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  • Tuesday 7th to Friday 10th July 2009 inclusive
    York University, YO10 5DD United Kingdom
    National Early Music Association International Conference
    Announcement and Call for Papers
    In cooperation with University of York Music Department and the York Early Music Festival.
    Singing music from 1500 to 1900 - style, technique, knowledge, assertion, experiment.
    For details, please see the attached PDF document.
     
  • November 2008
    Early Music Yearbook & Performers Directory 2009 Published - ISSN 0967-6619 .
  • 15 January to 29 June 2009
    The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London EC1N 1AZ
    Handel the Philanthropist

    This exhibition marks the 250th anniversary of Handel’s death (23 February 1759). Handel was a major donor to two charities in particular, the Fund for Decay’d Musicians (now the Royal Society of Musicians) and the Foundling Hospital, who both benefited from bequests in his will, as well as benefit concerts organized by the composer.

    The Royal Society of Musicians is joining with the Foundling Museum for the 2009 exhibition with a loan of manuscript documents and art works from its collections which are rarely seen by the public. Further exhibits from the British Library, the Royal College of Music, King’s College, Cambridge, Leeds Public Library, the London Metropolitan Archives, the National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Collections will complement items from the rich holdings of the Gerald Coke Handel Collection at the Foundling Museum.

    There will be a series of concerts as part of the London Handel Festival, to include performances of the Foundling Hospital Anthem, composed for the opening of the Hospital chapel in 1849, and Messiah, a work particularly associated with Handel’s philanthropy, from its first performance in Dublin to the annual performances in the Hospital chapel. Further concerts will be given by members of the Royal Society of Musicians, and a programme of talks will support the exhibition, including gallery talks by museum staff and lectures by leading Handel scholars.

    Guided tours can be arranged: contact Tuz Morrison
    Further details on the museum website www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk

     
  • Tuesday, 20th January 2009 at 6.15pm
    City Chorus
    Open Evening for potential new members
    Based in the City of London, City Chorus is a friendly choir that performs regularly in beautiful churches in the city.
    Rehearsals are held on Tuesdays, 6.15-8.15 pm at the NatWest building, 1 Princes Street, right next to Bank station (Exit 1) and we are holding a special Open Evening for potential new members on Tuesday, 20th January 2009 at 6.15pm.

    We welcome new singers in all voice ranges. If you are enthusiastic, have a good, true voice, and can attend rehearsals regularly, then come and give us a try! Best of all, there are no auditions : some choral singing experience and music-reading ability would be an advantage, but is not essential, as all works to be performed are thoroughly rehearsed over the course of each term.

    City Chorus has recently performed in Christ Church Spitalfields and Southwark Cathedral, and forthcoming concerts include:
    Friday 8 May – glorious English music by music by Elgar, Finzi, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Dyson etc;
    Friday 10 July – “Baroque Discoveries” – exciting music that has lain unperformed since the eighteenth century, accompanied by professional early music ensemble.

    The musical director of the choir is Paul Ayres, who also conducts the London College of Music Chamber Choir and the Walbrook Singers. He is associate accompanist of the Crouch End Festival Chorus, and works extensively as a composer and arranger.

    For more information or to join the choir,
    please go to our website www.citychorus.info 
    or contact our membership secretary Sarah Silvé: 020 8367 3517
  • Saturday 29th November 2008, St. Andrew’s in the Westlands, Pilkington Avenue, Newcastle under Lyme, ST5 3RE
    The Annual Nema Day in association with the North West Early Music Forum.
    'The music of Juan Esquivel: a neglected master revisited.'
    To include the National Early Music Association AGM, Margot Leigh Milner Lecture, and Workshop.
    The workshop and lecture are to be given by Clive Walkley. Clive Walkley, who is a part-time lecturer at Lancaster University, has been making a detailed study of the music and life of Esquivel and has a book being prepared for publication. For many years he was Director of the NWEMF Summer School. He has his own chamber choir and is a regular tutor at early music workshops specialising in the Iberian repertoire.
    Juan Esquivel c1563- c1613 was - quoting from New Grove - ‘one of the most prolific and finest Spanish composers of his time whose motets stand comparison with Victoria’. The day will be given to the study of works by Esquivel set in the context of works by his contemporaries.
    The workshop is for singers and instruments suitable for an Iberian church i.e. shawms, cornetti, sackbuts and bass curtal with organ continuo.
     
