Pick and Mix Sessions

These are the other classes that you can sign up to on the day. Unlike progressives, you can ‘pick and mix’ which classes you want to go to throughout the week and therefore can experience a wide range of activities with different tutors, depending on your preferences. Most of these sessions last around 1 hour and 20 minutes, unless otherwise specified on the sign-up sheets (for example if it is a two-parter you will be expected to attend both parts).

Pick and mix sessions for 2024 will be updated as bookings come in and the balance and preferences of participtants are noted.

Please check back or get in touch for the most recent information

There are two major “projects” this year:

Benevoli - Missa Tu Es Petrus - multi-choir Mass led by guest tutor Robert Hollingworth for all comers (voices, wind, brass, strings & continuo)

Carissimi - Jephte - polysemble led by Graham Coatman for voices, strings & brass

For recorders

details to follow

with Rebecca Austen-Brown

details to follow

with Rebecca Austen-Brown and Mary Tyers

details to follow

with Tim Bayley

For strings and winds

Strings and Winds: 

This years woodwind and string collaboration will explore  the ouvertures from Alceste (1674) as well as the ouverture from Handel's Julius Ceasar which premiered in 1724.

Violins and viols:

Workshop exploring french style through repertoire and treatises - full description pending

Strings and Brass:

We are also hoping to offer a collab with the brass and a class on continuo.

For fretted strings

details to follow


with Lynda Sayce

Suitable for readers and non-readers.

For viols

Susanna Pell with:

Becki : Viols and recorders (but maybe opening it out wider...)
1) Guillaume Dufay (d.1474)

Susanna Pell with:

Lynda:
1) Lutes and viols (possibly Dowland)
2) Lutes, viols and voices (possibly Isaac)

Susanna Pell with:

Anne Marie and Catherine
Viols and baroque strings
1) French baroque ornamentation

For voices

Folk choir
with Hazel Askew

In this session we will learn some traditional folk songs in glorious three-part harmony.

Parts will be learnt by ear with texts provided.

Sea Shanties
with Hazel Askew

In this session we’ll be raising our voices to learn a few sea shanties and find out why they are still so powerful and popular today on dry land!

Palestrina & his contempraries

with Graham Coatman

1) Palestrina Tu Es Petrus & other music

2) Voice workshop: singing solo or singing in a choir; reading scores, etc