DIARY OF EVENTS

Please send information to: r.w.foster@man.ac.uk

Contacts

Alston Hall, Longridge, Preston, PR3 3BP. 01772 784 661, alston.hall@ed.lancscc.gov.uk, www.alstonhall.com

Benslow Music Trust, Little Benslow Hills, Ibberson Way, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG4 9RB. 01462 459 446, info@benslow.org, www.benslow.org

Beauchamp House, Churcham, Gloucester, GL2 8AA. 01684 276825, holidaycourses@gamusic.co.uk, www.gamusic.co.uk

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, DT9 3AP. 020 8660 4766, canfordsummersch@aol.com, www.canfordsummerschool.co.uk

Chalemie Summer School, Headington School, Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford, OX3. 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, WR12 7LJ. 01386 854100, enquiries@FarncombeEstate.co.uk,  www.farncombeestate.co.uk

Hawkwood College, Painswick Old Road, Stroud, GL6 7QW.  01453 759034, www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk

Irish Recorder & Viol Course. 353 (0)1 8337 869, info@irishrecorderandviolcourse.org,

www. irishrecorderandviolcourse.org

Jackdaws Music Education Trust, Great Elm, Frome, Somerset BA11 3NY. 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, Wellingborough, Northants, NN29 7EU. 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, kbergonang@hotmail.com

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

Opus Anglicanum, 01749 675131, info@opus-a.co.uk, www.opus-anglicanum.com

Pendrell Hall College, Codsall Wood, nr Wolverhampton, Staffs, WV8 1QP, 01902 434112, pendrell.college@staffordshire.gov.uk, www.pendrell-hall.org.uk

Roger Wilkes, 01565 872650, mostlymusic@btinternet.com, president@nwemf.org.uk

Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge, 124 Cambridge Road, Barton, Cambridge, CB3 7AR.

SEMF, www.semf.org.uk

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. Ros Flinn,  01772 335801, manchester@srp.org.uk, www.srp.org.uk/manchester/index.php

Tallis Scholars Summer School, Oakham School, Rutland, 01223 693281, helen.poole@tsss.uk.com, www.tsss.uk.com

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, Station Road, Barlaston, Stoke on Trent. ST12 9DG, 01782 372105, wedgwood.memorial@stoke.gov.uk, www.stoke.gov.uk/wedgwoodmemorialcollege

West Dean College, Chichester 01243 811 301, short.courses@westdean.org.uk, www.westdean.org.uk

 

Non-NWEMF Workshops

 

March

5-7 Farncombe. Viols (Huddersfield 2) with Jacqui Robertson-Wade & Ibi Aziz

6 NEEMF. Hexham Abbey, Beaumont Street, Hexham NE46 3NB. Spanish polyphony - a day workshop for singers - with David Allinson.

6-7  Isle of Man. Ballacottier Primary School, Douglas. Early music workshop II for recorders and viols - Renaissance style with Eileen Silcocks. Details from 01624 695150, Helen.Kneale@liverpool.ac.uk, www.eileensilcocks.co.uk

12-14 Alston. Motets and mass movements by 16th and early 17th-century Spanish composers, including Victoria, Guerrero, Lobo, Esquivel, and many more - a weekend course for fluent sight-singing choral singers with Roger Wilkes.

12-14 Hawkwood. Baroque Chamber Music with Jane Francis,  Katherine May, Sharon Lindo.

13 BMEMF. Community Hall, New Radnor, Powys. The music of the West Gallery - a workshop for singers & instrumentalists - with the Mellstock Band.

13 MEMF. Dale Street Methodist Church, Leamington Spa CV32 5HL. Venetian - a day workshop for singers and instruments with Christopher Monks.

28-29 Isle of Man. Ballacottier Primary School, Douglas. Early music workshop II, see 21 November 2009.

28-4 Apr  Laycock. Buitrago Easter Music Week. A week of choral music in Buitrago del Lozoya. The group will sing in Segovia Cathedral and the music includes the Victoria's six-part Requiem with Carlos Fernández Aransay.

29-3 Apr  Easter. St George's School, Ascot. For players of recorders & viols with Philip Thorby, Eileen Silcocks, Marion Scott, Jane Frances, Andrew Collis & others.

April

1-6 Wedgewood. Renaissance music at Easter with Alison Crum & Peter Syrus.

5-11 Benslow. Benslow Baroque opera - Purcell Dido & Aeneas - with Judy Tarling, Julian Perkins, Jack Edwards & others.

6-9 Wedgewood. Recorder/viol course with Richard Lindsay.

16-18 Jackdaws. Recorder weekend with Pamela Thorby.

17 Friends of Baroque Week Spring Playing Day, Headington School, Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford, OX3. Details from 0161 281 2502; p.b.collier@gogglemail.com; www.baroque-week.org.uk

17-18 MEMF. Solihull School, Warwick Road, Solihull, B91 3DJ. Weekend workshop (non-residential) - Monteverdi: 1610 Vespers for singers and instruments with Philip Thorby.

17-19 NEMA. Department of Music, University of Nottingham. Handel Saul with Laurence Cummings.

25 Lincoln. Loud wind with Keith McGowan.

30-2 May Benslow. Harpsichord weekend with the Benslow Manuscript with Penelope Cave.

 

May

1 NEEMF. Harp workshop for players of harps (non pedal but any size) and other plucked and bowed continuo instruments (A=440), exploring and demonstrating improvisations and diminutions over a ground bass with Sarah Ridy.

7-9 Benslow. Monteverdi Vespers choral trail with Michael Smedley.

14-16 Benslow. Matters of Style: Baroque performance on modern strings with Judy Tarling.

14-16 Benslow. Voices & viols with Alison Crum & Peter Syrus.

22 MEMF. Venue tba. Improvisation workshop for singers & instrumentalists with Paula Chateauneuf.

28-30 Wedgewood. Musicke to content euery humour with Peter Syrus.

29 NEEMF. Arkengarthdale Methodist Church (Langthwaite). Swaledale Festival day workshop. Purcell and his contemporaries, for singers and string players (A=440), with Jonathan Wainwright.

 

June

5-6 Lincoln. Dowland with Stewart McCoy.

7-8 Isle of Man. Ballacottier Primary School, Douglas. Early music workshop II for recorders and viols - Renaissance style with Eileen Silcocks. Details from 01624 695150, Helen.Kneale@liverpool.ac.uk, www.eileensilcocks.co.uk

12 MEMF. Venue tba. Handel & James Nares Anthems workshop for singers & baroque instruments with Peter Leech.

12-19 Verte. Renaissance Consort Workshop Level 2                 with Francis Steele.

13-19 Laycock. Music at Monteconero. A chamber-scale course near Ancona - the six-part Requiem of the Portuguese monk Manuel Cardoso (c.1566-1650) with Eamonn Dougan.

18 Farncombe. Viol consorts with Alison Crum & Roy Marks.

25-27 Benslow. The glories of Venice - Cori spezzati with Peter Bassano & Julian Perkins.

 

July

3 Sale United Reform Church Hall, Montague Rd, Sale. William Byrd Singers "Sing Joyfully": a workshop for singers, including Tallis Spem in Alium with Keith Orrell. Details from Mary Halloran 01625 261933.

4-9 Laycock. Oxford Early Music Workshop. Early Tudor performance practice - including the Ludford's Mass Videte miraculum with Andrew Parrott.

10 NEEMF / YEMF. St George’s (RC) Church, Peel Street, York, YO1 9PZ. Day workshop for all singers, and players of both modern and period instruments - The Sonority of La Serenissima, exploring Monteverdi’s Vespers 1610, with Andrew Griffiths.

11 Weetwood Hall, Leeds. IMC workshop - The 21st Century Art of Being a ‘Medieval’ Musician: A Workshop for Singers and Musicians, directed by Belinda Sykes.  The bulk of this workshop will draw upon the Cantigas de Santa Maria (13th century Spain) and the Laude Spirituali (14th century Italy) and will cover, through practical sessions and discussion: Improvisation – vocal and instrumental; Minimal performance versus luxurious arrangement; Instrumentation/orchestration: Vocal techniques of the Balkans and Mediterranean.
‘Authentic’ medieval instruments not necessary; string instruments very welcome. Frame drums welcome, as well as quiet wind instruments. Workshop suitable for both beginner and experienced singers. Ability to sightread not necessary – the material is as much taught by ear as from the page. Everyone will sing choruses (inc.  instrumentalists) and there will be many opportunities for working on solos.

16-21 Chalemie. With Sara Stowe, Matthew Spring, Kate Jackson, Bill Tuck.

17-22 Benslow. International Viol Summer School with Alison Crum, Roy Marks & others.

17-24 Fiori Musicali Summer Singing School on Tuscan/Umbrian border with Penelope Rapson. Details from 01327 361380; concerts@fiori-musicali.com; www.felcinobianco.com

24-31 Dartington. Week 1.

25-31 Beauchamp. The music of Lassus & the Gabrielis with Philip Thorby & Alan Lumsden.

25-31 Beauchamp. Continuo course with Clifford Bartlett.

31-7 Aug  NORVIS XL.

31-7 Aug  Dartington. Week 2.

 

August

1-6 Laycock. Corsham Consort Workshop. One-to-a-part consort singing near Lacock (Wilts) with JanJoost van Elburg.

1-8 Cambridge. Baroque music with the Parley of Instruments.

1-8 Dolmetsch. Clifton College, College Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 3JH. Recorder playing days with David Bellugi, Marguerite Dolmetsch, Brian Blood, Arabella Blood.

7-14 Oxford Baroque Week, Headington School, Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford, OX3. With Teresa Caundle, Jane Francis, Rachel Latham, Peter Lea Cox, Clare Shanks, peter Collier. Details from 0161 281 2502; p.b.collier@gogglemail.com; www.baroque-week.org.uk

8-14 Cambridge. Renaissance Spain with Philip Thorby, David Hatcher, Jacob Heringman, Jeremy West, Sue Addison.

9-12 Benslow. Baroque camber music @ A=440 with Julian Perkins, Henrik Persson, Joel Raymond.

14-21 Irish. An Grianan, Termonfechin. With Ibi Aziz, Marion Doherty, Pamela Flanagan, Emma Murphy, Marion Scott, Eileen Silcocks, Philip Thorby.

24-27 NEEMF / HISS (Historically Informed Summer School) at Sneaton Castle, Whitby. Details from http://hiss.org.uk

 

September

4-11  Verte. Renaissance Consort Workshop Level 1                 with Francis Steele.

24 Farncombe. Recorder ensemble with Andrew Collis.

 

October

1-3 Jackdaws. Stylish Baroque with Theresa Caudle & Alastair Ross.

2-3 Lincoln. SenflFest with Philip Thorby.

8  Farncombe. Improve your viol playing with Jacqui Robertson-Wade & Alison Kinder.

8-10 Farncombe. Improve your viol playing with Jacqui Robertson-Wade & Ibi Aziz.

10-15 Laycock. Singing in Venice. Venetian music in the Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli with Erik van Nevel.

 

November

5-7 Hawkwood. Advanced Baroque String Ensemble (A=415) with Warwick Cole, Jane Francis, Sharon Lindo.

26-28 Benslow. Consorting viols with Alison Crum & Roy Marks.

 

December

10-12 Benslow. Handel in Edgware. 2 Chandos anthems with Murray Stewart & Catherine Martin.

27-1 Jan Laycock. Winter School. Choral music with JanJoost van Elburg.