Lacock Course Archive

8 Mar 2026 - 
13 Mar 2026
a course based on the Lamentations by Alonso Lobo and the Requiem for 8 voices by Duarte Lobo in the centre of the ancient city, directed by Bruno Campelo Muñíz
19 Oct 2025 - 
24 Oct 2025
Verdelot, Corteccia, Du Fay: a course exploring the music of renaissance Florence, directed by Rory Wainwright Johnston
21 Sep 2025 - 
26 Sep 2025
a course for invited singers in a historic town in SW France, in which the central work will be the 40-part motet by Thomas Tallis, Spem in alium
31 Aug 2025 - 
5 Sep 2025
Tye, Parsons, Sheppard, Clemens and Manchicourt in a historic Suffolk town, with an invited group directed by Eamonn Dougan
6 Jul 2025 - 
11 Jul 2025
a course based on one of the most important sources of Tudor music: The Baldwin Partbooks, led by Bill Carslake
8 Jun 2025 - 
14 Jun 2025
a course centred on the music of the greatest composers of Spain’s Siglo de Oro: Guerrero, Lobo and Victoria, led by Rory McCleery
1 Jun 2025 - 
7 Jun 2025
a course for invited singers with repertoire from the Eton Choirbook and Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsories, led by JanJoost van Elburg
27 Apr 2025 - 
2 May 2025
a course on the Pembrokeshire coast centred on the six-part Requiem of the Portuguese composer Manuel Cardoso, interspersed with funerary motets by other Portuguese composers
31 Mar 2025 - 
5 Apr 2025
a course for invited singers in a small town on the Dorset coast, with repertoire from the brilliant generation of Franco-Flemish composers centred on Josquin des Prez
2 Mar 2025 - 
7 Mar 2025
a course dedicated to the great Spanish composer Cristóbal de Morales held in a monastery in the shadow of the Alhambra
13 Oct 2024 - 
18 Oct 2024
Music of the Habsburg Imperial Court: Philippe de Monte, Vaet and Utendal in a historic Devon town, directed by Eamonn Dougan
22 Sep 2024 - 
27 Sep 2024
Josquin and his contemporaries in a small town in southwest France, directed by Rory McCleery
2 Sep 2024 - 
8 Sep 2024
Palestrina, Gombert, Urmas Sisask, Arvo Pärt and James MacMillan in an ancient Venetian port near Split in Croatia, directed by JanJoost van Elburg
14 Jul 2024 - 
19 Jul 2024
Early Tudor music by Ludford, Taverner and Fayrfax in a picturesque Shropshire town, directed by Rory Wainwright Johnston
16 Jun 2024 - 
22 Jun 2024
Renaisssance music inspired by the Song of Songs in a former monastery overlooking the Adriatic, led by Lucy Goddard
9 Jun 2024 - 
15 Jun 2024
a course for invited singers with repertoire of Renaissance music for seven voices, led by Patrick Craig
5 May 2024 - 
10 May 2024
a course for invited singers in the Welsh seaside town, led by Lionel Meunier and Zsuzsi Tóth of Vox Luminis
14 Apr 2024 - 
19 Apr 2024
Renaissance music of Portugal including the Ave Virgo sanctissima Mass of Géry de Ghersem, in a small town on the Dorset coast, directed by Patrick Craig
3 Mar 2024 - 
8 Mar 2024
The Lamentations of Pedro Ruimonte in a monastery close to the Alhambra palace in Granada, directed by Gabriel Díaz
22 Oct 2023 - 
27 Oct 2023
Josquin, Willaert and Mouton in a historic Devon town, directed by Bill Carslake
11 Sep 2023 - 
17 Sep 2023
Renaissance choral music in an ancient Venetian port on the Croatian coast near Split directed by Patrick Craig
27 Aug 2023 - 
1 Sep 2023
The music of Josquin and his contemporaries in a small town in southwest France, directed by Rory Wainwright Johnson
16 Jul 2023 - 
21 Jul 2023
a course in the centre of Edinburgh exploring sacred music in Scotland during the Renaissance, directed by Rory McCleery
18 Jun 2023 - 
24 Jun 2023
Requiems by Duarte Lobo and Frank Martin: a course for invited singers in a former monastery overlooking the Adriatic, directed by JanJoost van Elburg
11 Jun 2023 - 
17 Jun 2023
a course exploring the music of four of Palestrina's successors, in a former monastery overlooking the Adriatic, directed by Eamonn Dougan
21 May 2023 - 
26 May 2023
Senfl, Schein, Scheidt and Schütz in the Yorkshire Dales, directed by Justin Doyle
16 Apr 2023 - 
21 Apr 2023
a course for invited singers: music by William Byrd and his circle, to commemorate the quatercentenary of his death in 1623, directed by Patrick Craig
5 Mar 2023 - 
10 Mar 2023
Lamentations by Victoria and other Spanish renaissance music for Lent in the southern port of Cádiz, directed by Gabriel Díaz
23 Oct 2022 - 
29 Oct 2022
a course for invited singers - Tallis, Byrd, Weelkes, Tomkins and Ramsay in the historic Sussex town, directed by Eamonn Dougan
11 Sep 2022 - 
17 Sep 2022
a week combining work in small ensembles and as a double choir directed by Robert Hollingworth
4 Sep 2022 - 
9 Sep 2022
Renaissance choral music in an ancient Venetian port on the Croatian coast near Split directed by Patrick Craig
10 Jul 2022 - 
15 Jul 2022
Renaissance music in Scotland, including the nineteen-part O bone Jesu and Missa Dum sacrum mysterium of Robert Carver and music by Peebles, Josquin and Jachet of Mantua directed by Rory Wainwright Johnston
19 Jun 2022 - 
25 Jun 2022
early Latin American music, including Lamentations by Padilla and Manuel de Sumaya and Padilla’s Circumdederunt me and Versa est in luctum, in a former mediaeval monastery on the Adriatic directed by Gabriel Crouch
12 Jun 2022 - 
18 Jun 2022
‘Songs of Loss and Regret’, including Phinot’s Lamentations, Gombert’s Lugebat David Absalon and Peter Cornelius’s Requiem, for an invited group directed by JanJoost van Elburg
15 May 2022 - 
20 May 2022
music by the Spanish renaissance composer Juan Esquivel including the eight-part Missa Ut re mi fa so la, in the middle of the English Lake District, directed by Eamonn Dougan
24 Apr 2022 - 
29 Apr 2022
an invited course directed by Patrick Craig. The music will in its entirety be by the most prodigious, diverse and universal composer of the renaissance: Orlando Lassus.