This weekend filled up really fast last year, and even though it's not until next May, over half the places have already gone!
Full details and booking form on my website: chrisrowbury.com
Friday 2 May 2014 5pm to Sunday 4 May 2014 2pm
The Claret Centre, Buckden Towers
High Street
Buckden
St. Neots PE19 5TA
Cambridgeshire
Cost: from £140 (shared twin)
The cost for the weekend includes full board, all tuition and teas/ coffees throughout. Men especially welcome!
Take your singing to the next level by working as a small ensemble over a whole weekend.
This weekend course will be strictly limited to a maximum of 16 singers so I can give more attention to individuals. There will be some training on breath, voice production, vocal qualities, etc. but most of the work will be done using harmony songs drawn from a range of traditions across the globe.
This is your chance to explore your voice in a safe environment with a supportive bunch of like-minded singers, all of whom want to explore and stretch their harmony singing abilities. Serious work, but in a fun style! To get the most out of the weekend you will need experience of harmony singingand be prepared to work in detail on some fairly complex songs.
As a rough guide, you'll need to feel comfortable holding a harmony part entirely on your own. For example, in a three-part harmony song with just two other singers.
The Claret Centre at Buckden Towers is a Victorian house set in a fifteen acre estate offering seclusion and tranquillity. A beautiful collection of buildings from diverse historical periods is surrounded by a variety of gardens and natural features including a Tudor knot garden, a lake, woodland walk, pasture and lawns. Buckden itself is a pleasant village which used to be an old coaching stop on the Great North Road in Huntingdonshire.
Accommodation is in twin rooms all with shared bathrooms (no en suites). We will have the entire main house to ourselves during the weekend. The weekend includes all meals, tuition and tea/ coffee breaks.
Full details and booking form on my website: chrisrowbury.com
Comments from 2013's weekend:
“Thank you so much for such a brilliant weekend. It was one of those rare magical weekends — as well as your superb teaching, developing our skills through such carefully thought out exercises and songs — it was wonderful to meet such lovely people there.”
“It was just right in terms of learning for me. I feel I will go away with a lot! Being with a group of more confident and able singers has been awesome. It was a great group of people to be with AND to sing with.”
“What an amazing weekend! I've returned initially exhausted but very definitely replenished and inspired by so many aspects of what you offered. It really is the case that you distilled somehow much of what the best people I've trained with have told me. It was a really brilliant injection of all that's possible with the voice and harmony singing.”
