Early Music events organised by other groups
Tuesday 28 January: 1pm, Great Malvern Priory. Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Musicians & Elizabeth Pallett, Lute. “Musicall Phansies” – country and court songs from Thomas Ravenscroft's book, Melismata 1611. Free admission, retiring collection for the Priory Early Music Series.
Saturday 8 February. 19.30. New Radnor Community Hall, LD8 2SW. Fleurs de Lys. Medieval Music and Song - for mediaeval fiddle, harp, hurdy-gurdy, English bagpipes, recorder and percussion. Tickets on the door – ring 01544 350268 for further details.
Sunday 9 February: 15.00. Great Malvern Priory. The Gesualdo Six.
‘The Wishing Tree’ – music by Tallis, Byrd, Gesualdo, Roxanna Panufnik and Owain Park.
See www.malvern-concert-club.co.uk or www.malvern-theatres.co.uk
Saturday 15 February: Crickhowell Choral Society – Come and Sing Handel’s ‘Messiah’. Click here for details and a booking form.
Saturday 15th February: NWEMF workshop for singers and instrumentalists - Zielenski and Pekiel, led by tutor Graham O'Reilly. Venue: Hoylake Chapel (Hope Church), Station Road, Hoylake, Wirral, CH47 4AA. Visit www.nwemf.org for details.
Saturday 7 March: 'Come and Sing' Mozart's Requiem with the Tan House Singers at Dene Magna school, Mitcheldean, GL17 0DU. Tutor Brian Kay. See tanhousesingers.org
Saturday 7 March: 17th Century Polychoral Music for Choir and Instruments from across Europe
including music by Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Schütz and Padilla. 7.30pm St Martin’s Church, London Road, Worcester WR5 2ED. Oriel Singers with violins, cornetts and sackbuts. Tickets: orielsingers.org.uk
Tuesday 17 March, 13.00. Great Malvern Priory. Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Musicians & Elizabeth Pallett, Lute. “Ma, il mio cuore!” – a selection of duets and madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi. 1567-1643. Free admission, retiring collection for the Priory Early Music Series.
Thursday 19 March 19.30. Malvern Theatres. Iestyn Davies, countertenor, and Thomas Dunford, lute. ‘England’s Orpheus’ – music by Dowland, Purcell, Bach and Handel.
See www.malvern-concert-club.co.uk or www.malvern-theatres.co.uk
Friday 20 March: 13.00. Barber Institute, Birmingham. Linarol Consort. ‘Nouvelle Music’ - music for viols from the court of Philip the Fair. See www.barber.org.uk/concerts
Saturday 21 March: NWEMF workshop for recorder players with tutor Marion Scott. Visit www.nwemf.org for details.
Saturday 21 March. 19.45. Malvern Theatres. Academy of Ancient Music with sopranos Mary Bevan and Jennifer France. ‘Handel’s Heroines’. Dazzling operatic arias for feisty sopranos! See www.malvern-theatres.co.uk
Saturday 18th April: NWEMF workshop for voices and instruments - Usper (Sponga) and Bassano at
Morley Green Club. Tutor: Roger Wilkes. Visit www.nwemf.org for details.
Saturday 25 April. 19.30. Malvern Theatres. English Touring Opera. Handel’s ‘Giulio Cesare’. See www.malvern-theatres.co.uk
1-3 May: Leominster Early Music Weekend. Click here for more information.
Tuesday 5 May, 13.00. Great Malvern Priory. Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Musicians & Elizabeth Pallett, Lute. “Terpsichore Dances” – joined by students of the guitar department from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire performing dances by Michael Praetorius 1612. Free admission, retiring collection for the Priory Early Music Series.
Saturday 9th May: NWEMF workshop for voices and instruments with tutor Stephanie Muncey-Dyer. working on music by Praetorius/Schutz/Bianci. Visit www.nwemf.org for details.
