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 EVENTS
THE PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS
"Three Parts Upon a Ground": English Restoration music for three violins Sunday 29 July, 4pm Girton College Chapel Judy Tarling violin Julia Kuhn violin Henrietta Wayne violin Mark Caudle bass viol Peter Holman chamber organ Including works by Henry Purcell, Finger, Matteis, and Jenkins. |
THE PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS
Harmony and Discord: Handel and his Rivals in the original Academy of Ancient Music Wednesday 1 August, 8pm Emmanuel United Reformed Church Gail Hennessy oboe & recorder Chris Hartland oboe & recorder Judy Tarling violin Julia Kuhn violin Annette Isserlis viola Mark Caudle violoncello Peter McCarthy violone Peter Holman harpsichord Including works by Handel, Dieupart, Porpora, Geminiani, Sammartini, and Pepusch. The concert will be preceded by a talk at 7pm by Dr Tim Eggington, Fellow and Librarian of Queens' College. |
BAROQUE SUMMER SCHOOL
"Echoes of Antiquity": Student Showcase Saturday 4 August, 7.30pm Girton College Great Hall This year's Summer School is devoted to England in the 18th century, when the interest in music of the past began to grow; Purcell imitated Elizabethan music, Handel borrowed from 17th-century composers, and the original Academy of Ancient Music was formed to perform "old" music. In this concert our Summer School participants present the large-scale and chamber works they have prepared during the week. |
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
