Playing Days
May 2025
Cornwall: Workshop and Playing Day with Julie Dean
Kea Community Hall, Playing Place, near Truro TR3 6ET
Oxford Branch Playing Day
A playing day with Michael Graham
West Oxford Community Centre
Botley Road OX2 0BT
June 2025
Manchester Branch Playing Day
Manchester Branch Playing Day conducted by Alison Lewyn
St Matthew’s Community Hall, Chapel Lane, Stretford, Manchester M32 9AJ
Warwick Branch: Playing Day with Anna Stegman
Meriden Village Hall, Main Road, Meriden. CV7 7NG
Playing Day
A full day of playing and musical exploration with Annemarie Klein
Holy Trinity Church
197a Hurdsfield Road, Macclesfield, SK10 2PX
Playing Day: Macclesfield
A Playing Day with Annemarie Klein: all recorder voices welcome
Holy Trinity Church, 197A Hurdsfield Road, Hurdsfield, Macclesfield SK10 2PX
Warwickshire Playing Day/Pastoral Meeting
A Playing Day and Pastoral meeting conducted by Anna Stegmann.
Meriden Village Hall, Main Road, Meriden CV7 7NG
Cumbria Branch playing day with Lyndon Hilling
Pastoral visit playing day with composer and conductor, Lyndon Hilling.
Witherslack Parish Hall, Witherslack, Grange over Sands, LA11 6RW
July 2025
E Berks Playing Day with Ian Wilson
Playing Day with Ian Wilson
Soltau Centre Maidenhead
Soltau centre, St James the Less, Stubbings, Maidenhead SL6 6QW
North Cotswold Branch Playing Day
Playing Day with Helen Hooker
Freeland Village Hall, Wroslyn Road, Freeland, Oxfordshire, OX29 8AL
October 2025
Somerset Playing Day
Playing Day with Anna Stegmann
Ruishton Village Hall, Ruishton, Nr Taunton SomesetTA3 5JD
May 2025
Cambridge Recorder Day
A fun day of playing for young recorder players from Grade 3 upwards
Chesterton Community College, Gilbert Rd, Cambridge CB4 3NY
Workshops
May 2025
Cornwall: Workshop and Playing Day with Julie Dean
Kea Community Hall, Playing Place, near Truro TR3 6ET
Tudor and Stuart Dance
A practical workshop giving you the chance to experience the dances of c.1550 to c. 1650 : Pavan, Galliard, the Measures, Almain, Courantes, French branles and the Country Dance. Tutor: Dr Ann Hinchcliffe
Clarence Hall, Beaufort Street, Crickhowell, Powys, NP8 1BN
June 2025
Durham: All That Jazzzz !!
A Workshop Day with David Moses
St John's Church Hall, St John's Road, Meadowfield, Durham DH8 8XL
North London Society of Recorder Plays Klezmer Workshop
The workshop, tutored by Ilana Cravitz, will focus on playing klezmer melodies with attention to details such as ornamentation, phrasing, use of modes, structure and variation of the melody. We will listen to historical recordings from the early 1900s and learn about the history, context and development of klezmer music from the old world of Eastern Europe to USA and Buenos Aires in the 1950s. Tuition will include some gentle guided playing by ear and reading from sheet music. There will not be a requirement to improvise.
Highgate International Church, Cafe Entrance, 272 Archway Road, London N6 5AU
October 2025
SRP Workshop
SRP workshop on Klezmer music with Ilana Kravitz
Stoneleigh Village Hall
Hall Close, Stoneleigh, CV8 3DB
Warwick Branch: SRP Workshop Klezmer Music
Workshop on Klezmer music led by Ilana Cravitz
Stoneleigh Village Hall, Hall Close, Stoneleigh, Coventry. CV8 3DG
June 2025
Formby U3A Recorder Playing Day with Caroline Jones
Formby U3A are holding a playing day with Caroline Jones conducting, for recorder players from across the North West. All are welcome, this is not restricted to U3A members.
Holy Trinity Church Hall
Rosemary Lane, Liverpool L37 3HA
August 2025
Polyphonica Recorder Trio Northampton Recorder Workshop Day
The annual Northampton Recorder Workshop with a special skills topic, small and large ensemble playing.