  • Saturday 29th November 2008, 7.30pm, Southampton Guildhall, Handel – Theodora
    Southampton Philharmonic Choir, THE HANOVER BAND, David Gibson (conductor)
    Soloists: Erica Eloff (soprano), Carolyn Dobbin (mezzo-soprano), James Laing (countertenor), Joseph Cornwell (tenor) and Wyn Pencarreg (bass)
    http://www.thehanoverband.com
     
  • Sunday October 19th 2008 at 6pm, St Marys (New) Church, Stoke Newington Church St, N16 9ES (opp Clissold Park),
    Music by J F Fasch and Contemporaries, Linden Baroque, director Steven Devine
    J F Fasch Orchestral Suites in E min & D min, Concerto in D min, J D Heinichen Sonata in B flat for 2 oboes, bassoon and continuo,
    G P Telemann Trio No. 10 in D Maj for Violin, Viola and Continuo, C Graupner Entrata in G min GWV 468 for strings & continuo
    http://www.lindenbaroque.org/
     
  • Saturday 4 October 2008, 10.00-17.00, The British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1
    Music in Purcell's London: "Only Purcell e're shall equal Blow", Keynote speaker: Professor Sir Curtis Price, KBE
    A study day on the music of Henry Purcell and his contemporaries John Blow and Giovanni Battista Draghi, marking the 300th anniversary of Blow and Draghi's deaths in 1708, and the 350th anniversary of Purcell's birth in 1658 or 1659.
    Other speakers include Rebecca Herissone, Christopher Hogwood, Peter Holman, Andrew Pinnock, Robert Thompson, Bryan White and Bruce Wood. The day will also include performances of music by Purcell, Blow and Draghi.
    Further details: http://www.henrypurcell.org.uk/study_day.html
     
  • Saturday 6 September 2008, 19.30, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
    It's My Song, Robin Blaze (countertenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)
    Solo singing in seventeenth century England
    Works by John Dowland, Robert Johnson, Henry Lawes, Pietro Reggio and Henry Purcell
     
  • July 2008
    Issue 22 Early Music Performer - Published.
    Journal of the National Early Music Association ISSN 1477-478X
    For details see the Performer page.
     
  • July 21st – 25th 2008, Warwick School, Warwickshire, Early Music for Youth - Summer School 2008
    The summer school offers exciting and diverse opportunities for young players under the guidance of experienced tutors. Playing opportunities include chamber groups, large ensembles, viol consorts, recorder consorts and mixed ensembles, catering for every age and ability (grades 2 – 4, 5 – 7 and 8+). More advanced players will play in small chamber groups and consorts, tackling challenging repertoire and developing the all important skills of a chamber musician. Cellists and keyboard players (playing harpsichord) will have plenty of continuo playing experience in trio sonata groups with the most advanced recorder and viol players. Less experienced players will enjoy the variety of different ensembles, playing both within larger groups and also being encouraged to play chamber music. There will be plenty of time for recreational activities, making full use of the facilities available to us. Tutors:- Alison Kinder, Jacqui Robertson-Wade, Colin Touchin, Claire Williams, Chris Hartland.
    For details visit http://www.earlymusicforyouth.co.uk/
     
