Featured Courses | LeisureCourses.net - short courses & residential study breaks in great locations - Part 40
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15/333 Choral School with Andrew Parnell
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Intermediate , Advanced Andrew Parnell, renowned choral trainer and keyboard player, returns to Benslow Music to lead our annual Summer Choral School, again aimed at honing the choral singing skills of participants. The objective of this course is to produce in four days a choir that really sings well as a unit, but in...
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15/257 Language Weekend: French with Language teachers from the Hitchin Language Centre
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesSTANDARD: ALL We are delighted that we are now able to add an intensive weekend devoted to practical language skills to Benslow Music
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15/258 Language Weekend: Spanish with Language teachers from the Hitchin Language Centre
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesSTANDARD: ALL We are delighted that we are now able to add an intensive weekend devoted to practical language skills to Benslow Music
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15/258 Language Weekend: Italian with Language teachers from the Hitchin Language Centre
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesSTANDARD: ALL We are delighted that we are now able to add an intensive weekend devoted to practical language skills to Benslow Music
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15/260 Ukulele Orchestra with Nic Browning
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Elementary , Intermediate Now a regular fixture in the Benslow Music programme, Nick Browning, ukulele player extraordinaire, returns with the Ukulele Orchestra course. We will work on three pieces written in contrasting styles
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15/253 Advanced Piano with Tim Barratt
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Advanced Timothy Barratt, who trains new examiners for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music as well as teaching at the Royal Academy of Music, leads this new course for adult pianists who are at or around those crucial Grade 7 and 8 stages of their progress. Please bring pieces that you...
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15/JZ2 Balkan and Eastern European Jazz with Vicktor Obsust
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Intermediate , Advanced Viktor Obsust completed his studies at Bratislava State Conservatoire in Slovakia and has since developed an interest in Eastern European Jazz, a fusion of mainstream jazz enriched with slightly exotic sounds of Byzantine, Balkan beats and various cultures from the region. He has since also been seen in several klezmer groups...
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15/FID String and Piano Ensembles with the Fidelio Trio with Members of the Fidelio Trio
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Advanced We are delighted to announce that
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15/250 The Summertime Klezmer Course with Members of the London Klezmer Quartet
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Intermediate , Advanced The London Klezmer Quartet returns for a summertime course designed for instrumentalists (including keyboard players) from all musical backgrounds, classical, folk or jazz. Applicants must be of at least roughly Grade 4 level (no formal qualifications needed), and an ability to read music helps, though it
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15/249 Cello Orchestra with Jenny Curtis
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Intermediate , Advanced Jenny Curtis once again introduces cellists to works transcribed or originally written for cellos in anything from three to eight parts. There
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15/241 Developing Your Aural Skills with Katharine Bramley
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Elementary , Intermediate , Advanced For many people taking their Associated Board or more advanced examination, the approach of the section in which you are required to display your aural skills by repeating or writing down a rhythm, melody or harmony or by naming pitches in a chord or identifying a chord sequence gives...
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15/239 Made in Britain: A Harpsicord Course with Penelope Cave
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Intermediate , Advanced Dr Penelope Cave's practical and stimulating annual weekend harpsichord course will, this year, be examining the influences of Purcell, Handel and Scarlatti on other composers publishing in London. There will be a list for participants, with suggestions of composers and editions, available in the autumn. Reasonable keyboard skills are required, and...
