The Dartington International Summer School Foundation creates new Music Summer School & Festival at Gresham's School in Norfolk

The chapel at Gresham's School

With the collapse of the Summer School at Dartington, the Dartington International Summer School Foundation, a charity which was supported the Summer School since 1976, has created a new incarnation in Norfolk.

The Music Summer School and Festival will run at Gresham's School in Norfolk from 27 July to 10 August 2024 with a wide range of participatory courses along with a full programme of concerts, talks and events. Courses include choral singing and vocal music; orchestras and ensembles; individual instrumental and vocal classes and workshops; medieval, renaissance and baroque ensembles; jazz and improvisation; wind band and string ensemble; chamber music; and composition.

Conductor Andrew Griffiths will be working on Bach's St John Passion, and conductor Jane Glover works in Mozart's Requiem. There will be courses directed by ensembles Stile Antico and the Brook Street Band, harpsichordists Steven Devine and Skip Sempé, composers Rolf Hind and Stephen Montague, tenor James Gilchrist, pianist Anna Tilbrook, oboist Nicholas Daniel.

Gresham’s School (which counts Benjamin Britten, Lennox Berkeley and W H Auden amongst its alumni) will provide a magical setting for The Music Summer School and Festival with outstanding facilities across the site. Concerts will take place every day in a range of venues including the Chapel, the Fishmongers’ Hall in the Britten Music Building, the Auden Theatre and the Theatre in the Woods.

The Music Summer School and Festival 2024 is programmed by Richard Heason, chief executive of the Dartington International Summer School Foundation and former director of St John's Smith Square.

Full details from their website.