NORVIS Early Music Summer School 2023

Welcome to the 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.

• Recorders, viols, lutes, voices, harpsichords, Baroque strings
• Consorts – orchestra – choir – Baroque chamber groups – technique classes – concerts – lectures

‘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

• Musical Director – Andrew Fowler
• Viol – Elizabeth Dodd, Ali Kinder, Susanna Pell, Jacqui Robertson-Wade, Peter Wendland
• Recorder – Ooonagh Lee, Chris Orton, Jane Rumney, Mary Tyers
• Lute & Early Guitar – Richard MacKenzie
• Voice – Andrew Fowler
• Baroque Strings – Michael Williamson
• Harpsichord – John Traherne
• Course Accompanist – Tim Harper

Course fees

Fees for adults

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

Fees for young people and those in full-time education

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

Bursaries and help with fees

• Please visit the NORVIS website for detailed information

Bookings

• Bookings will be available through the NORVIS website