Playing Days
November 2025
Playing Day with Miriam Monaghan
A day's playing conducted by Miriam Monaghan, a member of the well-known consort Palisander
Putnoe Heights Church Centre, Putnoe Heights, BEDFORD MK41 8EB
Wessex Branch Playing Day
Wessex SRP Playing Day with Helen Hooker
Colden Common Community Centre, St Vigor Way Colden Common SO21 1UU
January 2026
Pastoral Playing Day in Leicestershire
Playing Day with Helen Hooker
Greenfield Primary School, Gwendoline Drive, Countesthorpe, Leicester LE8 5SG
February 2026
Ireland Branch: Pastoral Visit with Sandra Foxhall
3 weekend playing sessions
Booterstown Community Centre, Grotto Avenue, Booterstown, Dublin
Aberdeen Branch Playing Day with Annemarie Klein
Fountainhall Church Centre, 1 Beaconsfield Place, Aberdeen, AB15 4AB
March 2026
Manchester Branch Playing Day
Playing day with Margaret Shearing
St Matthew’s Community Hall, Chapel Ln, Stretford, Manchester M32 9AJ
Dorset Branch Playing Day with Harriet Oliver
Bishopstone Village Hall, Butt Lane, Bishopstone, Salisbury SP5 4AA
June 2026
Playing Day/Pastoral meeting
Branch Playing Day with Miriam Monaghan
Meriden Village Hall, Birmingham Road, Meriden, Warwickshire CV7 7NG
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Workshops
February 2026
Cambridge Branch SRP Workshop: Exploring Folk
Michelle Holloway will lead us in an exploration of folk music from across the continents.
Hemingford Abbots Village Hall, High Street, Hemingford Abbots, PE28 9AH
March 2026
Folk Music from Eastern Europe and Beyond with Michael Copley
Holy Trinity Church, Millhouses, Grove Road, Sheffield S7 2HB
September 2026
Warwick: Gabrieli Canzonas SRP Workshop
SRP Workshop Gabrieli Canzonas with Andrew Collis
Stoneleigh Village Hall, Hall Close, Stoneleigh CV8 3DB
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Courses
March 2026
Recorder Consort Weekend with Sophie Middleditch
West Dean College, West Dean, Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 0QZ
Recorder Weekend with Palisander
An immersive recorder ensemble playing weekend, with one of the world’s leading recorder quartets, Palisander. This course celebrates all things ensemble, with opportunities to enjoy playing in groups of varying sizes, from recorder orchestra, to consort, to one-to-a-part chamber ensemble, as well as optional technique classes. Intimate performances from Palisander are dotted throughout the weekend.
Hawkwood, Painswick Old Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL6 7QW
April 2026
Easter Recorder Course
Week long residential recorder course at Moulton College Northampton run by Pam Smith and Jan Epps, Recorders for All. Tutors for 2026 Pam Smith, Mary Tyers, Annemarie Klein, Julie Dean, Brian Blood, Josef Manser and Janice Ormerod
Moulton College, West St, Moulton, Northampton NN3 7RR
Concerts
November 2025
A Winter Celebration
Phoenix Recorder Orchestra are in concert with their chamber orchestra, both directed by Michelle Holloway.
Quedgeley Community Centre, School Lane, Quedgeley, Gloucester GL2 4PN
BBC Children in Need: Something old, something new..
A concert involving song, poetry and recorder music by Peter Sawyer, Village Voices, Towersey and Galliard Recorder Band.
Christchurch, Upper High Street, Thame OX9 2DN
Blockflute Band concert
Music from 16th to 21st centuries, played on a full range of recorders from sopranino to contrabass.
St. Andrew's Methodist Church, Elm Park, Filton, Bristol BS34 7PS
December 2025
Noel
Cantatas & Motets for the Christmas season
St Mary-at-Finchley Church, 26 Hendon Lane, Finchley, N3 1TR
Palisander: Double, Double Toil & Trouble
Recorder Ensemble Concert
Outwood Academy, Foxhills Road, Foxhills, Scunthorpe DN15 8LJ
Festivals
April 2026
SRP 2026 Festival
Booking now open for the 2026 SRP festival, Taunton, 10th, 11th and 12th April 2026. Playing sessions, workshops, concerts, dancing and lots of music, in the beautiful setting of Taunton School.
Taunton School, TA2 6AD, Somerset