Camp Hill Community Centre, Daryll Road West Hunsbury, Northampton NN4 9RR
Courses
August 2025
Irish Recorder and Viol Course 2025
A course designed for players of recorders, viols and other early instruments.
An Grianán Adult Education College, Termonfechin, Co. Louth, Ireland
October 2025
New Monmouth Recorder Course
Tabea Debus and Caroline Jones have created this new, small course for advanced and intermediate players. Technique, ensemble, interpretation, recorder orchestra and one-to-a-part consort playing. Technique pieces will be sent out in advance to study. Tim Cranmore will join us to give a talk on "Care of your wooden recorders".
Haberdashers' Monmouth School, Almshouse Street, Monmouth, NP25 3XP
Concerts
May 2025
The Telling: Into the Melting Pot
A concertplay (where music and theatre collide) following a Jewish woman in 1492 Seville who is being forced to leave her home and tunes into the songs and voices of a community of Christian, Muslim and Jewish women. Featuring Emily Baines on recorders and douçaine.
Selly Oak Methodist Church Hall, Langleys Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 6HT
Palisander: "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"
In this programme, Palisander presents bespoke sets of dances from history, featuring music spanning more than 1000 years.
St Christopher's Church, St Christopher's Green, Haslemere, Surrey, GU27 1DD
Chris Orton & Slava Sidorenko: Sunrise and Meditations
Music written for Carl Dolmetsch and Joseph Saxby
St Christopher's Church, St Christopher's Green, Haslemere, Surrey, GU27 1DD
Galliard Recorder Band: "Let us be Merry and Dance"
Concert by the Galliard Recorder Band of arrangements of dance music from far and wide and across the centuries.
All Saints' Church, The Green, Croxley Green WD3 3HJ
East Midlands Recorder Orchestra Concert
An afternoon concert of music arranged or composed for Recorder Orchestra. The programme ranges from Gabrieli to the present day - via Dvorak and Ethel Smyth!
St Giles Community Hall, Main St, Balderton, Newark, Notts NG24 3LN
Adventures in Music
Join Phoenix Recorder Orchestra as they showcase recorders of all sizes in a light concert of music for everyone.
Long Ashton Village Hall. Keedwell Hill, Long Ashton, BS41 9DP
North East Recorder Orchestra Concert
Concert by North East Recorder Orchestra 'Ancient to Modern'
Jesmond United Reformed Church, Burdon Terrace, Newcastle NE2 3AE
The Mendip Consort of Recorders
A short concert of music with a Spanish theme
Wells Cathedral, Wells, Somerset
June 2025
Sounds Historical: 600 years! From Hildegard to Haydn (nearly last chance to catch this very successful programme)
Recorders, lutes, crumhorns, flutes, viols, violin... Hop into our time machine for a whistle-stop tour of musical history from the medieval through to the 18th century!
PINNER PARISH CHURCH, Church Lane, Pinner, Middlesex HA5 3AA
July 2025
MRO AT THE FRINGE
Manchester Recorder Orchestra - MRO is back at the Buxton Fringe Festival with a wide-ranging programme of music for large recorder ensemble. Contemporary pieces are mixed in with some Prokofiev and Verdi to guarantee something for everyone's musical taste - there's even a clarinet solo!
Trinity Church, Hardwick Mount, Buxton SK17 6PR
August 2025
Summer Concert 2025
The concert marks the end of the Summer Course 2025 and features items studied during the week by the ensembles.
Uppingham Theatre, Uppingham School, High St W, Uppingham, Oakham LE15 9QE
Festivals
May 2025
Dolmetsch Festival Centenary Celebration
Join us for a weekend of recorder playing sessions and recitals celebrating the centenary and legacy of the Dolmetsch Early Music Festival, founded in Haslemere in 1925, with special guests Palisander, Chris Orton, Slava Sidorenko, Philip Thorby, Marguerite Dolmetsch and Brian Blood.
Haslemere Hall, Haslemere, Surrey, GU27 2AS