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A group of students playing various instruments inside a stone tudor hall

October 2025

Elizabethan Ensemble Workshop

Last weekend we were so happy to be working with the wonderful Kantu ensemble again. This time our students were at Cothele National Trust property. They were immersed into the sound world of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The workshop offered the chance to reimagine how music once sounded, and to create fresh interpretations.

Along the way, they experimented with ornamentation, improvisation, and variation; whilst shaping arrangements for their own instruments. The music proved popular with visitors too as we welcomed audiences to our impromptu performances. Well done to our students, and thank you to the staff at Cothele, and of course The Kantu ensemble.

A group of students playing a keyboard, bass guitar and cello working with a tutor
A clarinet and trumpet student working with a tutor who is playing a baroque guitar
A clarinet and trumpet student playing in the tutor hall
3 students stood smiling in the tudor hall
A group of students playing a range of different instruments stood around a music stand in the great tudor hall
Two students working outside, smiling, one playing bass guitar the other playing a keyboard
A group of students playing outside stood round a music stand