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15/328 Group Quartets with Jonathan Trout with Jonathan Trout
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Intermediate , Advanced Jonathan Trout leads another Group Quartet course, designed for those who are reluctant to tackle the string quartet repertoire one to a part or who just enjoy playing the repertoire en masse. We
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15/246 West Gallery Music with Francis Roads
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Elementary , Intermediate , Advanced Due to popular demand, Francis Roads returns for another of his courses on West Gallery Music. The music is joyful, rewarding and easy church music, sung during the 18th and 19th centuries to whatever instrumental accompaniment might be available. Francis Roads
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15/327 Introduction to Jazz Improvisation with Jeffery Wilson and friends
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Elementary , intermediate , Advanced Saxophonist Jeffery Wilson leads this brand new course devoted to introducing the art of Jazz Improvisation. Jeffery has for 25 years performed with the contemporary quartet
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15/243 The Art of Chopin with Tim Barratt
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Intermediate , Advanced Timothy Barratt focuses on the music of the great Polish-born composer in a course which should appeal to all pianists. Please prepare at least two works in advance. Whether it
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15/240 New Winds with Janet Myatt
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Elementary A friendly course for those up to Associated Board Grade 3 standard with little or no experience of ensemble playing but at least a year
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15/238 Baroque Performance on Modern String Instruments with Judy Tarling
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Intermediate , Advanced Are you HIP? Don
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15/322 Gregorian Chant for All with John Rowlands-Pritchard
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Intermediate , Advanced John Rowlands-Pritchard returns for what is now a regular and popular course in the Benslow Music programme. John, who directs the group Opus Anglicanum, introduces singers of all faiths and none to some of the beautiful repertoire of Gregorian chant, the art form which lies at the root of Western music...
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15/235 Magic of Vienna: Part II with Julian Williamson
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : All This course picks up the story where Part One left off. From the age of Beethoven and Schubert, the phenomenon of the waltz and the Strauss family we move on to look at the Biedermeier age and the volcanic effects of the 1848 revolution. We cover all the great musicians who flocked to...
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15/232 Intermediate Piano with Timothy Barratt
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Intermediate This course is designed for pianists of intermediate standard (grades 4 to 6) to join Timothy Barratt for a course taught in a masterclass format. Participants are asked to bring two or three pieces of their own choosing and Tim will offer his usual gentle encouragement and unique insights to help you improve...
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15/233 Free Up Your Playing with Martin Lawrence
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Elementary , Intermediate , Advanced The course is an exploration of your relationship with your instrument. What drew you to it? What do you love about it? What do you hate? Does it give you pain? Let
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15/229 Introduction to Wind Chamber Music with Janet Myatt
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesSTANDARD: ELEMENTARY, INTERMEDIATE Janet Myatt returns with another of her popular courses designed to introduce wind players to one-to-a-part playing in groups of similar ability. Janet brings with her a vast library of music to suit diff erent combinations of instruments, so you should be a reasonable sight reader. We are looking for fl utes, clarinets,...
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15/231 Release Your Voice with Barbara Alden
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Elementary , Intermediate , Advanced With her affable light touch, Barbara Alden, who has worked with some of the world
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15/ Reed Making Day for Oboists with Adrian Rowlands
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Elementary , Intermediate , Advanced One of the best reed makers in the business, Adrian Rowlands, returns to Benslow Music for another course devoted to the subtle, but critically important, art of reed making. This day course offers the chance for oboe players to discover the secrets of the craft and whatever your standard...
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15/318 Jazz Piano with Tim Richards
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Intermediate , Advanced Tim Richards returns to Benslow Music following his successful course last year. This
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15/316 Clarinet Choir with Shea Lolin
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesSTANDARD: INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED Due to popular demand, Shea Lolin, Director of the East London Clarinet Choir, returns for a slightly longer version of his Clarinet Choir course. Shea will be working through a wide-range of repertoire, both original and arranged, and off ers the chance to play in a large ensemble with like-minded players. Please let...
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15/107 The Choruses of Acis and Galatea with David Roblou
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Intermediate , Advanced As this year
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15/225 Grade VI Theory and Beyond with Katharine Bramley
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Intermediate , Advanced Following on from her Grade V Theory courses, this course is designed to take those who are interested in progressing with theory to the higher grades. The course will focus on the grade VI syllabus and due to the small class size Katharine can provide guidance beyond this level on an...
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15/226 Beyond the Score with Stephen Gutman
Listed on February 14, 2015 by Benslow in Featured CoursesStandard : Advanced Heli Ignatius-Fleet
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