Next Workshop 12 September 2026
Renaissance Back to School: Music for Learning and Scholarship
Tutor: Stephanie Dyer
All Saint’s Church, Hoole, Chester CH2 3HZ
VOICES & INSTRUMENTS A=440
APPLICATIONS OPEN END JUNE 2026
Our first workshop after the summer break will be led by renowned historical performance specialist and educator, Stephanie Dyer. She will focus on the art of polyphony from an educational viewpoint, exploring works by Palestrina, Josquin, Calvisius, Alonso Lobo and Hassler. She will particularly look at compositional design techniques in an age when music was taught alongside geometry, astronomy and arithmetic. Applications will open by end June 2026.
Latest News
Workshop Report – 13 June 2026
We were delighted to welcome back Peter Wendland to give a workshop on the music of Schütz, Praetorius and Kerll – a great way to finish our workshop series before the summer break. Fifty singers and instrumentalists came to the lovely St Martin’s Chapel in the University of Cumbria, and although the weather wasn’t quite…
June 2026 Newsletter now available in the Members’ Area
If you are a member of NWEMF, you can now read our latest Newsletter in the Members’ area. In this edition, you’ll read two full reviews of our March and May workshops, and our Vice-President and past Chair of NWEMF, Andrew Mayes, shares his story about how he found his way to early music. We’d…
Workshop Report – 16 May 2026
It was a beautiful spring morning in Wilmslow with blue skies and sunshine, an auspicious start to Ben England’s first workshop for NWEMF. With over 60 participants, including a strong orchestra and an impressive basso continuo section, not to mention a very tasty selection of home-baked goodies, it was a joyful day during which Ben…
Workshop Review – 16 May 2026
Vivaldi’s Gloria VOICES, STRINGS, CONTINUO (A=440) Tutor: Ben England Wilmslow United Reformed Church, Chapel Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 1PR Reviewer: James Walton No Lancashire man would leave home without an umbrella, but he might well leave it in the car after an hour’s drive south to equatorial Wilmslow, for it was most certainly not raining when…
Workshop Report – 18 April 2026
We were in the Reading Room on the first floor of the imposing Harris Library & Museum in Preston on Saturday 18 April 2026 for our voices workshop with Rory Wainwright Johnston. There were 26 singers, and after a helpful warmup, we started with Guerrero’s 5 part motet Ave Virgo sanctissima, which proved an inspiration…
Workshop Report – 21 March 2026
David Allinson’s workshop on 21 March in Didsbury Baptist Church was a great success. A total of 68 marvellous singers attended for a day of Tomás Luis de Victoria’s finest music – sublime, intense and uplifting in equal measures. And there was something very special to hear it sung so well by such a large…
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