Thursday 14th May: The Sixteen - The Choral Pilgrimage 2020. The Sixteen celebrate 20 years of their Choral Pilgrimage tour with devotional motets bound by Victoria’s powerful Responsories for Holy Saturday, and culminating in Allegri’s Miserere. Hereford Cathedral. Tickets: £10 - £25, with discounts of 50% available for students, under-35s, job-seekers, people living with a disability and their carers. Box Office: 0333 010 2850
Weblink: https://thesixteen.com/events/the-choral-pilgrimage-2020-hereford
The Sixteen celebrate 20 years of their Choral Pilgrimage tour with devotional motets bound by Victoria’s powerful Responsories for Holy Saturday, and culminating in Allegri’s Miserere.
Tuesday 19 May, 13.00. Great Malvern Priory. Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Musicians & Elizabeth Pallett, Lute. “The Kinge’s Musicke” – a celebration of the Henry VIII songbook circa 1520. Free admission, retiring collection for the Priory Early Music Series.
29 – 31 May: Worcester Early Music Festival. Artists include Elin Manahan Thomas – Elizabeth Kenny – Alice Earll and Ensemble Molière – Apollo’s Revels. Events include a family concert and a dance workshop with Alison Kinder, Anne Deller and Kath Waters. www.earlymusicworcs.org
Tuesday 2 June, 13.00. Great Malvern Priory. Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Musicians & Elizabeth Pallett, Lute. “Musicall Phansies” – country and court songs from Thomas Ravenscroft's book, Melismata 1611. Free admission, retiring collection for the Priory Early Music Series.
Saturday 20th June: NWEMF workshop for voices. 15th Century music with tutor Peter Syrus. Visit www.nwemf.org for details.
1-8 August: NORVIS - the fiftieth anniversary of this week-long early music course in Barnard Castle (new venue). Recorders, viols, lutes, baroque strings, harpsichord and voices. Generous bursaries available. See www.norvis.org.uk or email enquiries@norvis.org.uk
2-8 August: Beauchamp Early Music Course. Directed by David Hatcher with tutors David Allinson and Sue Addison. Venue: Rendcomb College in the heart of the Cotswolds. For further information visit www.glosacadmusic.org or email anne@glosacadmusic.org
17-20 August: HISS (Historically Informed Summer School) at Bishop Burton College, Beverley. Visit www.hiss.org.uk for details and booking.
Saturday 8 February. 19.30. New Radnor Community Hall, LD8 2SW. Fleurs de Lys. Medieval Music and Song - for mediaeval fiddle, harp, hurdy-gurdy, English bagpipes, recorder and percussion. Tickets on the door – ring 01544 350268 for further details.
Sunday 9 February: 15.00. Great Malvern Priory. The Gesualdo Six.
‘The Wishing Tree’ – music by Tallis, Byrd, Gesualdo, Roxanna Panufnik and Owain Park.
See www.malvern-concert-club.co.uk or www.malvern-theatres.co.uk
Saturday 15 February: Crickhowell Choral Society – Come and Sing Handel’s ‘Messiah’. Click here for details and a booking form.
Saturday 15th February: NWEMF workshop for singers and instrumentalists - Zielenski and Pekiel, led by tutor Graham O'Reilly. Venue: Hoylake Chapel (Hope Church), Station Road, Hoylake, Wirral, CH47 4AA. Visit www.nwemf.org for details.
Saturday 7 March: 'Come and Sing' Mozart's Requiem with the Tan House Singers at Dene Magna school, Mitcheldean, GL17 0DU. Tutor Brian Kay. See tanhousesingers.org
Saturday 7 March: 17th Century Polychoral Music for Choir and Instruments from across Europe
including music by Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Schütz and Padilla. 7.30pm St Martin’s Church, London Road, Worcester WR5 2ED. Oriel Singers with violins, cornetts and sackbuts. Tickets: orielsingers.org.uk
Tuesday 17 March, 13.00. Great Malvern Priory. Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Musicians & Elizabeth Pallett, Lute. “Ma, il mio cuore!” – a selection of duets and madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi. 1567-1643. Free admission, retiring collection for the Priory Early Music Series.
