Red Priest – Society of Recorder Players

Mon 27Apr2026

Truly Madly Baroque

St Dunstan's Church, Mayfield, TN20 6AN

19:30

www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/mayfield/st-dunstans-church/truly-madly-baroque-red-priest/

September 2026

Fri 11 - Sun 13Sep2026

Come and enjoy exhilarating music making in beautiful surroundings, expertly tutored by Mary Tyers

Rydal Hall, Rydal Road, Ambleside LA22 9LX

4.00 pm Friday - 3.00 pm Sunday

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

Enjoy beautiful music and develop your skills in the company of players of a similar standard. These courses will include whole course playing sessions as well as opportunities to play in smaller groups.

Tutored by Mary Tyers, participants will explore technique, style & interpretation within a relaxed, friendly and supportive environment.

Full details including playing level descriptions and sample programme available on Mary's website.

To book, contact:
groupbookings@rydalhall.org
Tel: 015394 32050

www.marytyers.co.uk

Fri 11 - Sun 13Sep2026

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)

Intermediate Course: 4pm Fri 11th - 3pm Sun 13th September 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 intermediate course is suitable for players of approximately Grades 4 to 7 standard.

Lower intermediate players should be able to play more than one size of instrument but may not yet be equally secure on both F & C instruments, or may want the opportunity to develop their bass playing.

Upper intermediate players should ideally be able to play all sizes of recorder (descant to bass) and be proficient sight readers. Great Bass and Contra Bass recorders are also welcome.

The small ensemble sessions will generally be ‘one-to-a-part’, so the ability to hold your own line, with a reasonable degree of accuracy, in music appropriate to your level, is desirable.

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

Sat 12Sep2026

Join us for a special celebratory concert marking 15 years of the OHMI Trust, an organisation that enables physically disabled musicians to make music through the use of adapted instruments.

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 200 Jennens Road, Birmingham, B4 7XR

19:00 - 21:00

£15

This concert will bring together OHMI Music-Makers and hirers of OHMI instruments alongside students and alumni from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Through a vibrant mix of repertoire and performance styles, the evening aims to reflect the OHMI Trust's unwavering belief that everyone deserves the opportunity to play, create and perform music to the highest level

The programme at this event will include a wide variety of one-handed and adapted instruments. Notably there will be a selection of recorder duets performed by Esther Paterson and James Risdon and some younger OHMI Music-Makers performing in a massed ensemble.

Contact: / 07491331599

OHMI's 15th Anniversary Concert

Sat 12Sep2026

Wild Men of the Baroque

St. John’s Church, Sharow

Berrygate Ln, Sharow, Ripon HG4 5BJ

19:30

‘Superhuman virtuosity, a laughing recklessness and a style you can’t buy’ (Gramophone)

From the surreal world of the 17th Century to the bizarre meanderings of Biber, the duo play music which never ceases to amaze the innocent bystander! Then to the high baroque with Corelli, Handel and others. Co-members of the famous Red Priest, the Duo walk boldly through the wild side of the baroque with a range of expressive colours, dazzling audiences with their ‘astonishing all-out virtuosity’ New York Times

https://riponinternationalfestival.org/events/wild-men-of-the-baroque-2026/

Sun 13Sep2026

Wild Men of the Baroque

St Andrew's Church, Norwich

41 Church Ln, Eaton, Norwich NR4 6NW

15:00

Virtuoso musicians Piers Adams and David Wright take us on a journey through the wild side of the baroque era with some extraordinary music by little known 17th century composers in the ‘Phantasticus’ style, alongside an array of high-baroque masterworks.

Contact: / 07760306774

https://www.eatonconcertseries.co.uk/event-details/wild-men-of-the-baroque