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Booking Forms go out to members about six weeks in advance of each event. If you're not a member, but would be interested in attending one of these excellent events, either as a participant or as audience, please contact our Chairman. See our Contacts Page
Last Update : 09 Apr 2008
- 14 June 2008
- Real Singing! Free the Voice for Early Choral Music
(Repertoire will depend on balance of participants but likely to include pieces by Tallis, Gombert and Guerrero)
A day workshop for singers
Tutor: Ghislaine Morgan
Venue: St Marks Church, Rugby Road, Leamington Spa, CV32 6DL
- 12 July 2008
- Schütz, Musikalische Exequien
A day workshop for singers (will include MEMF’s AGM during lunchbreak)
Tutor: Paul Spicer
Venue: St George’s Church, St John’s Avenue, Hillmorton, Rugby CV22 5HR
- 20 September 2008
- John Blow (c 1648-1708) Anthems
A day workshop for singers and instruments
Tutor: Peter Leech
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Past Events
Below is a list of workshops we've organised. I've left them here to give you a broader picture of MEMF's activities, and because I'm a sadist. I just know you'd have enjoyed the one you've just missed. Bemoan your fate and join MEMF. You know it makes sense.
- Saturday 7th February 1998
- J.S. Bach Cantatas - a workshop for singers & Baroque Orchestra (A=415 Hz)
Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36
Herr, gehe nicht in's Gericht, BWV 105
Ich glaube, lieber Herr, hilf meinem Unglauben, BWV 109
Tutor : Nicholas Kraemer
St. George's Church, Edgbaston, Birmingham
- Saturday 28th February 1998
- William Byrd : Motets and Mass for five voices - a workshop for singers
Tutor : Christopher Robinson
Huntingdon Hall, Worcester
Joint Promotion with Border Marches Early Music Forum
- Good Friday, 10th April 1998
- Buxtehude : Cycle of Passion Cantatas - Membra Jesu Nostri
A workshop for singers, strings and continuo instruments (A=415Hz)
Tutor : Nicholas McGegan
Sutton Coldfield United Reformed Church
- Saturday 16th May 1998
- French Baroque Chamber Music Workshop (Any pitch : A440, A415 or A392)
Tutors : Trio Faronell (Alan Davis (recorder), Jane Ryan (bass viol), Andrew Hurst (theorbo))
Elgar Suite, University of Birmingham
In association with West Midlands Region Early Music Consortium
- Thursday 21st May 1998
- Uncle Beresford's 10th Anniversary Musical Party
Bartholomews, Little Packington, Meriden, Coventry - from 7:00 pm
- Saturday 20th June 1998
- European Sacred Music - A workshop for singers and Organ
Tutor : John Rutter
St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham
- Saturday 25th July 1998
- MEMF's Summer Event at Middleton Hall
Madrigals from Il Trionfo di Dori (1592) and The Triumphs of Oriana (1601)
Tutors : Clare Griffel, Beresford King-Smith
Playford Workshop & Dance
Tutors : Valerie "Boss" Webster, with "Pilgarlick"
- Saturday 12th September 1998
- A Workshop for young people
Instrumental music, singing, dancing, drama, history.
With Diabolus in Musica, Saltarello, and Diversions
Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton
In association with Wolverhampton Council Leisure Services and West Midlands Region Early Music Consortium. Funded by the National Lottery via the "Arts 4 Everyone" scheme.
- Saturday 19th September 1998
- Hildegard of Bingen : A 900th Anniversary Workshop for singers
Tutor : Alison Sabedoria
St. Alban's Church, Highgate, Birmingham
- Saturday 7th November 1998
- Music for the Courts of Burgundy (Josquin, de la Rue, Barbireau)
A workshop for singers, including some work from facsimiles.
Tutor : Edward Wickham
St. Mary's Church, Warwick
Joint promotion with Warwick Arts Society, linked to a Clerks' Group concert on 11th November
- Saturday 12th December 1998
- Christmas in Venice
A workshop for singers and renaissance instruments (A=440)
Tutor : Alan Lumsden
St. Germain's Church, Edgbaston, Birmingham
- Saturday 9th January 1999
- MEMF's New Year Revels
Middleton Hall, near Tamworth
- Saturday 23rd January 1999
- Music composed for the Sistine Chapel Choir
Tutor : Jonathan Brown
St. Mary's Church, Warwick.