  • 26th June – 19th July. Chester Cathedral Green CH1 2HU. The Chester Mystery Plays.
    Acrobats, Magicians, Jugglers, Fire-Eaters, Stilt-Walkers, Dancers, Samba Bands, Actors, Musicians and Fireworks
    Dating back to the 1300s, the Chester Mystery Plays have become a rare and treasured part of Britain’s cultural heritage – now performed only every five years. Artistic Director Robin Goddard and Composer & Musical Director Matt Baker brilliantly re-invent these iconic Bible stories into a truly spectacular, dynamic theatrical experience. A company of over four hundred present tales of ambition, intrigue, betrayal and passion. Acrobats, Magicians, Jugglers, Fire-Eaters, Stilt-Walkers, Dancers, Samba Bands, Actors, Musicians and Fireworks, in a spectacular festival of the greatest stories every told! www.chestermysteryplays.com
     
  • 14 – 17 July 2008, Leipzig: Performances will take place in the magnificent Gewandhaus and the renowned St Nicholas Church and other wonderful churches in the city. ‘First’ Leipzig International Choral Festival, Germany Artistic Director Jonathan Willcocks. Celebrated Queen’s award winning Casterbridge Tours from the UK have formed a partnership with the city of Leipzig to bring this spectacular choral extravaganza together. Inspired with choirs from around the world gathering together in one of the most musically dedicated cities in Europe. The Festival is a cultural exchange of choral music, a unique opportunity for both singers and audiences alike to explore and engage in the musical talents of singers from around the globe.Artistic Director Jonathan Willcocks has worked extensively as a guest conductor throughout the world and is celebrated in his field. He will lead workshops and masterclasses for the visiting choirs throughout the festival and will conduct the Grand opening and Finale concerts. The international flavour of the event is highly exciting. Performances will take place in the magnificent Gewandhaus and the renowned St Nicholas Church amongst other wonderful churches in the city.
    Visit www.leipzigchoralfestival.com
     
  • 11th July 2008 7.45 pm, St Giles Cripplegate, Fore Street, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DA
    The Miltons of Bread Street, Father and Son, Concert Bites and Trio Literati
    A celebration of the poet John Milton’s 400th anniversary in the church where he and his father John Milton the composer, are both buried.
    Concert Bites brings five young professional singers to join Trio Literati in a feast of poetry and music by the Miltons of Bread Street.
    Tickets £14.00 (£11.50 concessions) on the door. See also www.concertbites.co.uk and www.trioliterati.org.uk.
     
  • Saturday 21 June 2008 at 7.30pm, Durham Cathedral, Heavenly Concord ,Durham Cathedral Consort of Singers, Durham Baroque, James Bowman, Durham Cathedral Consort of Singers, Durham Baroque, Richard Lloyd Morgan: baritone, Conductor: Ralph Woodward. Bach - Cantata BWV 170 Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, Purcell - Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem, Pergolesi - Salve Regina, Handel - I will magnify thee.
     
  • 14 May 2008 7.30pm Ottery St Mary Church, Devon, ‘Trickling Tears and Ruthless Rage’
    Rose Consort of Viols with Clare Wilkinson mezzo.     Profits in aid of The Exeter Leukaemia Fund.
     
  • Sunday 11 May 2008, 6pm, St Mary's Church, Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16 9ES
    The Sonority of Strings, Lantana Ensemble, directed from the harpsichord by Peter Holman
    Ilana Cravitz (baroque violin), Zen Edwards, Oakki Lau, Michael Blee (baroque violin/viola), Louise Jameson (baroque cello)
    Works by Biber, Rosenmuller, Muffat, J.B. Bach, Schmelzer, and Telemann.
     
  • Friday 9 May 2008 at 7.30 pm, Lopping Hall, Loughton High Road, Essex - 5 minutes from Loughton Station
    Mary Wroth's Loughton: Its Music, Its Magic, The performance will be accompanied by the Erato Consort
    An evening of readings from Wroth and her contemporaries. Mary Wroth was the first woman to publish in 1621, a prose romance in England. The performance will be accompanied by Erato Consort, singing Madrigals of the period and a new Madrigal, 'In This Strange Labyrinth How Shall I Turn?', composed by David Lewiston Sharpe, will be premiered.
     
