The Early Music Forum of Scotland is organising a weekend of tuition by Philip Thorby.
There will be two 3 hour sessions each day, during which Philip will tutor two groups.
Pre-formed groups –viols/recorders or other groupings – are invited to apply, stating their first and second preferences for timing. Groups will present prepared pieces.
It is estimated that the cost per group per half day session with be approximately £90 – (£80 for Forum members) to cover tuition fee, venue hire and Philip’s travel and subsistence.
Venue to be confirmed.
This is an exciting opportunity. Please complete the attached form and return as soon as possible, with a deposit of £10 (returnable if the sessions are oversubscribed).
Early Music weekend - Edinburgh
30th / 31st Oct 2010 – with Philip Thorby
Please indicate preferred timing for your session: (1,2)
Saturday 30tht
9.30 – 12.30
2.00- 5.00
Sunday 31st Oct
9.30 – 12.30
2.00- 5.00
Name of group / or members
Contact person – email/phone number/address:
Please return, with a cheque for £10- payable to EMFS, to:
Vickie Hobson, Treasurer EMFS
28 Mardale Crescent
Edinburgh EH10 5AG
v.hobson@dial.pipex.com
SINGERS – A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY
SINGERS’ WORKSHOP DAY
WITH PROF JOHN MILSOM
IN GLASGOW ON SATURDAY 30 OCTOBER
For details and application form please email margarettorrance@btinternet.com
RENAISSANCE REQUIEMS – A SAMPLER DAY
Saturday 30 October 2010
The Chaplaincy Centre of Strathclyde University
A Workshop for singers directed by John Milsom
This ‘sampler’ day compares and contrasts settings of the Missa pro defunctis by composers from Renaissance France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and the Low Countries. Focussing on the opening movement (the introit), the workshop spans the whole era from Ockeghem to Victoria, juxtaposing extracts from familiar Requiems with ones from more obscure settings, such as those by Philippe de Mone, Juan Pujol, Giovanni Francesco Anerio and Eustache du Caurroy. A few ‘surprises’ will also be inserted to lighten the tone on what might otherwise be a rather sombre day!
John Milsom is one of the world’s leading authorities on 16th century polyphony. He has written extensively about the musical culture of Tudor England, and his performing editions of Tudor church music are used by choirs around the world. His recent research has focussed on the works of Josquin des Prez. He runs workshops for singers with a particular emphasis on reading from facsimiles of 16th century notation. For many years he was Lecturer in Music at Christ Church, Oxford, and he has created the online Christ Church Library Music Catalogue, a major project that addresses the college’s important collections of early printed and manuscript music. From September 2010 he will combine his activities as a freelance consultant musicologist, lecturer and broadcaster, with the post of Adjunct Professor of Musicology at Liverpool Hope University.
The music, in up to 8 parts, will require a fairly even distribution of SATB voices so please book early to secure your place in this well-balanced choir! If any voice is over-subscribed, a waiting list will operate; tenors especially are urged to apply early so that we can judge how many non-tenors to accept.
The Chaplaincy Centre of Strathclyde University, 2 Martha Street, Glasgow, G1 1JN, is very conveniently situated between John Street and N Frederick Street (both off George Street) very near Queen Street Railway Station – you can access a map on www.strath.ac.uk/maps/chaplaincy.
The day will begin with registration/coffee from 9.30, lunch (approx 12.00-1.00) – please bring your own - and the day will finish at 4.30 pm.
The charge for the day will be: £20 for EMFS or other fora, members, £25 for non-members, (why not join EMFS for only £10!) and £10 for full-time students. Please make your cheque payable to EMFS Courses and send with the form as soon as possible to:
Margaret Torrance, 19 Fergusson View, West Linton, Peeblesshire, EH46 7DJ (email margarettorrance@btinternet.com). Please assume you have been accepted unless you hear otherwise. If you would like a receipt please enclose a stamped addressed envelope.
Name ____________________ Tel No _________________ Voice? S A T B
Address ____________________ Email _________________
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RECENT EMFS EVENTS
A charity concert to support Gavin Marshall’s
Pilgrimage for Water for Zambia
Magnificate in Musica
The Linton Singers
The Edinburgh Renaissance Band
Conductor Murray Campbell
Friday 19th June 2009 at 8.00 p.m.
Tickets £6 (children free)
from choir members or at the door before the concert
Carlops Church, Carlops
EARLY MUSIC FORUM OF SCOTLAND
MUSIC MAKING DAY FOR INSTRUMENTALISTS AND SINGERS
CARLOPS VILLAGE
SATURDAY 4 JULY
10 am - 5 pm
We invite you to come along and enjoy a day of music making in the village of Carlops on Saturday 4 July!
