DIARY OF EVENTS
Please send information to: r.w.foster@man.ac.uk
Contacts
Alston Hall, Longridge, Preston, 01772 784 661,
alston.hall@ed.lancscc.gov.uk, www.alstonhall.com
Benslow Music Trust, Hitchin, 01462 459 446, info@benslow.org, www.benslow.org
Beauchamp House, Churcham, 01684 276825, holidaycourses@gamusic.co.uk,
www.gamweb.co.uk/pages/BHcoursesHome.asp
BMEMF, Hannah Davies, 01432 341154,
Hannah@thedavies.f9.co.uk
Brighton Early Music Festival,
www.bremf.org.uk
Cambridge Early Music Summer Schools,
Selene Mills, 01223 847330, info@cemss.org, www.cambridgeearlymusic.org
Canford Summer School of Music, Sherborne School, Sherborne, Dorset. 020
8660 4766, canfordsummersch@aol.com, www.canfordsummerschool.co.uk
Chalemie Summer School, Headington School, Oxford. Barbara Segal 020 7700
4293, chalemie@thorn.demon.co.uk, www.chalemie.co.uk
Dartington International Summer School. 01803 847 080,
info@dartingtonsummerschool.org.uk, www.dartingtonsummerschool.org.uk
Dolmetsch Summer School, Frensham Heights nr. Farnham, 01428 643235,
brian@dolmetsch.com, www.dolmetsch.com
Easter Early Music Course, Geri Coop, 07950 054740,
info@easterearlymusiccourse.org.uk,
www.easterearlymusiccourse.org.uk
EMFS, Margaret Torrance, 01986 660678, margarettorrance@btinternet.com,
www.emfscotland.org.uk
Farncombe Estate, Adult Learning Centre, Broadway, 0845 230 8590,
www.farncombeestate.co.uk
Hawkwood College, Stroud, www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk
Irish Recorder & Viol Course. 353 (0)1 8337 869,
info@irishrecorderandviolcourse.org,
www.
irishrecorderandviolcourse.org
Jackdaws Music Education Trust, Frome, 01373 812 383,
music@jackdaws.org, www.jackdaws.org.uk
The
Kingcombe Centre, Toller Porcorum, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 0BQ, 01300
320684, kingcombe@hotmail.co.uk, www.kingcombecentre.org.uk
Knuston Hall, Irchester nr. Wellingboro', 01933 312104,
enquiries@knustonhall.org.uk, www.knustonhall.org.uk
Lacock, Andrew van der Beek, 01249
730 468, avdb@cantax.freeserve.co.uk, www.lacock.org
Leicester Early Music Festival. 0116
270 9984, mail@earlymusicleicester.co.uk, www.earlymusicleicester.co.uk
Lincoln Early Music Courses. Peter &
Kathleen Berg, 01522 527 530, peter@aldhund.demon.co.uk
Lute Society, Christopher Goodwin,
01483 202159, lutesoc@aol.com, www.lutesoc.co.uk
MEMF, Jim Rowley, 0121 240 3664, jim@thehaybarn.myzen.co.uk,
www.memf.org.uk
Michael Procter, +49 721 616450, Micproc@aol.com, www.michael-procter.com
NEEMF, Alison Down, 0114 236 3373,
alison.down@btinternet.com, www.neemf.org.uk
NEMA, jane.beeson@btopenworld.com, www.nema-uk.org
Norvis, Northumbrian Recorder & Viol Summer School, Durham, 01652 678 230,
enquiries@norvis.org.uk, www.norvis.org.uk
Pendrell Hall College, Codsall Wood nr. Wolverhampton, 01902 434112,
pendrell.college@staffordshire.gov.uk, www.aredu.org.uk/pendrellhall
Roger Wilkes, 01565 872650,
mostlymusic@btinternet.com, president@nwemf.org.uk
Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge, 124 Cambridge Road, Barton, Cambridge, CB3
7AR.
