News – Page 26 – Worcestershire Early Music

Outreach programme

Our Outreach programme aims to broaden our audience base in order to progress towards greater financial independence. This year’s programme starts on Wednesday March 21st, European Early Music Day, with one of three events at Worcester’s Commandery Museum, when members of K’Antu Early Music group will perform to visitors to the museum between 2.30pm and 3.30pm. Further dates are Saturday 28th April when a performance by Blondel will be given as part of our Festival, and on Thursday June 22nd when K’Antu return to celebrate Making Music Day.

Sing early music – workshop day with Deborah Roberts

We’re delighted to present a renaissance music singing day with Deborah Roberts on Saturday 1 September in Worcester .

Deborah was a longstanding member of the Tallis Scholars. Turning to choral directing, in 1990 she founded, with Tessa Bonner, Musica Secreta, an ensemble of female voices and continuo, to research and perform a rapidly expanding repertoire of music which has helped re-establish the role of women as performers, interpreters and composers of music from the 16th and 17th centuries. She is also musical director of Brighton Early Music Festival Consort of Voices, an ensemble of solo and consort singers formed from semi-professional, student and experienced amateur singers, and runs courses in Triora, Italy. Deborah is co-founder and director of the Brighton Early Music Festival.

This is a fantastic opportunity to study renaissance repertoire from around Europe with a specialist singer and director in the field.

Further details to follow soon!

Festival brochures ready!

Our 2018 Festival brochures are printed and we’d love to send you one! Drop us an email with your postal address (barbara.wem@gmail.com) and we will add you to our mailing list.

Early Music Festival 2018

Our 2018 festival is shaping up well and our festival brochure is nearly ready. Here’s what you can be looking forward to:

Friday 27th April 2018 at 7.30pm Rachel Podger will be playing a programme of solo violin music including works by Bach and Biber

Saturday 28th April 2018 at 7.30pm Blondel will be playing a programme of wind music from the Medieval and Renaissance period.

Sunday 29th April 2018 at 3pm David Hatcher will direct Linarol Consort of Viols performing music from early 16th century Germany, with tenor Matthew Pochin

These all take place in Old St Martin’s, Cornmarket in Worcester.

In addition the monthly coffee concert at St Martin’s London Road at 10.15am on Saturday 28th April will feature baroque music from Rococo, local musicians Jane Charles (baroque flute), Angela Cranmore (viola da gamba ) and David Brookshaw continuo.

And on the afternoon of Saturday 28th April, Blondel will be playing to visitors in the Commandery Museum…a building with a hugely significant history here in Worcester.

So you see there’s plenty to do when you visit our festival…and there will be, for the first time a concession for those buying tickets for all three ticketed events………what’s not to like?

Tickets will be on sale from 1st December…watch this space