A few (belated) snaps from the Stile Antico workshop Northumbria Uni - Stile and Katherine Butler introduced a group of young singers and students to singing renaissance music in the small ensemble setting byrdcentral.com/post/stile-ant…

Are you a parent of a secondary school-aged child in the North East of England? Could you spare 10 mins to take an online survey to help out a music student @NorthumbriaMusic with their dissertation? (Your child does not need to be taking music lessons). Do spread the word!

Really enjoyed Stile Antico's family concert at Howard Assembly Room this afternoon, complete with audience piece from Dr Kerry Andrew in which I knocked my daughter's drink across the floor attempting the body percussion (sulk ongoing). Also FREE pencils for everyone!

It deserved a much bigger audience (apparently tickets still available for their concert tonight, for what looks like a stunning programme)...

Leeds! Free family concert today!!! 3pm!

We had a great time at Newcastle Cathedral on Friday - 1st working with school children who have been taking part in Byrd 2023 workshops w/ Horizon Voices in our Family Concert & 2nd a full house for our evening concert performance. Our next family concert is in Leeds on 2nd April!

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This was such an inspiring concert!Such enthusiastic singing from the schools. 'Oh, Sing' is firmly stuck in my head. A privilege for Northumbria Music to be involved with this project that's truly used Byrd to get young people singing today!

In memory of Dr Alan Brown: The ByrdCentral team would like to thank Dr Brown for his significant contributions to Byrd scholarship. We send our sincerest sympathies to his family and loved ones.

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Know someone aged 16-22 who loves singing Renaissance Music? We'd love to hear from them for our next Youth Consort course!

104 new-to-streaming early music titles are now available including treasures from our vault of medieval music and Renaissance polyphony, completing the discographies of Cinquecento, The Sixteen, @GothicVoicesUK, Brabant Ensemble, @ExCathedraChoir, @TheCardinalls and BinchoisConsort!

A better question is ‘singers of 17thC English church music, what’s stopping you from being as creative as this?’

Looking forward to our students being involved in this!

Exciting to read about Horizon Voices’ ‘Reasons to Sing’ workshops in NE schools, inspired by composer William Byrd: classical-music.uk/features/artic… (via Classical Music). These lead to a concert on 8 March ahead of Stile Antico ‘Golden Renaissance’ performance: newcastlecathedral.org.uk/whats-on/categ…

Our Byrd-inspired education project, Reasons to Sing, has been featured on the Classical Music website today, ahead of our upcoming performances in Newcastle Newcastle Cathedral (8 Mar) and Leeds Opera North (2 Apr)!

Read on to find out more & join us ⬇️

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