28th August - 2nd September 2012, Worcester, UK
£265 (£85 deposit upon application, with £180 due on or before 22nd June)
with accommodation available at the University of Worcester

With specialist seminars for singers, choral directors, organists and composers.

This course gives professional-level musicians a chance to sing in Worcester Cathedral for a week under the guidance of Adrian Lucas, who was the Organist and Director of Music at Worcester Cathedral, and the Artistic Director of the Worcester Three Choirs Festival, from 1996-2011. Participants will form a choir to sing at five services and will have the opportunity to explore the distinctive style of English cathedral music under one of its foremost practitioners.

This course is expected to appeal principally to trained singers, organists and choir directors who wish to experience, first-hand, English cathedral music making in its true context. The course will consist of rehearsals, workshops, seminars and lectures. The provisional repertoire list includes:

Murrill: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in E
Finzi: Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice
Tomkins: Sixth Evening Service
Palestrina: Missa Iste Confessor
Stanford: Evening Service in A
Shephard: The Salisbury Service
Tallis: Salvator Mundi
Parry: Never Weather-beaten Sail
Ernest Bullock: Four Motets

Please note that list is provisional and is subject to change.

In addition, a new work by the LMC's resident composer of 2012 will be sung and recorded.

All participants will be expected to sing in the choir and this will be the principal means by which the course is delivered. However, there will be opportunities for specialist organists, choir trainers and composers to receive guidance, workshopping and possibly performance opportunities.

Participants will be expected to have good singing voices and reliable sight-reading skills. We understand that not all skilled practitioners posses formal qualifications but we expect participants to have an ability level, in their chosen musical discipline, of at least an undergraduate degree or professional diploma. We are also happy to accept applications from students studying music at university or conservatoire level.

The course fee covers all rehearsals, workshops and performances, and one light meal on most days. It also covers the hire cost of sheet music. Most of the sheet music is sent to participants several weeks before the start of the course. The course fee does not cover the cost of accommodation but rooms have been made available to course participants at the University of Worcester at a cost of approximately £30/night.

When applying for this course, please state whether you wish to be part of the organists', conductors' or composers' seminars, or if you wish to attend the course solely as a singer.

Accommodation will be made available to LMC participants at the University of Worcester, in easy walking distance of the Cathedral.  This accommodation should be booked directly through the University, and will cost around £32 per night.  More details will be sent out closer to the date of the course.  Students are, of course, free to make their own arrangements for accommodation if they prefer.

Full-time students wishing to apply for a bursary to attend this course are invited to contact Richard Smith, the director of the LMC, director@liturgicalmusic.co.uk

Visit www.liturgicalmusic.co.uk for more details & to apply.