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CHORAL WORKSHOPS 2014


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Following a hugely successful year of workshops in 2013, I am very proud and excited to introduce the 2014 season. We are presenting eight Saturday workshops this year, each with its own theme. 

I am particularly looking forward to the Tippett Spirituals workshop - something rather different for Platinum - and also In Every Corner Sing, which brings back fond memories of singing daily services as a choral scholar at King's College, Cambridge.

Every workshop has been designed to challenge the seasoned chamber singer and the experienced choral singer who wants to work on new repertoire in much smaller groups than they are used to. As always, for you to get the most out of these days, we expect you to have prepared the music in advance, or be very good sight readers. If you come prepared, I guarantee you will learn something new.

I am pleased that our team remains the same for 2014: Adrienne Carr will be managing the workshops while Ghislaine Morgan and I will inspire you to become better singers and explore glorious new repertoire. Please see below for booking details.

Thank you very much for your ongoing enthusiasm; I very much look forward to seeing you in 2014.

Scott Inglis-Kidger
Founder & Director


FOLLOW THE STAR

Music for Epiphany

Victoria Magi Viderunt Stellam
Lassus Videntes Stellam
Clemens non Papa Magi Veniunt Ab Oriente
Clemens non Papa Magi Videntes Stellam
Marenzio Tribus Miraculis

Start the year by singing this gorgeous polyphony conveying the awe and wonder of the three wise men as they pay homage to the new born King.

Saturday, 11th January 2014 10:30-17:00 (Registration from 10am)
Cost: £40 (includes music and break time refreshments)
St Mary's Church, Battersea Church Road, London SW11 3NA

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O RADIANT DAWN

MacMillan O Radiant Dawn
Mealor O Sanctissima Maria
Rutter Hymn to the Creator of Light
Whitacre This Marriage
Bates Spirit of God

Join us to sing the very best in contemporary choral music of our generation.

Saturday, 8th February 2014 10:30-17:00 (Registration from 10am)
Cost: £40 (includes break time refreshments and the Bates score)
St Mary's Church, Battersea Church Road, London SW11 3NA
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TIPPETT FIVE NEGRO SPIRITUALS

Tippett Steal Away
Tippett Nobody Knows
Tippett Go Down, Moses
Tippett By And By
Tippett Deep River

A rare opportunity to sing these most beautifully arranged spirituals from Tippett's A Child Of Our Time. The haunting melodies are supported by syncopated rhythms and rich harmony with divided voice parts.

Saturday, 22nd March 2014 10:30-17:00 (Registration from 10am)
Cost: £40 (includes break time refreshments)
St Mary's Church, Battersea Church Road, London SW11 3NA
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IN EXCELSIS

A workshop for Upper Voices (SSAA)

Palestrina Pleni Sunt Coeli
Dufay Veni Creator Spiritus
Clemens non Papa Ego Flos Campi a3 
Lassus Adoramus Te, Christe
Victoria Monstra Te Esse Matrem

We will sing some exquisite music for upper voices, spanning an impressive 100 years of the Renaissance. In programming Dufay and Lassus together, we can see for ourselves the rapid and exciting development of harmony across the 15th and 16th Centuries.

Saturday, 24th May 2014 10:30-17:00 (Registration from 10am)
Cost: £40 (includes music and break time refreshments)
St Mary's Church, Battersea Church Road, London SW11 3NA
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IN EVERY CORNER SING

Wood O Thou, The Central Orb
Walton Jubilate Deo
Wesley Thou Wilt Keep Him In Perfect Peace
Vaughan-Williams Let All The World In Every Corner Sing
Balfour Gardiner Evening Hymn

Join us for this celebration of the Anglican choral tradition. Our cathedrals resound with this beautiful music every day, often with very small congregations. Experience the music out of its liturgical context and be inspired to find your nearest Evensong service.

Saturday, 5th July 2014 10:30-17:00 (Registration from 10am)
Cost: £40 (includes break time refreshments)
St Mary's Church, Battersea Church Road, London SW11 3NA


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TREASURES OF THE CROWN

Byrd Sing Joyfully
Byrd Cibavit Eos
Gibbons O Clap Your Hands
Blow Let My Prayer Come Up
Tallis O Lord, Give Thy Holy Spirit

Join us for an exploration of these composers of the Chapel Royal. The workshop includes Gibbon's monumental 8-part setting of O Clap Your Hands and Tallis's understated utterance, O Lord, Give Thy Holy Spirit.

Saturday, 13th September 2014 10:30-17:00 (Registration from 10am)
Cost: £40 (includes music and break time refreshments)
St Mary's Church, Battersea Church Road, London SW11 3NA
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BRITTEN MISSA BREVIS

A workshop for Upper Voices (SSA) with organ
Also including:
Fauré Ave Verum
Fauré Maria, Mater gratie

The work is incredibly fresh and original. Part of this is Britten’s organ part which is no ‘accompaniment’ but rather an equal partner in the realisation of the text in music. Britten’s direction in the Kyrie that the voices should sing ‘passionately’ underpins the approach to the performance of the whole work. It is an intensely dramatic reading of these familiar words. © Paul Spicer

Saturday, 18th October 2014 10:30-17:00 (Registration from 10am)
Cost: £40 (includes break time refreshments)
St Mary's Church, Battersea Church Road, London SW11 3NA
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VICTORIA REQUIEM

Officium Defunctorum a6

In this, the final workshop of our 2014 season, we come together to sing Victoria's richly textured Officium Defunctorum a6 (Requiem in 6 parts). No other composer encapsulates the solemnity of death and the promise of eternal life quite as vividly as Victoria.

Saturday, 29th November 2014 10:30-17:00 (Registration from 10am)
Cost: £40 (includes music and break time refreshments)
St Mary's Church, Battersea Church Road, London SW11 3NA
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