Choral Workshops
Building on last year’s success, The Sixteen will be running another series of workshops across the country for singers who want to explore the repertoire of the Purcell & MacMillan programme. Eamonn Dougan, The Sixteen’s Assistant Conductor, and Sally Dunkley, singer and musicologist, will lead the workshops which are aimed at competent singers who are, for example, capable of holding a line on their own.
Dates & Venues:
Sunday 15 March: The Front Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Saturday 18 April: St Albans School
Saturday 6 June: Blackburn Cathedral
Saturday 26 September: Tewkesbury Abbey
Saturday 24 October: Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh
Workshop tickets cost £25 (price includes all sheet music and refreshments). A special concert ticket discount is available for workshop participants.
For full details, and to book your place email: ellie@thesixteen.com, tel: 020 7481 1184.
Insight Day Event postponed
Sunday 5 April 2009, Trinity College of Music, London
Join eminent musicologists, historians and musicians for a day of discovery. Professor Donald Burrows, Director of the Open University’s 'Handel Documents' project, and
Jeremy Black, Professor of History at Exeter University, will be joined by members of The Sixteen.
Tickets cost £30, or £25 if you book at the same time to see The Sixteen perform on one of their own-promoted 2009 Choral Pilgrimage concerts.
Schools Matinées in Association with Sing Up and the Choir Schools' Association
In response to the Music Manifesto’s initiative to get all primary school children singing, The Sixteen, through a partnership with the National Centre for Early Music, will share the stage with hundreds of school children in a series of matinée performances. The children will work on some pieces by Purcell, taken from The 2009 Choral Pilgrimage programme, in a series of workshops before joining The Sixteen and their peers on stage in their local cathedral for an exciting final performance. Participating schools will be selected by Sing Up.
Sign-Interpreted Concerts and a Workshop Series run by Music and the Deaf
Six Choral Pilgrimage performances will be sign-interpreted by Paul Whittaker, founder and Director of Music and the Deaf, in pursuit of The Sixteen's aim to make their concerts accessible to all. In addition, Paul will facilitate workshops for young adults and adults who are deaf or hard of hearing. These are taking place in Norwich, Tewkesbury, Blackburn and York. For further details visit: www.matd.org.uk
Paul is also working with Hear Here! on a series of workshops for arts organisations;
offering help, advice and support about how to better reach the deaf community. Hear Here! is the UK’s first classical music project dedicated to listening - it is presented by the Royal Philharmonic Society and Classic FM, and supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation -and since January 2008 has been exploring the many different facets of listening to music, one of the most profound and complex aspects of human existence.
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