Works for choir with and without continuo, with and without soloists. Funeral Sentences, Hear my prayer, Jehova quam multi sunt hostes and other anthems. With a public concert on the Sunday afternoon. A chance to learn many sides of the great English baroque composer. Preliminary rehearals evenings from March 24. Participation is by invitation only: please contact us to ask about the possibility of joining the group.

The 2010 Academy - the 19th - will include sacred music by Baldassare Donato. After the excitement of the 2009 Academy, when we celebrated the 400th anniversary of the death of Giovanni Croce, we return to our familiar routine this year, with a concert on Zattere and the annual High Mass in the Basilica. Details subject to confirmation.

Again we are invited to sing the Solemn High Mass in the magnificent setting of St Augustine's - and again at a time of year when the church might be warm! This time we shall be working on the Missa Gaudeamus of Tomas Luis de Victoria, a magnificent 6-voice parody setting after Morales' Jubilate Deo, and possibly on motets by Claudio Monteverdi.

Pre-formed groups of 5 or 6 voices are invited to apply for this new summer academy devoted to the Italian madrigal, with a particular focus on the period 1580-1605 and on pre-eminent composers such as Giaches de Wert, Luca Marenzio and Claudio Monteverdi. The rich inter-relationships between text and music will be explored through study and performance of madrigals based on Battista Guarini's “pastoral tragicomedy” Il Pastor Fido, a hugely popular work and one of the richest sources of contemporary madrigal texts. Tutors are Martin Morell (New York), specialist editor of hundreds of Italian madrigals (under the imprint Acqua Alta Editions), who has directed his own madrigal group, Amici Musicali, for more than two decades and has coached many productions of Italian 16th- and 17th-century music; and Michael Procter: the German-based British early music expert, who was the first student at the Royal Academy of Music to be awarded a diploma as a countertenor, has worked in early music for 40 years, directing courses for amateurs, students and professionals, coaching groups of different sizes, giving concerts, broadcasts and recordings with the specialist male-voice ensemble Hofkapelle, and editing over 1,000 Renaissance vocal works.

The 13th Summer Academy in the wonderful Praemonstratensian Abbey of Mondaye. Full details will be published in this page as soon as they are available.

A unique opportunity to sing a full choral service in the Chapel of Gonville and Caius College. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT just to announce the date, details in due course.

A rare opportunity for singers living in Germany to prepare a real Anglican Evensong, which we shall perform in the evening service of the Anglican parish in Berlin at the Marien-Kirche at Alexanderplatz. Evensong, a genial mixture of elements from Vespers and Compline of the Catholic Church, has been sung unchanged in the Cathedrals and churches of the Anglican Communion since the mid-16th century. The Versicles and Responses, the Psalms (to Anglican chant), Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, and the Anthem, form a magnificent organic whole.

Our 19th seminar in Hamburg is devotd to the many small-scale pieces of sacred music which are overshadowed by Monteverdi's Vespers. In 2008 we celebrated 15 years of the Hamburg Seminar, which has developed into one of the best groups in the programme.