Murray Campbell has kindly agreed to lead this event and those wishing to take part should complete the simple form below and forward it to Murray by return. This will allow Murray to have copies of music ready and thus save time on the day.
For those who would travel by bus, there is an early one leaving the St Andrew's Square bus station (Stance 7, McEwan's) at 8.25, arriving at Carlops at 9.20, giving you plenty of time for coffee and chat, and a later one leaving at 9.25, arriving at 10.25 just in time to join in the starting session. Please note that the buses do not stop in Princes Street so the easiest place to get on if you don't want to go to the bus station, is at the gate of St Cuthbert's Church at the foot of Lothian Road. The bus travels out on the A702 and turns off above Flotterstone to go through Penicuik before coming back on to the main road to Carlops. Remember if you qualify for a bus pass it will cost you 0 and you won't have to worry about parking. The bus back to Edinburgh leaves Carlops at 5.10 pm.
The charge for the day is £15 (£5 for full-time students) and includes morning coffee, a light lunch and afternoon cuppa. We usually gather together in The Latch and then break out into appropriate practice groups, coming together later to 'perform' with each other in the Village Hall. The atmosphere is very informal and this event is a great opportunity to meet, and make new friends.
Committee members please note also that the opportunity will be taken to follow the day with a meeting in The Latch - on the assumption that most of the committee will be attending (more formal notice coming shortly!).
If you have friends who are not already EMFS members please feel free to encourage them to come along - and join at the same time!
Members are asked to complete the following and forward it to Murray immediately please - d.m.campbell@ed.ac.uk to enable him to match music to instrument and voice to part in advance:
NAME:
OWN INSTRUMENT, AND ITS CLEF: SINGERS - VOICE: S/A/T/B?
If you would like to play viol but would need to borrow an instrument please indicate:
The Geneva Connection - Cappella Nova
Dear Friends,
We’re hoping to see you at one of the performances of our next programme, The Geneva Connection. There are details below.
There’s a great deal to enjoy, including fabulous, beautifully crafted, quality pieces by Lassus, Le Jeune and Sweelinck, and there’ll be some audience participation, led by Alan Tavener, which we hope will inspire rousing performances of some well-loved Psalms.
It may be Calvinist but it won’t be joyless, boring or dour – there, I hope that’s all the prejudices denied! It will be fun, I promise.
Best wishes,
Rebecca
The Geneva Connection
Cappella Nova, directed by Alan Tavener, performs a collection of wonderful Psalms and spiritual songs from 16th century Scottish, French and Swiss sources to celebrate the John Calvin 500th Anniversary, including some of Jean Servin’s magical, intricate settings of poetic versions of Latin Psalms by Scotland’s own George Buchanan, showcasing the highest quality early Protestant music. With guest choirs taking the ‘church part’ in some vigorous 16th century Scottish ‘Psalms in reports’ by Andrew Blackhall, the 400th Anniversary of whose death also falls in 2009. Some items in the programme will receive their first performances in modern times and will reveal the elegance and craft that the finest composers of the age brought to their interpretations of the Psalms.
This is an unmissable opportunity to hear twelve singers from Scotland’s leading professional early music vocal ensemble in unique, rare and uplifting repertoire, full of the strength, passion and conviction of the Reformers. Anyone who thinks that the Reformation was ‘anti-musical’ will have to think again!
We are looking forward to some enthusiastic moments of audience participation in some of the best-loved early Psalm tunes, and there will be demonstrations of how Psalm-singing might have sounded in Scotland at the end of the 16th century.