- Sat/Sun 13th/14th February 1999
- Purcell : The Fairy Queen
A weekend workshop for singers, dancers and baroque orchestra (A=415Hz)
Tutors : Harry Christophers, Catherine Mackintosh, Lucy Graham, Stephen Adby
mac, Edgbaston, Birmingham
- Saturday 20th March 1999
- Victoria : Music for Holy Week and Easter
A workshop for singers
Tutor : Beresford King-Smith
Erdington Methodist Church
- Saturday 24th April 1999
- Handel : Alexander's Feast
A workshop for singers and baroque orchestra (A=415Hz)
Tutor : Paul Spicer
Selly Oak Methodist Church
- Saturday 12th June 1999
- A Consort Playing Day
For recorders, viols and "broken consorts"
Tutors : The Arden Consort (Caroline Jones, Jacqui Robertson, Val Brodie)
Middleton Hall
- Saturday 26th June 1999
- 15th century dance at the Burgundian and Italian courts
Tutor : Diana Cruickshank
Arden School, Knowle
- Saturday 17th July 1999
- Monteverdi : "Madrigals made spiritual"
A workshop for singers
Tutor : Jeffrey Skidmore
- Sunday 12th September 1999
- A Workshop for young people
Instrumental music, singing, dancing, drama, history.
With Diabolus in Musica, Saltarello, and Diversions
Rugby Music School
- Saturday 9th October 1999
- John Blow - a 350th anniversary workshop
For singers, strings and organ
Tutor : David Hill
- Saturday 30th October 1999
- Guerrero : Vespers for All Saints' Day
For singers & renaissance instruments (A=440Hz)
Tutor : Alastair Dixon
St. Alban's church, Highgate, Birmingham
Linked to a Birmingham Early Music Festival concert by Chapelle du Roi - "The Iberian Peninsula"
- Saturday 11th December 1999
- Medieval and renaissance Christmas music
From The Shorter New Oxford Book of Carols
A workshop for singers
Tutor : Jeremy Summerly
St. Peter's Maney, Sutton Coldfield
- Saturday 8th January 2000
- MEMF's Millennium Revels
At Middleton Hall, near Tamworth. 6:30 to 10:30 pm
- Sunday 6th February 2000
- J.S. Bach : 250th anniversary workshop
Cantata 50 : Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft
Cantata 71 : Gott ist mein König
Tutor : Nicholas McGegan
Assisted by Jaqueline Ross
Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire
- Saturday 18th March 2000
- Thomas Tallis
A workshop for singers
Tutor : Michael Procter
St. Peter's Church, Kinver
Joint promotion with Border Marches Early Music Forum
- 31st March - 2nd April 2000
- Cavalieri : La Rappresenatione de Anima et di Corpo (A=440Hz)
and Italian vocal & instrumental music of the period
Interfora Millennium Residential Weekend Workshop for singers, instrumentalists and dancers
Tutors : Philip Thorby, Margaret Westlake, Alan Lumsden, John Bryan, Mary Collins
Nottingham University - Florence Boot Hall (residential) and Great Hall
Joint promotion by the participating Early Music Fora
- Saturday 6th May 2000
- Vivaldi : Gloria
A workshop for singers and Baroque orchestra (A=415)
Tutor : Stuart Deeks
St. Nicholas' church, Warwick
- Saturday 17th June 2000
- MEMF in the Ale-house
Jolly madrigals, rude catches and Playford dances.
