Programme of SWEMF Events Programme of SWEMF EventsWould anyone interested in a day's flute tutoring with Nancy Hadden?
Contact Stella Worrall to discuss feasibility. Tel. 01380 830949
Sat. 27, March, Venetian Music for viols, voices and recorders, with Ann Lyall in West Bay, Dorset
Sat. 24, April, Workshop with Margaret Westlake for voices and all instruments in Thorverton, near Exeter
Sat. 22 May, Workshop with Peter Leech for voices and loud wind players, Edington, Wiltshire
Sat. 3 July, Workshop for Singers and Baroque Orchestra on Campra's Requiem with Ralph Woodward, nr Bristol
Sat. 11 September Baroque Playing Day, Thorveton, Devon
Sat. 9 October. Joint BMEMF/SWEMF workshop for voices and strings directed by Peter Leech, Tewksbury
Sat. 30 October. Workshop for singers on Bach’s B minor Mass with Ralph Allwood and David Goode, (Venue tba)
Sat. 27 March, Venetian Music for Viols Voices and Recorders with Ann Lyall in West Bay, Dorset
Contact organiser, Paula Biss, 01308 898189
The day is designed for competent adult recorder players, viols and singers. Ann will conduct a workshop throughout the day with an informal concert at the end of the afternoon (approximately 4.00pm). Please invite/encourage any partners, friends etc. to come and listen either during the day and/or to the informal concert.
Tea/coffee and biscuits will be provided and there are pubs and cafes in West Bay for lunch, or please bring a packed lunch. There is a toilet available at the church.
The cost for the day is £13 for members of any Early Music Forum and £15 for non-members.
To apply for the workshop please complete the slip to be enclosed in the March Diary or click here and return it by 14 March 2010 with the appropriate cheque made payable to ‘SWEMF’ to:
Paula Biss, Laurel Cottage, Church Street, Puncknowle, Dorset DT2 9BL. Telephone 01308 898189 (+answermachine) or pbiss@talk21.com
IT IS ESSENTIAL TO BOOK AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE TO AVOID CANCELLATION OF THE EVENT
Sat. 24, April, Workshop with Margaret Westlake for voices and all instruments in Thorverton, near Exeter
Details in December 2009 diary. For further information contact Mary Thomas 01392 860 730
On the weekend of the feast of St. Mark we celebrate with a day of 16th century music which may have been played or sung in the great basilica of St. Mark in Venice.
Margaret Westlake studied recorder and viol at Trinity College of Music. She has performed in major venues including the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Wigmore Hall as well as in Europe, Israel and the U.S.A. She also sings professionally and has a particular interest in renaissance polyphony. She is a well known tutor on summer schools, weekend and day workshops
We look forward to welcoming Margaret back following our successful day with her last Spring. As the music is multi-choral, the day is suitable for a wide variety of instruments :- sackbuts, curtals, recorders and viols as well as singers.
Pitch: A = 440
Location: Thorverton Church is north of Exeter and south of Tiverton. The turning off the A396 is clearly marked by the Ruffwell Inn. The village is just over a mile along this road and the church is in the centre of the village near the pubs. There are 2 free car parks - one on your left just after you pass a row of red brick houses, at the rear of the Memorial Hall and the other up the hill from the "Thorverton Arms"
Cost: SWEMF and other FORA members - £14, non members - £16
Lunch: There are two pubs in the village or bring a packed lunch. Tea, coffee, squash will be provided.
Please apply on the form in the December Diary (cheques made payable to SWEMF) to: Mary Thomas, 1, The Glebe, Thorverton, Devon, EX5 5LS. More details from her 01392 860730 and devon@swemf.org.uk Cancellations : money will be refunded up to one week before the day
Sat. 22 May, 10.00am - 4.30pm. Workshop for voices and loud wind players with Peter Leech, Edington, Wiltshire
Edington Priory, Wiltshire. For further information contact Stella Worrall 01380 830 949 wiltshire@swemf.org.uk
One of the true giants of the Iberian Early Baroque (and yet still relatively unknown) the Spanish composer Juan Bautista Comes was a pupil of Gines Pérez and held posts as maestro de capilla at Lérida cathedral (1605), the Colegio del Patriarca in Valencia (1613-19) and at Valencia Cathedral from 1632 until his death. He was also second maestro at the court in Madrid from 1618-29. Much of his surviving church music is polychoral, including masses for two and three choirs as well as a fine Hodie Christus natus est for three 4-part choirs and numerous sacred villancicos.
