Early music courses in and around East Anglia


Tallis Scholars Summer Schools

Oakham, Saturday 5 – Saturday 12 July 2008

The Tallis Scholars Summer Schools are dedicated to exploring our great heritage of Renaissance choral music and developing a performance style appropriate to it, as pioneered by the Tallis Scholars. Under the direction of Peter Phillips and members of the Tallis Scholars you will work on concert and service repertoire in a variety of small and medium sized groups. The week’s activities culminate in a Gala Concert by summer school participants, directed by Peter Phillips.


The course takes place at Oakham School, an independent school founded in 1584. Activities are based around the chapel, located minutes from the picturesque and historic town centre.


The cost is £925 (£625 students), including all tuition and activities and full board accommodation at Oakham School.


Applications are welcomed from all singers aged 16 and over with good sightreading skills.

www.tsss.uk.com/UK/general_information.php


Summer Course for
New Viol Players

Huddersfield University
, 12 – 13 July 2008

Tutors: Jacqui Robertson-Wade, Alison Kinder, Andrew Fowler, Lisa Coulton

Run by the Viola da Gamba Society. Contact tel. 01904 706959 or http://www.vdgs.demon.co.uk
Instruments supplied by the Early Music Shop


Beauchamp House Early Music Week 2008

Churcham, Gloucester, 20 – 26 July

Tutors: Alan Lumsden and Philip Thorby, with Clifford Bartlett (continuo course)

The course is open to competent singers with good sight-reading skills.  Appropriate instruments for most of the reprertoire are bowed and plucked strings, cornetts, sackbuts, curtals and all kinds of continuo instruments.   Other instruments may occasionally be required, but it is expected that instrumentalists may occasionally be prepared to sing to help provide the best mixture of forces.  Pitch is A440.


This year’s course is on music from
Mantua. For most of the 16th century the hereditary duchy of Mantua was among the most important centres of musical activity in Italy.   In 1526 Jacquet of Mantua arrived from the Este court in Ferrara to dominate the musical life of Mantua for the next thirty years.  He is considered by many the leading master of sacred polyphony between Josquin and Palestrina.  Giaches de Wert, the last of the great Flemings in Italy, was appointed to the new Basilica of S Barbara in 1565.  His dialogue motets, such as Egressus Jesus and Saule are amazingly modern and show him to be the missing link between Rore and Monteverdi.   De Wert was succeeded by Gastoldi in 1592.  Although Gastoldi’s fame rests upon his light secular works, he composed a wide variety of sacred works which are worth exploring.  Francesco Soriano was maestro at the ducal chapel from 1581-1586. Palestrina, in a letter to the Duke of Mantua in 1583, claimed Soriano as a pupil and friend. His Psalmi et Motecta of 1616 has works in 8,12 and 16 parts.  We will also explore the sacred works of Salamone Rossi, who worked with Monteverdi as a string player in Mantua.  Pallavicino, mdc between de Wert and Monteverdi, left motets a 8, 12 & 16, including a fine Jubilate Deo a 16.  Monteverdi’s time at Mantua, from 1590-1612, was almost entirely devoted to secular music - four books of madrigals and L’Orfeo and L’Arianna.  His astonishing collection of sacred music published in Venice in 1610 was designed to show his skill and versatility to prospective employers and he left Mantua for Venice in 1612.  The collection is best known today for the Vesper music with its amazing synthesis of prima and seconda prattica but we will enjoy the Missa in illo tempore, based on the Gombert motet of 1554, which is in many ways the culmination of the glories of the stile antico.

 

Apply by downloading a form from http://www.gamweb.co.uk/downloads/BHIMDCourses2008.pdf

Further details on http://www.gamweb.co.uk/pages/BHCoursesDetails.asp

Acknowledgements to Gloucester Academy of Music, 11A Westgate Street Gloucester GL1 2NW Tel: 01452 385162

 


Cambridge Early Music Summer Schools 2008

Baroque Music: Blow and Purcell – The Parley of Instruments – 27 July - 3 August

Renaissance Music: The Triumphs of Maximilian – Philip Thorby and Friends – 3-10 August

Cambridge Early Music Summer Schools are short study courses in Baroque, Renaissance and Medieval music. The courses offer specialist tuition by world-famous professional musicians. The summer schools are designed for amateur, semi-professional and professional musicians, and offer a high standard of tuition in a friendly and supportive context.

EEMF funds a scholarship for these courses, and members are welcome to apply for financial assistance.

