Singing Courses & Choral Workshops & Training

Come and enjoy an afternoon of singing under the direction of Eamonn Dougan, The Sixteen’s Assistant Conductor, in Blackburn. Eamonn and Sally Dunkley (founder member of The Sixteen & esteemed musicologist) will be running workshops which focus on music from the 2010 Choral Pilgrimage programme. The music will be sent out in advance in order to facilitate individual preparation; you will be expected to come able to perform this on the day. Places are £25 and include sheet music and refreshments.

Workshop participants are offered a special discount to any one of The Sixteen’s own-promoted Pilgrimage concerts – details of this will be given when workshop places are booked.  To book your place on the workshop, or for more information, please email intern@thesixteen.com or telephone 020 7936 3420. We want to ensure we have a balanced group so please let us know which part you sing.

Singers of Note present their 14th Annual Singing Workshop in Westhoughton.  That will be investigated a few birthdays from the likes of Clemens non Papa, Kuhnau, Gabrieli and Esquivel, with a few extras from the likes of Gesualdo, Arne, Stravinsky, and the lovely Dawn of Song from Bairstow, even though it isn't his birthday. All the information can be downloaded with application forms from the website at www.singersofnote.com though I have attached a copy of each here for your perusal.

Come and enjoy an afternoon of singing under the direction of Eamonn Dougan, The Sixteen’s Assistant Conductor, in Norwich. Eamonn and Sally Dunkley (founder member of The Sixteen & esteemed musicologist) will be running workshops which focus on music from the 2010 Choral Pilgrimage programme. The music will be sent out in advance in order to facilitate individual preparation; you will be expected to come able to perform this on the day. Places are £25 and include sheet music and refreshments.

Workshop participants are offered a special discount to any one of The Sixteen’s own-promoted Pilgrimage concerts – details of this will be given when workshop places are booked.  To book your place on the workshop, or for more information, please email intern@thesixteen.com or telephone 020 7936 3420. We want to ensure we have a balanced group so please let us know which part you sing.

Le Chant des Oyseaux offers a choral workshop in France, in Villeurbanne (Lyon) with Franck Pellé-Rolland, choral conductor. Repertoire : a cappella music by Claude Le Jeune, Tomas Luis de Victoria and Claudio Monteverdi. Free brochure available. Please visit our website http://le.chant.des.oyseaux.monsite.orange.fr

Le Chant des Oyseaux offers a choral workshop in France, in Arradon (Brittany) with Franck Pellé-Rolland, choral conductor. Repertoire : French music by Claude Le Jeune, Pierre Certon, César Franck and Claude Debussy. Free brochure available. Please visit our website http://le.chant.des.oyseaux.monsite.orange.fr

Tonalis Music presents the Holistic Voice led by Michael Deason-Barrow, Director of Tonalis Music Centre. This course takes place in Stroud, Gloucestershire.  Sing with the Whole Human Being: Body-Mind-Soul-and-Spirit. Sing in a Glorious Range of Vocal and Musical Styles and expand the borders of your voice. This course is for all vocal and musical explorers who are passionate about singing. It will meet the needs of all those who are searching for new holistic ways of singing, from amateurs and re-starters, to confident singers and voice professionals. ‘The Holistic Voice’ offers you the opportunity to experience a unique, dynamic and positive alternative to traditional models of voice education. Fee: £200/£225  Discounts available. Accommodation available.  For all enquiries please ring 01666-890460 or email: info@tonalismusic.co.uk or for a pdf leaflet for this course please use this link to our website pdf page http://www.tonalismusic.co.uk/PDF_leaflets.html 

Malcolm Archer will once again be directing the Langlais Festival choral course in la Fontenelle, Brittany, birthplace of Jean Langlais, which will take place between 25th and 29th July, 2010.  As well as having the services of organist David Bednall, the course will also benefit from a new addition - vocal coach Hilary Jones.  For further details , see www.brittanymusicworkshops.co.uk or www.jeanlanglais.eu

Le Chant des Oyseaux offers a choral workshop in France, in the abbey of Caunes-Minervois (Languedoc-Roussillon) with Franck Pellé-Rolland, choral conductor. Repertoire : Italian music by Claudio Monteverdi and Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi. Free brochure available. Please visit our website http://le.chant.des.oyseaux.monsite.orange.fr

Sarteano Chamber Choral Conducting Workshop w/Simon Carrington, Bronislawa Falinska and Brian O'Connell. Sarteano (Tuscany), Italy. This intensive conducting workshop is geared for music educators and choral conductors with strong vocal ability who are interested in rehearsing and performing chamber choral music. We heartily welcome qualified singers who are interested in attending the workshop in a non-conducting capacity; who love to sing in a chamber group environment and/or are very specifically looking to learn rehearsal and conducting techniques. Up to two graduate credits are available through The Boston Conservatory. There are three possible tiers of participation: Full Conductor, Conducting Auditor, and Singer. The afternoon session will consist solely of daily conducting Master Classes with Simon Carrington. Each Full Conductor will conduct in every master class. This year we are again delighted to offer a Q&A/Dialogue session with Simon. The two-part morning session will consist of group Vocal Pedagogy with Bronislawa Falinska utilizing the Rohmert Method of Functional Voicetraining; and clinics on developing a vital chamber choir, with Brian O'Connell. Conducting Auditors will also have time to conduct the ensemble. For a detailed description of the workshop and an online application form, please visit our website at http://www.sarteanochoralworkshop.com. Tel: Gail Leicher + 1 781.652.0158

The Rimini International Choral Workshop is a week of music-making and learning with Peter Phillips, Ghislaine Morgan (The Tallis Scholars), Marco Gemmani (Director, Basilica St. Marco, Venice), Fulvio Rampi (Director, I Cantori Gregoriani) and Andrea Angelini (Director, Musica Ficta Ensemble), in the beautiful and ancient town of Rimini, on the "Riviera Adriatica" in Italy. The workshop is especially dedicated to exploring our great heritage of renaissance choral music, and to developing a performance style appropriate to it, as pioneered by the Tallis Scholars. The course is open to singers aged 16 years and over, and we welcome participants from Italy and abroad. All you need are reasonable sight-singing skills and a passion for a cappella choral music. Lessons will be in Italian and English at the same time. Visit www.musicaficta.org/welcome.html or email info@musicaficta.org

The Torment of Love: Italian Madrigals with Julian Perkins “...Tormented woes... Perfidious beauty... Anguished delights...”. Who needs opera? Madrigals often embrace the extremes of passion in expressing the plights of unrequited love. Join our small choir - maximum twenty voices - to experience this cathartic melancholy in unaccompanied Italian madrigals by the likes of Gesualdo, Monteverdi and Palestrina under the sensitive guidance of Julian Perkins, who also promises occasional light relief in the form of some English madrigals, replete with trademark fa la las.

Resident £220     Non Resident £185

This course and more like it take place in the beautiful grounds of Benslow Music Trust, Little Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. SG4 9RB. Tel: 01462 459446    Email: info@benslow.org   Web: www.benslow.org

Come and enjoy an afternoon of singing under the direction of Eamonn Dougan, The Sixteen’s Assistant Conductor, in Tewkesbury. Eamonn and Sally Dunkley (founder member of The Sixteen & esteemed musicologist) will be running workshops which focus on music from the 2010 Choral Pilgrimage programme. The music will be sent out in advance in order to facilitate individual preparation; you will be expected to come able to perform this on the day. Places are £25 and include sheet music and refreshments.

Workshop participants are offered a special discount to any one of The Sixteen’s own-promoted Pilgrimage concerts – details of this will be given when workshop places are booked.  To book your place on the workshop, or for more information, please email intern@thesixteen.com or telephone 020 7936 3420. We want to ensure we have a balanced group so please let us know which part you sing.

Cantemus Chamber Choir Wales has arranged two workshops, led by René Alvarez of Cuban Combination  (www.cubancombination.com) with the support of members of his band, to allow singers to try different styles of Cuban vocal music.  René will introduce us to new music, encouraging freedom from the printed score, and even movement to the infectiously syncopated Cuban rhythms.

Both ¡Sing Cuba! workshops will take place in The Gate Arts Centre, Keppoch Street, Roath, Cardiff on Saturday and Sunday, 25 and 26 September 2010.  They will start at 10.00 am, finishing at 4.30 pm after an informal performance/run-through of the day's work.  Friends or guests are very welcome to join us at 4.00 pm for this. Each workshop will be run on the same lines but will have different content, so it will be worth coming on both days. 

The cost, including a Cuban-style lunch, is £18.50 per day (£14.50 per day for full time students).  For those coming to both days each day is discounted by £2. Places are limited so it is best to book early. For further details and to book please see the Cantemus website Cuban pages. (www.cantemus.co.uk/Cuban_Workshop/Welcome.html). These workshops are promoted by Cantemus Chamber Choir Wales, with the support of the BBC Performing Arts Fund 2009 Choral Ambition Scheme.

10 - 15 October 2010

Lacock Music Courses present Singing in Venice. A week of Venetian music directed by Erik van Nevel. We rehearse under the earliest painted ceiling in Venice, in the church of Santa Maria della Vistitazione. For more information visit www.lacock.org

Voices Unlimited present their International Choral Weekend in Veldhoven, the Netherlands. Voices Unlimited is an event which takes place every three years. Since the first festival in 1986 we have had the pleasure to receive guests from various countries, e.g. Sweden, Poland, Italy, Latvia, Ukraine, Russia, Estonia, Austria, Spain, Great Britain, Iceland, the Netherlands …. Some of the choirs even participated more than once!

What to expect during the weekend?

◦ International participants ◦ a professional jury ◦ freedom to choose your own repertoire (no compulsory songs!) ◦ the possibility to perform outside the festival hall ◦ a social evening with live music and a special cultural program  ◦  a farewell diner ◦  the opportunity to meet other choirs and make new contacts ….

And that’s not all. The proceeds of the festival will again be donated to a project for (handicaped) children in a Third World country.

Which choirs can participate?

The festival is open to all choirs, regardless of the genre. However, the age of the choir members is preferably between 14 and 40, but the rules are not very strict.

Interested?

In the attachment and on our website www.voicesunlimited.eu you will find more information on the next festival. If you have any further questions or if you wish to receive the information by mail, please contact Karin Hazenberg (the contact person) via the e-mail address below.

The entry form is available:

- via internet: www.voicesunlimited.eu

- via e-mail: info@voicesunlimited.eu or

- via the festival address: Voices Unlimited, Attn. Karin Hazenberg, Bree 60, 5501 JE Veldhoven, Netherlands. 

The closing date is 1 March 2010.

The number of choirs that can participate is limited, so send us your entry form as soon as possible!

Come and enjoy an afternoon of singing under the direction of Eamonn Dougan, The Sixteen’s Assistant Conductor, in Durham. Eamonn and Sally Dunkley (founder member of The Sixteen & esteemed musicologist) will be running workshops which focus on music from the 2010 Choral Pilgrimage programme. The music will be sent out in advance in order to facilitate individual preparation; you will be expected to come able to perform this on the day. Places are £25 and include sheet music and refreshments.

Workshop participants are offered a special discount to any one of The Sixteen’s own-promoted Pilgrimage concerts – details of this will be given when workshop places are booked.  To book your place on the workshop, or for more information, please email intern@thesixteen.com or telephone 020 7936 3420. We want to ensure we have a balanced group so please let us know which part you sing.

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