 *NWEMF Cilcain. Obrecht for voices (Peter Syrus)
Sat 11 *NEEMF York. Bridging the Renaissance and Baroque, for singers (John Powell)
12-18 *Lacock Monteconero ‘Songs of loss and regret’ (JanJoost van Elburg)
12-19 *Run by Singers. Voyage to Odessa (Nigel Perrin) CANCELLED
17-19 *Benslow. Frills & Furbelows – tackling French ornamentation and trimmings (Penelope Cave)
Sat 18 *MEMF “Wot No Bars 2” - reading from facsimile with David Hatcher
Sat 18 *SWEMF Thorverton. Workshop for singers (Angus Smith)
19-25 *Lacock. Music at Monteconero (Gabriel Crouch)
23-25 Edinburgh. Galpin Society Conference
Sat 26 Polyphonica Recorder Trio online Zoom, 3-4pm. Practical articulation workshop for flute and recorder players PolyphonicaEducation (polyphonicarecordertrio.com)
27-29 *Benslow. Baroque Trio Sonatas with Da Camera
JULY
Sat 2 *BMEMF New Radnor. CPE Bach workshop for singers and instruments (George Parris) (details tbc)
Sun 3 *NEEMF Tudor Miniatures and Cryes for instrumentalists (Mary Tyers)
Fri 8 Stoke Newington Early Music Festival Family Lullaby singalong/workshop
9-13 *Cambridge Woodwind Makers natural trumpet making course
10-15 Edinburgh Early Music Summer School for singers (Rory Johnston) *Lacock
10-15 *Benslow. International Viol Summer School
10-17 *Run by Singers. Beautiful Bayreuth (Jeremy Jackman)
11-17 Chalemie Summer School at Uppingham School in Oakham barbara.segal@chalemie.co.uk
Tues 12 and Tues 19, 3.30-5.30 online. City Lit course - Bach: Goldberg Variations (Karen Betley) Great works: Bach's Goldberg Variations | Online Course | Performing arts | City Lit
Sat 16 *MEMF “Nuns” workshop for viols and female voices (Prof Laurie Stras)
Sat 16 Lewes, St Michael’s Church, 158 High Street BN7 1XU, 2-6. The Baroque Collective Sing & Discover LIVE workshop: Handel: Four Coronation Anthems
(John Hancorn & Richard Wigmore) https://www.trybooking.co.uk/BHTASat 16 *Cambridge Woodwind Makers. Classical clarinet making
16-23 Cambridge Early Music Renaissance summer school – Mr Byrd’s private music
Sun 20 Irish Recorder and Viol Course zoom, 7.30pm. A sort of “Desert Island Discs”. Marion Doherty- Hayden, Emma Murphy, Pamela Flanagan, Ibi Aziz and Philip Thorby each introduce a recording of a favourite work, and explain why it means so much to them. IRVC Zoom Events – Irish Recorder and Viol Course
Sat 23 *SWEMF Workshop for voices & instruments (Ali Kinder)
24-29 *Run by Singers. Lincoln summer schools (Matt Finch & Peter North)
24-31 Cambridge Early Music baroque summer school – the Fairy Queen
30-6 *NORVIS 50 Early Music Summer School at Barnard Castle School, County Durham, for recorders, viols, lutes, harpsichords, baroque strings and voices www.norvis.org.uk
31-6 Beauchamp Early Music Week JaneR@GlosAcadMusic.org (waiting list only)
31-7 *Run by Singers. Assisi summer school (David Skinner)
AUGUST
5-8 *Benslow. Baroque on modern instruments
12-14 *Run by Singers. Manchester Cathedral weekend (Peter North)
14-20 *Higham Hall Early Music Summer School Higham Hall | Early Music Summer School
14-21 Baroque Week at Caversham www.baroque-week.org.uk
16-21 *Cambridge Woodwind Makers. Baroque oboe making
