2026 WORKSHOPS
Our 2026 workshop programme is now well underway.
To find out what workshops we’ve done in the past, visit the Past Workshops page.
Reference to ‘soft instruments’ usually includes recorders, curtals and strings (both viols and modern strings), possibly sackbuts, but not usually cornets or ‘raspy’ winds, eg crumhorns. Modern bassoons and trombones are welcome to join in instrumental workshops alongside sackbuts and curtals/dulcians if able to blend. Reference to ‘low recorders’ means those which are low enough to double voices at the same sounding pitch (usually alto/treble down), but specific requirements will be given for each workshop.
All workshops will be at A=440 pitch unless otherwise stated.
| 14 February 2026 Liverpool VOICES & INSTRUMENTS | Lisa Colton & Louise Ellinson Love Early Music! English part-songs, Monteverdi madrigals and G Gabrieli’s Magnificat a 12 See Workshop Report |
| 21 March 2026 Didsbury, Manchester VOICES | David Allinson From Despair to Joy: Holy Week with Tomás Luis de Victoria See Workshop Report |
| 18 April 2026 Preston VOICES | Rory Wainwright Johnston Missa Ave Virgo Sanctissima by Gery de Ghersem, and other pieces from 17th century Iberia See Workshop Report |
| 16 May 2026 Wilmslow VOICES & STRINGS | Ben England Vivaldi’s Gloria (A=440) See Workshop Report |
| 13 June 2026 Lancaster VOICES & INSTRUMENTS | Peter Wendland The polychoral music of Heinrich Schütz and his contemporaries See Workshop Report |
| 12 September 2026 Chester VOICES & ALL INSTRUMENTS | Stephanie Dyer Renaissance ‘Back-to-School’ – Music for Learning & Scholarship Music by Palestrina, Josquin, Calvisius, A Lobo & Hassler APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN |
| 17 October 2026 Bolton INSTRUMENTS | Lizzie Gutteridge Music from the Odhecaton APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN |
| 21 November 2026 Liverpool VOICES & VIOLS, LOW RECORDERS, SACKBUTS & CURTALS | Peter Syrus 1535 – a year in the life of Pierre Attaingnant Music by Willaert, Manchicourt, Gombert, Janequin and others APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN |
