Cost
- The 2025 fee, including full board, accommodation and all tuition, is £910.
- The non-residential fee is £680, including lunch and dinner.
- Non-participant partners are welcome to share your room at a cost of £470 for accommodation
and meals.
- There is a discount of £75 for those who bring a harpsichord or spinet and tune it
daily. Please give us details of the instrument you are able to offer; we will confirm
at a later date whether this is needed.
Initial applications will close at 5pm on Monday 2nd December 2024 - no preference
is given to applications received before this date. We may have to make selections
on the basis of the information on your application form and/or the balance of instruments
or voices. Some places may need to be reserved for particular instruments/voices
even if the course is otherwise full. If necessary, lots will be drawn amongst all
applications received by 5pm on that day to determine order of application, in particular
to allocate en-suite bedrooms. You can state on the application form if an en-suite
is preferred, or if one is essential for medical reasons. Wheelchair-accessible rooms
are available. The application forms (below) will be available from mid-November
so that you have ample time to complete one. Please complete an application form
even if you have attended before, so that you can update your preferences or any
other information. Later applications made after 2nd December for any remaining
places on the course will be considered in order of receipt.
We will request a deposit of £100 as soon as we confirm that you have a place. The
balance will be due by 1st June. Please pay by bank transfer or internet banking
to account number 65771015 (Baroque Week R/C 1161774), sort code 08-92-99, or send
a cheque payable to Baroque Week. For international payments the IBAN is GB94 CPBK
089299 65771015 and the SWIFT/BIC is CPBK GB22. Alternatively you can use PayPal
to pay by card, although there will be a small additional charge to cover their fees
- please contact us for details.
The deposit is non-refundable unless we are unable to offer you a place on the course.
If you have to withdraw before 1st June we will refund any additional fees you have
already paid. If you withdraw between 1st June and 20th July we will give a refund
(apart from the deposit) only if we are able to replace you with a suitable alternative
participant. After this date we are unable to make refunds in any circumstances,
so we strongly recommend that you take out your own insurance.
Despite many increases in costs, we want to avoid raising the course fees more than
necessary. Consequently, your fee now covers just the basic costs of board, accommodation,
tutors’ remuneration, and administration. Separately and in addition, we are asking
participants (all those that feel able) to make a further voluntary contribution
of at least £50 towards the cost of up to ten bursaries and the provision of extra
keyboard instruments. Splitting this element helps us to continue to offer places
to the bursary students who add so much to Baroque Week and, importantly, if you
are a UK taxpayer this enables us to claim further substantial Gift Aid support from
the government. Making a donation also qualifies you for Membership of the Baroque
Week charity until the following 30th September, unless you tell us that you do NOT
wish to be a Member.
It may be possible to attend for part of the week — please contact us to discuss
this. However you may not gain the benefit of taking full part in the course; also
the balance of instruments for the whole week needs to be taken into consideration
when we allocate places. The on-site bedrooms are usually allocated to those attending
for the whole week, so you would probably need to find a local B&B.
Please note that Baroque Week is a course for adults. If you will be under 18 years
old at the start of the course please ask for our Young Student Permission Form,
which requires your parent/guardian (or a named adult known to them) to be present
at the course.
Covid policy
At the 2024 course at least 21 people tested positive for Covid either during or
immediately after the course. In order to minimise the risk of bringing Covid to
the course we ask that you take a test before coming if you (or anyone you have been
in close contact with) have any symptoms, even if this might just be a common cold.
We have been advised by health professionals that there is unlikely to be any benefit
in taking a test if you or your close contacts do not have any symptoms.
Download an application form:
Instrumentalists: MS Word format pdf format
Singers: MS Word format pdf format
Gift Aid/Membership/Donation form: MS Word format pdf format
Instrumentalists who also wish to do some solo/one-to-a-part singing in tutor-led
sessions should use the singers’ form; but other instrumentalists can ask to sing
in a chamber choir (two- to four-to-a-part) in some sessions; and everyone is encouraged
to join in the evening choir.
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