20-27 Irish Recorder and Viol Course at an Grianan, Co. Louth, Ireland https://irishrecorderandviolcourse.org
22-26 *HISS at Beverley
28-1 *Run by Singers. Salisbury summer school (David Ogden)
SEPTEMBER
2-4 *Jackdaws. Stylish Baroque (Theresa Caudle and Alastair Ross)
2-4 Cambridge Choral Liturgy course (David Allinson)
Sat 3 *SWEMF Cheltenham. Instrumental workshop with Susanna Pell and Jacob Heringman
4-9 *Lacock. Trogir Music Week (Patrick Craig)
6-8 Medieval Music in the Dales Summer School medievalmusicinthedales.co.uk
9-11 Medieval Music in the Dales at Bolton Castle. Theme this year is Medieval Women – Music Makers and Muses medievalmusicinthedales.co.uk
9-11 *Jackdaws. The City Musick
10-11 *Cambridge Woodwind Makers. Baroque & modern oboe reed making and adjustment
11-17 *Lacock. Lucca consort week (Robert Hollingworth)
12-16 *Cambridge Woodwind Makers. Recorder making (Jacqueline Sorel)
Sat 17 *NWEMF Convent music workshop for female voices & soft instruments (Laurie Stras)
Sat 17 *MEMF Schütz and his world. Workshop for Sackbuts, cornetti and voices with Gawain Glenton
Sat 17 *NEEMF York. Loud winds playing day (Peter Barnard & Kate Billmore)
18-25 *Run by Singers. A week in Toledo (David Ogden)
Sat 24 *TVEMF Northwood. The Lambeth Choirbook, workshop for singers (Patrick Allies) simone.theiss@tvemf.org
OCTOBER
Sat 1 *BMEMF Shropshire. Workshop for singers (Sally Dunkley) (details tbc)
8-9 Dorset Bach Cantata Club non-residential weekend Choir and orchestra | Dorset Bach Cantata Club (info073404.wixsite.com)
Sun 9 *SEMF, Schütz for voices & instruments, Gawain Glenton, venue Smarden, near Headcorn
Sat 15 *EEMF Ipswich. Missa Dominus Regnavit by Lambert de Sayve (Philip Thorby)
Sat 15 *NWEMF Lancaster. Dunkeld Part Books for singers (Rory McCleery)
16-23 *Run by Singers. Transylvanian Adventure (Jeremy Jackman)
Sat 29 *NEEMF York. Workshop for voices & instruments + AGM (David Hatcher)
NOVEMBER
9-12 London International Festival of Early Music
Sat 26 *NEEMF Newcastle area. An Advent/Christmas workshop for instruments (Tim Bayley)
DECEMBER
2-5 *Run by Singers. Mozart in Vienna (Nigel Perrin)
Sat 3 Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire. Hodie Christus natus est – 16th & 17th C polychoral Advent and Christmas music from Germany & Italy for early wind and brass (Tim Bayley of the York Waits) enquiries@theyorkwaits.org.uk
Sat 3 *Platinum Consort workshop for singers. Vivaldi: Magnificat RV10
Sat 17 *NEEMF York. Seasonal fun for voices & instruments (Tricia Moores)
FEBRUARY 2023
Sat 4 *EEMF Byrd workshop (David Allinson)
MARCH 2023
17-19 Medieval Music in the Dales online
MAY 2023
Sat 6 *BMEMF New Radnor - David Skinner - Byrd Quatercentenary workshop for singers
SEPTEMBER 2023
8-10 Medieval Music in the Dales at Bolton Castle
Sat 16 *BMEMF Shrewsbury - David Allinson - workshop for singers
MARCH 2024
22-24 Medieval Music in the Dales online
SEPTEMBER 2024
13-15 Medieval Music in the Dales at Bolton Castle
MARCH 2025
21-23 Medieval Music in the Dales online
SEPTEMBER 2025
12-14 Medieval Music in the Dales at Bolton Castle
Updated 11-04-2022