Early Music events organised by other groups
It is likely that many events will be cancelled or postponed because of health concerns. Please contact the relevant organisations for more information.
Friday 10th April: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. 6.00 pm Hardwicke Holy Trinity. Click here for more information.
Saturday 11th April: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. 3.00 pm Pen-yr-heol Chapel. Click here for more information.
Saturday 11 April: 18.30. “Harmonia Sacra - English Domestic Music”. The Musical and Amicable Society, with Nicola Wemyss (mezzo-soprano). Reflective music by Purcell, Telemann and others.The Old Baptist Chapel, Tewkesbury, GL20 5RZ. Tickets £15. Book online at www.oldchapelcourtconcerts.eventbrite.com or pay at the door.
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
Sunday 3 May: One-to-a-part recorder consort playing with expert tuition from Kati Boosey and Louise Bradbury from Fontanella, or brush up your baroque showpiece with help from Becki Austen-Brown and the take advantage of our fabulous continuo group, Rosemary Robinson and Ange Cranmore. Elmslie House, Great Malvern. Click here for more information and an application form.
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.
Wednesday 20 May: 19.30. St Michael’s Church, Discoed, Presteigne, LD8 2NW.
“La La Hö Hö ” - James Gilchrist and The Linarol Consort of Viols. Music from the Court of Maximillian I. Isaac, Josquin, Senfle, de la Rue and more. Tickets from info@EarlyMusicinTheMarches.com or 07989 091949.
17-24 May: David Allinson leads a singers' course in Avila on Victoria and Morales. See www.runbysingers.org for more information.
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.
Saturday 27 June. SWEMF workshop for voices and instruments. "I Was Glad". Joyful music by Victoria and Guerrero with tutor David Allinson. Visit www.swemf.org.uk for details.
Sunday 12 July: 15.30. The Old Baptist Chapel, Tewkesbury, GL20 5RZ.
“The White Rose of York and the Cross of Burgundy”. Music for the wedding of Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy, in 1468. The Sirinu ensemble. Tickets £15. Book online at www.oldchapelcourtconcerts.eventbrite.com or pay at the door.
Saturday 1 August: 15.00. The Old Baptist Chapel, Tewkesbury, GL20 5RZ.
“A Well-Tempered Clavichord”. Julian Perkins – proving that the clavichord is no longer the Cinderella of the keyboard world, with music from C P E Bach to Oscar Peterson!
Tickets £15. Book online at www.oldchapelcourtconcerts.eventbrite.com or pay at the door.
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
2-9 August: David Skinner leads a singers' course in Assisi on Tallis, White and Parsons. See www.runbysingers.org for more information.
23-28 August - Runby - Lincoln - David Allinson leads a singers' course on Renaissance polyphony in Lincoln. See www.runbysingers.org for more information.
Sunday 30 August: 15.30. The Old Baptist Chapel, Tewkesbury, GL20 5RZ.
“Division-Music”. Pellingman’s Sarabande (lute and viol) play music as it was enjoyed in the home in Tudor and Stuart times.
Tickets £15. Book online at www.oldchapelcourtconcerts.eventbrite.com or pay at the door.
30 Aug-6 September: Rory McCleery leads a singers' course on Spanish choral music in Burgos. See www.runbysingers.org for more information.
6-11 September: - Lacock - Trogir - Patrick Craig leads a singers' course on Renaissance polyphony in Trogir. See www.lacock.org for more information.
Saturday 5 September: Tewkesbury Abbey, 3pm. The Sixteen - Choral Pilgrimage 2020: ‘The Call of Rome’. Music by Victoria, Josquin, Allegri and others. See www.thesixteen.com
21-27 September: Robert Hollingworth leads a singers' course on Spanish polyphony in Lucca. See www.lacock.org for more information.
Friday 10th April: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. 6.00 pm Hardwicke Holy Trinity. Click here for more information.
Saturday 11th April: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. 3.00 pm Pen-yr-heol Chapel. Click here for more information.
Saturday 11 April: 18.30. “Harmonia Sacra - English Domestic Music”. The Musical and Amicable Society, with Nicola Wemyss (mezzo-soprano). Reflective music by Purcell, Telemann and others.The Old Baptist Chapel, Tewkesbury, GL20 5RZ. Tickets £15. Book online at www.oldchapelcourtconcerts.eventbrite.com or pay at the door.
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
Sunday 3 May: One-to-a-part recorder consort playing with expert tuition from Kati Boosey and Louise Bradbury from Fontanella, or brush up your baroque showpiece with help from Becki Austen-Brown and the take advantage of our fabulous continuo group, Rosemary Robinson and Ange Cranmore. Elmslie House, Great Malvern. Click here for more information and an application form.
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.
Wednesday 20 May: 19.30. St Michael’s Church, Discoed, Presteigne, LD8 2NW.
“La La Hö Hö ” - James Gilchrist and The Linarol Consort of Viols. Music from the Court of Maximillian I. Isaac, Josquin, Senfle, de la Rue and more. Tickets from info@EarlyMusicinTheMarches.com or 07989 091949.
17-24 May: David Allinson leads a singers' course in Avila on Victoria and Morales. See www.runbysingers.org for more information.
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.
Saturday 27 June. SWEMF workshop for voices and instruments. "I Was Glad". Joyful music by Victoria and Guerrero with tutor David Allinson. Visit www.swemf.org.uk for details.
Sunday 12 July: 15.30. The Old Baptist Chapel, Tewkesbury, GL20 5RZ.
“The White Rose of York and the Cross of Burgundy”. Music for the wedding of Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy, in 1468. The Sirinu ensemble. Tickets £15. Book online at www.oldchapelcourtconcerts.eventbrite.com or pay at the door.
Saturday 1 August: 15.00. The Old Baptist Chapel, Tewkesbury, GL20 5RZ.
“A Well-Tempered Clavichord”. Julian Perkins – proving that the clavichord is no longer the Cinderella of the keyboard world, with music from C P E Bach to Oscar Peterson!
Tickets £15. Book online at www.oldchapelcourtconcerts.eventbrite.com or pay at the door.
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
2-9 August: David Skinner leads a singers' course in Assisi on Tallis, White and Parsons. See www.runbysingers.org for more information.
23-28 August - Runby - Lincoln - David Allinson leads a singers' course on Renaissance polyphony in Lincoln. See www.runbysingers.org for more information.
Sunday 30 August: 15.30. The Old Baptist Chapel, Tewkesbury, GL20 5RZ.
“Division-Music”. Pellingman’s Sarabande (lute and viol) play music as it was enjoyed in the home in Tudor and Stuart times.
Tickets £15. Book online at www.oldchapelcourtconcerts.eventbrite.com or pay at the door.
30 Aug-6 September: Rory McCleery leads a singers' course on Spanish choral music in Burgos. See www.runbysingers.org for more information.
6-11 September: - Lacock - Trogir - Patrick Craig leads a singers' course on Renaissance polyphony in Trogir. See www.lacock.org for more information.
Saturday 5 September: Tewkesbury Abbey, 3pm. The Sixteen - Choral Pilgrimage 2020: ‘The Call of Rome’. Music by Victoria, Josquin, Allegri and others. See www.thesixteen.com
21-27 September: Robert Hollingworth leads a singers' course on Spanish polyphony in Lucca. See www.lacock.org for more information.
