Week 5 Courses

24 – 31 August

Are you a Wind or Brass player? Then this is the week for you, with Brass Ensemble and Wind Band complementing the many masterclasses. Enjoy singing? Every week offers a lot for singers. This week you could take a boisterous journey through the world of musical theatre after choir and if you’re an experienced sight-reader, challenge yourself with the Chamber Choir in the afternoons. Or how about something different? Get to grips with amazing South American Salsa, in our Dance and Band courses and dazzle your friends with your skills at the immensely popular Salsa Ball at the end of the week. Not played for a while? Want to get back into music? Dartington is the perfect place to come to rediscover your passion for music and be inspired to keep it up.

Courses suitable for beginners +
Courses suitable for families (F)
Advanced courses * and **
(those with ** are subject to an application process, please click here for details)

One Week Courses

Choir
Director Garry Walker
Beethoven Mass in C
(Novello 078562)

Orchestral Workshop
Director Stephen Dummer
In this Austrian-themed week, the Orchestral Workshop will work on Schoenberg’s orchestrations of Brahms’ Piano Quartet op.25 and three of Bach’s organ works, with a selection of pieces being performed in concert at the end of the week.

Chamber Music
Coordinator Barbara Sue White
with the Heath Quartet
Anyone, at any level, may play in chamber music groups. Ensembles are formed at an initial chamber music meeting and through open sign-ups. Players select their own timetable and repertoire. Some people prefer to remain with the same group all week, whilst others participate in a variety of ensembles. If possible, please bring your own music stand and some chamber music, or borrow music from the Summer School Library. Coaches are often willing to play and coach from within groups, offering all participants, of every standard, the opportunity to play with professionals. For pianists who prepare a specific chamber music work, the coordinator will arrange a play-through. Coaching will also be available if desired. In addition, the early morning 9.15 am session will be solely dedicated to a daily, mass play-through of tutti works including the Mendelssohn Octet, Bach Brandenburgs, a Brahms Sextet, and Elgar Serenade.

Wind Chamber Music
Directors Gallimaufry Ensemble
Players will be put into wind ensembles of a similar standard each day, from trios to 13-wind, covering a wide range of repertoire and working on all aspects of chamber music, such as ensemble, intonation, leading and following, balance and musical interpretation. The course is open to flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons and horns from Grade 3 to diploma, with coaching every day from the five members of the Gallimaufry Ensemble. Pre-formed wind ensembles are also invited to apply and will be given the opportunity to spend the week working intensively, together with coaching. This course is very popular so early booking is advisable. The nature of this course and forming groups means that once the course is full, if you are not signed up to it, it will not be possible to receive coaching. Once the course is full it is still possible to join in with general chamber music organised by Barbara Sue White and form your own groups but without specialist wind coaching.

Instrumental and Vocal Masterclasses and Workshops
Jessica Cash – voice
Richard Edgar-Wilson – voice*
Martino Tirimo – piano*
Tamara Stefanovich – piano*
Kenneth Sillito – violin
Louise Hopkins – cello
Jane Dixon-Wayne – flute
Holly Randall – oboe
Sarah Thurlow – clarinet (former tutor Andrew Mason)
Shelly Organ – bassoon
Alexia Cammish – french horn
Peter Francomb – french horn* (cancelled)
Paul Archibald – trumpet
Graham Lee – trombone
John Harle – saxophone

Chamber Choir
Director Jeremy Walker
This week’s Chamber Choir will be focussing on motets by Brahms and Bruckner. The programme will also include Bruckner’s Psalm 114(116) for 5-part choir and trombones and a study of Brahms’ Fest- und Gedenkspruche Op. 109. The music for this course is demanding and there is a lot to cover in a short rehearsal time before the concert, so the course is suited to experienced singers who are confident sight-readers or quick learners. Auditions will be held on the first day straight after choir, after which there will be time to buy the music before the first class in the afternoon.

Brass Ensemble
Directors Paul Archibald & Graham Lee
The course will look at a range of repertoire for brass including Elgar Howarth’s arrangement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Wind Band
Director Stephen Dummer
The wind band will work on a wide range of music with an Austrian connection including Schoenberg’s tuneful and tonal Variations for Band op.43 and a selection from Richard Rodgers’ great score for The Sound of Music, with some pieces being performed in final concert.

Songs from the Musicals
Director Robert Purvis
This course, aimed at singers of all abilities and experience, will take a boisterous journey through the world of musical theatre. The group will focus on several musicals, looking at chorus and solo numbers and show structure. This course will culminate in a performance, with opportunities for solo numbers as well as choruses.

Salsa Band
Director João Bosco de Oliveira
The Salsa Band is open to all instrumentalists of Grade 5 and above, with some spaces for singers. The course will take a riotous tour through the many aspects of Salsa, a musical style popular all over Latin America, the United States and of course Cuba, the place where it sprang from. Participants will learn a host of Salsa standards, and will be putting their new-found skills to use at the end of the week when they play for the Salsa Ball.

Salsa Dance+
Director Etian Antuche
Get to grips with this popular South American dance! Anybody of any ability can join in these classes, which will take in the different forms of salsa dance. Please wear proper shoes (no rubber soles or flip-flops). The week will conclude with dancing at the Salsa Ball, accompanied by musicians from the Salsa Band course.

Three Week Courses

Advanced Conducting**
FULL-TIME
Director John Carewe (Weeks 3 and 4)
Pierre-André Valade (Week 5)
This week is directed by Pierre-André Valade. This is the third week of a three-week course. Please note that entry to this course is subject to a process of application and audition. Please click here for more details.
Closing date for applications: 15 March