Firmly established as one of Europe’s foremost early music courses, BAROQUE WEEK is now celebrating its 46th year. The course offers inspiration and guidance to both singers and players of baroque music from an expert team of leading specialists in historical performance.
The theme for 2024 is Fairest Isle: A musical journey around the British Isles, exploring
repertoire from the early 17th to late 18th centuries. We will feature masterpieces
by Purcell, Handel and Blow, as well as exploring the lesser-
BAROQUE WEEK is for baroque wind, string and continuo players and up to ten singers,
but there are also opportunities for instrumentalists to sing. Plucked continuo
as well as keyboard players will be welcome. String players should use gut strings
and a baroque bow. You should be a competent sight-
“Everyone is so friendly, standard is high, tutors fantastic, well organised -
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Latest update:
Baroque Week 2025 will be Sunday 10th to Sunday 17th August. This website currently
has details of the 2024 course but that will give you an idea what to expect. Contact
us to be added to the email list for further details which will be sent in November;
booking will open on Monday 2nd December. This year the course was virtually full
on the first day. All bookings received by 5pm on that day will have an equal chance
of acceptance if allocations have to be made on artistic grounds -
Queen Anne’s School, Caversham, Berkshire
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Residential Baroque Music Summer School