Welcome to the 50th NORVIS Early Music Summer School

NORVIS is an annual full week-long early music summer school in County Durham which we’re proud to describe as one of the UK’s longest-established and friendliest early music summer schools.

We are celebrating our Golden Jubilee, in 2022 rather than 2020, as we move to a fine new venue at Barnard Castle School, next door to the splendid Bowes Museum.

‘Sympathetic and informative teaching’
‘Very good variety – always something I wanted to do’
‘Good fun, great atmosphere, very good repertoire’
‘Went beyond expectations’

About the course

If you love playing early music, a week at NORVIS will enable you to make progress.

• We teach and perform with recorders, viols, lutes, baroque strings, harpsichord and voices, and cover a wide range of repertoire from early Renaissance to late Baroque.
• We have an impressive line-up of specialist performers and teachers.
• We have a particularly generous student-tutor ratio.
• We give a number of bursaries to enable individuals to participate in NORVIS who would be otherwise unable to do so.

Tutors

• Andrew Fowler – Musical Director
• Elizabeth Dodd – viol, dance
• Alison Kinder – recorder, baroque oboe
• Oonagh Lee – recorder, baroque oboe
• Richard MacKenzie – lute, theorbo, early guitar
• Chris Orton – recorder
• Susanna Pell – viol
• Jacqui Robertson-Wade – solo bass viol
• Jane Rumney – recorder
• John Treherne MBE – harpsichord
• Mary Tyers – recorder
• Michael Willamson – baroque strings
• Tim Harper – accompanist, keyboard continuo

Course fees

Fees for adults

• Full board and tuition: £790.00
• Non-resident with tuition (inc lunch and evening meal): £580.00

Fees for young people and those in full-time education

• Full board and tuition: £650.00
• Non-resident with tuition (inc lunch and evening meal): £480.00

Bursaries and help with fees

• Please visit the NORVIS website for detailed information

Bookings

• Bookings will be available through the NORVIS website