Come and be part of an amazing choral experience and perform a dazzling concert. All participating singers become the Nottingham Festival Chorus for the day! 

St Nic’s Church, Maid Marian Way, City Centre, Nottingham, NG1 6AE

10am-4pm

Workshop Leader: Robert Hollingworth

Accompanist: Angela Foan

Enjoy a day getting to know beautiful and intriguing music from the 16th century: not the ‘usual’ sacred fare but the most expressive and characterful secular pieces. From Italy, some quite perfect Monteverdi. From Spain, a cancion (five in a bar – best sung as when limping). From Germany – inspired by the Italians – a heart-rending lament. From France, a rather cool chanson (which, however, inspired a very funky dance). England offers a simple-looking madrigal but actually is so full of ideas, it needs calming down a bit.

A day with Robert Hollingworth is so much fun that you might not realise how much you’re learning. His breadth of skill and knowledge, mixed with off the wall humour and excellent anecdotes, is guaranteed to bring the music bouncing off the page and into glorious technicolour.

Ability to read music is essential, however, all music will be made available in advance. Links to music recordings will be given as well as recordings of the pronunciation for the non-English poems.

What is the Nottingham Festival Chorus?

• Mixed choir of 100+ voices, no auditions
• Expertly led, highly enjoyable workshops and concerts
• Distance-learning packs provided

What experience do singers need?

The ability to read music and some previous singing experience is needed for this course.

• Mixed choir of 100+ voices, no auditions
• Expertly led, highly enjoyable rehearsal weekends
• Distance-learning packs

Don’t miss out, book your place now!

Venue

The course and concert on Saturday 26th September will take place at St Nic’s in the city centre. Find out more about St Nic’s here: About — St Nic’s Nottingham

Workshop Leader

Photographer Matt Brodie

Robert Hollingworth

Robert founded I Fagiolini in 1986 and has since spent much of his life thinking about how audiences receive music, instead of just how performers want to deliver it. Aside from his work with I Fagiolini, he is a conductor, broadcaster, educator, editor and festival director. Robert has conducted orchestras including the English Concert, Academy of Ancient Music, BBC Concert Orchestra, Irish Baroque Orchestra and directed some of the world’s finest chamber choirs including Accentus, NDR Chor, RIAS Kammerchor (Berlin), Netherlands Chamber Choir, National Chamber Choir of Ireland, BBC Singers, Danish National Vocal Ensemble and Capella Cracoviensis. Robert is Artistic Director for Stour Music Festival and the new ‘Fairest Isle Festival’ on the Isle of Wight.

At the University of York, Robert directs two choirs and the UK’s only MA in Solo-Voice Ensemble Singing, now in its 13th year. He has written and presented programmes on BBC Radio 3 and more recently created over 30 episodes of the YouTube choral series SingTheScore as well as co-founding and presenting the UK’s top choral podcast series, Choral Chihuahua, with Eamonn Dougan and Nicholas Mulroy, now in its twelfth season. Both are made by Polyphonic Films (Greg Browning). Robert Hollingworth is managed worldwide by Percius.

Repertoire

Monteverdi – Sfogava con le stelle

Schein – Da Jakob vollendet hatte

Anchieta – Con amores mi madre

Tomkins – Weep no more, thou sorry boy

Sandrin – La volonte

Music Scores

We offer music collection points. Please choose an option when booking.

Provisional Timetable –

Saturday 26th September: St Nic’s Church

Registration: 9.45am

Singing sessions: 10am – 4pm

To include tea, coffee and lunch break and end with an informal concert.

Workshop Fee

The fee includes all music copies, the workshop experience and coffee or tea at the morning and afternoon breaks.

All – £30; Benefit Claimant/Student – £10.

We don’t want anyone to be excluded from MfE activities because of their financial circumstances and there is a subsidised scheme available for any who needs it. Please contact anne@music-for-everyone.org if this is the case.

How to enrol

Click the button above and fill in your details: Payment can be made via debit/credit card (no additional fees)

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For any further information, email admin@music-for-everyone.org or telephone 0115 9589312

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