with
The Scottish Plainsong Choir directed by Edward Caswell
(Perth, Edinburgh, Stirling & Glasgow)
Musick Fyne directed by D James Ross (Inverness)
Wednesday 13 May, 7.30pm, Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling
Thursday 14 May, 7.30pm, Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh
Friday 15 May, 7.30pm, St John’s Kirk, Perth Saturday
16 May, 7.30pm, St Andrew’s Cathedral, Inverness
Sunday 17 May, 7.30pm, St Andrews-in-the-Square, Glasgow
Tickets £13.50 & £10.00 (concessions £9.50 & £7.00)
available online at www.thebooth.co.uk
STIRLING MacRobert Centre Box Office 01786 466666
EDINBURGH Queen’s Hall Box Office 0131 668 2019
PERTH Perth Theatre/Concert Hall 0845 6126320
INVERNESS Eden Court Theatre 01463 34234
GLASGOW Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 0141 353 8000
Rebecca Tavener
Creative Director: Cappella Nova
Director: Canty
Office: 40 George Street
GLASGOW
Postal Address: 172 Hyndland Road
GLASGOW G12 9HZ
Scotland, UK
Tel: (0)141 552 0634
Fax: (0)141 552 4053
Mobile: 07050 219587
www.cappella-nova.com
Scottish Recorder Festival
Queen’s Cross Church, Albyn Place, Aberdeen AB10 1YN on Saturday 6 June 2009 9:15am to 5pm
Tickets Adults £20, Under 16s - £10,
Directed by Philip Thorby and Alan Lumsden
Churcham, Gloucestershire , GL2 8AA
EARLY MUSIC WEEK
19-25 July 2009
Information and Application Form
Renaissance Consort Workshops (vocal) in Southern France 2009
Good singers, with excellent sight-reading skills are invited to take part in one of these intense, practical surveys of the entire Renaissance repertoire. All take place at La Maison Verte in the Languedoc . Singer/Tutor ratio: no more than 6:1
For full details and application form contact our website: www.lamaisonverte.co.uk (Verte Musique)
or call Anne on 0033 (0)4 67 24 88 52
EMFS Performance Day
The National Museum of Scotland
12.45—4.00 pm Sunday 22nd March
Several of Scotland 's early music groups will be performing at the museum in Chambers Street , Edinburgh ,
between 12.45 pm and 4.00 pm, showing something of the breadth and versatility of our indigenous musicians.
Groups participating are :
• Cantigas de QMU : Cantigas de Santa Maria .
• The Galloway Consort : 16 th Century French Music
• Simon Chadwick : Early harps.
• Gaita : medieval music.
• ‘Spiritata' – 4 part recorder consort.
• Squair Mile Consort of Viols
• Society of Recorder Players - Edinburgh branch.
• The Edinburgh Renaissance Band & The Linton Singers.
• University of Edinburgh Viol Consort.
We will have an EMFS stand at the museum with CDs for sale and band brochures—also sign up forms for membership. Any volunteers to share manning the stand would be appreciated.
Please contact Margaret Torrance if you can help:
Tel 01968 660678 or e-mail : margarettorrance@btinternet , but do come along anyway—the museum as an excellent acoustic for early instruments and there will be many on show.
Gaita Medieval Music Concert Announcement
The Roman de Fauvel
performed by Gaïta Saturday 4th April 2009, 7:30pm
St James Episcopal Church 57b Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5PX
Entry by Donation
One of the most original stories of the Middle Ages is the satirical romance of the horse Fauvel who gets above his station and moves from the stable to the Great Hall, there to be fawned upon by princes and bishops. The vile Fauvel aspires to marry Dame Fortune but is palmed-off with Vain Glory, leading to a wild wedding night and the subsequent jousting of Vice and Virtue for the future of France. The tale is told in a delightful mix of instrumental music, verse and song - the manuscript of the Roman de Fauvel preserves an astonishingly diverse musical mix of the Ars Antiqua of the 13th century and the Ars Nova of the 14th century, with material ranging from tender love songs and elegant motets to drinking songs and street cries. For more information please contact Chris Elmes on 0131 557 2397, email chris@gaita.co.uk , or see our website www.gaita.co.uk or mail 1F2, 25 Haddington Place, Edinburgh, EH7 4AF.
One of the most original stories of the Middle Ages is the satirical romance of the horse Fauvel who gets above his station and moves from the stable to the Great Hall, there to be fawned upon by princes and bishops. The vile Fauvel aspires to marry Dame Fortune but is palmed-off with Vain Glory, leading to a wild wedding night and the subsequent jousting of Vice and Virtue for the future of France. The tale is told in verse and song - the manuscript of the Roman de Fauvel preserves an astonishingly diverse musical mix of the Ars Antiqua of the 13th century and the Ars Nova of the 14th century, with material ranging from tender love songs and elegant motets to drinking songs and street cries.
- Chris Elmes (medieval fiddle, oud, medieval bagpipes)
- Cait Webb (harp, shawms)
- Stacy Schumacher (oud, percussion)
- Andrew Casson (citole, recorders, percussion)
- Tembu Rongong (voice, narration)
For more information please contact Chris Elmes on 0131 557 2397, email chris@gaita.co.uk , or see our website www.gaita.co.uk
or mail 1F2, 25 Haddington Place, Edinburgh, EH7 4AF.
