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Summer School Courses - Week 2
02 August to 09 August
Our cycle of Handel’s dramatic oratorios continues with Theodora. This week explores Bach’s unaccompanied works for solo violin and cello, largely based on dance forms, and so too we have a week of Baroque dance, not to mention a course exploring Ecosonics – the roots of music. We celebrate the 70th birthday of our old friend Bernard Roberts, and welcome back the great Hungarian Chamber Music coach – Sándor Devich, whilst jazz and film composition conclude their second weeks.
ONE WEEK COURSES
Choir
Director Graeme Jenkins
Handel Theodora (new edition by Graeme Jenkins)
Orchestral Workshop
Director Robert Hollingworth
The all-comers orchestra will study the music of Handel’s contemporaries, particularly focusing on the symphonies of Boyce and Arne. Players of all levels are welcome.
Vocal Ensembles
Directors Robert Hollingworth & friends
Robert and tutors from I Fagiolini and other vocal groups will
explore madrigals and motets, working one to a part wherever
possible. Sight-reading is certainly important but the core
repertoire will be available in advance to learn. Individuals
are welcome as well as pre-formed groups, but you may need
to be flexible about which part you sing. Tenors and basses
are particularly welcome.
Chamber Music
Coordinator Barbara Sue White
Badke Quartet
- Ensembles are formed on arrival at Summer School,
coordinated by Barbara Sue White and her team - Players meet through an initial chamber music meeting
and through advertising on noticeboards - Ensembles decide upon their own timetable and repertoire –
bring your own music or borrow repertoire from the Summer
School library - Group members may change throughout the week
depending on their other course choices, so be prepared
to be flexible
Advanced Chamber Music
Director Sándor Devich
Sándor Devich, Professor of Chamber Music at the Liszt
Academy, Budapest, founder and member for 25 years
of the Bartók String Quartet, will give daily masterclasses
for advanced, pre-formed string chamber ensembles only.
Applications for this course must be made by 28 March 2008.
Please send a biography, a recording, a reference and
a covering letter for the ensemble.
Lecture
Graham Sadler
Order out of Chaos: Rameau’s Pastorale, Zaïs
Instrumental & Vocal Classes
Emma Kirkby Voice**
Richard Edgar-Wilson Voice*
Will Hancox Voice
Bernard Roberts Piano*
David Owen Norris Piano
Colin Tilney Harpsichord*
David Titterington Organ*
Paul & Chika Robertson Violin
Peter Sulski Viola
Lowri Blake Cello
Susan Sheppard Baroque Cello
Stephen Preston Baroque Flute
Gail Hennessy Baroque Oboe
Alastair Mitchell Baroque Bassoon
- These classes are for advanced participants only
wishing to attend this course must be made by 28 March
2008. Please send an application form, covering letter,
CV, recording, reference and a large stamped addressed
envelope if you would like your recording returned.
Organ & Harpsichord Cross-over Course
Directors David Titterington & Colin Tilney
Organists and harpsichordists will explore the cross-over
between the two instruments. In the mornings students will
consider the question ‘How French is Bach’s French Keyboard
Music?’ with an examination of his French Suites and the
French Overture, BWV 831. Afternoons will be spent studying
the organ toccatas, variations and canzonas by Sweelinck,
Froberger and Pachelbel, as well as dances and character
pieces by English virginalists, suitable for both instruments.
Baroque Orchestra (FULL TIME)
Director Nicolette Moonen Violin
with Jenny Ward Clarke Cello
The Baroque Orchestra course will work on two major projects:
an orchestral Suite from Rameau’s opera Zaïs and Handel’s
oratorio Theodora. The course combines playing and dancing
and is aimed at music students and professionals. We will be
playing on period instruments. String players with no prior
experience of playing on period instruments are welcome,
but will need to bring a period instrument to play on.
Please note the deadline for both bursary and non-bursary
students applying for this course is 28 March 2008. Please
send an application form, covering letter, CV, recording,
reference and a large stamped addressed envelope if you
would like your recording returned.
Baroque Dance
Director Sarah Cremer
This course is open to all ages and abilities and will explore,
in practical sessions, the dances of Rameau’s Suite from
his opera Zaïs. There is close collaboration between the
Baroque Orchestra and the Baroque Dance course, with
all instrumentalists being invited to dance.
Exploring the Roots of Music – Ecosonics
Director Stephen Preston
This is a course for any players interested in exploring
the sounds their instruments make, as a basic form of
communication. Ecosonic improvisation focuses on ideas
of natural sound- making, on birdsong and dialogue,
relationships between sound and emotion. These are our
deepest memories of musical interaction. The course will
be of particular value to those, such as teachers, who work
with people with little or no experience of instruments.
Experience with new music or improvisation is not necessary.
TWO WEEK COURSES
Early Brass: Trumpets and Trombones (FULL TIME)
Directors David Staff & Sue Addison
This course is dedicated to those who are interested in the
history, development and playing of the late seventeenth,
eighteenth and nineteenth century trumpet and trombone.
The idea is that the trumpeters should work on trumpet
ensemble and the trombonists on trombone choir music.
The trumpet class will work without vent holes in the
mornings and with them in the afternoons. The trombonists
will have the opportunity to play period instruments
encompassing five hundred years of the instrument’s history.
This is the second week of Early Brass, and it is possible to
attend just one or both weeks of this course.
Film Music Composition (FULL TIME)
Director Miguel Mera
The second week of a two-week course.
See week one for more details.
Jazz & Improvised Music
Directors Keith Tippett & Lewis Riley Piano
with
Julie Tippetts Voice
Ben Clark Drums
Ben Waghorn Saxophone
John Richards Double Bass
This jazz course is open to instrumentalists and singers, with
or without jazz experience, and covers a wide range of styles
and approaches with an emphasis on improvisation. There
will be three daily workshops lead by Lewis Riley (standard
and Latin jazz), Julie Tippetts (voice improvisation) and Keith
Tippett (contemporary improvisation) as well as individual
help from the course tutors. All are welcome regardless of age
or standard; all you need is an instrument and to be serious
about the music. The second week of a two-week course.
It is possible to attend one or both weeks of this course.
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