Dance Tutor : Valerie "Boss" Webster
Singing Tutor : Claire Griffel
Music by "Pilgarlick"
Middleton Hall, near Tamworth
- Saturday 15th July 2000
- Celebrating Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
A Bach Day forming part of the Warwick Festival 2000, including
A MEMF Workshop on Bach's Motet Jesu, meine Freude
Tutor: Keith Orrell
plus concerts by The Bach Players and Armonico Tributo,
an organ recital, an exhibition, an architectural walk
and a rare showing of the 1967 film
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
(featuring Gustav Leonhardt as Johann Sebastian)
Venues include St. Mary's Church, The Court House, and Warwick School
- Friday 28th July 2000
- A Musical Evening
to mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death
at the home of MEMF members John & Elizabeth Turner
- Saturday 23rd September 2000
- 'Nothing new under the sun'
A workshop for singers, combining short choral works by 'modern' composers
with works by earlier composers who influenced them
Tutor: Jeffrey Skidmore
Hawksyard Priory, Armitage, Staffs
- 14th October 2000
- Scenes from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
A workshop for solo singers, chorus singers, continuo players (A415) and dancers,
exploring baroque gesture and movement
Tutors: Steve Adby, Lucy Graham, Beresford King-Smith
Middleton Hall, near Tamworth
- Sunday 29th October 2000
- Workshop for Young People
St. Dominic's School, Brewood, nr. Wolverhampton
- 18th November 2000
- Handel: Coronation Anthems for King George II and Queen Caroline
The King shall rejoice / Zadok the priest
A workshop for singers and baroque orchestra (A415)
Tutor: Simon Halsey
St. James's Church, Styvechale, Coventry
- 9th December 2000
- Praetorius: Christmas Music
A Workshop for singers and renaissance instruments (A440)
Tutor: Peter Holman
St. Paul's Church, St. Paul's Square, Birmingham
- 6th January 2001
- Twelfth Night Revels
MEMF's Annual New Year Social and Concert
Middleton Hall, near Tamworth
- Saturday/Sunday 17th/18th February 2001
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (Prologue, Acts 1 & 2)
A non-residential Weekend Workshop for singers, instrumentalists (Low pitch, A=415Hz) and dancers
Tutors: Laurence Cummings, Catherine Mackintosh, Lucy Graham
mac, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham
- Saturday 24th March 2001
- Palestrina : Lamentations and other works for Tenebrae
A workshop for singers
Tutor : Edward Wickham
St. Nicholas' Church, Warwick
Joint Promotion with Warwick Arts Society
- Saturday 5th May 2001
- Andrea & Giovanni Gabrieli
A workshop for singers, cornetts, sackbuts, recorders, viols, etc. (Modern pitch, A=440Hz)
Tutor : Alan Lumsden
St. Alban's Church, Highgate, Birmingham
- Saturday 16th June 2001
- Music of the Spanish Golden Age
A workshop for singers
Tutor: Clive Walkley
St. Peter's Maney, Sutton Coldfield
- Saturday 14th July 2001
- John Alcock (1715-1806): Sing to the Lord
A workshop for singers and baroque orchestra (Low pitch, A=415Hz)
Tutor : Jeffrey Skidmore
Hawksyard Priory
In association with Lichfield International Arts Festival
- Saturday 15th September 2001
- Handel : Dixit Dominus
A workshop for singers and baroque orchestra (Low pitch, A=415Hz)
Tutor : Mark Deller
Meriden Methodist Church
- Saturday 6th October 2001
- A Workshop for young people
"Music and Dance at an English Court"
With Diabolus in Musica, Saltarello, and Julia Lowe
Trinity High School, Redditch
In association with Worcester Schools Instrumental Music Service
- Saturday 13th October 2001
- Johannes Brahms and his Library of Early Music
A workshop for singers
Tutors : Professor Robert Pascall and Nigel Simeone
Arden School, Solihull
In association with Birmingham Early Music Festival
- Saturday 20th October 2001
- English Consort Music
A Workshop for Recorder Players (A=440)
Tutors: Brisk Recorder Quartet, Amsterdam
The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford upon Avon
in association with the Stratford English Music Festival
- Saturday 1st December 2001
- Christmas at the Chapel Royal
Including music by Sheppard, Mundy, and Tallis
A workshop for singers
Tutor : Alistair Dixon
Holy Trinity Church, Leamington Spa
- Saturday 5th January 2002
- New Year Revels
MEMF's Annual New Year Social and Concert
Middleton Hall, near Tamworth
- Saturday 19th January 2002
- Music of the Crusading Era
A workshop for Singers
Tutor: Leigh Nixon (of Gothic Voices)
St. Nicholas' Church, Warwick
(in association with Warwick Arts Society)
- Saturday 9th February 2002
- Bach Cantatas
No 39: Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot / No. 46: Schauet doch und sehet
A workshop for singers and baroque orchestra (A415)
Tutor: Nicholas McGegan
Venue: St. James's Church, Styvechale, Coventry
- Saturday 23rd March 2002
- Giovanni Croce - A Mass, some Motets and a Madrigal
A workshop for singers