The Consortium 5 recorder consort are giving workshops and a concert on Friday 3 October as part of the Balerno music Festival.
Workshops (Beginners, a master class for advanced players, an ensemble class, a contemporary music class, and an improvisation class) from 2-4pm on 3 Oct.
Concert in the New Hall of Balerno Parish Church 6 - 7.30pm on 3 Oct. Tickets 7.50
For further information visit http://www.balernomusicfestival.org.uk/programme/friday-3-october-2008/
Click here for poster with more information.
~ visit from Ross Winters, Head of the recorder department at the Birmingham Conservatoire
Ibi Aziz will be visiting Edinburgh on the weekend of 8/9 November 2008 and
is available for viol consort coaching and individual lessons. If you would
like to take advantage of this rare opportunity, please contact
Vickie Hobson
Saturday 31st May, 2008
Scottish Recorder Festival
The Festival will take place on Saturday 31st.May 2008 from 10am until 6.30pm. Andrew Challinger is to be the Principal conductor and the programme will also include Eileen Silcocks and Pamela Flanagan et al. The sessions range from Intermediate to Advanced and there will be 9 sessions. Tea and coffee served and a Buffet lunch.
Cost for the Festival is £10.00 for adults and the Buffet £4.50.
If anyone is interested please come (and bring a friend or two). Here is the Booking Form
Here is the Festival Programme
Anyone interested please contact the Festival Secretary, Jimmy Stirling
For more information about the Recorder Society our web site is www.glasgowsrp.org.uk
Voices& Viols
A concert of music by William Byrd and his contemporaries
performed by Sang Scule and the Squair Mile Consort of Viols
St Michael & All Saints Church
Brougham Street Tollcross, Edinburgh
Saturday 14 June 7.30pm
Tickets £7 (£5)
available on the door from 7pmposter with more info here
VOICES OF SCOTLAND
Great Scottish poetry from 597 AD to 1570 set to glorious choral music
plainchant for St Columba and St Kentigern, Renaissance polyphony, modern works by
Gabriel Jackson, Rebecca Rowe and Ronald Stevenson (b.1928)CAPPELLA NOVA
d irector A lan Tavener
ST GILES CATHEDRAL
Friday 4th July at 8pmTickets £10 (concessions £7) from Queens Hall box office and at door
Sunday 11th May, 2008
Playing Day - National Museum of Scotland
Free entry. From 12.30 to 4.30.
Groups involved: The Early Music Ensemble of Queen Margaret University, The Galloway Consort, The Squair Mile Consort, Simon Chadwick, Vajira Premadasa, The Society of Recorder Players(Edinburgh) The Edinburgh Renaissance Band, The Linton Singers, More Geese Than Swans, Edinburgh University Viol Consort
Saturday April 26th 10am to 5pm
Playing Day and AGM in Carlops Village Hall & environs
Saturday March 8th 2008 10.00 am-5.00 pm
Renaissance Viol Playing Day in Carlops Village Hall & environs
A day for viol players of all abilities, who should be able to hold a single line in one-to-a-part music, who would like the opportunity to play on a matched set of mid- 16th century Italian viols. There will be a wide selection of music to play from or you can bring your own. Musically compatible groups will be formed once we know who is coming. Please note there will be no tutor.
Cost £10.00 (£12.00 non-EMF members) For further details please contact vivien@freeola.com or Richard Jones, 5 Lakeview,Powfoot, Annan, DG 12 5PG Tel: 01461 700396.
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow
| Kelvingrove |
Photography by Colin Torrance
"Sacred Works from 17th Century Mexico : the Music of Juan Gutierrez Padilla" a choral and instrumental workshop led by Clive Walkley.
An excellent, well-attended workshop with over 70 participants.
EMFS at the National Museum of Scotland June 17th 2007
This was an outreach initiative by members of EMFS who have performing groups, a project aimed at presenting unfamiliar instruments and repertoire to the public who visit the museum. There was non-stop music from 11.45 am until 4.00 pm with large groups playing in the Hawthornden Court and smaller ensembles in nearby galleries which feature renaissance artefacts. Ten ensembles offered the experience of hearing everything from Eastern European Jewish folk music, viol consorts, lute songs and solos ( including Scottish music for 10-course lute) large scale renaissance festival music and song, recorder ensembles large and small, medieval harp and dance arrangements for mixed instruments. The museum had provided seating around the court and galleries which visitors took advantage of and there was much demonstrating and explaining of instruments and repertoire following each performance which fulfilled the aim of the project in full. Explorations are afoot to repeat the event in one of Glasgow's museums.
