Author: markelawrence1

Dear NORVIS participants for 2020 (would have been!) and everyone who came in 2019 – welcome to ‘not-NORVIS’ week 2020! My name is Mark Lawrence, chair of the NORVIS trustees, and I would normally be greeting you today in person and welcoming you to our wonderful summer school. Well, remotely, welcome anyway! All being well, we will indeed meet in 2021 for our Golden Jubilee NORVIS 50.

So I needn’t ask you if your travelling was easy or hard, or whether you have checked into your accommodation OK. You don’t need a site tour, and you can’t take part in the playing session for people to join once they have settled in. You haven’t got the first tuition session tonight. Never mind, you can imagine.
Meanwhile, you can meet our tutors https://norvis.org.uk/tutors/ at least virtually. Furthermore, many of them have sent messages, videos or other resources for you to have a look at. This material has, in many cases, been created specially for you. I have emailed you individually as this is not available to the general public for copyright reasons.
Every best wish from everyone at NORVIS.

NORVIS 50 postponed to 2021

In the light of the current coronavirus pandemic, the Trustees of NORVIS regret to announce that they have decided to postpone the Golden Jubilee NORVIS 50 early music summer school from August 2020 to the summer of 2021. All those who have applied to attend NORVIS have been contacted individually. The new provisional dates for the course will be 31st July – 7th August 2021 at Barnard Castle School. When we celebrate our Golden Jubilee, it will indeed be magnificent. Thank you for your support of NORVIS – please keep in touch with us. (www.norvis.org.uk)

The Trustees of NORVIS are monitoring the development of the COVID-19 pandemic and the actions of the UK government. At this point in time, the NORVIS 50 summer school 1st – 8th August 2020 is going ahead, and we are very much looking forward to a marvellous week. If this position changes, we will update this message accordingly and will contact all those who have applied to take part in NORVIS.

15th March 2020

Now is a great time to apply to NORVIS – our Early Bird discount applies until the end of March. We have already had a good number of applications. Our fees are lower this year but we are still offering our marvellous depth and breadth of early music making that is a NORVIS week, with wonderful tutor experts. This 50th NORVIS will be at our new home of Barnard Castle School. Baroque strings players, lutenists, harpsichordists, consort singers, recorder players and violists – don’t miss out! Read more at http://www.norvis.org.uk