Singing Courses & Choral Workshops & Training

2 July 2011

Choral workshop on BRITTEN, War Requiem with Janet Lincé. Leighton Park School, Shinfield Road, Reading RG2 7ED 10.00am-4.00pm .An opportunity to learn about the context of the work, the style of writing, and a chance to sing sections of the work. Open to experienced choral singers. COST: £26 Full rate, £20 pensioners and unemployed, £15 full-time students. Booking details: email julia.stutfield@googlemail.com Tel. 01865 876848 Booking deadline 25th June but best to book early. 

Free Recruitment Workshop with Enkelit. Come and enjoy a day’s singing with Enkelit, singers of Finnish and Scandinavian music and learn about the beauty of this choral genre. Enkelit is an upper voice choir and we are aiming to recruit more altos and sopranos. Rehearsals are the first Sunday of the month in York. Ability to read music is essential and reasonable sight singing is an advantage.  Workshop will be held in York - Enkelit is an upper voice choir and all upper voices are welcome, even if you are not interested in joining. www.enkelit.org.uk For more information email caroline.lewis@zen.co.uk

46 JORNADES INTERNACIONALS DE CANT CORAL - BARCELONA (Spain) International Singing Week - This one-week long Festival takes place in Barcelona. Enrolment fees  include accommodation, breakfast and lunch, pic-nic for dinner on performance days, and the music scores for the workshops.

Free time in the mornings. This allows you to enjoy the wide range of activities Barcelona has to offer: you can enjoy the sunshine on more than 3 km of beach line, the never-ending life on the glamorous Ramblas, or you may visit the Gothic city centre and all kinds of buildings, monuments or museums.

Workshops take place in the afternoon. Around 400 participants, Catalan and international, are expected to take part in the event.

The participating choirs will be expected to offer 2-3 performances: one concert in the gothic church of Santa Maria del Pi,  and one or two other concerts in different venues in the  vicinity of Barcelona. The Singing week Closure Concert takes place at the well- known modernist style Hall, “Palau de la Música Catalana”. In addition, a reception in the City Council will be organised.

Information: www.fcec.cat

Singers of Note Annual Workshop  St Bartholomew's Church, Westhoughton Following our usual trait of celebrating composers anniversaries, this year we have some greats.  Enjoy the magic of Victoria, Peter Philips, Hammerschmidt, Liszt, Eccard and a others with a selection of contrasting a cappella works. 

From the restful Tenebrae Responses to the magnificent Tu Es Petrus, madrigal Voi Volete to Das Word, there is some glorious music to uncover.  For full details contact Martin on 07710 988974 or check out the website at www.singersofnote.com for an application form.

Le Chant des Oyseaux offers a choral workshop in Arradon (Brittany - France) with Franck Pellé-Rolland, choral conductor. Repertoire : Treasures of German music by J. Kuhnau, G. A. Homilius, F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and J. G. Rheinberger. Free brochure available. Please visit our website http://choral-workshops.monsite-orange.fr

Langlais Festival Summer Workshop in Langlais' birthplace, la Fontenelle, Brittany, directed by Malcolm Archer, accompanied by David Bednall and assited by vocal coach Hilary Jones.  Works by Langlais, Poulenc, Fauré, Parry, Elgar, Archer and Bednall.  Concerts in St Malo, la Fontenelle, Saint Servan and the Abbaye de Caen.  For full details please see www.brittanymusicworkshops.co.uk  or phone 01296 688976.

Le Chant des Oyseaux offers a choral workshop in the abbey of Caunes-Minervois (Languedoc-Roussillon – south of France) with Franck Pellé-Rolland, choral conductor. Repertoire : Sacred Spanish music by T. L. de Victoria and F. Guerrero. Free brochure available. Please visit our website http://choral-workshops.monsite-orange.fr

Le Chant des Oyseaux offers a choral workshop in the abbey of Caunes-Minervois (Languedoc-Roussillon – south of France) with Franck Pellé-Rolland, choral conductor. Repertoire : American choral music by R. Thompson. Free brochure available. Please visit our website http://choral-workshops.monsite-orange.fr

Summer Trinity Singers Course 13^th to 21^st August 2011

(8 full days and 2 half days, plus evening concerts & masterclasses, culminating in a public performance)

Fee: £685

A unique opportunity for singers, not able to commit to full-time weekly training programme, to receive top-level training in the perfect environment. The courses are designed for singers interested in opera, musical theatre and in all aspects of singing and performance, wishing to develop their skills by working with leading performers , coaches and teachers in a world-class, London conservatoire.  If you are someone working full-time, with the ambition to explore their passion for singing further, a post-graduate singer looking for a part-time course to develop the skills necessary to audition for professional work, a young singer, perhaps on a gap-year, preparing to audition for full-time, accredited courses, an international student, wanting to focus on both music and language in the major cultural centre of London, then these courses are ideal for you.

The Course offers classes in chorus and ensemble singing, characterisation and staging, jazz improvisation, warming-up, dance and movement, one-to-one voice and repertoire coaching. 

Director of the Courses is Peter Knapp, TrinityLaban professor, who brings a wide range of experience as a singer, director and trainer of performers to the programmes. He heads a staff of other Trinity teachers together with distinguished practitioners with whom he works, both from the West End and from the worlds of opera and classical music. The Course above all guarantees a clear understanding of the muscular process involved in singing and performance, and offers a positive strategy for how to develop strength, stamina and flexibility further. For further details and to register for the course please contact Katie Windsor at Trinity k.windsor@trinitylaban.ac.uk

The Courses take place in the beautiful setting of Trinity College of Music, located in its magnificent Christopher Wren buildings in historic Greenwich. Nearby student-style accommodation is available for the Summer Course and central London is within easy reach of the College via excellent transport links.

Join Orlando Chamber Choir and James Weeks to sing New World baroque masterpieces including  De Padilla's exciting “Missa ego flos campi” and works by De Araujo and De Zéspedes. St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, London EC2V 6AU 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. The all-day workshop is open to all choral singers but sight-reading skills are a pre-requisite. Tickets £25, concessions £20, by advance booking only from 01223 247 027 (Karen) or www.orlandochoir.org.uk/tickets.php. Further info on www.orlandochoir.org.uk.

Helicon Arts Choral Summer Course, Cortijo Barranco, Andalucia, Spain - Ivor Setterfield, Artistic Director. Join Helicon Arts in sunny Andalucia for our week-long choral course for enthusiastic amateur singers, culminating in a public concert. We will stay at Cortijo Barranco, an olive estate in the Andalucian hills with pool and stunning views, where delicious food and wine will be the order of the day. During the week there will be excursions to Seville, Cadiz and the white villages of Arcos de la Frontera and Medina Sidonia, as well as a sherry tasting at a traditional bodega in Jerez. The price is fully inclusive of accommodation, meals, airport transfers, course costs, music, as well as all excursions and activities. Visit our website for more details, and to request an information pack. website: http://www.heliconarts.co.uk Tel 0870 609 1068 email: info@heliconarts.co.uk

Sing Live UK presents a Singing Day performing 'The Music of The Royal Wedding 2011' A unique opportunity to learn and perform in a free concert in the evening in the wonderful Saint Nicholas Church, Warwick.  

Two inspirational anthems by Charles Hubert Parry (Blest Pair of Sirens and I Was Glad) alongside the more modern setting of All Things Bright and Beaurtiful and For The Beauty of The Earth by John Rutter. In addition to the hymns Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer, Love Divine, All Loves Excelling and Jerusalem.

The day is led by Conductor, Adjudicator and Musical Director Steven Roberts and accompanied by Richard Quarmby on organ and piano. Cost £30. Details from Sing Live www.singliveuk.com or telephone 01609 780315

International Oratorio Choir - Workshop 16-21 October 2012, Riva del Garda (Italy) - Stabat Mater (G. Rossini) Gioacchino Rossini’s Stabat Mater is the central piece of church music written by this Italian opera composer. It is based on a mediaeval poem called Stabat Mater Dolorosa. Following Italian traditions of church music, Rossini divided the mediaeval sequence in Stabat Mater into clearly separated solo and ensemble movements. The care with which he undertook this task is reflected in the fact that he used no material from earlier works whatsoever. Stabat Mater contains both operatic elements and features of church music: lively melodic patterns and dynamic rhythms can be found alongside contrapuntal sections composed in the old style. 

The rehearsals will be held on Lake Garda in Italy the International Oratorio Choir will be using the rehearsal rooms. The lake presents a wonderful spectacle of natural luminescence and colours, so that it is a unique holiday resort at any time of the year. The lakeside towns and villages with their architecture and imposing palazzi are a fascinating feature of this area. This enchanting environment will provide dedicated singers with a superb opportunity for an unforgettable musical event.

The final concert will be held at the Concert Hall in Riva del Garda (Italy) on 20 October 2012 at 20:00 hrs More information about this project: http://www.oratorio-choir.com/

Battersea Choral Workshops. We are delighted to announce our theme for 2011, Tallis to Whitacre - a journey of choral music through the ages. For all details and registration form go to http://www.batterseachoral.co.uk/

London Community Gospel Workshop Choir This is a community workshop choir that meets once a week for anyone who would like to learn to sing in a gospel style. Gospel music is undoubtedly spiritual in nature and requires expression of feeling, using body, mind and spirit. We believe it is something that everyone can share in regardless of race, beliefs and abilities. Participants will learn gospel singing as an art-form and improve their proficiency in singing. The most important requirement on this course is the desire to learn, bags of enthusiasm and the willingness to experiment and conquer inhibitions. The course will run for 8 weeks and includes a public performance at the end....more