Early Music events organised by other groups
Friday 18 April: Ex Cathedra Choir, Baroque Orchestra & Academy of Ancient Music. Good Friday Bach St John Passion. 14.00. Symphony Hall, Birmingham. THSH Box Office 0121 345 0603
Friday 25 April : The Bach Duo (Nella Hunkins, cello; Micaela Schmitz, harpsichord) perform 'Bach for Reflection' -including Bach's G Minor Gamba sonata, and sonatas by Vivaldi and others. 7.30pm, St Michael & All Angels Church, Guiting Power. 01451 850232
Saturday 26 April: Christopher Hogwood. Illustrated lecture, “The Past is Another Country”. 20.00. The Lion Hotel, Shrewsbury. Tel: 01743 367 482 or see www.ticketsource.co.uk/smt
Sunday 27th April: Workshop on West Gallery Music, led by Dave Townsend. Organised by the Shropshire Harmony Quire - please contact Dave Bissett for more information on bosky@btinternet.com
Saturday 3 May – Monday 5 May: Crickhowell Choral Festival. For details, see www.crickhowellchoralsociety.org
Saturday 3rd May: Workshop for strings. Tutor: Julia Bishop. Venue: St Michael's Church, Discoed, Presteigne, LD8 2NW.
Annie Nethercott is organising a workshop for strings as part of her Discoed Early Music series of events. The tutor is period violinist, Julia Bishop. With the other members of ‘Red Priest’, the well-known baroque ensemble noted for their vibrant performances (from memory!) and scholarly arrangements, Julia has explored the baroque repertoire in great depth and, as a tutor, Julia has a knack of sharing technique and musical detail with a warmth and vigour that brings out the best in everybody. She will work in detail on Corelli’s Concerto Grosso, Opus 6 no. 3, Bach’s Orchestral Suite no. 3, and, if time permits, J-F Rebel’s ‘Caractères de la Danse’ – a joyous piece with plenty of interesting tempo changes to get your teeth into!
BMEMF is supporting this workshop so that Annie can offer members a considerable discount. Cost for non-members is £25 (concessions £10), but existing BMEMF members can attend for just £15. This is a great opportunity, and not to be missed! Please download an application form here, or contact Annie on 07989 091949.
Thursday 7 May: Sandrine Piau and Apollo’s Fire. Vivaldi, Handel, Rameau. 19.30 Town Hall, Birmingham.
Tel: 0121 780 4949.
Thursday 8 May: Robin Blaze and Elizabeth Kenny. Clear or Cloudy - the essence of English Ayre. Dowland, Lawes, Purcell and others. 19.30. The Courtyard Centre, Hereford. Box Office 01432 340 555.
Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 May: Florentine Intermedii 1589. Workshop for singers and players. Tutor: Philip Thorby. Venue: Solihull School. For details, please go to www.memf.org.uk
Tuesday 3 June - Sunday 8 June: English Haydn Festival, Bridgnorth. For details, see www.haydn.org.uk
6 – 8 June: Farncombe weekend course. Viol Consorts, tutor Alison Crum. www.farncombecourses.co.uk
Friday 13 June – Sunday 29 June: Gregynog Festival. For details, see www.gregynogfestival.org
Wednesday 25 June: Ex Cathedra Choir and Baroque Ensemble. Summer Vespers by Candlelight. 21.00. The Oratory, Birmingham. Box Office 0121 345 0603. www.excathedra.co.uk
Saturday 28 June: “Come and Sing” Bach Mass in B minor. Workshop led by Peter Nardone. (Linked to Three Choirs Festival) College Hall, Worcester.Tel: 0845 652 1823 or see www.3choirs.org
Saturday 5th July: 'Try a Viol' day, organised by the Viola de Gamba Society. Tutor: Alison Kinder. £50. The Bate Collection, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford. For more information please click here.
Saturday 5th July: MEMF workshop for singers. Renaissance Vocal Music with tutor David Allinson. St Faith & St Laurence Church, Birmingham. For more details, please go to www.memf.org.uk
Saturday 26 July – Saturday 2 August: Three Choirs Festival, Worcester. (See especially 26 July - “The Song of Angels”, Opus Anglicanum; 29 July - Bach Mass in B minor; and 1 August - “Shakespeare in Song”, Julia Doyle and Steven Devine.) For details, see www.3choirs.org
27th July – 2nd August: Beauchamp Early Music Week. Vespers of the Five Laudate. Director: Philip Thorby. Tutor: David Hatcher. Venue: Dene Magna School, Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire GL17 0DU.
Tel: 01452 385162 Email: earlymusic@gamusic.co.uk
27th July - 3rd August: Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society Summer School. It will focus on Renaissance Dance and Music and the Plays of Shakespeare and is aimed at instrumentalists as well as dancers. The directors will be Anne Daye and Jorgen Schou-Pederson for the dancers and Keith McGowan for the instrumentalists. It is being held at the Bishop Otter Campus of Chichester University. Flyers/booking forms are available on the DHDS website http://www.dhds.org.uk.
