Author: markelawrence1

 

We will be delighted to see you on Saturday at the start of NORVIS XLIX, our 49th annual early music summer school.

MORE INFORMATION

If you are coming to NORVIS, you should have received the Welcome Letter by now, detailing the main information you need for the week.  We look forward to welcoming you upon arrival at the Caedmon Hall foyer on the afternoon of Saturday 27th July.

Further questions? Contact Harriet  by using this website or email / phone her direct using the contact details you’ve been given.

We will be delighted to see you in Durham.

Mark (Chair of the Trustees)

NORVIS covers a broad range of early music interests, welcoming viol-players, recorder-players, lutenists, baroque string players and harpsichordists – not to mention solo and choral singers as well as renaissance instrument enthusiasts. There is a large team of around 13 expert tutors, unusual for such a course.

But more than that, NORVIS is enjoyable, sociable and has a friendly rapport between tutors and participants.

As part of our charitable activity, we offer generous bursaries towards the tuition fees to encourage young people and those in full-time education and others who might not otherwise be able to participate in NORVIS.

If you have been thinking whether to come to NORVIS, stop thinking and apply! You are bound to enjoy our week of varied and friendly early music in Durham.  With 48 years’ collective experience behind us, we continue each year to make new friends and discover new corners of the repertoire. In our musical director Andrew Fowler’s third year at the helm, we will include many Venetian delights. Recorder, viol, lute, baroque strings, harpsichord and singing classes each day with superb tutors, along with further ensemble and tuition, lecture-recitals and concerts and the choir and NORVIS Baroque orchestra – and the historic surroundings of Durham City and the more immediate pleasures of the college bar and NORVIS Ale…  What are you waiting for? Join NORVIS.

Bursaries may still be available – it’s certainly worth asking us.