Early music courses in and around East Anglia

Benslow Music Trust

Early Music courses

For details of scheduled courses click here.

Benslow Music Trust, Little Benslow Hills, Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Herts SG4 9RB

Tel: 01462 459 446 (9am-5pm weekdays) Email: info@benslow.org Website: www.benslow.org

In East Anglia the leading source of Early Music instruction is the annual
Cambridge Early Music Summer Schools
which occupy two weeks in July & August.

The tuition is of a high standard and the facilities at Girton College, Cambridge, are excellent.

Booking is open for:

28 July – 4 August 2019
Paris versus Versailles: Marc-Antoine Charpentier & his Court Rivals
Peter Holman course director & continuo, Judy Tarling upper strings, Mark Caudle lower strings,
Gail Hennessy woodwind and Philip Thorby voices

4–11 August 2019
Les Cris de Paris: The Sounds of Court & City in 16th-century France
Gawain Glenton course director & cornetto, Clare Wilkinson voice, Uri Smilansky viols & recorders,
Jacob Heringman lutes, Catherine Motuz improvisation & sackbut,
William Lyons flutes, recorders, reeds & pipes

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Cambridge Woodwind Makers

“Preservation through participation”

A large range of courses is on offer in the new premises in Linton, Cambs.
Instrument making, repair and maintenance. Classical and Baroque are covered.
Early booking is recommended as the response has been heavy. See the website:
www.cambridgewoodwindmakers.org

Courses in other areas

NORVIS XLIX

Saturday 27th July to Saturday 3rd August 2019

The College of St Hild and St Bede, Durham

NORVIS is an annual full week-long early music course in Durham, described as one of the UK’s longest-established and friendliest early music summer schools.

Recorders, viols, lutes, baroque strings, harpsichord, voices, period dance and a ceilidh. A wide range of repertoire from early renaissance to late baroque, with an impressive line-up of specialist performers and teachers.

Full information
www.norvis.org.uk

Beauchamp 2019 Early Music week

4th-10th August

Directed by Philip Thorby with David Hatcher and guest tutors.

Summary of information from Anne Summers:

The theme for the week is “Gloria in Excelsis Deo”. With its powerful and colourful text, the Gloria is often the finest individual movement in Renaissance settings of the Mass. We will be exploring Glorias in from four to forty parts, including the 24-part setting by Annibale Padovano, and the 40-part setting by Alessandro Striggio.

There are still places, especially for men’s voices. Booking form

Baroque Week

Chamber music summer school

Queen Anne’s School, Caversham, Berkshire • 11–18 August 2019

Firmly established as one of Europe’s foremost early music courses, BAROQUE WEEK is now celebrating its 42nd year. The course offers inspiration and guidance to both singers and players of baroque music from an expert team of leading specialists in historical performance.

This year’s theme is “The Leipzig Legacy”, featuring cantatas and other works by J S Bach, together with his predecessors and contemporaries in Leipzig including Rosenmüller (b. 1619) and Fasch.

For instrumentalists, keyboard players and eight singers

Facebook page: The Baroque Week

This course was full but due to cancellations there may be two vacancies. To apply see below.

info@baroque-week.org.uk

HISS 2019

12 - 16 August 2019

Bishop Burton College, Beverley, East Yorkshire, HU17 8QG United Kingdom

Contact
hissenquiries@gmail.com +44 (0)844 870 6478 www.hiss.org.uk

Early Music in the Marches 2019

JOHANN CASPAR KERLL'S SETTINGS OF THE MASS
A TWO-DAY WORKSHOP FOR SINGERS AND INSTRUMENTALISTS

and

HANDEL'S CONCERTI GROSSI - OPUS VI EXPLORED
A CONCERT GIVEN BY MARCHES BAROQUE ORCHESTRA

This year David Allinson, director of Music at Christchurch University, Canterbury,
will join our musical director, David Hatcher, in leading our weekend workshop.

9.30 a.m.- 4.30 p.m., Saturday, 28th and Sunday, 29th September
at Upper House and St Michael's, Discoed, LD8 2NW (see map here)

The settings will include the Missa Quasimodo, Missa in Fletu Solatium, Obsidionis Viennensis,
Missa Pro Defunctis and the monumental Missa à Tré Chori.
Written for the Austrian court, where Kerll's career flourished, the masses require large choral and instrumental forces.

There are parts for violin family members, viols, trombones, cornets, trumpets and
a variety of wind and continuo instruments A=440.

7.30 p.m. Saturday, 28th September

HANDEL'S OPUS VI EXPLORED
A Selection of Concerti Grossi performed by The Marches Baroque Orchestra

To apply, click here for the application form.

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