  • Saturday, April 19, 2008 7:00pm - 10:00pm, Corpus Christi Church, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NB
    Bach Trio Sonatas, The Maresienne Consort
    Huw Daniel, violin, Ibi Aziz, viola da gamba, Bridget Cunningham, harpsichord
    play BACH TRIO SONATAS: arrangements of J.S. Bach's works for violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord
     
  • Saturday 12th April 7.30 pm,St George’s Chuch, Kemp Town, Brighton, ‘Songs of Sundrie Natures’
    Deborah Roberts (soprano), Alison Crum (viola da gamba) and Roy Marks (lute)
    Lute songs, madrigals and instrumental works by Byrd, Dowland, Weelkes, Ward, Ferrabosco, Jenkins and Simpson.
    Tickets £12.50. Full details (and online booking) are at www.bremf.org.uk
     
  • Saturday March 8th 2008 7.30pm, Southwark Cathedral London Bridge SE1 9DA
    Passion, New Renaissance Voices with Jenny Bullock - viola da gamba
    Gesualdo: Holy Week Tenebrae Responsaries
    Lassus: Lagrime di San Pietro
    Motets by Compere and Josquin
    Details see: http://www.nrv.org.uk/
     
  • Sunday March 2nd 2008 at 6pm, St Alfege Church, Greenwich
    Opera from the Restoration period in London, Linden Baroque Orchestra
    Steven Devine directing, the theme is Opera from the Restoration period in London and includes fine and stirring music from Purcell's The Faerie Queen, King Arthur and Dioclesian, Louis Grabu's Albion and Albanius and John Blow's Venus and Adonis.
    Kate Semmens (soprano), Giles Davies (Baritone), joined by Seb Harris (alto), and Greg Tassell
    Tickets at door £10 (£8 concessions) under 14 free. Wine and soft drinks served.
    St Alfege's is in the very centre of Greenwich, a 5min walk from Cutty Sark DLR station and under 10min from Greenwich BR.
    For details see Linden Baroque Orchestra
     
  • February 2008
    Early Music Forum of Scotland
    Announce new web site and web address     www.emfscotland.info
     
  • Sunday 27 January 2008. Doors open 7.30pm Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London, NW1 7AY. Klezmer Keilidh,Dance Your Sapozkelekh* Off. Guy Schalom, Ilana Cravitz and the Hopkele House Band. Hopkele Productions presents the 2nd anniversary Klezmer Keilidh. The barn dance for the 21st Century – Yiddish style – will be at Cecil Sharp House, NW1. Whisk away those winter cobwebs with klezmer dance kaller Guy Schalom, who will lead and teach traditional Eastern European Yiddish circle, square and chain dances. Fiddler Ilana Cravitz and the Hopkele House Band will help put that extra spring in your step with live klezmer music. Suitable for all ages and dancing abilities. The Hopkele will be at Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London, NW1 7AY. (Tube: Camden Town and Chalk Farm, northern line).
    For details www.ilanacravitz.com/hopkele.html   * Little boots – also the name of a popular Yiddish song
     
  • November 2007 Issue 21 Early Music Performer published.
    Journal of the National Early Music Association ISSN 1477-478X
     
  • Saturday 15 December 2007, 7.30pm, Great St Mary’s Church Cambridge, Cambridge Early Music Autumn – Winter Concert Series 2007 Concerti for Christmas, The Musical & Amicable Society
    This December the ensemble of soloists will play Handel’s Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Bach’s Viola Concerto in E flat (reconstruction); Vivaldi’s Concerto for two oboes; a Concerto Grosso by Alessandro Scarlatti; Corelli’s Christmas Concerto; Muffat’s Armonico Tributo no5, and Bach’s fourth Brandenburg Concerto. For booking and details see:- http://www.cemss.org
     
  • Friday 7 December 2007- 7.30 pm, National Centre for Early Music, York Early Music Christmas Festival Concert
    Lullaby, my Sweet Little Baby, The Rose Consort of Viols: Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland viols, with Catherine King mezzo-soprano. Elizabethan songs and consort music for a Festive Celebration including music by Byrd, Tye, Holborne and Peerson. For details contact:- National Centre for Early Music.
     