To download an application form go to www.cambridgeearlymusic.org

 


Benslow Music Trust


Baroque Chamber Music at A=440

Penelope Cave, Helena Brown

11 – 14 August 2008

Course no. 08/317


Enjoy and explore baroque chamber works and play in different instrumental combinations on your modern instrument. Focusing on French and Italian styles you will be able to study French ornamentation and inégalité with music by composers such as Couperin, Leclair and Dornel; and to contrast these, some lively works by Corelli, Vivaldi, Barsanti and others. Some repertoire will be suggested nearer the time of the course but you can also bring music you want to work on, to supplement the given repertoire. Recorder, flute, oboe, violin, viola, cello, bass viol, bassoon and keyboard players, as well as pre-formed groups, are all welcome. Reasonable skills are required as some sight-reading will be inevitable.


Resident: £210  Non-Resident: £175

Benslow Music Trust, Little Benslow Hills, Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Herts SG4 9RP

Tel: 01462 459 446 (9am-5pm weekdays)  Email: info@benslow.org  Website: www.benslow.org


Worcester Early Music Weekend

 

15 – 17 August

 

Ten events in three days including concerts and workshops, for all ages
A mini festival within the Worcester Festival.
Micaela Schmitz, Director


www.earlymusica.permutation.com


Triora Musica

Eton Choirbook, in Brighton

A weekend of music making for very experienced ensemble/consort singers
Friday August 29  – Sunday August 31

The Golden Age of Spanish music, in Triora

A long weekend of music making for experienced choral singers exploring some of the rich repertoire of
16th century Spanish sacred music
Thursday September 11 – Monday September 15

Both courses directed by Deborah Roberts
www.trioramusica.com

 


Renaissance Consort Workshops at La Maison Verte, Roujan, southern France.

These are week-long extravaganzas of sunshine, food, wine, and the most beautiful music, led by a tutorial team headed by Francis Steele.  There are two courses in 2008 from 19-26 July [although this one coincides with Beauchamp House – see above] and from 13-20 September and just 15 singers are being sought for each course. Good sight-readers, and people with at least some experience at singing consort music (one to a part, unconducted), are sought.

Contact tel:
0033 (0)4 67 24 88 52 or email: anne.roberts@easynet.co.uk  www.lamaisonverte.co.uk


Operamus and the
Birmingham Conservatoire

SEMELE (Handel)

4 – 7 September

 

Amateur adult singers who are up for the challenge are sought for the chorus in a staged production featuring
young professionals, students and recent graduates of the Conservatoire with Baroque orchestra.

Leaders: Richard Laing, Annette Thompson, Daniele Rosina, Christine Cairns and Rita Cullis

Apply to Karen Wise: karenjwise <AT> btinternet.com or 0121 427 8033 (replace <AT> by @ symbol)

 


Benslow Music Trust


Bach Cantata: Choir and Orchestra weekend    NEW COURSE

Jeremy Jackman, Deborah Young

19 – 21 September 2008

Course no. 08/260


Bach wrote over 300 cantatas in his lifetime of which around half have survived to today. This new course gives you a chance to explore some of them. There will be both joint sessions and sectional rehearsals. The orchestra is for modern instruments (A=440) and the chosen cantatas are for oboe, bassoon, strings and harpsichord. Intermediate to advanced singers and players are welcome.


Resident: £185  Non-Resident: £150

 

West Gallery Music

Francis Roads

24 – 26 October 2008

Course no. 08/273


West Gallery Music is joyful, rewarding and easy church music, sung during 18th and 19th centuries. This year's course will include some Communion music, an under-explored area of the West Gallery experience. The course is especially suitable for singers who need practice in holding a part, and the music will be of interest to choirs looking to expand their repertoire with straightforward but rewarding material. Instrumentalists are welcome to double vocal parts, especially if willing to sing when needed. The music is usually available a few weeks in advance.


Resident: £180  Non-Resident: £145

Benslow Music Trust, Little Benslow Hills, Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Herts SG4 9RP

Tel: 01462 459 446 (9am-5pm weekdays)  Email: info@benslow.org  Website: www.benslow.org


Lincoln Early Music Courses 2008

October 4/5th   Super Flumina Babylonis (Renaissance)             Tutor – Alan Lumsden

For a brochure, contact:
Peter and Kathleen Berg, Aldhundegate House, 51
Beaumont Fee, Lincoln LN1 1EZ, tel. 01522 527530


Venetian Voices course in
Venice

 

26 October – 2 November

 

Directors: Philip Thorby and Clare Sutherland

The course is for a balanced choir of twenty singers. Non-singing partners welcome!

Music by Venetian composers such as Monteverdi and Gabrieli, also Gibbons and Purcell

Afternoon concert on Saturday 1 November

Application form and more information from www.earlybyrd.org.uk
Click on ‘Venetian Voices’ at the top of the page, rather than on ‘download a form’ on the course page

Forms available from Venetian Voices, 29a Eskside West, Musselburgh, E. Lothian, EH21 6PP,
or phone Clare on 0131 653 2958

 

 



Updated 08/07/2008. Please contact the  EEMF committee with comments