Renaissance Italian canzonas with Alison Kinder for Bowed Strings & Recorders (A=440)

The instrumental canzona was a hugely popular form in Renaissance Italy. Hundreds of canzonas survive, in varied styles and even more varied numbers of parts. In this workshop we will look at pieces in 6 parts, 8-parts in two choirs, 12-parts in three choirs, and somewhat unusually, 13 parts.

Alison Kinder is a founder member of Chelys consort of viols where she enjoys researching, performing and recording programmes covering all aspects of consort music. She also has a particular interest in ‘Renaissance’ viols (early viols made with no soundpost) with The Linarol Consort, who play on copies of the earliest surviving viol made by Francesco Linarol. One of her favourite places to be is as the gamba player with Musica Secreta, an all-female polyphonic ensemble specialising in the research and performance of music by and for early modern women.

Alison read music at Oxford University before being given a scholarship by Trinity College of Music where she studied viol with Alison Crum. She was awarded the college’s Silver Medal for Early Music Studies.

Workshop fees are £20 for NWEMF (and other EMF) members booked before 30 August (£25 after), and £25 for non-members (£30 after). Full-time students can join as members for free, and only pay £5 for workshops.

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• Next month, 13th September, 10:00 am, Lusitano and other Portuguese composers with Rory McCleery for Voices in Liverpool

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