Thurs 31 July - Sun 3rd August: Choral weekend near Evesham, organised by the Laetare Singers. Tutor: Tom Hammond-Davies. The music on these enjoyable Laetare weekends is the tutor's choice and generally ranges from early to present day. Singers are not told beforehand what they are going to sing and the music is often unfamiliar, so reasonable sight-reading skills are required. Please click here for more information or contact ruth@fraser13.plus.com
9th - 16th August: Baroque week for instrumentalists and singers, 'Music at the Court of Frederic the Great'. Click here for more information.
16–23 August 2014 Irish Recorder and Viol Course - An Grianán, Termonfechin, Ireland
Tutors: Ibi Aziz, Marion Doherty, Pamela Flanagan, Emma Murphy, Marion Scott, Philip Thorby. For players of recorders, viols and other early instruments, covering a wide repertoire from the 15th to the 21st centuries. Sessions include one-to-a-part groups, lectures, choir, large and small ensembles.
Contact Pat Flanagan (00 353 1 8337869) info@irishrecorderandviolcourse.org, www.irishrecorderandviolcourse.org
18th - 22nd August: Historically Informed Summer School (HISS) in Scarborough. Week-long residential course exploring the common ground between Early Music and Folk Music. For more information, visit the website www.hiss.org.uk
Thursday 18/ Saturday 27 September: The Sixteen. The Choral Pilgrimage – The Voice of the Turtle Dove. Sheppard, Davy, Mundy.
19.30 18 September, St.Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury.
19. 30 27 September, Tewkesbury Abbey.
For more details, visit www.thesixteen.com
26 – 28 September: Farncombe weekend course. Recorders, Voices and Viols, tutor Andrew Collis. www.farncombecourses.co.uk
Saturday 27th September: MEMF workshop with tutor Bill Hunt - verse anthems. Details tba. For more information, visit www.memf.org.uk
Saturday 27 September: Mid Wales Opera and Brecon Baroque. Handel, Acis and Galatea. 19.30. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow. Tickets: 01584 878 141. www.midwalesopera.co.uk
September 28: 6pm Abbey Dore ,Herefordshire. ‘Venetian Splendour’ - music by Monteverdi and Gabrieli performed by the Unicorn Singers. Further details to come
Saturday 15th November: MEMF workshop for singers and players. Purcell, with tutor Steve Devine. Details tba. For more information, visit www.memf.org.uk
Friday 25 April : The Bach Duo (Nella Hunkins, cello; Micaela Schmitz, harpsichord) perform 'Bach for Reflection' -including Bach's G Minor Gamba sonata, and sonatas by Vivaldi and others. 7.30pm, St Michael & All Angels Church, Guiting Power. 01451 850232
Saturday 26 April: Christopher Hogwood. Illustrated lecture, “The Past is Another Country”. 20.00. The Lion Hotel, Shrewsbury. Tel: 01743 367 482 or see www.ticketsource.co.uk/smt
Sunday 27th April: Workshop on West Gallery Music, led by Dave Townsend. Organised by the Shropshire Harmony Quire - please contact Dave Bissett for more information on bosky@btinternet.com
Saturday 3 May – Monday 5 May: Crickhowell Choral Festival. For details, see www.crickhowellchoralsociety.org
Saturday 3rd May: Workshop for strings. Tutor: Julia Bishop. Venue: St Michael's Church, Discoed, Presteigne, LD8 2NW.
Annie Nethercott is organising a workshop for strings as part of her Discoed Early Music series of events. The tutor is period violinist, Julia Bishop. With the other members of ‘Red Priest’, the well-known baroque ensemble noted for their vibrant performances (from memory!) and scholarly arrangements, Julia has explored the baroque repertoire in great depth and, as a tutor, Julia has a knack of sharing technique and musical detail with a warmth and vigour that brings out the best in everybody. She will work in detail on Corelli’s Concerto Grosso, Opus 6 no. 3, Bach’s Orchestral Suite no. 3, and, if time permits, J-F Rebel’s ‘Caractères de la Danse’ – a joyous piece with plenty of interesting tempo changes to get your teeth into!
BMEMF is supporting this workshop so that Annie can offer members a considerable discount. Cost for non-members is £25 (concessions £10), but existing BMEMF members can attend for just £15. This is a great opportunity, and not to be missed! Please download an application form here, or contact Annie on 07989 091949.
Thursday 7 May: Sandrine Piau and Apollo’s Fire. Vivaldi, Handel, Rameau. 19.30 Town Hall, Birmingham.
Tel: 0121 780 4949.
Thursday 8 May: Robin Blaze and Elizabeth Kenny. Clear or Cloudy - the essence of English Ayre. Dowland, Lawes, Purcell and others. 19.30. The Courtyard Centre, Hereford. Box Office 01432 340 555.
Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 May: Florentine Intermedii 1589. Workshop for singers and players. Tutor: Philip Thorby. Venue: Solihull School. For details, please go to www.memf.org.uk
Tuesday 3 June - Sunday 8 June: English Haydn Festival, Bridgnorth. For details, see www.haydn.org.uk
6 – 8 June: Farncombe weekend course. Viol Consorts, tutor Alison Crum. www.farncombecourses.co.uk
Friday 13 June – Sunday 29 June: Gregynog Festival. For details, see www.gregynogfestival.org
Wednesday 25 June: Ex Cathedra Choir and Baroque Ensemble. Summer Vespers by Candlelight. 21.00. The Oratory, Birmingham. Box Office 0121 345 0603. www.excathedra.co.uk
Saturday 28 June: “Come and Sing” Bach Mass in B minor. Workshop led by Peter Nardone. (Linked to Three Choirs Festival) College Hall, Worcester.Tel: 0845 652 1823 or see www.3choirs.org
Saturday 5th July: 'Try a Viol' day, organised by the Viola de Gamba Society. Tutor: Alison Kinder. £50. The Bate Collection, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford. For more information please click here.
Saturday 5th July: MEMF workshop for singers. Renaissance Vocal Music with tutor David Allinson. St Faith & St Laurence Church, Birmingham. For more details, please go to www.memf.org.uk
Saturday 26 July – Saturday 2 August: Three Choirs Festival, Worcester. (See especially 26 July - “The Song of Angels”, Opus Anglicanum; 29 July - Bach Mass in B minor; and 1 August - “Shakespeare in Song”, Julia Doyle and Steven Devine.) For details, see www.3choirs.org
27th July – 2nd August: Beauchamp Early Music Week. Vespers of the Five Laudate. Director: Philip Thorby. Tutor: David Hatcher. Venue: Dene Magna School, Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire GL17 0DU.
Tel: 01452 385162 Email: earlymusic@gamusic.co.uk
27th July - 3rd August: Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society Summer School. It will focus on Renaissance Dance and Music and the Plays of Shakespeare and is aimed at instrumentalists as well as dancers. The directors will be Anne Daye and Jorgen Schou-Pederson for the dancers and Keith McGowan for the instrumentalists. It is being held at the Bishop Otter Campus of Chichester University. Flyers/booking forms are available on the DHDS website http://www.dhds.org.uk.
Thurs 31 July - Sun 3rd August: Choral weekend near Evesham, organised by the Laetare Singers. Tutor: Tom Hammond-Davies. The music on these enjoyable Laetare weekends is the tutor's choice and generally ranges from early to present day. Singers are not told beforehand what they are going to sing and the music is often unfamiliar, so reasonable sight-reading skills are required. Please click here for more information or contact ruth@fraser13.plus.com
9th - 16th August: Baroque week for instrumentalists and singers, 'Music at the Court of Frederic the Great'. Click here for more information.
16–23 August 2014 Irish Recorder and Viol Course - An Grianán, Termonfechin, Ireland
Tutors: Ibi Aziz, Marion Doherty, Pamela Flanagan, Emma Murphy, Marion Scott, Philip Thorby. For players of recorders, viols and other early instruments, covering a wide repertoire from the 15th to the 21st centuries. Sessions include one-to-a-part groups, lectures, choir, large and small ensembles.
Contact Pat Flanagan (00 353 1 8337869) info@irishrecorderandviolcourse.org, www.irishrecorderandviolcourse.org
18th - 22nd August: Historically Informed Summer School (HISS) in Scarborough. Week-long residential course exploring the common ground between Early Music and Folk Music. For more information, visit the website www.hiss.org.uk
Thursday 18/ Saturday 27 September: The Sixteen. The Choral Pilgrimage – The Voice of the Turtle Dove. Sheppard, Davy, Mundy.
19.30 18 September, St.Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury.
19. 30 27 September, Tewkesbury Abbey.
For more details, visit www.thesixteen.com
26 – 28 September: Farncombe weekend course. Recorders, Voices and Viols, tutor Andrew Collis. www.farncombecourses.co.uk
Saturday 27th September: MEMF workshop with tutor Bill Hunt - verse anthems. Details tba. For more information, visit www.memf.org.uk
Saturday 27 September: Mid Wales Opera and Brecon Baroque. Handel, Acis and Galatea. 19.30. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow. Tickets: 01584 878 141. www.midwalesopera.co.uk
September 28: 6pm Abbey Dore ,Herefordshire. ‘Venetian Splendour’ - music by Monteverdi and Gabrieli performed by the Unicorn Singers. Further details to come
Saturday 15th November: MEMF workshop for singers and players. Purcell, with tutor Steve Devine. Details tba. For more information, visit www.memf.org.uk
