Red Priest – Society of Recorder Players

Sat 08Nov2025

Baroque Extravaganza

Stamford Arts Centre, 27 St Mary's Street, Stamford, Lincolnshire PE9 2DL

www.stamfordartscentre.com/whats-on/all-shows/red-priest/13834

March 2026

Fri 13 - Sun 15Mar2026

Enjoy beautiful music and develop your skills in the company of players of a similar standard, at a beautiful location set within the heart of the Lake District.

Rydal Hall, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9LX

£340 (residential) £230 (non-residential)

Foundation Course: 4pm Fri 13th - 3pm Sun 15th March 2026

Tutored by Mary Tyers, the overall objective of Recorders at Rydal is to have fun exploring a variety of music in a friendly, lively, enjoyably challenging yet supportive atmosphere.

Mary delights in enabling enthusiastic adult amateurs to enjoy and develop their music making. Technique, style & interpretation will be covered as they arise.

This foundation course is suitable for players who are able to read straightforward music at sight and have a reasonable grounding in recorder playing (one and a half octaves, to two sharps & flats). You don’t have to be able to play both F & C instruments or be an experienced consort player; the willingness to ‘give things a go’ and have fun making music are the essential ingredients!

Please book direct with Rydal Hall, but feel free to contact Mary if you have other queries regarding the course.

Residential and day visitor rates available. Non-playing partners and friends also welcome.

See you there!

Contact: / 01539 432050

www.marytyers.co.uk/rydal-hall-courses

Sun 15Mar2026

Looking for players to make up an orchestra for conductors who are being tutored for Conducting at Level 2.

Watchfield Village Hall, Chapel Hill, Watchfield, SN6 8TA (nr Swindon)

10:00 - 17:30

£5.00

Making up an orchestra for conductors to conduct, whilst being observed by a tutor. Bring all your instruments to cover the different orchestrations of the pieces. Bring a packed lunch. Tea breaks through the day.

Contact: / 07899988766

Wed 18Mar2026

Did trills in the baroque always start on the note above the written note? This workshop gives some simple examples of where to place trills and how to execute them.

Zoom

Online

19:00 - 20:00

£5

The function of trills will be examined in different contexts within various pieces of music looking at rhythm, harmony and melody. The modern myth of trills always starting on the note above the written note in baroque music will be examined, with reasons why you can choose to start a trill on the written note instead.

Contact: Michael Piraner / 07906653220

Trills in the Baroque for Recorder Players Part 1

Fri 20 - Sun 22Mar2026

West Dean College, West Dean, Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 0QZ

Fri 16:00 - Sun 15:00

Course Fee £316, contact West Dean bookings office for on-site accommodation details

This Recorder Consorts Weekend will cover a wide range of recorder consort repertoire, from the Renaissance period through to the present day.

The course is aimed at intermediate level players who can play confidently on both C and F instruments.

Any players who have great or contrabass recorders are very welcome to bring them.

Contact: / 01243 818300

www.westdean.ac.uk/short-courses/swe37791-recorder-consort-weekend

Fri 20Mar2026

The Stanesby players present a programme of Telemann cantatas alongside other Germanic chamber music.

The Holy Sepulchre, Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2DQ

13:00 - 14:00

Free with retiring donation

A varied presentation of vocal and chamber music by Telemann along with a Schultze Suite and Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze.

Contact: / 07956658041