Diary

Last updated: 16 August 2023

For more information on concerts, special services and workshops I am giving in the next few months, please see below:

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  • Diary

    Last updated: 16 August 2023

    For more information on concerts, special services and workshops I am giving in the next few months, please see below:

    • Sat
      21
      Jan
      2023

      Midlands Early Music Forum workshop

      all dayTBC (check MEMF website)

      Date for your diary: I will be leading a public workshop for the Midlands Early Music Forum on Saturday 21 January.

    • Sat
      04
      Feb
      2023

      Eastern Early Music Forum workshop

      all dayTBC (check EEMF website)

      Date for your diary: I will be leading a public workshop for the East of England Early Music Forum on Saturday 4 February.

    • Sun
      26
      Feb
      2023

      Canterbury workshop day: Byrd, Miserere mei & penitential motets

      10:45 amSt Gregory's Centre for Music, Canterbury. CT1 1ND

      A choral workshop day exploring William Byrd's Lenten music.

      Please visit this page: Canterbury Choral Workshop 2023  and follow the links there.

       

    • Sat
      16
      Sep
      2023

      BMEMF workshop: When David heard – English laments of the early 17th century

      10:00 amTitley Village Hall, Titley, nr. Kington, HR5 3RL

      In 1612 England was convulsed by grief at the death of Henry, Prince of Wales. Henry, who was the eldest son of James I and Anne of Denmark, enjoyed immense popularity and at a time of great national anxiety the loss of the heir to the English throne was keenly felt. Alongside a wave of public sermons, poetry and prose, composers wrote anthems, madrigals and solo songs of lamentation, frequently drawing upon the Old Testament figure of King David as he mourned the death of his son Absalom, or his grief at the death of his friend Jonathan.

      For this workshop day we will explore several of these powerful pieces, from Tomkins’ justly-celebrated setting of When David heard to expressive works by Dering and Ward which, though almost unknown, are of superlative quality.

      £22 for Early Music Fora members, £26 for non-members, £5 for students.

      BOOKING - https://www.bmemf.org.uk

    • Sat
      21
      Oct
      2023

      Master Byrd: a play with music (Renaissance Singers)

      4 and 7pmIngatestone Hall, Hall Lane, Ingatestone, Essex, CM4 9NR, England
      Master Byrd
      A new play by Brean Hammond
      Starring Vincent Franklin, with live choral interpolations by The Renaissance Singers, dir. David Allinson
      William Byrd died in Essex on 4 July 1623. Four hundred years later, as the musical world celebrates his genius, the Renaissance Singers raise their voices in this new short play.
      Remarkably, the performance happens in the very place where the play is set - Ingatestone Hall, still owned by the family who sheltered and supported Byrd: the Petres.
      We are delighted that the great composer will be embodied by the superb actor Vincent Franklin, whose television work includes Happy Valley 2 and 3, Doc Martin, Bodyguard, Cucumber, The Office, Twenty Twelve, The Thick of It and Decline and Fall and whose film work includes Topsy Turvy, Peterloo, The Bourne Identity and Allelujah!
      We hope you will join us, for a unique experience in a space the composer would have known well.
      There are two performances, at 4pm and 7pm. Book early via https://www.renaissancesingers.com/concerts.
    • Sat
      16
      Dec
      2023

      'Unto us a boy is born’ — Tallis, Missa Puer natus est (Renaissance Singers)

      7:30 pmCentral London church (tbc)

      Renaissance Singers Christmas concert

      Tallis, Missa Puer natus est and motets

      Book via https://www.renaissancesingers.com