Author: Barbara Dunn

Barbara trained as a teacher and worked for most of her career in Primary Education, eventually serving as a headteacher in Reading and then in Worcester, before taking early retirement. She has been involved with Worcestershire Early Music from its beginning, delivering workshops and organising concerts and the Pride and Prejudice Ball. Barbara is an enthusiastic amateur musician, playing regularly in many different formal and informal gatherings. She performs with the Lachrimae Consort on flute and recorder

Passacaglia Concert and workshop

coming soon

Autumn News

Our next concert (the final of the three postponed 2020 festival events) will be in January on Sunday 16th and features Apollo’s Revels. Alison Kinder (viol) and Linda Sayce (flute /lute) will perform music by Corrette, de la Barre and Marais, with dancers Kath Waters and Anne Deller.

We will be taken on an early 18th century European tour through theatres, ballrooms, salons and concert halls, with dances for shepherdesses, elegant courtly dances and a footstamping Follia.
Tickets for the workshop will be £10, for the concert £20 and a combined ticket of £25 for both events from barbara.wem@gmail or
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/apollos-revels-a-european-tour-in-music-and-dance-tickets-202073375907 (booking fee applies)

Worcester Concert Club

A new season of concerts begins this week end with a programme including some early music to be played on the 1840 Nicholson Organ in Huntingdon Hall.

Christopher Allsop, previously organist at Worcester Cathedral, will present a lecture recital on the Huntingdon Hall 1840 Nicholson organ including works by Bach, Mendelssohn and Guillant.

All are welcome at 3pm on Sunday 10th October

Tickets from box office 01905 611427

Our September concert

Ensemble Moliere performed two wonderful concerts on September 18th in St Martin’s Church, London Road.

In the afternoon these five talented players, who have recently been nominated as BBC’s New Generation Baroque Artists, performed to a young audience at the concert which offered free entry to families.

The members of the group each described their instruments, interspersing the descriptions with items from their programme of French Baroque Music.

Th evening concert entitled Dance Sweets consisted of works from the French Baroque period by Rameau, Couperin and Lully.

Worcestershire Early Music wishes them all the best for their two years ahead as BBC’s Young Generation Baroque Artists