Wind Serenades

Wind Chamber Music Courses across the United Kingdom, directed by Laurence Perkins

Wind Serenades 2009

Wind Chamber
Music Courses for
amateur woodwind
and horn players,
directed by
LAURENCE
PERKINS

  Images from the 2008 'Wind Serenades' course in Birnam
   

        Images from the 2008 'Wind Serenades' course in Birnam, Mike and Carolyn Bell

One-day and two-day courses for
elementary, intermediate and advanced players
on flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn.


Beat the credit crunch!

  • Same price as 2008 for Church Stretton, Birnam and Caldbeck courses
  • All courses within UK
  • Outstanding value for money



TUTORS for 2009 courses:

LYNDA COFFIN (solo and orchestral flautist, former principal flute in CBSO and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
NICHOLAS COX (Principal clarinet, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra)
RICHARD HOWARTH(Leader, Manchester Camerata)
GUY WOOLFENDEN (Former Director of Music, Royal Shakespeare Company)
LAURENCE PERKINS (“Wind Serenades” Course Director / Principal Bassoon, Manchester Camerata)

The 2009 courses will include (click on each word highlighted in blue)

HAYDN 200th anniversary of his death
Serenade No. 4 in F
Symphony No 101 'Clock'

BIRNAM – in the imposing Scottish ‘Macbeth’ landscape of Perthshire
CALDBECK – in the rolling north Cumbrian fells
CHURCH STRETTON – in the beautiful Shropshire hills
MANCHESTER – a chance to play at the famous Bridgewater Hall*
WIND SERENADES ORIGINALS – outstanding original repertoire studied in depth
ONE-DAY COURSES – in CHURCH STRETTON, CALDBECK and MANCHESTER
TWO-DAY COURSES – in BIRNAM and MANCHESTER

* details to be confirmed

2009 repertoire(click on a piece highlighted in blue to go to the relevant page)

For ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE standard players (click HERE for playing standard details)

Haydn: Serenade No. 4 in F
Jacob, Gordon: “Old wine in new bottles”
Joplin, Scott: 'Easy Winners ' Rag
Orff 'Carmina Burana' - 5 movements

For ADVANCED standard players (click HERE for playing standard details)

Bach, PDQ: Octoot
Beethoven: Rondino
Caplet, André: Suite Persane
Catalan folk melodies
Gounod: Petite Symphonie (with revised oboe parts)
Haydn: Symphony No. 101 ‘Clock’
Mozart: Serenade in B flat, K.361 for 13 players ‘Gran Partita’
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Schubert: Octet in F, D.803 (wind and strings)
Schubert: Minuet and Finale (for wind octet)
Strauss, Johann: ‘Die Fledermaus’ overture
Strauss, Richard: Suite in B flat, Op. 4
Woolfenden, Guy: Suite Française


For details of a week of wind chamber music in a beautiful remote corner of the Lot Valley in southern France, go to the ‘Cubertou’ course website at
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/beauvillearts/Wind%20Course/windindex.html