  • Thursday 6th December 2007 at 7.30 pm, Djanogly Concert Hall, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham University Concert Series. Perfect and Sweet Harmony, The Rose Consort of Viols: John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks viols
    A journey through the viol consort’s development, starting with copies of instruments from Italy in 1497, through later 16th century Venetian instruments to the Jacobean period and English viols, ending with pieces from the 17th century by Lawes, Locke and Purcell.
    For details contact: Catherine Hocking, Music Officer, Lakeside Arts Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD. www.lakesidearts.org.uk
     
  • Thursday 29th November 2007 at 7.30 pm, Great Hall, Lancaster University, Lancaster International Concert Series
    Songs without Words: Consort Music from the Age of Elizabeth I. The Rose Consort of Viols: Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Andrew Kerr, Roy Marks viols. Renaissance composers were adept at borrowing each others’ music: well known songs were arranged as instrumental pieces; motets and madrigals performed without their texts. This programme explores a range of consort music that owes much to the rich vocal repertory of the Elizabethan age, including pieces by Tallis, Tye, Parsons, Ferrabosco, Byrd and Dowland.
     
  • 23 November 2007 8pm St Patrick's Church, Dillon Court, Netham Road, Redfield Bristol BS5 9PF, Concert, Fortune my foe
    The York Waits: One of the greatest dramas of English history has become associated with the name of one man - Guy Fawkes, born in the city of York in 1570. He was the technician of the Gunpowder Plot, and the man caught red-handed beneath Parliament on November 5, 1605. Now, his home town band The York Waits perform a concert which provides a soundtrack to the life and times of Fawkes and his co-conspirators. Music from the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean period is played on a wide range of the instruments of the time, from loud shawms, sackbuts and curtal, to softer ensembles of recorders and strings. Also featured will be the lute, the most important instrument of the period, and the renaissance violin. The late 16th and early 17th century was a golden age of English music and The York Waits will play works by some of the leading composers of the day, such as Dowland and Byrd. There will also be popular music from both south and north of the Border, played on instruments such as bagpipes, cittern, guitar and hurdy gurdy. The concert is accompanied by a dramatic narration, drawn from original sources such as letters and trial reports, which outlines the course of the Plot from its conception to its discovery and the grim fate of the plotters. The narration is given by experienced broadcaster Tim Healey, a member of The Oxford Waits. For details visit www.saintpatricksmusic.co.uk or www.waits.org.uk/york/
     
  • Saturday 24th November 2007 10.30am to 6pm, Dutch Church, 7 Austin Friars, London EC2N 2HA, Nema AGM and Playing Day...Workshop and Lecture Michael Praetorius Says Directed by Philip Thorby Hosts - Thames Valley Early Music Forum Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) was a prolific and highly significant composer. His Syntagma Musicum gives a detailed account of contemporary musical practices as well as descriptions of the instruments current at that time. We shall be studying some of his large scale works in the light of his suggestions for ways of performing this music. Philip Thorby is well known as a consummate player of instruments such as viol, recorder and shawm and for his directing of workshops and summer schools. He teaches Early Music at Trinity College of Music and is director of Musica Antiqua of London.
    For details visit Thames Valley Early Music Forum.
     
  • Saturday 17 November 2007, 8.30pm Café Cairo, Landor Road, London, SW9 9PE Crimes Against Klezmer Clapton Klezmer Duo. An intimate set from Ilana Cravitz (fiddle) and James Siverly (accordion) at this cosy south London emporium. The duo will play both traditional klezmer and numbers from their new band, Crimes Against Klezmer. Café Cairo, Landor Road, London, SW9 9PE. Clapham North tube.
     
