You are most welcome to contact me David Allen at 01352 740 971 if you wish ‘Early Music Concerts’, that you are promoting in the North West and North Wales to be included on this page.
The best sources of information about concerts and other Early Music Events throughout the UK and further afield are the listings in Early Music Review.
The Royal Northern College of Music. For details and to join their free mailing list contact the Box Office, Royal Northern College of Music, 124 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9RD. Tel 0161 907 5555; fax: 0161 907 5330; email box.office@rncm.ac.uk There is an excellent on line booking system at the RNCM. www.rncm.ac.uk what is listed here is a sample of the whole rich programme of concerts, masterclasses and workshops at the RNCM
The Bridgewater Hall often has a series of concerts of
interest. Contact The Bridgewater Hall,
Lower Mosley St, Manchester, M2 3WS
Phone: 0161 907 9000 Fax: 0161 950 0001 www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk
Pro Nobis Singers' 40th Anniversary Concert
Clive Walkley is best known to members of NWEMF through his association with the Summer School. Clive’s Kendal-based chamber choir, The Pro Nobis Singers, celebrate their 40th anniversary this year with a large-scale concert early music in Kendal Parish Church on Saturday 13th June.
Founded in 1969 by Clive, following his appointment as Lecturer in Music to the former Charlotte Mason College, the singers have given well over one hundred concerts in Cumbria and beyond over their forty-year history. Early Music has long been at the core of the choir’s repertoire; but in addition they have performed many twentieth-century works and have given several first performances of works by modern composers, among them local Cumbrian composers Robin Field, Adrian Self and Chris Noble; other first performances include works by Elis Pehkonen, Paul Barker and Humphrey Clucas.
The choir has been fortunate to work with some outstanding professional musicians over the years, among them international soprano Evelyn Tubb - who is the choir’s President – the Estonian composer, Veljo Tormis, His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts, Vox Animae and the distinguished recorder player, John Turner.
The concert on 13th June continues this tradition. Soloists include the Lancaster-born soprano, Julia Doyle – one of the outstanding young singers of her generation, and internationally-known tenor, Nicholas Hurndall Smith whose parents live in Sedbergh. Local connections are further strengthened by the inclusion of the young bass/baritone Jonathan Millican from Carlisle in the team of soloists. And, of course, Deborah Catterall, NWEMF’s own distinguished soprano is taking part.
Many of the instrumentalists accompanying the singers also have local connections: among these are the distinguished baroque violinist Deidre Ward, the trumpeter, Stella Fitzgerald, and organists, Ian Pattinson and a familiar NWEMF name, Ann Bond.
Extra singers will join the choir for a performance of Striggio’s 40-part motet Ecce beatam lucem; other works in the programme include Buxtehude’s lovely Membra Jesu nostri and the rarely-heard Missa Scala Aretina for four choirs by the seventeenth-century Spanish composer Francisco Valls.
Tickets for the concert are now on sale and can be reserved by phoning 01539 723482. Further details can be found on the choir’s website www.pronobis-singers.com
Saturday 4th July Kendal Parish Church and Saturday 11th July Lancaster Cathedral. Monteverdi Vespers, with the Levens Choir and The Early Baroque Band. Information and printable fliers are here