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Marnaves Summer Baroquea summer course in baroque period string-playing JULY 24th to 30th 2010
The 2008 course was followed by 2009, with a student population of 15. If you want to see comments from students and pictures of the week, join the Facebook group 'Marnaves Summer Baroque' where there is more information. We are hosting the course again in 2010, but note the earlier date owing to Maggie's availability. This year we are extending the course by a day, providing more space and provision for chamber music, and the organ in the gallery is now working. Repertoire This year we are adding to the standard and less usual repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries the possibility of playing new music. We invite composers to join us for the week, with tuition offered by AWD and the ensemble to be made available for workshopping new pieces written for its unique sonorities. The course can accommodate players of violin, viola, 'cello and double bass or violone. The intention is to achieve a balanced ensemble of at least a dozen skilled players, who need either to have skills in period playing or to be good and flexible modern players willing to adapt to the use of an early bow on gut strings. Players will need instruments with a baroque set-up and baroque bow or at a minimum a modern instrument with gut strings ready to play at A=415. The course may be able to offer some baroque bows on hire: please enquire.
Up to three meals are available each day (see price list) and advice on nearby accommodation, from camping to self-catering and hotels. Food is vegetarian and home-made with fresh local ingredients. Dietary needs can be catered for. A concert from Margaret Faultless and the tutors is included free, and the course ends with an informal concert and party. A course meal is offered in the nearby historic Cathars fortified town of Cordes-sur-Ciel. There are excellent walks and cycle rides in the area, with use of a swimming pool (unsupervised). 2010 Per day prices in £ sterling or € euros remain as for 2009 tuition for the week with light refreshments: £175/€195 The course is held from 4pm Saturday 24th to Friday evening 30th July Transport The course centre is only 3km (2 miles) from Vindrac (Vindrac-Alayrac) rail station (the stop for Cordes), on the local line between Toulouse and Figeac. There is a shuttle service from Toulouse-Blagnac airport to the train station in Toulouse. If travelling by train is impractical, a lift from Toulouse airport may be possible.
Biographical notes Margaret Faultless is an internationally renowned violinist, a specialist in historical performance practice and in great demand as a concertmaster and director. Since 1989 she has been a leader of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, working with Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Roger Norrington, Ivan Fisher, Mark Elder and Vladimir Jurowski. For over 12 years she led the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (ABO) under Ton Koopman, with whom she recorded all the Bach cantatas, including every obbligato for violin, violin piccolo and viola d'amore. Margaret was a member of the London Haydn Quartet for six years, and has a duo with pianist Adrian Partington with whom she is performing, in particular, sonatas by Beethoven and Brahms. As a graduate of Cambridge University, she has established a Baroque Project there. She lectures on performance practice, is the Director of Studies of the European Union Baroque Orchestra, is a professor at the Birmingham Conservatoire and regularly directs orchestras at the Royal Academy of Music. The husband and wife team of Lucy Robinson (BA (York), Ph D (Cantab)) and Andrew Wilson-Dickson (LRAM, ARCO, MA, Mus B (Cantab), D Phil (York)) has been involved in early music for many years, performing, teaching and enabling. Lucy was a pupil of Weiland Kuijken and has played her gamba across the world. She is an expert scholar on French music and is a frequent contributor to Early Music magazine. She is Head of Post-graduate Programmes and Research at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Andrew taught at the same College for many years as Head of Early Music. He is a gifted keyboard player with a special interest in continuo playing and improvisation. He directs the professional Welsh Baroque Orchestra and the Welsh Camerata Choir. Andrew and Lucy ran a successful early music summer school in Wales during the 90s. Join the Facebook group Marnaves Summer Baroque to keep in touch or write to me with enquiries or for an application form.
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This course was offered for the first time in 2008, in the delightful surroundings of a small French country village and making use of its 12th-century church and a newly refurbished salle de musique with excellent acoustics. Daily tuition was available from Margaret Faultless, an outstanding player and teacher (see biog below), in large and small ensembles and for individuals. Two lectures on performance practice were presented during the week. 
