Early Music Concerts in East Anglia and beyond
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St Mary's Church, Cambridge CB2 3PQ |
Sunday
7th August, 3-4 |
Regular features around
East Anglia
Cambridge
Early Music concerts – this widely acclaimed series
features leading ensembles and soloists, and runs throughout the
year, supplementing the summer schools. Details of the programme are
available on the website.
The summer schools have a Bursary scheme to assist students, and
contributions are invited.
Suffolk
Villages Festival Renaissance, Baroque and Classical music for
voices and period instruments in beautiful old East Anglian churches
during the August bank holiday weekend and at other times
Easter
at King’s – a popular series of Easter concerts and
services with a substantial Early Music element, in and around
Cambridge
Norwich
Baroque – specializing
in original and lively interpretations of music by popular and less
well known Baroque composers
Musick
Rediscover’d – Kathleen Berg and Alan Morris perform
music from about 1550 to 1800, in costume.
Workshops and concerts by Shared Voices Cecilia Music Bach Cantatas Website
The King of Hearts, Norwich NR3 1LJ –
this has now closed down, but the building remains available for hire
and concerts. Details of the
building and the Anteros Arts Foundation which now runs it
The
East Anglian Academy – for those interested in the organ
and early keyboard music
A series of concerts is presented each
year in Framlingham and the surrounding area. Another aim is to
award bursaries to suitably gifted and committed young people to
learn the organ.
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, holds frequent Early Music and other concerts in the Chapel and the much-admired Auditorium. Many of these have free admission.
Eboracum Baroque put on many Early Music concerts in East Anglia, Lincolnshire, and London.
Early Opera in Cambridge
Fitzwilliam
Chamber Opera is a
venture at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge,
founded with the aim of presenting a biennial fully staged
production.
In 2007 the initial opera was Handel’s Xerxes
(review).
In
2009 Monteverdi's
Orfeo
was performed over
five nights plus a matinée at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge.
In
2012 Purcell’s Dido
and Aeneas was
performed in an all-student production.
Cambridge
Handel Opera Company (CHOC) is
a Cambridge-based charity devoted to staging productions of Handel’s
operas that celebrate the fusion of music and the stage, in addition
to concert performances of works by Handel’s contemporaries. It
gave
its first production, four staged performances of Rodelinda
in April 2018 at The Leys, a school
in central Cambridge under
Artistic Director Julian Perkins. In
2022 the staged production was Tamerlano.
Out
of area
South West
London
Loki
Music is run by William Summers, an EEMF member. It organises
concerts and education events involving historically informed music,
working with experienced musicians and teachers to run performances,
coaching sessions and workshops. The principal venues are Lovekyn
Chapel [Kingston Grammar School - opposite main School building -
London Road, Kingston upon Thames KT2 6PY] and Garrick's Temple to
Shakespeare, Garrick's Lawn, Hampton [very near TW12 2EA].
Early
Music Performers in East Anglia
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Capella
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Eyehall Musick |
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Early Dance groups West Gallery Quires, Waits and the like |
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Concert Listings
Suffolk Music – a web diary of classical music concerts and events in Suffolk and the surrounding area
Kulcha – a listing of early-ish music and other events in Cambridge, and several useful links
gerontius – searchable directories of UK choirs and choral concerts, including Early Music events
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