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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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