  • November 2007
    Early Music Yearbook 2008 ISSN 0967-6619 Published.
     
  • 14 November 2007 - 1.10pm St Anne and St Agnes Church, Gresham Street, London, EC2 Mediva... has been a fun loving, imaginative and successful medieval group for almost ten years, performing a range of music from the 12th - 15th century. Over the years many fantastic musicians have played with the group and the current format is a recent 'love at first sight' coming together of some of the leading medieval musicians in their fields. Concerts are full of energy, passion and a love of life, which gets the audience itching to leap to their feet. For details visit www.mediva.co.uk
     
  • Sunday 11 November 2007, 1- 4pm The Cross Kings is at 126 York Way, London N1 0AX Chicken Soup for the Ears London Klezmer Collective. Come and join the London Klezmer Collective’s first second-Sunday jam at the Cross Kings on Sunday 11 November, between 1 and 4pm. The capital’s first regular klezmer session has found a home at the Cross Kings pub. While you’re playing or listening, eat lunch, have a coffee, booze, shmooze or just relax in the deep sofas and convivial atmosphere of this great central London pub. There might even be a bit of dancing… Out-of-towners particularly welcome! Klezmer, the celebratory and soulful music of the Jews of eastern Europe, is the flavour of the month. Anyone interested in playing or listening to klezmer is welcome to come along; no experience is necessary. Join skilled professionals, keen amateurs, home-grown talent and perhaps even some international visitors. For more klezmer information and sheet music for some of the tunes we might play visit www.ilanacravitz.com/jams.html Visit http://www.thecrosskings.co.uk for details.
     
  • November 9th - November 11th 2007 Old Royal Naval College Greenwich London SE10 9LW Greenwich International Festival of Early Music. The dates have been finalised for this year's Early Music Festival & Exhibition which will return to the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich for a 6th year. For details see Greenwich International Festival of Early Music
     
  • Saturday 27 October 2007, 7.30pm Trinity College Chapel Cambridge. Folk Songs Trio Mediaeval with Birger Mistereggen Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Østrem Ossum sopranos, with Birger Mistereggen percussion Part of the Cambridge Early Music Autumn – Winter Concert Series 2007. For booking and details see:- http://www.cemss.org
     
  • Saturday 13 October 2007, 7.30pm St Edward’s Church Cambridge YS : Songs from a Sunken City and other Myths of the Sea
    Clara Sanabras and Retrospect, Clara Sanabras voice, lutes, gittern; Susanne Heinrich viols; Clare Salaman violin, fidel, hurdy-gurdy, nickelharpa. Part of the Cambridge Early Music Autumn – Winter Concert Series 2007.
    For booking and details see:- http://www.cemss.org
     
  • 10th of August to the 2nd of September 2007. The Edinburgh International Festival presents a rich programme of music, theatre, opera and dance in six major theatres and concert halls and a number of smaller venues, over a three-week period in late summer each year.

    Some of the highlights include, major figures in the Early Music scene such as Jordi Savall, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Mark Padmore, Chiara Banchini, Andreas Scholl, Claudio Cavina, Paul Hillier, Konrad Junghänel and The Tallis Scholars appear, many making their EIF debuts. And a new string of concerts in the atmospheric surroundings of Greyfriars Kirk that trace the development of European vocal music through the middle ages and the renaissance.