Singing Days, 01943 874649, pca@singingdays.co.uk, www.singingdays.co.uk
Society of Recorder Players, Manchester branch normally meets 1st
Friday & 2nd Saturday of every month. Margaret Shearing, 01706
853312, margaret.shearing@lineone.net, www.sheramac.fsnet.co.uk
Tallis Scholars Summer School, Oakham
School, Rutland, 01223 693281, helen.poole@tsss.uk.com, www.tsss.uk.com
The Hill Education & Conference
Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny. 01495 333 777,
hannah.watkins@coleggwent.ac.uk, www.thehillabergavenny.co.uk
TVEMF www.tvemf.org
Verte Musique, La Maison Verte, Languedoc, 00 33 467 24 88 52,
anne.Roberts@easynet.co.uk,
www.lamaisonverte.co.uk
VDGS (Viola de Gamba Society), 01904
706959, admin@vdgs.org.co.uk, www.vdgs.org.uk
Wedgwood Memorial College, nr. Stoke
on Trent, 01782 372105, wedgwood.college@staffordshire.gov.uk,
www.sgfl/wmc
West Dean College, Chichester 01243
811 301, short.courses@westdean.org.uk, www.westdean.org.uk
Non-NWEMF Workshops
May
16
MEMF. Dale St.,
Methodist Church, Leamington
Spa, CV32 5HL. Workshop
for singers and instruments
- Manchicourt, Crequillon & Phinot with Stephen Rice.
23
NEEMF. St Mary’s Church
Hall, Beverley, HU17 8DG. A Viol Day in Beverley workshop and playing day
open to other bowed string players – violins, violas, cellos, etc, both
modern and early with Richard Boothby. Players at all levels of ability
are most welcome.
23-25
Lincoln. Senfl Festival with
Philip Thorby
23-30
Verte Musique. Italian passion,
English cool with Eamonn Dougan, Robert
Hollingworth & Francis Steele.
26
Leicester. St Mary de
Castro Church, Castle Street. Choral workshop - Haydn
Missa Sancti Nicolai - with John
Bence.
26
Leicester. St. Nichols
Church. Instrumental workshop led by Courtlye Musick.
29-31
Wedgewood. Le devine Orlande -
Music by Lassus for singers & players with Peter Syrus.
30
MEMF. Warley Woods
Methodist Church, Abbey Road, Bearwood, B67 5LS. Baroque band day with
Lynn Selwood.
30-31 St. Lawrence,
Towcester, NN12 6AB. Zing-along Zadok - workshop with Fiori Musicali
Chamber Orchestra & Choir. Details from 01327 360 931,
www.fiori-musicali.com
June
7
NEEMF. Crook Hall,
Frankland Lane, Durham, DH1 5SZ. Playing day
12-14
Farncombe. Viol consorts with
Alison Crum.
13
BMEMF. Stockenny, New
Radnor. Workshop for singers and instrumentalists – Purcell
King Arthur with John Hancorn.
July
4-5
VDGS. Storthes Hall
Park, Huddersfield. Summer Course for New Viol Players with Jacqui
Robertson-Wade, Alison Kinder, Andrew Fowler, Ibi Aziz.
10-12
Jackdaws. 17th & 18th
century music for baroque cello & gamba (modern cello also welcome) with
Charles Medlam.
11
MEMF. Warley Woods
Methodist Church, Abbey Road, Bearwood, B67 5LS. Baroque band day -
Midlands composers - with Lynn Selwood.
11-18
Tallis. Oakham, Rutland. Summer
School with Peter Phillips.
12
NEEMF. Kirkstall Room,
Weetwood Hall, University of Leeds, LS16 5PS. Songs and Miracles, workshop
for singers. Polyphonic music of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance
with Vivien Ellis.
18-23
Benslow. International Viol
Summer School with Alison Crum, Roy Marks & a.n.other.
19-25
Beauchamp. Adult Early Music
Course - Music from Eastern Europe - for singers, & players (A=440) of
bowed and plucked strings, cornetts, sackbuts, curtals & all kinds of
continuo instruments with Philip Thorby, Alan Lumsden & Clifford Bartlett
(continuo).
