The Parley of Instruments - Education

The Parley of Instruments teaches what it practises:

Regular Courses

 

Cambridge Early Music Summer School
An annual summer school held in the beautiful surroundings of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Next course: 27 July - 3 August 2003 'Purcell, Handel and the English Baroque'
Tutors: Peter Holman, Judy Tarling, Mark Caudle, Gail Hennessy & Philip Thorby
Contact: Selene Mills: info@cemss.org

  

Benslow Music Trust
Baroque Opera Course
Next course: 21 - 26 April 2003 Boismortier Don Quichotte
Tutors: Peter Holman, Judy Tarling, Steve Adby, Lucy Graham, John Flinders
Contact: Benslow Music Trust, tel: 01462 459446, email: BmusicT@aol.com

Forthcoming Workshops

Saturday 17 May 2003 - Study morning with Peter Holman on Bach's St Matthew Passion
Greyfriars Community College, East Hill, Colchester
tel: 01206 542242

Saturday 12 July 2003, York - orchestral day - English Eighteenth Century Concertos
Contact: NEEMF, Jillian Johnson 0113 278 6886 email: jlj@btinernet.com

Saturday 27 September 2003 - Draghi Ode for St Cecilia's Day 1687
The Old Chapel, Elsworth, Cambridgeshire
Contact: EEMF, Selene Mills: info@cemss.org

Essex Baroque Orchestra & Leeds Baroque Orchestra

Peter Holman and Judy Tarling are the regular directors and tutors for two amateur baroque orchestras in the UK. The Essex Baroque Orchestra was founded in 1986 and is the resident orchestra of the Suffolk Villages Festival. 1999 saw the foundation of a similar orchestra based in Yorkshire, the Leeds Baroque Orchestra. Both orchestras are devoted to giving students, teachers and good amateurs occasional experience at playing baroque orchestral repertory at a high level.
Essex Baroque Orchestra contact:
Tricia Holman, tel: 01206 543417, email: tricia@parley.org.uk
Leeds Baroque Orchestra contact:
Jillian Johnson, tel: 0113 278 6886, email: jlj@btinernet.com

Illustrated lectures & workshops include:

Early History of the Violin (Peter Holman)
From Minstrels to Mozart: the development of instruments, instrumentation and instrumental music (Peter Holman)
Historical string playing style and techniques (Judy Tarling)
Introduction to Baroque rhetoric for musicians (Judy Tarling)
Day or weekend classes and workshops in solo, chamber or orchestral repertoire

Academic publications include:

Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court 1540-1690 by Peter Holman
Henry Purcell by Peter Holman
John Dowland: Lachrimae by Peter Holman
Baroque String Playing for ingenious learners by Judy Tarling, published by Corda Music

In preparation: The Weapons of Rhetoric: Oratory for Musicians by Judy Tarling