Comes was amongst the first Spanish composers to specify instrumentation in his polychoral works. His writing is vivid, dramatic and full of colour. The Misa Iste confessor demonstrates complex connections between Spain and Italy with the incorporation of long passages of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Mass by the same name, whilst the Misa ad instar praelii constructa draws upon Tomas Luis de Victoria’s Missa Pro Victoria, which is itself based on Clement Janequin's chanson La bataille and his own parody Mass on this chanson.
Requirements: SATB voices, cornets, sackbuts, dulcians, organ continuo.
Pitch A=440
Registration at 10.00am. Workshop commences 10.30amSat. 3 July, 10.00am - 4.00pm, Workshop for Singers and Baroque Orchestra on Campra's
Requiem with Ralph Woodward, nr Bristol
W.I. Hall, Backwell, nr. Bristol. Organiser: Sylvia Davies 0117 973 2777.
Andre Campra was born in Aix en Provence in 1660 and died in Versailles in 1744. He was for many years in charge of the music at Notre Dame de Paris and his works were very popular. Around 1700, after the death of Lully, he achieved considerable success composing opera-ballets for the stage.
His REQUIEM is a wonderful piece, about 40 minutes long, scored for two flutes, strings and continuo. There is plenty of work for the choir and various step-out solos.
Our tutor, Ralph Woodward, is a freelance conductor who has worked with many well-known professional chamber choirs and orchestras and is much in demand as a leader of choral workshops in both the U.K. and Europe. Last year he directed a very successful SWEMF workshop on Heinichen and Zelenka.
Please bring a music stand if you need one. We will work at a pitch of A = 415. All music will be provided. As usual, coffee, tea and biscuits will be available, but please make your own arrangements for lunch.
The cost of the day will be £14.00 for paid-up members of SWEMF and other Fora, £16.00 for non-members.
Please send your application form (in the March Diary) to SYLVIA DAVIES, 23 Collingwood Road, Redland, Bristol BS6 6PD (Tel. 0117 973 2777) before 26th June to enable planning of the day.
Sat. 11 September Baroque Playing Day, Thorveton, Devon
We are planning to hold a Baroque Workshop in Thorverton Primary School (near Exeter) on Saturday 11th September 2010. This will be run along similar lines to that held in Bristol in 2006 and previously in Exeter
We hope to be able to work in at least four rooms, so we will need four people willing to play keyboard and we will give a discount to any member able to bring a keyboard. There will be opportunities for playing trio sonatas, quadros and some larger works including vocal cantatas at both A=440 and A=415. We have quite a large range of music available to us but if there is something you would like to bring and play, please let us know in advance.
We will be looking for applications from players of treble(tenor) recorders and voice flutes, violins, baroque flutes and oboes, bassoons, bass viols and cellos, solo voice and keyboard. The application form will be included in the June Diary, but please do put the date in your diary now.
Sylvia Davies and Dick Little
Sat. 9 October. Peter Leech directs a joint BMEMF/SWEMF workshop for voices and strings, Tewksbury
Tewkesbury Abbey on Polish and Eastern European Baroque music. Organisers Hannah Davies (BMEMF) and Heather Gibbard (SWEMF)
A native of Silesia, Gorczycki studied music and theology at the Universities of Prague and Vienna, completing his training in Cracow in 1694. Having been appointed priest there in 1692, his musical skills were recognised and he was appointed Kapellmeister, a post he held for 36 years. He demonstrated a mastery of polyphonic writing in the stile antico tradition and this workshop will explore some of Gorczycki’s finest works including settings of Os justi meditabitur, Justus ut palma and Stabat Mater. Interspersed with Gorczycki’s works will be unaccompanied choral items by the "Polish Palestrina", Mikolaj Zielenski, and instrumental items by the Slovenian master, Janez Krstnik Dolar.
Requirements: sopranos, altos, tenors, basses, violins, violas, bass strings (bass viol, cellos, and violone) and chamber organ/keyboard. Pitch A=415.
Peter Leech is known to many of you as Chairman of SWEMF, a distinguished international conductor, and experienced workshop tutor.
The day will start in the Abbey Parish Room and we are then invited to move into the excellent acoustic of the Abbey
Cost of workshop. £14 fora members £16 non-fora.
Please arrive early in Tewkesbury for parking. There are long-stay car parks near the abbey, though some may be occupied that day by fairground vehicles. If so, you are advised to go on along the A38 beyond the abbey, if you are approaching from the town direction, where there is a large long-stay car-park. Please bring packed lunch. Coffee and tea will be provided.
Sat. 30 October. Workshop for singers on Bach’s B minor Mass with Ralph Allwood and David Goode, (Venue tba)
Organiser Mary Thomas