Midlands Early Music Forum

SingTheScore Extra with Robert Hollingworth
2021-03-27 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London) | Online(Zoom)
Another in our popular series of Zooms with Robert Hollingworth of I Fagiolini and a mystery guest. Robert is a natural chat show host and these Saturday mornings are always entertaining and informative. Robert will talk about the music he has chosen and you will have a chance to sing it through twice.
Please book below.

Renaissance Recycling: an instrumental workshop (singers welcome) with Alison Kinder
2021-03-22 19:30 - 20:30 | Zoom
Reusing old material is not a new concept – Renaissance composers did it all the time, sometimes with their own material and sometimes with someone else’s. We’ll look at two such examples in this workshop, in both cases a kind of ‘upcycling’ from a short initial motet or chanson into an entire mass.
The first is a composer reworking his own material: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s beautiful 6-voice motet Tu Es Petrus is then gloriously expanded into a mass, not once, but twice! The first Missa Tu Es Petrus is also for 6 voices, but then he gets a bit carried away and does a setting for 18 voices in three choirs, still based on the same material. We’ll do the motet and a movement from the 6-voice mass, and if we’re feeling very brave then maybe the Kyrie of the three choir version…! The second example is where one composer borrows a piece by someone else. At that time it was thought of as a compliment – today we’d call it plagiarism! The original piece is the beautiful 4-part chanson by Josquin, Mille Regretz, and the recycling is done by Cristobal de Morales, who uses it as the basis for a 6-voice mass setting.
Alison Kinder read Music at Oxford and then studied viol with Alison Crum at Trinity College of Music, being awarded the college’s Silver Medal for Early Music Studies. Her love is of viols in all shapes and sizes, from soundpost-less Renaissance instruments to 7-string baroque basses. Alison is an enthusiastic teacher both privately and on courses, and she runs the Rondo Viol Academy with fellow teacher and player Jacqui Robertson-Wade.
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Venice 4 - Musica Nova, a talk by Philip Thorby
2021-03-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
The last talk/discussion will focus on the “sacro e divino collegio”: Ganassi’s description of those meetings where Adriano (as the Venetians called Willaert) directed voices and viols in his new kind of music – sacred motets and settings of Petrarch, music which became the most sought-after and costly musical real-estate in Europe. Philip will talk about the repertoire and the newness of this musical style and give a personal view of how a meeting of the secretive collegio might have worked. Afterwards your comments and questions will be welcome.
This final talk will again be recorded, but in smaller sections, with Philip in person talking and taking questions between each section. Each of the four sessions stands alone, but taken together they will present a fascinating view of Venice in the early 1500s, where the lives of Ganassi and Willaert intertwined with the aristocratic Pietro Bembo, the great printer Aldo Manutio and the incomparable verse of Francesco Petrarca.
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"Fly on the Wall" with Robert Hollingworth
2021-03-13 15:00 - 15:30 | Online(Zoom)
As I Fagiolini is rehearsing for their concert in the Polyphonic concert series, Robert is unable to present a SingTheScore Extra today.
He writes: “On Saturday March 13th I Fagiolini will be rehearsing in York for our Polyphonic Concert Club event the next day (to be broadcast in a couple of weeks). We’d like to invite you to drop in (free) online for 30 mins at 3pm. It’s a lovely line-up of singers – welcoming back Matthew Brook for the first time since 2007 as well as Julia Doyle who was a feature in the late noughties. We won’t stop to talk and take questions: I’ll simply open the laptop and you’ll eavesdrop! I’ll set it for you to enter muted and with camera off (you won’t have to do this – it’ll have been set up to start like that) as that ought to increase the quality of the sound/pic. ”
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Venice 3 - Bellezza e Bonta, a talk by Philip Thorby
2021-03-06 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
This is the third of Philip’s talks about Venice in the 1500s. As we saw in the first lecture, Ganassi is at the centre of the musical establishment in a republic which exported its music and its musicians to the rest of Europe. We are lucky that he wrote three books on technique and performance practice, La Fontegara, Regola Rubertina and Lettione Secunda. What do his three books tell us about how music was sung and played in Venice in the first half of the sixteenth century? Well, quite a lot – and not all of it sits comfortably with how we see and hear renaissance music today. Philip will summarise the information from the books and put them into the context of other writers. Then, feel free to join in the conversation!
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SingTheScore EXTRA with Robert Hollingworth
2021-02-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Online(Zoom)
Another in our popular series of Zooms with Robert Hollingworth of I Fagiolini and a mystery guest – this week a violinist. Robert is a natural chat show host and these Saturday mornings are always entertaining and informative. Robert will talk about the music he has chosen and you will have a chance to sing it through twice. This week we will be singing Byrd – Laudibus in sanctis (all three sections) and Byrd – O salutaris (if there is time)
Please book below – the scores will be attached to your confirmation email.