Tutor: Beresford King-Smith
Venue: Christ Church, Hilderstone, Staffs
- Saturday 13th April 2002
- Lassus: Motet & Mass, 'Vinum bonum'
A Workshop for singers and renaissance Instruments (A440)
Tutor: Roger Wilkes
Venue: Mount Grace High School, Hinkley
- Saturday 18 May 2002
- Francesco Cavalli (b.1602): Magnificat, Laudate Dominum
A Workshop for singers and renaissance Instruments (A440)
Tutor: Laurence Cummings
Venue: Hagley Free Church
- Saturday 15th June 2002
- Music for St. Alban (including Fayrfax: Missa Albanus)
A workshop for singers
Tutor: David Skinner
Venue: St. Alban's Church, Highgate, Birmingham
In association with the St. Alban's Festival
- Saturday 27th July 2002
- Afternoon Workshops and Evening Social
Music for Voices & Viols: Mainly Orlando Gibbons
- Tutors:
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Playford Dance
Tutor/caller: Barbara Kinsman
Venue: Middleton Hall,A4091 Near Tamworth, Staffs
- Saturday 14th September 2002
- Music for a Borgia Wedding, 1502
A Workshop for singers and renaissance instruments (A440)
Tutor: Nancy Hadden
Venue: Church House and The Court House, Warwick
In association with Warwick Arts Society
- Saturday 2 November 2002
- 'Twin Peaks' (or: 'When fine music met commedia dell'arte')
A workshop for singers
Tutor: Robert Hollingworth
Dale Street Church Hall, Leamington Spa
- Saturday 14 December 2002
- Bach: Magnificat (with the Christmas interpolations)
A workshop for singers and baroque orchestra (A415)
Tutor: Paul Spicer
St Peter's Methodist Church, Westlands, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Joint promotion with North West EMF
- Saturday 4 January 2003
- MEMF's 21st Birthday Revels
Including an afternoon workshop for singers and strings (A415)
on Monteverdi's 'Ballo Concertato' Tirsi e Clori
Tutor: Robert King (MEMF founder-member)
and an evening celebration for all at
Middleton Hall, nr Tamworth
- Saturday1st February 2003
- Music for Lent by Josquin Des Prez and Pierre de la Rue
A workshop for singers
Tutor: Edward Wickham
Venue: St Nicholas' Church, Warwick
In association with Warwick Arts Society
- Saturday/Sunday 15/16 February 2003
- Purcell: King Arthur
A non-residential weekend workshop
For singers and baroque orchestra (A415)
Tutors: Harry Christophers, Walter Reiter
Venue: mac, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham
- Sunday 23 March 2003, 10.00am-5.00pm
- "In Honour of The Virgin Queen"
A Singing and Playing Day for Voices, Viols and Recorders
marking the 400th anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth I, 24 March 1603
Middleton Hall, nr Tamworth
- Saturday 26th April 2003
- De Lalande: De Profundis
A workshop for singers and baroque orchestra (A415)
Tutor: Jeffrey Skidmore
St. Laurence and St. Faith, Harborne, Birmingham
- Saturday 31st May 2003
- Heinrich Schütz
Passion Motets from Cantiones Sacrae, 1625
and Motets from Geistliche Chormusic, 1648
A workshop for singers
Tutor: Philip Thorby
Venue: St. Philip's Anglican Cathedral, Colmore Row, Birmingham
- Saturday 21st June 2003
- William Byrd
Motets from Cantiones Sacrae & Gradualia
A workshop for singers and renaissance instruments (A440)
Tutor: Roger Wilkes
Venue: Mount Grace High School, Hinckley, Leics
- Saturday 13th September 2003
- Monteverdi: Excerpts from the Vespers (1610)
A workshop for singers and renaissance instruments (A440)
Tutor: David Allinson
Venue: St John’s Church, Ladywood, Birmingham
- Saturday 1st November 2003
- Philip de Monte (1521-1603)
A 400th anniversary workshop for singers
Tutor: Andrew Carwood
Venue: Kinver Church, nr. Kidderminster
- Saturday 13th December 2003
- Christmas Music from Handel's "Messiah"
A day-workshop for singers and baroque orchestra (A415)
Tutor: Simon Halsey
Venue: St Martin's-in-the-Bullring, Birmingham
- Saturday 10th January 2004
- MEMF'S New Year Revels
including an afternoon workshop
for singers and renaissance instruments, working on
Jannequin's 'La Guerre' and associated 'Battle Mass' movements
Tutor: Jeremy Summerly + Playford Dancing with Peter Levesley
Venue: Middleton Hall, near Tamworth (A4091)
- Saturday 21st February 2004
- 'Music Divine' - The music of Thomas Tomkins
A day-workshop for singers
Tutor: Robert Hollingworth
Venue: Dale Street Church Hall, Leamington Spa
- Sunday 4th April 2004
- Charpentier - Missa Assumpta est Maria
A day-workshop for singers and baroque orchestra (A415)
Tutor: Laurence Cummings
Venue: Birmingham Conservatoire
Part of 'Charpentier and his world', an international conference by
Dr Shirley Thompson of the Birmingham Conservatoire
- Saturday 15th May 2004
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Heinrich Biber: Requiem in F minor
A day-workshop for singers, strings, trombones and continuo (A=440) - includes MEMF's AGM
Tutor: Paul Spicer
Venue: St. George's Church, Rugby
- Saturday 12th June 2004, 3 pm to 10 pm.