Thursday 19 March 19.30. Malvern Theatres. Iestyn Davies, countertenor, and Thomas Dunford, lute. ‘England’s Orpheus’ – music by Dowland, Purcell, Bach and Handel.
See www.malvern-concert-club.co.uk or www.malvern-theatres.co.uk
Friday 20 March: 13.00. Barber Institute, Birmingham. Linarol Consort. ‘Nouvelle Music’ - music for viols from the court of Philip the Fair. See www.barber.org.uk/concerts
Saturday 21 March: NWEMF workshop for recorder players with tutor Marion Scott. Visit www.nwemf.org for details.
Saturday 21 March. 19.45. Malvern Theatres. Academy of Ancient Music with sopranos Mary Bevan and Jennifer France. ‘Handel’s Heroines’. Dazzling operatic arias for feisty sopranos! See www.malvern-theatres.co.uk
Saturday 18th April: NWEMF workshop for voices and instruments - Usper (Sponga) and Bassano at
Morley Green Club. Tutor: Roger Wilkes. Visit www.nwemf.org for details.
Saturday 25 April. 19.30. Malvern Theatres. English Touring Opera. Handel’s ‘Giulio Cesare’. See www.malvern-theatres.co.uk
1-3 May: Leominster Early Music Weekend. Click here for more information.
Tuesday 5 May, 13.00. Great Malvern Priory. Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Musicians & Elizabeth Pallett, Lute. “Terpsichore Dances” – joined by students of the guitar department from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire performing dances by Michael Praetorius 1612. Free admission, retiring collection for the Priory Early Music Series.
Saturday 9th May: NWEMF workshop for voices and instruments with tutor Stephanie Muncey-Dyer. working on music by Praetorius/Schutz/Bianci. Visit www.nwemf.org for details.
Thursday 14th May: The Sixteen - The Choral Pilgrimage 2020. The Sixteen celebrate 20 years of their Choral Pilgrimage tour with devotional motets bound by Victoria’s powerful Responsories for Holy Saturday, and culminating in Allegri’s Miserere. Hereford Cathedral. Tickets: £10 - £25, with discounts of 50% available for students, under-35s, job-seekers, people living with a disability and their carers. Box Office: 0333 010 2850
Weblink: https://thesixteen.com/events/the-choral-pilgrimage-2020-hereford
The Sixteen celebrate 20 years of their Choral Pilgrimage tour with devotional motets bound by Victoria’s powerful Responsories for Holy Saturday, and culminating in Allegri’s Miserere.
Tuesday 19 May, 13.00. Great Malvern Priory. Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Musicians & Elizabeth Pallett, Lute. “The Kinge’s Musicke” – a celebration of the Henry VIII songbook circa 1520. Free admission, retiring collection for the Priory Early Music Series.
29 – 31 May: Worcester Early Music Festival. Artists include Elin Manahan Thomas – Elizabeth Kenny – Alice Earll and Ensemble Molière – Apollo’s Revels. Events include a family concert and a dance workshop with Alison Kinder, Anne Deller and Kath Waters. www.earlymusicworcs.org
Tuesday 2 June, 13.00. Great Malvern Priory. Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Musicians & Elizabeth Pallett, Lute. “Musicall Phansies” – country and court songs from Thomas Ravenscroft's book, Melismata 1611. Free admission, retiring collection for the Priory Early Music Series.
Saturday 20th June: NWEMF workshop for voices. 15th Century music with tutor Peter Syrus. Visit www.nwemf.org for details.
1-8 August: NORVIS - the fiftieth anniversary of this week-long early music course in Barnard Castle (new venue). Recorders, viols, lutes, baroque strings, harpsichord and voices. Generous bursaries available. See www.norvis.org.uk or email enquiries@norvis.org.uk
2-8 August: Beauchamp Early Music Course. Directed by David Hatcher with tutors David Allinson and Sue Addison. Venue: Rendcomb College in the heart of the Cotswolds. For further information visit www.glosacadmusic.org or email anne@glosacadmusic.org
17-20 August: HISS (Historically Informed Summer School) at Bishop Burton College, Beverley. Visit www.hiss.org.uk for details and booking.