Venice 2: the New Prometheus of Celestial Harmony with Philip Thorby
2021-02-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Online(Zoom)
The second in Philip’s talks about Venice in the 1500s. The New Prometheus of Celestial Harmony is how Silvestro Ganassi described the great Flemish composer Adriaan Willaert, who became Maestro di Capella of St.Marks in 1527 and stayed there until his death in 1562. We will follow his progress from Flanders via Paris and Ferrrara to Venice. This lecture is brought to you by the letter “P” – not only Prometheus, but also the Patrician (Pietro Bembo), the Poet (Petrarch) and the Printer (Aldo Manutio), all of whom come together in the Venetian palazzo of a rich Florentine exile, where, in an atmosphere of great secrecy, Willaert explores an entirely new kind of music.
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The Petrucci Canti B Project - a talk by David Hatcher
2021-02-20 11:00 - 12:00 | Online(Zoom)
An online talk by David Hatcher about his Petrucci Canti B project which has involved his students at the Birmingham Royal Conservatoire, and which has been sponsored by MEMF and BMEMF.
This should be a fascinating session. Firstly David will tell us about the recording project that took place in November 2020 at Alpheton New Maltings, Suffolk, where the Linarol Consort recorded some of the Petrucci Canti B music. He will play video clips of rehearsal and recording sessions and explain a little of the processes involved, the choice of instruments and difficulties of social distancing.
Then he will tell us about the manuscript with illustrations and how he used it to help The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire students produce modern editions as part of their course work. He will then go on to explain and demonstrate the instruments; the renaissance viol compared to the baroque viol and the renaissance and baroque recorder. Finally we will finish with a sing through of Baises moy by Josquin (score provided with joining information).
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SingTheScore Extra with Robert Hollingworth
2021-02-13 11:00 - 12:00 | Online(Zoom)
Another in our popular series of Zooms with Robert Hollingworth of I Fagiolini and this week’s guest William Hunt, viol player and more. Robert is a natural chat show host and these Saturday mornings are always entertaining and informative. Robert will talk about the music he has chosen and you will have a chance to sing it through twice – this week Byrd’s Ne Irascaris Domine. Music links will be sent out in advance when you book.
Booking now open – see below.

Venice 1: The Barber's Son: the Life of Silvestro Ganassi -a talk by Philip Thorby
2021-02-06 19:00 - 20:00 | Online(Zoom)
The life of Silvestro Ganassi, the son of a barber from Bergamo, became the most famous musician in Venice as well as being a renowned painter. We will look at the Venice he knew, the Doges for whom he worked, his rich patrons and his family band. We will
see what his contemporaries wrote about him, both in biography and in fiction, and follow his life from his birth to immigrant
parents above a humble barber’s shop near the rialto to his death as a proud Venetian cittadino.
If you know Philip you will know his love of Venice, Silvestro Ganassi and Adriaan Willaert: Venice for its innate beauty and its unique place in the history of the renaissance, Ganassi as the most famous and revered Venetian musician of his day, and Willaert as the gentle Fleming who expressed the Venetian ideals in his music and his character. Philip is going to share this passion in two on-line lectures and two webinars in which you are welcome to take part with comments and questions. Each one will stand alone, but taken together they will present a fascinating view of Venice in the early 1500s, where the lives of Ganassi and Willaert intertwined with the aristocratic Pietro Bembo, the great printer Aldo Manutio and the incomparable verse of Francesco Petrarca.
Please book below.
The remaining three talks will be:
2. The New Prometheus of Celestial Harmony on Saturday 20th February 7pm
3. Bellezza e Bontà on Saturday 6th March 7pm
4. Musica Nova on Saturday 20th March 7pm