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‘Music for a Great Tudor House’
‘A Singing and Playing Event’ for voices and recorders
Tutors: Sheila Koch (voices) Peter Cooke (recorders)
Venue: 61 Salisbury Road, Moseley, Birmingham
- Saturday 10th July 2004
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Handel: Dettingen Te Deum
A day workshop for singers and baroque orchestra (A=415)
Tutor: Nicholas McGegan
Venue: St Faith and St. Lawrence, Harborne, Birmingham
- Saturday 31st July 2004
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Dieterich Buxtehude and his Contemporaries
A day workshop for singers, strings and continuo (A440)
Tutor: Beresford King-Smith
Venue: Hagley Free Church and Hall
- Saturday 11th September 2004
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Cipriano de Rore: Missa Praeter Rerum Seriem
A day workshop for singers and renaissance instruments (A440)
Tutor: Roger Wilkes
Venue: Mount Grace School, Hinckley
- Saturday 2nd October 2004
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Music by Byrd and Morley
A day workshop for singers
Tutor: Alistair Dixon
Venue: Warwick (tbc)
In association with Warwick Arts Society
- Saturday 27th November 2004
- Sounds South American
A day-workshop for singers and renaissance instruments (A 440)
Including AGM of NEMA and Margot Leigh-Milner Lecture
Tutor: Jeffrey Skidmore
Venue: Arden School, Knowle, Solihull
- Saturday 8th January 2005
- MEMF’s New Year Revels
Afternoon and evening jollification for all – details later
Venue: Middleton Hall, near Tamworth (A4091)
- Saturday 19th February 2005
- Machaut and Dunstaple: The Spirit of England and France
A day-workshop for singers
Tutor: Leigh Nixon
Venue: St Nicholas Church, Warwick
In association with Warwick Arts Society
- Saturday 19th March 2005
- J.S.Bach – Cantatas 8 and 123 and opening chorus from 102
A day workshop for singers and baroque orchestra (A415)
Tutor: John Butt
Venue: St James Church, Styvechale, Coventry
- Saturday 23 April 2005
- The Requiem Mass in the Iberian Golden Age
A day workshop for singers and instruments (A440)
Tutor: Clive Walkley
Venue: Emmanuel Church, Wylde Green, Sutton Coldfield
- Saturday 4th June 2005
- Tallis and his contemporaries
A day-workshop for singers
Tutor: David Allinson
Venue: St John's Church, Darnley Road, Ladywood, Birmingham B16 8TF
- Saturday 16th July 2005
- Schütz Polychoral works including Latin Magnificat
A day workshop for singers and renaissance instruments (A440)
Tutor: Beresford King-Smith
Venue: St George's Church, St John's Avenue, Rugby CV22 5HR
- Saturday 10th September 2005
- Dowland Lute Songs, Lachrimae
A day workshop for singers, lutes, and viols
Tutor: Stewart McCoy
Venue: Arden School, (Jean Loosemore Music and Drama Block), Station Road, Knowle, B93 0PT
- Sunday 9th October 2005
- Carrissimi and contemporaries
A day workshop
Tutor: Graham O'Reilly of L'Ensemble William Byrd Européen
Venue: Bridge House Theatre, Warwick
In association with Warwick Arts Society
- Saturday 19th November 2005
- Henry Purcell: Hail! Bright Cecilia
A day workshop
Tutor: Laurence Cummings
Venue: Elgar Suite, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston
- Saturday 7 January 2006
- MEMF's New Year Revels
Afternoon and evening jollification for all
Venue: Middleton Hall,near Tamworth (A4091) Staffs B78 2AE
- Saturday 18 February 2006
- Victoria
A day workshop for singers and renaissance instruments (A440)
Tutor: Roger Wilkes
Venue: St Mary's Church, Hinckley
- Saturday 25 February 2006
- Concerti Grossi
A day workshop for baroque instruments (A415)
Tutor: Lynn Selwood
Venue: The Friends’ Meeting House, Watford Road, Cotteridge, Birmingham B30 1JB
- Saturday 18 March 2006
- Master works from Venice
A day workshop for voices, viols and recorders (A440)
Tutor: Ann Lyall
Venue: Church of St John the Baptist, Bromsgrove
- Tuesday 25 April 2006
- Recordings of English lute-songs of the 1950s and 60s
An evening “At Home” talk by Ian Harwood
Venue: 256 Station Road, Knowle B93 0ES
- Saturday 6 May 2006
- Renaissance laments on the death of friends
A day-workshop for singers
Tutor: David Allinson
Venue: St Faith and St Laurence Church, Harborne, B’ham B32 2EJ
- Saturday 27 May 2006
- French baroque overtures etc.