    Jonathan Mills, Artistic Director of Edinburgh International Festival, said “400 years ago Claudio Monteverdi wrote L’Orfeo – an opera which continues to inspire composers, writers, theatre directors and artists. I want to celebrate Monteverdi’s remarkable achievement throughout the 2007 Edinburgh International Festival. The centre piece of our tribute to Monteverdi’s abiding genius is Gilbert Deflo’s and Jordi Savall’s beautiful, arcadian production of L’Orfeo. The heartbeat doesn’t stop there. The ideas of mythology, poetry, drama and music that Monteverdi introduced and championed through his “favola in musica” can be found in our dance and theatre programmes as well as in our concert halls and recitals.   For details see... www.eif.co.uk
     
  • Saturday 28 July to Saturday 4 August 2007 Norvis early music summer school is held annually in Durham, England. The course covers all aspects of early music and is suitable for beginners through to advanced and solo players. There are technique classes for viols, recorders, singing, harpsichord, lute and baroque strings. Other activities include consort playing, concerts, lectures, trio sonatas, renaissance band, choir, baroque orchestra and early dancing. The 2007 Music List is now available.
     
  • Saturday 21 April 2007 Beyond the Golden Age
    A one-day conference organised in association with the Royal Musical Association and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton Seventeenth-century English dramatic song has been consistently underrated in the histories that condition concert and record programming. As part of the day, there will be a performance at 2.15pm of "The Masque of Moments" - extracts from sixteen masques, with music by Thomas Campion, Alfonso Ferrabosco, William and Henry Lawes, Charles Colman et al. Taking part are some of the professional singers and musicians from the series of Festival performances of the programme this summer, including Sophie Daneman and Robin Blaze, viol players Mark Levy and Joanna Levine from Concordia, and students from the Royal Academy of Music. www.soton.ac.uk/music/news/luteday.html
     
  • John Beckett - John Stewart Beckett (5 February 1927 - 5 February 2007)
  • Saturday December 2nd 2006 6pm at St Alfege Church, Greenwich.
    Linden Baroque, a concert:- The programme will include Handel Concerto Grosso op. 6 no. 6 G min & Concerto Grosso op. 3 no. 3 G maj, Boyce Symphony no. 1 in B flat maj,  Geminiani Concerto Grosso after Corelli op.5 no.7 D min and music by Arne and Festing.
     
  • November 2006, Early Music Yearbook 2007 ISSN 0967-6619 published.
     
  • Saturday 25th November 2006 10:15  Joint Meeting, Nema AGM and Nema-NEEMF Playing Day
    The School of Music, The University of Leeds LEEDS LS2 9JT. Hosts - North East Early Music Forum
    Workshop: Restoration Verse Anthems, Directed by Peter Holman
    10:15 Workshop registration and coffee
    10:30am - 4:00pm Rehearsal of verse anthems (with break for lunch and NEMA AGM at 1:00pm)
    4:00pm Tea
    4:30pm Margot Leigh Milner Lecture (details to be confirmed)
    6:00-7:00pm Concert.
    Travel directions – see www.leeds.ac.uk/music
     
  • "Leading Notes" contents list from issues 1-16, compiled by Simon R. Hill, added to web site.
    "Early Music Performer" replaced the earlier publication "Leading Notes" January 1991 - Autumn 1998.
    View the list of articles contained here- Leading Notes
     
  • Saturday 10th June 2006 - Manchester's Bridgewater Hall
    JOIN THE PEOPLE'S CHORUS    . This is a major BBC FOUR music event and we're looking for a chorus of 1,000 singers to record Tallis' most famous work - 'Spem in Alium'. This massive choral undertaking is an exciting opportunity for the public to perform at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall on Saturday June 10th 2006. The piece will be rehearsed from scratch, with 1,000 voices forming eight choirs, culminating in a performance at the end of the day of one of the most marvellous and sublime pieces of music in the world. We are presently trying to make as many choirs and singers and interested parties aware of this event as possible. We are still looking for our participants to come and be part of this chorus of 1,000.
     
  • February 2006:- extract from Nema News Volume 2
    The AGM for 2005     took place on 26th November as part of a playing day at the Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon, in conjunction with South West Early Music Forum. Robert Hollingworth conducted the Playing Day superbly. Those who were able to attend found it a wonderful experience and the lecture by Dr Julius Drake which will be reported on in Early Music Performer was very interesting and informative. Following this there was a concert by I Fagiolini. Keith Bennett is to be congratulated on organising this excellent day.
     
  • November 2005 Ashgate Publications have published From Renaissance to Baroque: Change in Instruments and Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century edited by Jonathan Wainwright and Peter Holman, the proceedings of the NEMA conference. NEMA members can buy this book at a special price of £40 - £15 off the published price. (This offer ends 30th December 2005)
     
  • November 2005 Issue 16 Early Music Performer published.
    Journal of the National Early Music Association ISSN 1477-478X.
     
  • November 2005, Early Music Yearbook 2006 published. ISSN 0967-6619
    Copies have been sent to NEMA members. You can also purchase the Yearbook by post from Recorder Magazine/Peacock Press (see Yearbook page)
  • Saturday 26 November 2005 10.30 NEMA AGM and PLAYING DAY
    The 2005 AGM will be hosted by SWEMF     in the beautiful market town of Bradford on Avon at the Wiltshire Music Centre, Ashley Road, Bradford on Avon, Wilts.  Workshop director: Robert Hollingworth
    Music of Venice: including Giovanni Antonio Rigatti Dixit Dominus. Giovanni Gabrieli O Quam suavis est.
    7.00p.m. Concert by I Fagiolini including works by Monteverdi, Banchieri, Tomkins, Britten & Berberian. This will be a public concert in the Wiltshire Music Centre's splendid and comfortable 300-seat auditorium, with its brilliant acoustics and sightlines.
     
  • March 2005 Nema News Volume 1  published.
    Nema has started an occasional newsletter to keep our members more closely in touch with the activities of the Council, and to include news, membership information and items which do not belong in our journal, Early Music Performer. The first issue was sent to members at the end of March, and includes an offer of a discount on an excellent new CD. We look forward to your comments on our new publication, and your contributions.
     
  • November 27th 2004,10.30 am - 5.30 pm - Early Music Day 
    Jean Loosemore Music and Drama Block at Arden School, Knowle, Solihull B93 0PT
    The Midlands Early Music Forum and The National Early Music Association present
    Sounds South American, A workshop for singers and instruments (A=440)
    Tutor: Jeffrey Skidmore 
  • November 2004, Early Music Yearbook 2005 published. ISSN 0967-6619
    Free copies have been sent out to NEMA members. You can also purchase the Yearbook by post from Recorder Magazine/Peacock Press (see Yearbook page)
     
  • February 2004
    The North East Early Music Forum and Thames Valley Early Music Forum announce new web sites.
     
  • January 2004 Issue 13 Early Music Performer published.
    Journal of the National Early Music Association ISSN 1477-478X
     
  • October 2003, Early Music Yearbook 2004 published ISSN 0967-6619
    Free copies have been sent out to NEMA members. You can also purchase the Yearbook by post from Recorder Magazine/Peacock Press (see Yearbook page)
     
  • Saturday 29, November 2003 Early Music Day.
    National Early Music Association in conjunction with Eastern Early Music Forum,
    St. Columba’s United Reformed Church, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DS, at 10.15am.
    The day will include
    - Requiem in F minor by Biber: a workshop with Philip Thorby
    - The Annual Margot Leigh Milner Lecture given by Stephen Rose
    - NEMA AGM 
    - Performance of Requiem in F minor by Biber
    All are welcome to any part of the day. Workshop fee: £16 (£14 for NEMA members and Early Music Forum members) Tickets for Lecture and Concert: £5 (free to NEMA and Forum members) on the door. Contact:- Selene Mills, EEMF eemf@cemss.org
  • 24th to 26th October 2003
    Greenwich International Festival of Early Music.
     
  • 5th March 2003 www.nema-uk.org
    The National Early Music Association announces new web site.

 

  

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