All 2019-20 Courses are Live on our website! With a wealth of wonderful courses, and our new studio now completed, we have an exciting year of music making ahead.
General booking opens on Wednesday 10 July. A full list of courses can be found below with links to course blurbs and tutor biographies.
If we have your address, your hard copy brochure should be with you shortly (they are being printed as we type!) If we don’t have your address and you would like a printed copy, let us know.
We look forward to welcoming you to Jackdaws soon!
Voice
Interpreting Song
with Amanda Roocroft
Fri 20 – Sun 22 September 2019
NEW TUTOR
Singing in Russian
with Alexandre Naoumenko
Fri 4 – Sun 6 October 2018
Songs of Mozart and Schumann
with Joan Rodgers
Fri 25 – Sun 27 October 2019
NEW COURSE
Audition Preparation Weekend
with Audrey Hyland and Saffron van Zwanenberg
Fri 8 – Sun 10 November 2019
Art Songs by African-American
and Black British Composers
with Michael Harper
Fri 24 – Sun 26 January 2020
Sing, Sing, Sing
with Evelyn Tubb and Michael Fields
Fri 7 – Sun 9 February 2020
What’s the Score!
with Phillip Thomas
Fri 21 – Sun 23 February 2020
NEW COURSE
English Song Weekend
with Sarah Leonard and Stephen Varcoe
Fri 13 – Sun 15 March 2020
Singing in English
with Adrian Thompson
Fri 20 – Sun 22 March 2020
A Song by Any Other Name
with Richard Jackson
Fri 27 – Fri 29 March 2020
The Golden Age of Broadway
with Paul Knight
Fri 24 – Sun 26 April 2020
Singing Handel
with Rosa Mannion
Fri 8 – Sun 10 May 2020
Schubert & Gurney: A Poet’s Dream
with Ian Partridge
Fri 5 – Sun 7 June 2020
NEW COURSE
Discover Your Voice
with Penny Jenkins
Fri 19 – Sun 21 June 2020
Stagecraft for Singers
with Rosa Mannion and Saffron van Zwanenberg
Thurs 2 – Sun 5 July 2020
Three Day Course
NEW COURSE
Singer as Artist
with Alison Wells
Fri 10 – Sun 12 July 2020
A Celebration of Lieder and Art Song
with Simon Wallfisch
Fri 7 – Sun 9 August 2020
NEW TUTOR
Opera Workshop
with Mary Plazas and Robert Chevara
Fri 21 – Sun 23 August 2020
Singing in French
with Robin Bowman
Fri 18 – Sun 20 September 2020
Piano
Finding Your Voice at the Piano
with Stephen Savage
Fri 27 – Sun 29 September 2019
Playing by Ear for Pleasure and Technique
with Stephen Marquiss
Fri 18 – Sun 20 October 2019
NEW COURSE
Learning from Chopin
with James Lisney
Fri 1 – Sun 3 September 2019
NEW COURSE
Practising the Piano
with Graham Fitch
Fri 15 – Sun 17 November 2018
Polishing Your Piano Technique
with Melanie Spanswick
Fri 17 – Sun 19 January 2020
Piano Music from the First Viennese School
with Graeme Humphrey
Fri 31 January – Sun 2 February 2020
NEW TUTOR
Becoming a Confident Pianist
with Timothy Barratt
Fri 28 February – Sun 1 March 2020
The Pianist’s Technical Toolbox
with Alisdair Hogarth
Fri 3 – Sun 5 April 2020
Knowing the Score
with Karl Lutchmayer
Fri 17 – Sun 19 April 2020
From Panic to Poise Weekend
with Wendy Skeen
Fri 1 – Sun 3 May 2020
Beethoven in Context
with Julian Jacobson
Fri 15 – Sun 17 May 2020
NEW COURSE
The Complete Pianist
with Margaret Fingerhut
Fri 26 – Sun 28 June 2020
Intermediate Piano Summer School
with Mark Tanner
Mon 20 – Thurs 23 July 2020
Three Day Course
Advanced Piano Summer School
with Mark Tanner
Thurs 23 – Sun 26 July 2020
Three Day Course
Piano Workshop: A New Departure
with Philip Fowke
Fri 11 – Sun 13 September 2020
One Day Courses
Family Singing Afternoon
with Caroline Radcliffe
Sunday 13 October 2019
Singing for the Over 50s
with Penny Jenkins
Saturday 30 November 2019
Healing with the Voice
with Anne Bourne
Sunday 1 December 2019
Understanding Your Voice
with Jessica Walker
Saturday 7 December 2019
From Panic to Poise One Day Course
with Wendy Skeen
Sunday 8 December 2019
Strings
Winter Guitar Ensemble
with Eden Stell Guitar Duo
Thurs 12 – Sun 15 December 2019
Three Day Course
Summer Guitar Ensemble
with Eden Stell Guitar Duo
Thurs 21 – Sun 24 May 2020
Three Day Course
Strings & Things: Intermediate – Advanced
with Nic Fallowfield
Thurs 13 – Sun 16 August 2020
Three Day Course
NEW TUTOR
Violin and Viola Workshop
with Madeleine Mitchell
Fri 28 – Sun 30 August 2020
Stylish Baroque
with Theresa Caudle and Alastair Ross
Fri 4 – Sun 6 September 2019
Wind
Recorder Weekend
with Anna Stegmann
Fri 22 – Sun 24 November 2019
The City Musick – Renaissance Wind Band Music for Court & City
with William Lyons and Richard Thomas
Fri 14 – Sun 16 February 2020
Clarinets
with David Campbell
Fri 6 – Sun 8 March 2020
Oboe Weekend
with Sarah Francis and Ruth Watson
Fri 29 May – Sun 31 May 2020
NEW TUTOR
Bassoon Workshop – From Reed to Recital
with Robert Codd
Fri 12 – Sun 14 June 2020
Chamber Music Weekend
with Sarah Francis, Robert Codd, Ian Mitchell and Stephen Gutman
Fri 17 – Sun 19 July 2020