Education
Oxford Lieder continues to expand its educational programme, this year adding a Study Day on music and poetry in late 19th century Paris in conjunction with Bangor University, as the culmination of a Leverhulme-funded residency for Oxford Lieder's artistic director, Sholto Kynoch, working alongside their "Words and Music" Research Group. The 2009 Festival also sees an ambitious project in three Wallingford schools for the first time, and the third Residential Master Course – an intensive five-day series of classes taken by Sarah Walker CBE with guest tutors Malcolm Martineau, Eugene Asti and Roger Vignoles, and further coaching with Fiona Dobie and Sholto Kynoch. Outside this, there is a singing workshop suitable for all-comers of any age – “Voice and Presence" with Fiona Dobie. We are thus now working with almost every level of singer, from total beginner to adult amateurs to budding professionals.
Almost all concerts will be preceded by talks given by a range of engaging and entertaining speakers, including not only such authorities as Richard Stokes, Richard Wigmore, Natasha Loges, Philip Bullock and Roderick Swanston, but the performers in conversation, including pianists Alisdair Hogarth, Eugene Asti and Roger Vignoles, and tenors Ian Partridge CBE and James Gilchrist.
If you would like to support any area of Oxford Lieder’s education work, from a small donation to help cover the costs of the Schools Project to supporting a bursary for the Sarah Walker Master Course, please do contact our Development Officer Peter Burrows: peter@oxfordlieder.co.uk.
The Education Programme in 2009 and previous years has been supported by some generous anonymous donors and trusts:
The Foyle Foundation
The Radcliffe Trust
The Bishopsdown Trust
The Doris Field Charitable Trust
The Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation