LACOCK CALENDAR
courses for choral and consort singers, March 2010 to March 2011
Full details of these courses (when available) can be found by following the links on this page.
28 March to 2 April 2010 ~ BUITRAGO EASTER MUSIC WEEK
A week of choral music in Buitrago del Lozoya, a historic town in the Sierra de Guadarrama north of
Madrid. The group will sing in Segovia Cathedral and the music
includes the six-part Requiem by Tómas Luis de Victoria and other music suitable for Semana Santa, directed by Carlos Fernández Aransay.
13 to 19 June 2010 ~ MUSIC AT MONTECONERO
A chamber-scale course near Ancona with Eamonn Dougan. The main
work will be the six-part Requiem of the Portuguese monk Manuel Cardoso (c.1566-1650). The Hotel Monteconero, on a mountain overlooking the Adriatic, began
life as a Camaldolite abbey; we rehearse in the Romanesque church of St Peter dating back to 1038, that still stands in the centre of the complex.
26 & 27 June 2010 ~
Choral evensong in Amsterdam's famous Oude Kerk directed by Robert Hollingworth
with music by Gibbons, Stanford and Harris
11 to 16 July 2010 ~
OXFORD EARLY MUSIC WORKSHOP 4 & 5 September 2010 ~ 10 to 15 October 2010 ~
27 December 2010 to 1 January 2011 ~
27 February to 5 March 2011 ~ MUSIC IN MEXICO
A workshop week on early Tudor
performance practice led by Andrew Parrott. The music will include the Mass Videte miraculum by Nicholas Ludford.
Choral evensong in Dordrecht's historic Grote Kerk directed by Martin Bussey
with music by Gibbons, Weelkes, William Smith and Martin Bussey
A week of Venetian music directed by Erik van Nevel
The course will be held in the Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli.
A week of Renaissance and modern choral music with JanJoost van Elburg
A week of early post-Columbian Mexican music in the historic town of Cholula, between Puebla and Popocatépetl,