South American Adventures; in Search of Music with Jeffrey Skidmore
2021-02-02 19:30 - 20:30 | Online(Zoom)
An online workshop with Jeffrey Skidmore, OBE, Director of Ex Cathedra.
Jeffrey Skidmore OBE talks about his travels in Mexico, Bolivia and Brazil over the last 20 years and will share the music and manuscripts he found and the people he met – singers, players, musicologists and librarians. Beaches, jungles, pyramids, volcanos, caipirinhas, margaritas and mate de coca also play their part!
You will have the opportunity to sing along to some of the pieces that have become the ‘classics’ of the repertoire, singing in Nahuatl, Quechua, Chiquitan, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin.
Jeffrey Skidmore has been Artistic Director of Ex Cathedra for over 50 years and has an international reputation for the quality and range of his work. Baroque music from Latin America has featured prominently in recent years and he has given many magical performances in beautiful venues around the world, he has recorded four CDs, created many new editions and explored a whole new world of performance practice.
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SingTheScore EXTRA with Robert Hollingworth
2021-01-30 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Another in our popular series of webinars with Robert Hollingworth of I Fagiolini and a mystery guest. Robert is a natural chat show host and these Saturday mornings are always entertaining and informative. Robert will talk about the music he has chosen and you will have a chance to sing it through twice.
We are currently smack bang in the middle of Carnival – the period between Christmas and Lent so there will be a slight focus on that this week. Feel free to bring a mask! We will sing another movement from the madrigal comedy ‘The little carnival party’ by Adriano Banchieri: – a ‘giustiniano’ – an old man’s song. To balance that another song from a comedy but a beautiful and quite involved lament: Vecchi’s ‘Ecco che piu non rest speranza.’ Really the most wonderful piece, translation on the score.
The full DVD of the masked show (with I Fagiolini and Simon Callow) can still be bought here: right back in 2003 but something they’re still proud of (and great fun) filmed LIVE at Dartington Summer School.
Music links will be sent out in advance when you book below.

"Let us Seek with the Shepherds" with Rory McCleery.
2021-01-16 11:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
In this workshop, Rory McCleery, Artistic Director of The Marian Consort, explores the fascinating history and rich musical lineage of Jean Mouton’s exquisite motet Quaeramus cum Pastoribus.
Composed at the very beginning of the sixteenth century, Mouton’s work would remain in the repertoire of the Cappella Sistina for over a hundred years, as well as travelling in print and manuscript as far afield as Aberdeen and Guatemala and inspiring parody compositions by several later generations of composers, including Cristobal de Morales, Pedro de Cristo and Annibale Stabile. We will be singing some of these works, as well as Mouton’s original – which Rory says is ‘one of his all-time favourite pieces!’ – as part of the workshop, with pdf scores circulated in advance.

SingTheScore Extra with Robert Hollingworth
2021-01-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Another in our popular series of webinars with Robert Hollingworth of I Fagiolini and a special guest. Robert is a natural chat show host and these Saturday mornings are always entertaining and informative. Robert will talk about the music he has chosen and you will have a chance to sing it through twice. Music links will be sent out in advance when you book.
This week’s guest is Ekaterina Antonenko who is the director of Intrada Choir in Moscow. They are giving the final Live From London Concert on Thursday 8th January at 7pm.
Please book below – you will receive the music links after you have booked as we do not have them yet.

The Music of Epiphany Part 1: Gifts and Stars with Patrick Craig
2020-12-20 20:00 - 21:00 | Online(Zoom)
Another of Patrick’s entertaining talks illustrated with pictures and music.
Epiphany is a season of revelation – not only of the gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, but even of life itself. We are called to respond with gratitude and there will be much of that in this evening’s music. It was a star that led the Magi to the stable, and composers have been inspired to describe this heavenly light in ever more inventive ways. Enhanced by the beautiful art of Epiphany, we shall hear performances from many of Early Music’s greatest stars, including the music of Palestrina, Handl, Byrd, and Victoria.
Booking is now open (see below).
Part 2 – Journeys and Dreams – will be hosted by TVEMF and EEMF on 14th January 2021. You will need to book this on either of their websites.

SingTheScore EXTRA with Robert Hollingworth
2020-12-12 11:00 - 12:00
Another in our popular series of webinars with Robert Hollingworth of I Fagiolini and a MYSTERY guest. Robert is a natural chat show host and these Saturday mornings are always entertaining and informative. This week you can sing along with –
Pygott Quid petis o fili and, as a Christmas cracker, two short movements from a Banchieri madrigal comedy. You will receive the music links and the joining instructions when you book – see below.

SingTheScore EXTRA with Robert Hollingworth
2020-11-28 11:00 - 12:00 | Online(Zoom)
Another in our popular series of webinars with Robert Hollingworth of I Fagiolini and a surprise guest. Robert is a natural chat show host and these Saturday mornings are always entertaining and informative. Plus there is something to sing along with – music links are sent out in advance once you have booked – see below.

Bach and Handel with Patrick Craig
2020-11-20 19:30 - 21:00 | Online(Zoom)
Bach and Handel – Separated at Birth. 1685 was an extraordinary year for music. Two world class composers were born 130km and just one month apart. Much of their childhood development mirrored the other, but their careers took very different directions, and they never met. Patrick will reunite these two giants, with a special focus on their vocal music, which has inspired his career as both a countertenor and a conductor.
Patrick has been a Vicar Choral at St Paul’s Cathedral for twenty five years and sings regularly with the award winning early music ensemble, the Cardinall’s Musick. For twenty years he sang across the world with the Tallis Scholars. Highlights as a soloist have included memorable performances of Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s St John Passion in St Paul’s, and recent recitals featuring settings of the poetry of Wilfred Owen and performances with the harpist Frances Kelly. While Organ Scholar of Selwyn College, Cambridge, he founded the all female professional choir Aurora Nova, who have sung regular Sunday services in St Pauls Cathedral for over twenty years. Patrick regularly leads choral workshops which explore music in its historical and cultural context.
He has developed a series of online illustrated lectures of which this is one to help us cope with the current conditions. All donations will go directly to Patrick and he very generously donates a portion to ‘Help Musician’s Coronal Hardship Fund’ so please donate what you can.
Booking now open below.

SingTheScore EXTRA with Robert Hollingworth
2020-11-14 10:00 - 2020-11-15 11:00 | Online(Zoom)
Another in our popular series of webinars with Robert Hollingworth of I Fagiolini with special guest Belinda Sykes, director of Joglaresa, singer and player of wind instruments. Robert is a natural chat show host and these Saturday mornings are always entertaining and informative. Plus We will be singing Loquebantur variis linguis an eight part piece by the Spanish composer Don Fernando de las Infantas. The link to the score will be sent when you sign up (booking form is below).
Please note starting time this time is 10am

SingTheScore EXTRA with Robert Hollingworth
2020-10-31 11:00 - 12:00 | Online(Zoom)
Another in our popular series of webinars with Robert Hollingworth of I Fagiolini and a special guest. Robert is a natural chat show host and these Saturday mornings are always entertaining and informative. This week’s guest is James Weekes, director of Exaudi, writer of I Fagiolini’s Monteverdi series sleeve notes, also a composer and raconteur! Plus there is something to sing along with – music links are sent out in advance once you have booked. See form below.

