Forthcoming EEMF events

11^th October	Venus and Adonis – John Blow A workshop with Peter Holman The Old Baptist Chapel, Elsworth, Cambs. CB3 8JQ A=415 Vacancies for singers, strings & plucked continuo	Organiser: Selene Mills
1^st November	Music for Voices and Instruments by Tomás Luis de Victoria, suitable for All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day With Roger Wilkes (President of NWEMF) St. Mary’s Church, Honey Hill, Bury St. Edmunds, IP33 1RT For all voices, viols, recorders and other instruments (A=440) This workshop has yet to be confirmed	Organiser: Mike Feinson
13^th– 16^th November	Early Music Festival and Exhibition Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, SE10 9LW EEMF will be represented at the Thames Valley Forum stand Volunteers to help with the stand are welcome: contact Vicky Helby, the secretary of TVEMF	Organiser: TVEMF
2009 3^rd January (tbc)	Epiphany Party at Beccles With Philip Thorby Also the AGM	Organiser: Jennie Cassidy

Early Music Courses
These have been moved to a separate page

Some previous events
Click on the event to read a report (where available)

In 2008

Epiphany Party – featuring a four-choir Te Deum by Hieronymus Praetorius
The traditional feast of music and food – music directed by Philip Thorby, food prepared by Jennie Cassidy and members

Josquin – a workshop for singers at Sidney Sussex College with David Skinner

A Schütz workshop at Waltham Abbey with Philip Thorby (joint event with TVEMF)

A vocal polyphony workshop with David Allinson on Masterworks of the Portuguese Golden Age at The Centre at St Paul’s, Cambridge

In 2007

Epiphany Party – O Great Mystery: seasonal and sumptuous 16th century settings, with Philip Thorby

Byrd and Tallis: Cantiones 1575, with David Skinner at Sidney Sussex, Cambridge

Charpentier's Messe pour les Trépassés: a workshop with Peter Leech in Rushmere St Andrew, Ipswich

Monteverdi Vespers weekend with Philip Thorby (King's Music edition)
In St Stephen's Church, Norwich, including a performance at 4.30pm on the Sunday

Giovanni Gabrieli Magnificat a33 with Philip Thorby, in two reconstructions. A joint event at Waltham Abbey with TVEMF

My Heart is Inditing – a day of Purcell anthems at Elsworth with Peter Holman

In 2006

Epiphany Party – a selection of 16^th and 17^th century pieces, with Philip Thorby

Festal Mass weekend in Trinity College, Cambridge, with Michael Procter

Bach cantata choruses workshop, tutor Peter Leech

Striggio: forty-part Ecce Beatam Lucem, with Philip Thorby, a joint event with TVEMF

Restoration choral workshop at Swaffham Prior with Peter Leech (a private event publicised by EEMF)

Dido and Aeneas – a day's workshop with Peter Holman

In 2005

Epiphany Party – 'Praetorius and travel' with Philip Thorby

The Singing Body: Voice workshop and seminar, tutor Ashley Stafford

Lalande: choral workshop with Jeffrey Skidmore

Tallis: Spem in Alium day with Philip Thorby, in conjunction with TVEMF

Scenes from Purcell's Fairy Queen tutored by Peter Holman

Viol masterclass and workshop with Amit Tiefenbrunn

In 2004

Epiphany Party – polychoral music by Schuetz with Philip Thorby

A day with Dufay (and Philip Thorby)

Festal Mass Salve Regina in Trinity College, Cambridge, directed by Michael Procter

Scenes from King Arthur (Purcell) tutored by Peter Holman

Polyphonic and popular medieval songs – a workshop tutored by Andrew Lawrence-King

In 2003

Epiphany Party – Palestrina 12-part motets with Philip Thorby

Byrd and his Chester contemporaries – a workshop with Roger Wilkes

Singing weekend coached by Richard Wistreich

Draghi: Song for St Cecilia's Day with Peter Holman

Klezmer Day with Ilana Cravitz and friends

In 2002

Epiphany Party – Praetorius, Polyhymnia Caduceatrix et Panegyrica with Philip Thorby

Monteverdi Madrigals and Arias – Singing Masterclass with John Potter

Handel and others – choral and baroque orchestra workshop, tutor Peter Holman

Choral weekend in Cambridge with Michael Procter

In earlier years

Epiphany Party – every year in January

Instrumental music and dance workshop with Steve Player

NEMA workshop: Biber Requiem with Philip Thorby

Mexican music by Gaspar Fernandez, with Andrew Lawrence-King

'Historically-informed performance': a UEA seminar with Clifford Bartlett

Medieval and Traditional Song, tutor Belinda Sykes

Service at Framlingham, tutor Alistair Dixon

An Italian Entertainment for the Wedding of Lucrezia Borgia, tutor Nancy Hadden

Purcell Ode – Hail Bright Cecilia – photos, tutor Peter Holman

Singing Masterclasses for soloists and ensembles, tutor John Potter
Sponsored by the Music Faculty of the University of Cambridge

Choral and baroque orchestral workshop with Catherine Mackintosh

Philippe Rogier's magnificent Mass in 12 parts (1596), tutor Alan Lumsden

Purcell choral and baroque orchestra workshop Come Ye Sons of Art, tutor Peter Holman

Music for the 800^th anniversary of Ipswich's Charter, tutor Belinda Sykes

La Dafne, tutor Philip Thorby – two weekends of workshops and an informal performance

Recorders and Viols, tutor Margaret Westlake

Music of Lassus, Gabrieli, and Croce, tutor Alan Lumsden

Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, tutor Philip Thorby

Spanish music and dance, tutors Andrew Lawrence-King and Steve Player

---

[EEMF Homepage]

[More information]

[Contacts]

---

Updated 21/06/2008. Please contact the EEMF committee with comment