Upcoming Events
A Chest of Lutes – English Lute Music up to Dowland with Lukas Henning
Weekend Workshop in Berlin
Saturday/Sunday 9am-5pm
Lacrime and Seaven Teares - solo repertoire, consorts and lute songs from the Elizabethan period.
Melancholia - Renaissance Recorder Consort
Weekend Workshop in Berlin
Saturday/Sunday 9am-5pm
Playing a number of recorders together always brings problems but there are ways to solve them. This weekend aims to do just that. The first step is taken by using our large matched set of instuments by master builder Klaus Scheele.
Orlande de Lassus - Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales
Weekend Workshop in Berlin
Saturday/Sunday 9am-5pm
The 'Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales ' of 1584 by Lassus are a highlight of sacred music. The poetry, also called Psalms of Confession, has been translated by the greatest poets and has been set to music by the greatest composers.
Lirone - Weekend
Weekend Workshop in Rehau, Bavaria
Saturday 2pm - Monday 2pm
Easter weekend workshop all about lirone and lira da braccio with Rika Murata and Michael Dollendorf
Continuo Playing on Theorbo, Lute and Baroque Guitar with Lukas Henning
Weekend Workshop in Berlin
Saturday/Sunday 9am-5pm
Basso Continuo Workshop with ceremonial and orchestral music from the French court composed and collected by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) and André Danican Philidor (1647-1730).
The Splendor of Versailles
Weekend Workshop in Berlin
Saturday/Sunday 9am-5pm
Frédérique Brillouin and Michael Dollendorf
Ceremonial and orchestral music from the French court composed and collected by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) and André Danican Philidor (1647-1730). Players of all period string and woodwind instruments are welcome.
Minnesinger - Walther to Wolkenstein
Weekend Workshop in Berlin
Saturday/Sunday 9am-5pm
The German Minnesinger sang their 'songs of courtly love' for about three centuries, but there were vast stylistic changes. We'll work on the language and it's pronouciation, the poetry and ways to find melodies and actually sing.
Renaissance Workshop Summer School 2019
10-17 August 2019 - Renaissance Week in Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Mostly Madrigals and Consort Music by Praetorius, Scheidt, Schütz, Huwet, Dowland and Brade
Randall K. Wong - voices
Johanna Carter - viols
Michael Dollendorf - winds (flutes, recorders, cornetts, sackbuts, curtals)
Lukas Henning - lutes
Baroque Workshop Summer School 2019
18-25 August 2019 - Baroque Week in Wolfenbüttel, Germany
This Bach Cantata Summer School is dedicated to the arias and duos with more than one obligato instrument. It is open to music students and musicians who are regularly involved with cantata performances in their church music environment or who like to train for this.
Max van Egmond - Voice
Frédérique Brillouin - Oboe, Oboe d'amore, Oboe da caccia
Michael Dollendorf - Recorder, Baroque Flute, Bassoon
Daniela Braun - Violin, Viola, Viola d'amore
Warren Stewart - Viola da Gamba , Violoncello, Violone
Lukas Henning - Lute, Theobo
Pieter Dirksen - Harpsichord, Organ