A day-workshop for baroque instruments (A415)
Tutor: Lynn Selwood
- Saturday 22 July 2006
- Contrasting renaissance psalm settings
A day-workshop for singers and instruments (A440)
Tutor: Alan Lumsden
Venue: St Nicholas Church, Warwick CV34 4JD
- Saturday 9 September 2006
- Lutes, viols and voices: Dowland’s contemporaries
A day workshop for singers, and lute and viol players
Tutor: Stewart McCoy
Venue: Arden School, (Jean Loosemore Music and Drama Block), Station Road, Knowle, B93 0PT
Sunday 28 October 2006
- Bach Cantatas
A day workshop for singers and baroque instruments (A415)
Tutor: John Butt
Venue: The Elgar Suite, the University of Birmingham
- Saturday 9 December 2006
- A German Baroque Christmas, including a tercentenary celebration of Pachelbel
A day workshop for singers and continuo
Tutor: Beresford King-Smith
Venue: St Peter’s Church, Maney Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield B72 1JJ
- Saturday 6 January 2007
- MEMF’s Epiphany Revels
An afternoon workshop for singers and instruments (A:440) of seasonal polychoral works
Tutor: Clare Griffel
and our usual evening jollifications, including dancing with Cathy Greenhill.
Venue : Middleton Hall, near Tamworth, B78 2AE
- Saturday 10 March 2007
- Bouzignac (c 1587 – after 1642)
A day-workshop for singers and baroque instruments (A415)
Tutor: Jeffrey Skidmore
Venue: Emmanuel Church, Birmingham Road, Wylde Green B72 1DP
- Saturday 19th May 2007
- Bach: Missa Brevis in A major
A day workshop for singers and baroque instruments (A415) + MEMF AGM
Tutor: Paul Spicer
Venue: St George’s Church, St John’s Avenue, Rugby CV22 5HR
- Saturday 30th June 2007
- Mater ave! Josquin des Prez in Mass and motet
A day workshop for singers and renaissance instruments
Tutor: Peter Syrus
Venue: Dales Street Church Hall, Leamington Spa CV32 5HL
- Saturday 29th September 2007
- Buxtehude (d.1707)
A day workshop for singers
Tutor: Peter Leech
Venue: St Faith and St Laurence Church, Croftdown Road, Harborne, Birmingham
- Saturday 27th October 2007
- “Come again!” Music of the European Renaissance
A day workshop for Lutes, viols and voices (A440)
Tutor: Stewart McCoy
Venue: Arden School, Station Road, Knowle B93 0PT
- Saturday 8th December 2007
- Croce four-choir mass and other works.
A day workshop for singers and selected instruments (A440)
Tutor: Michael Procter
Venue: St Andrew’s Church in Westlands, Pilkington Avenue, Newcastle Under Lyme ST5 3RE
Joint workshop with NWEMF
- Saturday 5th January 2008
- MEMF’s New Year Revels
including an afternoon workshop:
‘Christmas in the West Gallery’ - Jolly Georgian Carols, for Voices and Instruments
(strings, winds and keyboards – pitch A440)
with Beresford King-Smith
and our usual evening jollifications with dancing led by Cathy Greenhill
Venue: Middleton Hall, near Tamworth B78 2AE
- Saturday 26 January 2008
- Baroque Band Day - Pieces by Handel
with Lynn Selwood
More details to Band members later.
- Saturday 9 February 2008
- Handel Wedding Anthem “This is the day”
A day workshop for singers and instruments (A415)
Tutor: Laurence Cummings
Venue: St Nicholas Church, WarwickCV34 4JD
- Saturday 5 April 2008
- Michael Praetorius on de Wert, Lassus et al
A day workshop for singers and renaissance instruments (A440)
Tutor: Philip Thorby
Venue: Polesworth Abbey, High Street, Polesworth B78 1DU
- Sunday 6th April 2008
- Master classes for preformed groups
Tutor: Philip Thorby
Venue: Solihull School Warwick Road, Solihull B91 3DJ
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