Please note that this listing includes a selection of
events which may be of interest and for more comprehensive listings check the
web sites of the relevant organisations and venues.
16
- 18 May 2008
Cottee Clarinet Quintets;
Benslow Music Trust, Hitchin
Bingham String Quartet, David Campbell. A fantastic opportunity to be
coached on clarinet quintet repertoire accompanied by professional
string quartets. Work on your own choice of quintets, which could
include movements from the quintets by Mozart, Brahms, Weber and other
repertoire. Numbers will be limited to ensure adequate playing time
with the string quartets. You need to bring Bb and A clarinets to the
course and be of Grade 8+ standard. The course is generously funded by
the Connie Cottee Clarinet Quintet Weekend Fund. There will be a public
recital by the tutors on the Saturday, free to course members.
`It was an honour to be tutored by David Campbell and play with the
Bingham Quartet' Course participant 2007 Details: www.benslow.org
Email: info@benslow.org Tel: 01462 459446 We are 10 minutes walk from
Benslow so combine your course with a shop visit …
16
- 18 May 2008
The Holistic Brass
Player; Benslow Music Trust, Hitchin
Multi-instrumentalist Sarah Field invites you to join her for a course
approaching physical ease and enjoyment of brass playing. The course is
influenced by her extensive study of breath with India's guru Ravi
Shankar and her own experience as an international performing artist.
Repertoire spans many genres. Chamber groups and large ensemble
playing, opportunity to play solo pieces with a professional
accompanist. Minimum Grade 6 standard. Details: www.benslow.org Email:
info@benslow.org Tel: 01462 459446 We are 10 minutes walk from Benslow
so combine your course with a shop visit …
30
May - 1 June 2008
Wind Chamber Music
(Advanced), Benslow Music Trust, Hitchin
Kerry Camden, and Visiting Tutors. Be coached in small and large
ensembles, and benefit from workshops and masterclasses. A range of
mainstream and more unusual repertoire will be available; you can also
bring own choice pieces to be worked on with specialist tutors at hand.
Bassoonist Kerry Camden will be tutoring throughout the weekend, joined
by flute, oboe, clarinet and French horn tutors for a day each. The
course is suitable for advanced flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon and
French horn players with chamber music experience and good
sight-reading ability. Pre-formed quintets will have opportunities to
form larger ensembles during the course. As the choice of repertoire
will be determined by the final recruitment set works cannot be
specified in advance and some sight-reading will be necessary. As a
guide of the standard required, a working knowledge of some of the
following quintets would be beneficial: Danzi 'Op. 56, Nos. 1 &
2', Haydn 'Divertimento', Mozart/Weigelt Divertimenti, Reicha 'Op. 88,
No. 2', Farkas 'Old Hungarian Dances', Milhaud 'La Cheminee du Roi Rene'
Details: www.benslow.org Email: info@benslow.org Tel: 01462 459446 We
are 10 minutes walk from Benslow so combine your course with a shop
visit …
13-15
June 2008
Wind Chamber Music plus
Strings
Belstead House near Ipswich
Janet Myatt, Simon Stewart and David Kennedy (cello); grade 7 upwards.
This popular course has vacancies for bassoons with other wind “by
negotiation”. There are vacancies for a string quartet and double bass.
Contact janet@windchambermusic.org.uk; www. windchambermusic.org.uk or
phone 01502 581427
20
- 22 June 2008
Summer Saxes, Benslow
Music Trust, Hitchin
A friendly and sociable course for all saxophonists. Play in both large
and small ensembles, explore classical, jazz and rock genres and
benefit from masterclasses and technique clinics. Music will be
provided, but you are welcome to bring ensemble music you want to
explore. Please give details of your playing experience and sizes you
will be bringing, on application. A great weekend for saxophone players
from Grade 3 to advanced standard. Tutored by: Gerard McChrystal, and
Visiting Tutors. Details: www.benslow.org Email: info@benslow.org Tel:
01462 459446 We are 10 minutes walk from Benslow so combine your course
with a shop visit …
5
- 9 August 2008
International Flute
Summer School, Benslow Music Trust, Hitchin
Philippa Davies, Jan Willem Nelleke and visiting tutors
A stimulating and rewarding summer school given by one of Britain's
finest flautists and teachers. You can work on all aspects of
technique, from breathing and posture to tone and articulation, to
enable greater musical awareness and expression in solo, chamber and
orchestral repertoire. There will be general sessions and masterclasses
given by Philippa and the team of distinguished visiting tutors; with
also Alexander Technique. Minimum Diploma or music college level for
active participants. All levels of observers are welcome, please
enquire for details and fees. The course will start at 11am on the
Tuesday and finish on the Saturday afternoon. A repertoire list is
available. There will be a public recital with Philippa Davies on the
Friday evening, free to course members. Details: www.benslow.org Email:
info@benslow.org Tel: 01462 459446 We are 10 minutes walk from Benslow
so combine your course with a shop visit …
21-24
August 2008
British Flute Society
International Convention 2008
Royal Northern College of Music
Confirmation is still awaited from a few soloists but those who have
agreed to perform include Recitalists: Andras Adorjan, Sharon Bezaly,
Denis Bouriakov, Wissam Boustany, Ian Clarke, Robert Dick, Mathieu
Dufour, Marianne Gedigian, Marco Granados, Adrianne Greenbaum, Timothy
Hutchins, Barthold Kuijken, Rhonda Larson, Jaime Martin, Lorna McGhee,
Amy Morris, Nikos Nikopoulos and Georgia Xagara, harp, Andrea Oliva,
Emmanuel Pahud, Daniel Pailthorpe and Jonathan Snowden. Special Guests:
Michel Debost, Walfrid Kujala and William Bennett. Ethnic Flutes:
Elizabeth Bennett, shakuhachi. The Convention will encompass a Piccolo
Symposium whose contributors both as soloists and speakers include
Matjaz Debeljak, Walfrid Kujala, Stewart McIlwham, Christine Erlander
Beard, Lior Eitan and Patricia Morris. Flute Group Recitalists include
Quintessenz and Vieri Botazzini with his Vivaldi Flute Choir. Big Flute
Recitalists: Chris Potter Altoflute and Matthias Ziegler. Jazz
contributors: Lulu. (Haruka Okubo) and Steve Kujala. Pianists: Timothy
Carey and Richard Shaw. Lectures/talks/demontrations: Arthur Haswell,
Helen Spielman, Stuart Scott, Liz Taylor, Ian McLauchlan, Denis
Verroust and Emma Williams. Delegates Flute Choirs: Atarah Ben Tovim
& Julie Wright.
www.bfs.org.uk
SPECIALIST ORGANISATIONS
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organisations likely to be of interest to the wind enthusiast. Most have
lively web sites and promote events within their area that may well be
of interest. This is not a comprehensive listing – please let us know if
you know of an organisation that should be listed but is missing.
Venues regularly organising events which may be of interest:
