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Courses with dedicated lute tutor or extensive opportunities for lute playing

What makes a good summer school? article by Gordon Gregory

Reviews of recent summer schools (This is a new section. If you've enjoyed a summer school and would like to write a review, email it to the webmaster.)


 
 
2008

Jan 4-6 Benslow Baroque Chamber Music at A=415 contact: Benslow Music Trust, Little Benslow Hills off Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Herts SG4 9RB. Tel: 01462 459446 (fax: 440171). Email: info@benslow.org

Mar 14-16 15th Century Music at Benslow, with Jon Banks, contact: Benslow Music Trust, as above.

Mar 24-30 Baroque opera project at Benslow, Gluck, Orpheus and Eurydice contact: Benslow Music Trust, as above. May 9-11 Baroque performance on modern strings, A=440 contact: Benslow Music Trust, as above.

May 14-16 International Lute Weekend, Castle Renesse, Oostmalle, Belgium. Contact: Belgian Lute Academy

May 30-Jun 9 Baroque trio sonatas for recorders and continuo, contact: West Dean College, West Dean, Chichester PO18 0QZ tel 0844 4994408 or from overseas ++44 1243 811301 / fax: 811343 e: short.courses@westdean.org.uk web: www.westdean.org.uk

July 20-26 Beauchamp House Early Music Week, Music from Mantua, incl. continuo course, Gloucester Academy of Music, 11a Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2NW 01452 385162, e: admin@gamusic.co.uk

July 24-Aug 3 Seminaire Estival de Musique Ancienne en Wallonie, with Rolf Lislevand Contact: 3 Parc Elizabeth, B-4900 SPA, Belgium, tel/fax: ++32/0 87 77 48 82 e: badnet@skynet.be web: www.semusanc.be

Aug 3-10 31st Baroque Week, Oxford, baroque chamber playing. Contact: Peter Collier, 13 Brackley Road, Monton, Eccles, Manchester M30 9LG, tel: 0161 281 2502. www.newn.cam.ac.uk/prlw/BaroqueWeek/

Aug 9-17 9th International lutemaking summer school, with David Van Edwards. Contact 6 Whitwell Road, Norwich, NR1 4HB tel: 01603 629899 e: lutes@vanedwards.co.uk web: http://www.vanedwards.co.uk/summers.htm

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