Concerts, Education & Musical Inspiration
Cambridge Early Music runs a lively education programme for all ages – central to which are our Summer Schools – and a series of concerts throughout the year in historic Cambridge venues.
Cambridge Early Music runs a lively education programme for all ages – central to which are our Summer Schools – and a series of concerts throughout the year in historic Cambridge venues.
NEXT EVENT
BAROQUE SUMMER SCHOOL:
"ECHOES OF ANTIQUITY" – Purcell, Handel and the original Academy of Ancient Music
Sunday 29 July – Sunday 5 August
Girton College
CEM's annual Baroque summer school is devoted to England in the 18th century, when the interest in music of the past began to grow; Purcell copied and imitated Elizabethan music, Handel borrowed from seventeenth-century composers, and the original Academy of Ancient Music was formed in the 1720s to perform old music of all types.
Among the major works to be studied will be Henry Purcell’s great Te Deum and Jubilate, a classic of ‘ancient music’ throughout the eighteenth century, movements by Jacob Handl, Carissimi, Stradella, Legrenzi, Steffani and John Blow that Handel reworked in his own works, and a selection of music performed by the Academy of Ancient Music or composed by its members, by Charles Dieupart, J.C. Pepusch, Geminiani, Michael Festing, Maurice Greene, William Boyce, Benjamin Cooke and others.
Each day we will offer technique workshops, choral and orchestral sessions for large-scale works, and one-to-a-part chamber music sessions exploring unusual repertoire selected and coached by the tutors.
Tutors: Peter Holman course director & continuo, Judy Tarling upper strings,
Mark Caudle lower strings, Gail Hennessy wind and Philip Thorby voices
SOME PLACES STILL AVAILABLE
"ECHOES OF ANTIQUITY" – Purcell, Handel and the original Academy of Ancient Music
Sunday 29 July – Sunday 5 August
Girton College
CEM's annual Baroque summer school is devoted to England in the 18th century, when the interest in music of the past began to grow; Purcell copied and imitated Elizabethan music, Handel borrowed from seventeenth-century composers, and the original Academy of Ancient Music was formed in the 1720s to perform old music of all types.
Among the major works to be studied will be Henry Purcell’s great Te Deum and Jubilate, a classic of ‘ancient music’ throughout the eighteenth century, movements by Jacob Handl, Carissimi, Stradella, Legrenzi, Steffani and John Blow that Handel reworked in his own works, and a selection of music performed by the Academy of Ancient Music or composed by its members, by Charles Dieupart, J.C. Pepusch, Geminiani, Michael Festing, Maurice Greene, William Boyce, Benjamin Cooke and others.
Each day we will offer technique workshops, choral and orchestral sessions for large-scale works, and one-to-a-part chamber music sessions exploring unusual repertoire selected and coached by the tutors.
Tutors: Peter Holman course director & continuo, Judy Tarling upper strings,
Mark Caudle lower strings, Gail Hennessy wind and Philip Thorby voices
SOME PLACES STILL AVAILABLE
