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  • Renaissance workshop for voices and instruments

    Headcorn Village Hall Church Lane, Headcorn

    Directed by Peter Wendland. A background note by Peter Wendland about the music is available at this link. Online booking form (preferred) Further details and paper booking form (PDF) Further details and paper booking form (Word)

  • Purcell for singers, strings, and continuo

    Blackbridge Community Centre Three Acres, Horsham, West Sussex, United Kingdom

    Ben England (of “Choir of the Earth” and “Homechoir” fame) will direct music by Purcell for singers, strings, and continuo at baroque pitch (A=415). Online booking form (preferred) Further details and postal booking form (PDF)

  • Gibbons Verse Anthems for voices and instruments

    Findon Village Hall High Street, Findon, West Sussex, United Kingdom

    Directed by Bill Hunt Bill writes: In 2023 I had the pleasure of leading a workshop featuring verse anthems by William Byrd, the father of this musical form. This year we shall feature anthems by Orlando Gibbons to celebrate his quatercentenary (died 1625), in whose hands it arguably reached its finest expression. The vocal scoring […]

  • Workshop for instruments directed by Emily White (Headcorn)

    Headcorn Village Hall Church Lane, Headcorn

    We will cover a wide range of music, from France, Scotland, Germany and Italy and ranging from 5 to 22 parts: Jean Mouton – Reges terrae congregati sunt; Robert Carver – O bone Jesu; Melchior Vulpius – Verbum caro factus est; Giovanni Gabrieli – Sonata XX in 22 parts. Open to the following instruments: Cornetts, […]

  • Palestrina workshop for voices directed by David Allinson (Challock)

    Challock Memorial Hall Blind Lane, Challock, United Kingdom

    Directed by David Allinson David Allinson writes: This year the early music world has been celebrating the 500th anniversary of Palestrina’s birth. An astonishingly productive composer, he wrote over a hundred settings of the Mass Ordinary (Kyrie, Gloria, etc.), many of which remain unheard and unrecorded today. For this workshop, we will explore Palestrina’s supreme […]

  • Workshop for voices and instruments directed by Alison Kinder (Boxgrove)

    Boxgrove Village Hall The Street, Boxgrove, United Kingdom

    A European Advent Alison Kinder will take us on a musical tour of western Europe. Come and explore some glorious – but less familiar – music appropriate to the approaching Advent season. Subject to the forces available (especially tenors!), the music will include: Ecce Dominus Veniet a8 (Praetorius); O Lieber Herre Gott a7 (Schutz), Spiritus […]

  • Orlando Gibbons and the Music of Westminster Abbey (Zoom)

    Zoom

    A Zoom talk by Patrick Craig Orlando Gibbons was one of the most brilliant and imaginative composers this country has ever produced. He is beloved by jazz musicians such as Glenn Gould for his inventive and unpredictable genius. In this lecture Patrick traces his career at Westminster Abbey, looking at his predecessors who shaped his […]

  • Workshop for voices and Renaissance instruments directed by Gawain Glenton

    Headcorn Village Hall Church Lane, Headcorn

    The workshop will focus on the music of Giovanni Croce (1557-1609), who was a leading Venetian composer of his day. His sacred music shows a development from the even-textured style of Palestrina to the more modern Venetian style, using multiple choruses, solo voices, crisp instrumental rhythms, and basso continuo.We intend to include his 10-part Dialogo […]

  • A Party in Augsburg with Lizzie Gutteridge

    Scaynes Hill Village Centre Lewes Road, Scaynes Hill, West Sussex, United Kingdom

    Music of the early 16th century German Town and Dance bands Director: Lizzie Gutteridge Online booking form (preferred) Further details and postal booking form This workshop is for players of all Medieval & Renaissance instruments at A=440. Players of loud winds are encouraged to also bring a quieter alternative instrument with them for occasional calmer […]