In 2027, NWEMF celebrates its 50th anniversary, and our workshop programme starts with a weekend workshop at the National Centre for Early Music in York in February. This page will be updated as more details become available.
To find out what workshops we’ve done in the past, visit the Past Workshops page.
All workshops will be at A=440 pitch unless otherwise stated.
| 27/28 February 2027 York VOICES & INSTRUMENTS | David Allinson & Gawain Glenton A Feast of Polyphony 50th Anniversary Weekend Workshop Click here for more details |
| 13 March 2027 Chester INSTRUMENTS | Peter Barnard and Kate Billmore, deMowbray’s Musicke Playing for Dance – Dances Through the Ages |
| 24 April 2027 Didsbury, Manchester VOICES & INSTRUMENTS | Philip Thorby |
| 18 May 2027 Chester VOICES | Angus Smith Consumed with Sorrow – the development of compositional styles across Burgundy, the Low Countries, Spain, Italy and England from the 1450s to the 1550s, featuring Robert White’s Lamentations |
| 19 June 2027 Wilmslow VOICES & INSTRUMENTS | Patrick Allies Sulpitia Cesis and her contemporaries in Modena |
| 3 July 2027 Lancaster DANCERS & STRINGS | Elizabeth Dodd Baroque Dancing |
| 11 September 2027 Salford VOICES & INSTRUMENTS | Rory McCleery |
| 18 October 2027 Liverpool VOICES | Greg Skidmore Veni, dilecte mi’: Intertwining the secular and sacred in music from the Song of Songs |
November 2027 Manchester VOICES & INSTRUMENTS | TO BE CONFIRMED |
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.