Tallis' Seven(-part) Wonders of the World with Will Dawes
2020-10-24 11:00 - 12:30 | Online(Zoom)
The four works scored for seven parts by Thomas Tallis are amongst his most spectacular compositions. They are Loquebantur, Suscipe Quaeso, Missa Puer Natus est Nobis, and Miserere nostri. Each is perfectly created and two of them contain some exceptionally clever compositional devices. This session will give a little history to each of the pieces and allow you the opportunity to sing (along) with Stile Antico, the Sixteen, and the Tallis Scholars.
Will Dawes is Director of Chapel Music of Somerville College, Oxford, Director of Music at the church of St Mary Magdalen, Oxford, Conductor of Ensemble 45, and was the Director of Frideswide Voices (Oxford’s first liturgical choir for 7-14 year-old girls) from its inception in 2014 till July 2019.
He studied Choral Conducting and Voice at the Royal Academy of Music under the direction of Patrick Russill, Paul Brough and David Lowe. On graduating, he was awarded the Thomas Armstrong Prize for Choral Direction. He was made an Associate of the RAM in 2018, an honour awarded to RAM alumni for making a significant contribution to the music profession.
Aside from his career as a conductor, Will is active as a consort singer and is a member of the internationally acclaimed and multiple-Grammy-nominated vocal ensemble Stile Antico. The group performs all over the globe, so far including concerts at the Wigmore Hall, BBC Proms, nearly 100 concerts in the USA, as well as performances in South Korea, Colombia, Mexico, and Canada and all over the EU. They performed at the 2018 GRAMMY ceremony in Madison Square Garden in NYC.
For further information, check out www.willdawes.co.uk or follow him on twitter @wjbdawes
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SingTheScore EXTRA with Robert Hollingworth
2020-10-17 10:00 - 11:00 | Online(Zoom)
Another in our popular series of webinars with Robert Hollingworth of I Fagiolini. This week’s guest is Deborah Roberts,
Soprano and co-founder/director of the Brighton Early Music Festival. She has also sung with the Tallis Scholars and has appeared as soloist with the Deller Consort, London Baroque, Consort of Musicke, and the English Concert.
Robert is a natural chat show host and these Saturday mornings are always entertaining and informative. Plus there is something to sing along with – links to this week’s music, Bennet: All Creatures now and Revenscroft: Three Ravens, are available once you have sent off the booking form below.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS WEEK’S SESSION BEGINS AN HOUR EARLIER AT 10AM

Prima la Parola - a Zoom talk by Emma Kirkby
2020-10-10 11:00 - 12:00 | Online(Zoom)
Prima la Parola – In praise of Speaking Harmony.
Under this title, misquoting Salieri and stealing a phrase from Dowland, Emma aims to celebrate the power and joy of song lyric. Poems in Tudor England were often published as “Songs”, and “lyric” means “apt for the lyre”. Though the human voice was dutifully admired as the perfect instrument because it was entrusted with the words, it was the alchemical blend of a voice with an instrument that had, as Dowland said, “higher authority and power”.
These days the lucky singers of what we call “early music” have a plethora of historical instruments eager to accompany them, in a balance perfect for delivering the text. Emma has benefitted from this for decades now, finding endless interest and excitement in her search for ever more effective ways to “embody” a lyric.
In her presentation for MEMF she will share her ideas on this, and play tracks of singers she admires, both those who inspired her early on, and the new voices that excite her now.
Please book below.

O Quam Tristis: music for the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, online with David Allinson
2020-09-15 19:30 - 21:00 | Online(Zoom)
We are delighted that David Allinson will be running this online workshop for us. David will explore two of the greatest Renaissance settings of the Stabat Mater, written roughly a century apart, by John Browne and Palestrina.The Stabat Mater is a medieval hymn which re-imagines the intensity of Mary’s experiences at the foot of the Cross. In its drama, solemnity and pathos it offers composers ample opportunities for inspired writing.
In this workshop, David celebrates the astonishing setting for six voices by John Browne, perhaps the greatest talent in the late 15th century Eton Choirbook, and Palestrina, leading composer in Rome during the Counter-Reformation. Where Browne is profuse and turbulent, Palestrina’s double choir setting is direct and poignant.
Expect a talk laced with humour (despite the subject matter!) that mixes historical, analytical and practical musical thinking.
You will receive links to the scores after you have booked below.

For the Honour of City & Court with William Lyons
2020-08-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Online(Zoom)
We saw William doing a very short guest session on Robert Hollingworth’s SingTheScore Extra a few weeks ago. It was so interesting, we asked him to do a whole workshop for us on these fascinating instruments.
His talk will discuss the various and varied roles of wind and brass players in civic and court bands in the 16th and 17th centuries. The splendid sight and sound of shawms, sackbuts, cornetts, trumpets and other wind instruments was considered an essential element in demonstrating wealth and status and Bill will examine the instruments and repertoire of the official bands in European cities and courts, playing examples and demonstrating his own specialised instruments: recorders, flutes, shawms, dulcians, crumhorns and the rackett.
William is the Director of the City Musick and the Dufay Collective and is a regular performer with other early music groups. He can be heard on numerous film soundtracks and has composed and arranged music for film and TV, including the original music for the film The Favourite. He has a long association with the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre as a composer, performer, Musical Director and Historical Music Adviser.

SingTheScore EXTRA with Robert Hollingworth
2020-07-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Online(Zoom)
Another in our popular series of webinars with Robert Hollingworth of I Fagiolini and a surprise guest. Robert is a natural chat show host and these Saturday mornings are always entertaining and informative. Plus there is something to sing along with (music is sent out in advance) – this week Byrd’s Though Amaryllis Dance in Green and Ignazio Donati’s Dulcis Amor Iesu . Sign up below.

St Paul's: Resurgam - an illustrated talk by Patrick Craig
2020-07-20 19:30 - 20:30 | Zoom
The last time St Paul’s Cathedral was deprived of music for this long was after the devastating Fire of London in 1666. But in 1697 Christopher Wren was able to triumphantly declare RESURGAM as the phoenix rose from the ashes. Patrick will look at music from either side of this momentous event. He will also guide us through the finest repertoire from across the Cathedral’s liturgical year. Escorted by a selection of his favourite photographs, music and videos he will aim to convey the glories of twenty-five years of singing in this extraordinary building.
Patrick, with his flowery shirts, is one of our popular workshop tutors and is an engaging speaker. Do join us.

Sing The Score EXTRA with Robert Hollingworth
2020-06-27 11:00 - 12:00
We have a lovely treat from Robert for you on Saturday 27th
Sign up here:
https://form.jotform.com/201734123524344
Payment details are on the form when you click the link
What we are singing:
Two relatively unknown English madrigals this week – both quite a handful: you’ll enjoy getting to know them!
Wilbye – Cruel, behold my heavy ending
(There’s a recording of The Consort of Musicke on Youtube)
Tomkins – Oft did I marle (I’m sure we’ll find out what ‘marling’ is on the day)
(on I Fagiolini’s Musicke Divine CD)
And a surprise guest as always.
A great bonus from Robert and I Fagiolini
You’ll remember I Fagiolini’s ‘Cake Mix’ a few weeks back: it is now up again with the two other mini-films they made. You can see it here:
https://youtu.be/mRzqZ7NJq9M
If you enjoy it, please share it with a choir and friends!
Remember there is also SingTheScore – all episodes live at www.ifagiolini.com/singthescore and that they come out at Friday 6pm

Handel: Judas Maccabeus - postponed to 2021
2020-06-13 10:00 - 17:00 | Knowle Village Hall, St John’s Close, Knowle, Solihull, B93 0NN, United Kingdom
Workshop for Voices and Instruments with Tutor Justin Doyle + AGM.
Information and booking details available end of March

Hail Queen of Heaven - Iberian Music for the Blessed Virgin Mary
2020-05-09 10:00 - 17:00 | Selly Oak Methodist Church Hall, Langleys Road, Birmingham, B29 6HT, United Kingdom
Workshop for voices with Tutor Will Dawes. POSTPONED
Devotion to Mary as Queen of Heaven in 16th and 17th century Spain and Portugal found brilliant expression in the four great seasonal Marian antiphons sung after Compline. Will Dawes has chosen settings by the finest composers of the period, including Alonso Lobo, Padilla and Morales, as well as Victoria’s glorious 8-part ‘Ave Maria’. This rich, complex music, some for double choir, conveys moods that vary from serenity to lively dances of praise. Do join us for the privilege of spending a day singing such joyful music:
Pedro de Cristo (c1545-1618) – Alma Redemptoris Mater
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (c1590-1664) – Ave Regina
Alonso Lobo (c1555 – 1617) – Ave Regina Coelorum
Pedro de Escobar (c1470 – c1550) – Regina Caeli Laetare
Francisco Guerrero (1528 – 1599) – Regina Caeli Laetare
Diogo Dias Melgás (1638 – 1700) – Salve Regina
Cristóbal de Morales (1500-1553) – Salve Regina
Tomás Luis de Victoria (c1548 – 1611) – Ave Maria
Tutor
Will Dawes is Director of Chapel Music at Somerville College Oxford, a member of Stile Antico, a former Director of the Orlando Chamber Choir in London and the Director of Music at the Church of St Mary Magdalen in Oxford He is also a very popular workshop tutor, having worked for the Lacock courses, Run By Singers, EEMF, TVEMF, SEMF, and BMEMF. This will be his third visit to MEMF.
