Playing Days
April 2025
Sheffield Playing Day with Michael Graham
Full playing day of varied recorder music with conductor and composer Michael Graham
St John's Church Hall, Abbeydale Road South Sheffield S17 3LE
Leicester Branch Pastoral Playing Day
Playing Day with Steve Marshall
Knighton Parish Centre, Church Lane, Leicester LE2 3WG
Pastoral playing day with Stephen Watkins
SRP Peterborough Branch playing day
St Jude's Community Hall, Cranford Drive/Atherstone Avenue, Peterborough PE3 7EW
May 2025
Edinburgh SRP Playing Day with Ian Wilson followed by evening Concert:
Inverleith St Serf’s Parish Church, Clark Road, Edinburgh EH5 3BD
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
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
May 2025
Folk Music from Eastern Europe and Beyond
Folk Music from Eastern Europe and Beyond, SRP Workshop with Michael Copley hosted by Cumbria Branch SRP.
Witherslack Parish Hall, Witherslack, Grange over Sands, LA11 6RW
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
May 2025
MEDIEVAL MONDAYS SPRING EDITION 2025 WITH ANNETTE BAUER
North America Virtual Recorder Society is excited to announce the continuation of Medieval Mondays presented by NAVRS Music Director Annette Bauer. The Medieval Mondays Spring Edition 2025 runs from February to May in four sessions. Each class will focus on a particular medieval topic, composer, or musical source.
Online
navrs.org
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
Concerts
April 2025
Baroque Alchemy
Piers Adams joins forces with multi-talented keyboardist Lyndy Mayle in an extraordinary electro-baroque fusion duo
Hay Castle, The Castle, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5DG
Sounds Historical: 600 years! From Hildegard to Haydn
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!
St Andrew's Church, Church Street, Rugby, CV21 3PT
Sounds Historical – 600 years! From Hildegard to Haydn
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!
Holy Trinity Church, Acre Ditch, Burdrop, Banbury, OX15 5RN
May 2025
Edinburgh SRP Playing Day with Ian Wilson followed by evening Concert:
Inverleith St Serf’s Parish Church, Clark Road, Edinburgh EH5 3BD
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.
OSO Arts Centre, 49 Station Road, Barnes, London SW13 0LF
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.
OSO Arts Centre, 49 Station Road, Barnes, London SW13 0LF
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.
Cottiers Theatre, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow G11 5PU
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 of recorders and douçaine.
Silsden Town Hall, Kirkgate, Silsden, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD20 0AJ
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 of recorders and douçaine.
St Illtud's Church, College Street, Llantwit Major CF61 1SG
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
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