25-1
Aug
Verte-Musique. Tallis and Byrd
with Paul Brough, Jeremy Summerly & Francis
Steele.
25-1 Aug
Dartington. Week 1.
26-2 Aug
Cambridge. Baroque Music:
Handel in England with the Parley of Instruments.
August
1-2
Lincoln. Gibbons Verse
Anthems with Richard Lindsay
1-8
Dartington. Week 2
1-8
Norvis XXXIX. College of
St. Hild and St. Bede, Durham City. Recorders, viols, singing,
harpsichord, lute, Baroque strings etc. with 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-Wade, Jane Rumney,
Mary Tyers.
2-9
Cambridge. Renaissance
Music for Voices & Instruments with Philip Thorby, David Hatcher, Jacob
Hennessy & Keith McGowan.
2-9
Oxford Baroque Chamber Music Week. Headington School, Oxford with
Theresa Caundle, Peter Collier, Jane Francis, Peter Lea Cox, Clare Shanks
& Rachel Latham. Details from 0161 281 2502, p.b.collier@goolemail.com
9-15
Dartington. Week 3
10-13
Benslow. Baroque Chamber Music
(A=440) with Penelope Cave & Helena Brown.
11-16
Chalemie. 17th-18th century
music for instruments & singers with Sara Stowe, Matthew Spring, Kate
Jackson & Bill Tuck.
15-22
Dartington. Week 4
15-22
Irish with Ibi Aziz, Marion
Doherty, Pamela Flanagan, Emma Murphy, Marion Scott, Eileen Silcocks &
Philip Thorby.
22-29
Dartington. Week 5
23-28
Lacock. Corsham Arts Centre, nr
Lacock. Consort Workshop (one-to-a-part consort singing with JanJoost van
Elburg.
30-6
Sep Rimini International
Choral Workshop. Early polyphonic choral music with Peter Phillips,
Vytautas Miskinis, Ghiselaine Morgan, Andrea Angelini. Details from
www.musicaficta.org
September
4-6
Jackdaws. Stylish
Baroque for small groups (mostly A=415) with Theresa Caundle & Alastair
Ross.
12-19
Verte-Musique. Machaut to
Dunstable via Josquin with Robert Harre Jones,
Berty Rice & Francis Steele.
18-20
Benslow. Bach plus - Choir &
orchestra weekend with Murray Stewart & Catherine Martin.
19
BMEMF. Details t.b.a.
26
MEMF. Venue t.b.a. Early
German Baroque, Scheidt & Schein - a day workshop for singers with Robert
Hollingsworth.
October
2-4
Gregynog, Newton, Powys. Recorder Consorts (one-to-a-part) with
Margaret Weslake. Details form 01874 625 346.
2-4
West Dean. Theory &
practice of basso continuo for keyboard players with Paul Simmonds.
9-11
Alston. Viol Consort
Playing with Elizabeth Dodd.
10-11
Lincoln. Cantigas de Santa
Maria with Belinda Sykes
23-25
Benslow. West Gallery Music
with Francis Roads.
23-28
Lacock. Corsham Arts Centre, nr
Lacock. Easter Corsham Consort Workshop with JanJoost van Elburg
30-1
Nov
Kingcombe. Recorder Music
Workshop with Andrew Collis.
31
BMEMF. Details t.b.a.
with Adrian Partington.
November
14
MEMF. Venue t.b.a.
Palestrina: Mass Movements & Motets - a day workshop for singers with
David Allinson.
27-29
Benslow. Viol consorts with
Alison Crum, Roy Marks Peter Wendland & Ibi Aziz.
December
18-20
Farncombe. "For violls and
voices" with Alison Crum & Peter Syrus.
2010
February
6
BMEMF. Details t.b.a.
with Sally Dunkley.
April
17-18
MEMF. Venue t.b.a.. Weekend
workshop - Monteverdi: 1610 Vespers and (maybe) In illo
tempore, for singers and instruments with Philip Thorby.
