Cost
- The 2024 fee, including full board, accommodation and all tuition, is £870.
- The non-residential fee is £650, including lunch and dinner.
- Non-participant partners are welcome to share your room at a cost of £470 for accommodation
and meals.
- There is a discount of £50 for those who bring a harpsichord or spinet and tune it
daily.
- Booking opens on 1st December. En-suite bedrooms are normally allocated to those
who apply first, but last year they were fully allocated on the first day of bookings.
If necessary, lots will be drawn amongst all applications received (with the £100
deposit) by 5pm on Friday 1st December 2023 to determine order of application and
therefore to allocate bedrooms. There is no advantage gained by applying before 1st
December. Wheelchair-accessible rooms are available. Please complete the application
form (below) even if you have attended before, as there are new questions about your
preferences.
- Despite many increases in costs, we want to avoid raising the course fees wherever
possible. Consequently, we have decided your fee will now cover just the basic costs
of board, accommodation, tutors’ remuneration, and administration. Separately and
in addition, we are asking participants (all those that feel able) to make a further
voluntary contribution of £50 (or more) towards the cost of up to ten bursaries and
the provision of extra keyboard instruments (organ etc.) Splitting this element helps
us to continue to offer places to the bursary students who add so much to Baroque
Week and, importantly, if you are a UK taxpayer this enables us to claim further
substantial Gift Aid support from the government. Many thanks to those who have already
made donations this year to this fund.
- We can only accept a maximum of 10 specialist singers, and will not confirm these
places until February. However please still apply as soon as possible, as knowing
who is applying will help us to plan repertoire and groupings, as well as giving
you the chance of an ensuite bedroom. We will of course refund your deposit in full
if we are unable to accept your application.
Please send a deposit of £100 with your application and the balance by 1st June.
Please pay by bank transfer or internet banking to account number 65771015 (Baroque
Week R/C 1161774), sort code 08-92-99, or send a cheque payable to Baroque Week.
For international payments the IBAN is GB94 CPBK 089299 65771015 and the SWIFT/BIC
is CPBK GB22. Alternatively you can use PayPal to pay by card, although there will
be a small additional charge to cover their fees - please contact us for details.
It may be possible to attend for part of the week — please contact us to discuss
this. However you may not gain the benefit of taking full part in the course; also
you may need to book into a local B&B unless we have spare bedrooms on the school
site, and we will not be able to confirm this until shortly before the course.
Please note that Baroque Week is a course for adults. If you will be under 18 years
old at the start of the course please ask for our Young Student Permission Form,
which requires your parent/guardian (or a named adult known to them) to be present
at the course.
Download an application form:
Instrumentalists: MS Word format pdf format
Singers: MS Word format pdf format
Gift Aid/Membership form: MS Word format pdf format
Instrumentalists who also wish to do some solo/one-to-a-part singing in tutor-led
sessions should use the singers’ form.
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