Early Music events organised by other groups
Friday 21 Feb: The Pheasant's Eye - Dancing the Scottish Baroque. Ensemble Hesperi give a unique, Arts Council performance at Maidment Hall, Shrewsbury School, including a Highland Dance Workshop (5.45-6.45), Pre-Concert Talk (6.45) and performance (7.30).Click here for more information.
Saturday 29 February: Great Malvern Priory, 12.00 noon. Amarylli (Hannah Grove, soprano, and Elizabeth Pallett, lute and guitar).‘Tales of Sherwood Forest’ - ballads and poems that were in circulation from 1500-1750 that made up the folklore of Robin Hood.Admission free, with retiring collection in aid of the children’s communication charity “I CAN”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
17-20 August: HISS (Historically Informed Summer School) at Bishop Burton College, Beverley. Visit www.hiss.org.uk for details and booking.
23-28 August - Runby - Lincoln - David Allinson leads a singers' course on Renaissance polyphony in Lincoln. See www.runbysingers.org for more information.
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.
Saturday 29 February: Great Malvern Priory, 12.00 noon. Amarylli (Hannah Grove, soprano, and Elizabeth Pallett, lute and guitar).‘Tales of Sherwood Forest’ - ballads and poems that were in circulation from 1500-1750 that made up the folklore of Robin Hood.Admission free, with retiring collection in aid of the children’s communication charity “I CAN”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
17-20 August: HISS (Historically Informed Summer School) at Bishop Burton College, Beverley. Visit www.hiss.org.uk for details and booking.
23-28 August - Runby - Lincoln - David Allinson leads a singers' course on Renaissance polyphony in Lincoln. See www.runbysingers.org for more information.
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.
