Making music together - our course offer adult learners, late starters, music students and experienced players the opportunity to work together as one ensemble, developing  a strong sense of collective identity and achieving outstanding performances full of vitality.

Summer School                                                                                                                              Forthcoming courses

Summer Strings 2016
Sunday 7th to 13th August, Doncaster College, High Melton, South Yorkshire
A wide ranging celebration of new music with dedicated string orchestra sessions working on some of the less frequently played repertoire. In partnership with CoMA Contemporary Msuci for All, the course also offers opportunities to join in vocal, music theatre, improvisation, composition, piano and  composition options. 
The Summer School itself is based at a rural campus conveniently reached from mainline trains to Doncaster, set in 129 acres of beautiful rolling hillside overlooking the Vale of Deane
BOOKINGS Closed

Mid Winter Strings
Monday 2nd to Friday 6th January
St Hilda's College, Oxford

Music making in the Jacqueline du Pre Music Building overlooking Christchurch meadows and university spires of Oxford.

The new year energy booster! Whilst offering a range of music from the  established string repertoire, the course links up with a parallel CoMA composer course
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BOOKINGS  Opened 1st August 2016

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Strings in Greece
Friday 26th May to Sunday 4th June.
Kapsali, Kythira, Greece

At the meeting of the Aegean, Cretan and Ionian seas lies the unspoilt mythical island of Kythira.  The course is based at an seafront Arts Centre in fishing village of Kapsali set below a Venetian castle on the south of the island. Rehearsals take place in an amphitheatre to the sound of the lapping sea. On occasion we use other venues - beaches, community centres and, once, on the roof of the monastery overlookng Kapsali bay!

This is music making in a truly magical place!
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BOOKINGS Opened Friday 17 June 2016