Welcome to Harrogate Festival Choral Course
STOP PRESS!!! We are all ready for the course in Harrogate in August and look forward to meeting up with you all. I'm delighted to announce that we will be running a weekend singing course and hope that many of you will be able to join us. Details are as follows:
Dates - Friday 28th to Sunday 30th November.
Venue - The Eltermere Country House Hotel, Elterwater, in the beautiful Lake District.
Course Title - "Welcome Yule" - we'll be working on Christmas music and we will give an informal performance on the Sunday afternoon.
Included - dinner, bed and breakfast for residents (the food is excellent according to Lynn and Thom) from Friday to Sunday plus afternoon tea on Sunday afternoon after the concert and prior to departure.
We are also able to offer places on a non-residential basis for "locals" and singers who have friends and family they wish to stay with. This package includes dinner on the Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon tea.
Singers are welcome to bring non-singing partners who can enjoy the countryside around Elterwater.
Places are quite limited so if you are interested in this wonderful weekend please come back to us by e-mail or ring Lynn and Thom on 01484 651342. Ideally we'd like to know by 22nd August if you would like to join us in November.
The cost for residential delegates (singers and non-singers) is £235 per person and for non-residents the cost is £140.
We are delighted that nearly 100 singers will be joining us for the first Harrogate Festival Choral Course over the Bank Holiday weekend in August which will culminate in a performance of Rutter's Magnificat and Elgar's The Music Makers in the newly-refurbished Royal Hall. Tickets are now available for the concert - simply click on the order form below.
During the course you will get the chance to sing and perform some shorter pieces for male voices, if you a tenor or bass, or upper voices, if you sing alto or soprano. There'll also be some optional master classes if you want to learn from the experts. But first....who exactly are we?
We're Lynn Hudson and Thom Meredith, a husband and wife team who for several years tutored on the popular Harrogate Choral Week, John Dunford, the Director of Music at Ashville College, and conductor of both the Ripon and Wetherby Choral Societies and Sue Rosborough, Administrator of Halifax Young Singers.
So, with the team in place, and Ashville College able to provide excellent accommodation, there's only one piece in the jigsaw missing...and that's where you come in!
We need singers! If you have some experience of choral singing, whether in a church choir, community group or choral society, would like to take part in a concert in an exceptional venue, and want to make new friends and explore a lovely part of the country, then this might be just the course for you.
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Concert Information and ticket order form. Click the image on the left to print off the flier and ticket order form for our concert on 26th August. (PDF 2.9mb)
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