SWEMF May Zoom Meeting

Trainee viol maker Agnieska Nalazek will discuss with Marilyn Pocock her experience of training at West Dean College through the pandemic, and show us some photographs of the instrument she’s making. Jacqui Robertson-Wade, gambist and baroque cellist, known to many for her viol teaching, workshops and publishing, and Michael Williamson, baroque violinist, teacher and director…

SWEMF April Zoom Meeting

Sing and play chorales from the St Matthew Passion – a short practical session led by Clare Griffel. All Welcome – pitch A=440. All 12 chorales are available in a convenient format (with German text) athttps://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/b/b1/Ws-bachmatt.pdf.If you have a score of the work, the chorales are numbers 3, 10, 15, 17, 25, 32, 37, 40,…

West Country Carols + Social Event

This workshop day will look at a variety of Christmas music from Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Gloucestershire. Much of it will be drawn from manuscripts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries – the so-called West Gallery period. The music is characterised by its danceable rhythms and its gorgeous harmonies and fugued entries. The words…