CHORAL WORKSHOPS 2014
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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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