 We're looking forward to welcoming all this year's participants
to HISS 2018 at Bishop Burton College next week! If you're joining us, you will have received earlier in July, asking you to inform us of your preferred Progressive class. If you haven't yet notified us of your preference, please do so asap! Also, if you are travelling by train and require transport from Beverley station to the College via their shuttle bus, please advise us of your arrival time at Beverley. You will have discovered various items of course music have appeared on the Downloads pages. The sub-pages listed there will take you to parts and scores relevant to you and your instrument.
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 Last few days to book your place on this year's bumper HISS!
Singers join our Byrd Vigila(n)te group, sing or play in a crazy Spem. Natural Voice singers an immersive course for care of the voice; improving flexibility, resonance, and tuning, by learning gorgeous songs from across the world. Then there's Praetorious a plenty for strings (bowed & plucked) & wind. Baroque strings; Handel, Telemann, and enjoy sun drenched Venice with not just one cornetto (& sackbut) but a brace of brass. Book here  We're really pleased to add brass to the range of courses on offer this year. Here is some information about our new sackbut tutor, George Bartle, whose many talents will no doubt add a special dimension to HISS 2018 . . . . . .
George Bartle has been making noise since he became a chorister in Ely Cathedral as a boy. Since then, he has graduated from the Royal College of Music in London and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland as a singer and sackbut specialist. He has performed with many early music ensembles in the UK and abroad and has regularly worked as a musician with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. He is also a virtuosic ukulele player with his duo Opera-lele and as a solo act Renaissance Uke Man. He is a member of The City Musick and George can be heard playing sackbut, slide trumpet, renaissance guitar and recorder as well as singing. It looks like being a bumper year, as we welcome larger numbers, and our two new tutors for cornett and sackbut ! More detailed information on course content and timetabling will be available on the course pages soon There is room for more cornett players, and singers all voices. We will be singing and playing music by Byrd, Tallis (including a crazy Spem in alium for all), and by Venetian composers including Monteverdi & Gabrieli. Please BOOK your place NOW here  The City Musick Calling all you cornett & sackbut players out there! Sign up for HISS now! We're really pleased to add brass to the range of courses on offer this year, and delighted that Richard Thomas will be our tutor. Book your place now at www.hiss.org.uk 
Happy New Year to you all! After the joys of HISS 2017, and the successful and popular move to Bishop Burton College, we are very much looking forward to welcoming returners and newcomers equally to HISS 2018! This year HISS runs Monday 13 – Friday 17 August, again at Bishop Burton College, near Beverley, East Yorkshire, HU17 8QG
The website is presently being updated, and booking is open (www.hiss.org.uk). All the usual favourites will be there – ceilidh, tutors concert, musical banquet, final concert, shorties and The Early Music Shop, whose support is invaluable, will again be in residence, plus Folk band, Natural voice singing, recorder & string ensembles, chamber choir, viol consorts, and our internationally recognised team of tutors, encouraging and supportive as ever! We look forward to welcoming you to HISS 2018 for another fantastic week of music making!
 Don't miss out! - bring us your fiddle, or viol, or tenor or bass voice, or even a double bass . . . Hey diddle diddle - there's still room for you at HISS2017, especially if you sing, or play fiddle or bass! Although booking is officially closed you may still join us for an exhilarating week of music making, if you're quick. We still have a few places open. Book here now: http://www.hiss.org.uk/fees--booking.html Calling all singers!  HISS 2017 for chamber choir includes a survey of Monteverdi in the 450th anniversary year of his birth, to include a selection of his Madrigals across Books 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 8, written during his time at the Gonzaga court in Mantua. There will be music from the “other” Vespers (1641) with Dixit Dominus II and the Gloria a 7.
We'll also explore settings of words from Psalm 137 By the Waters of Babylon; the pair of motets by de Monte, and Byrd's response to this, an anthem by Boyce and 8-part setting by Victoria. We'll also look at motets by Alonso Lobo. In lighter vein there's music by Waelrant, de Wert, Campion and Dowland. Oh, and do you know the 16 part Crucifixus by Lotti! Singers – it's up to you if we can do all this! Sign up now to be sure we have the forces to do this fabulous music justice! HISS 2017 Booking now open  Join us for HISS 2017, bring your friends, and make it a bumper year! Booking is now open on the website. Visit www.hiss.org.uk and secure your place now.
We've moved to a new venue at Bishop Burton College, near Beverley is east Yorkshire. We're celebrating Monteverdi's 450th birthday, and Hull City of Culture with themes of freedom and emancipation. There's more to offer in the courses, too. The idyllic rural setting makes for the perfect musical retreat. And the meerkats? You'll have to join us and find out! |
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