Tuition for Performing Musicians

Bray Baroque: Individual, Group and Chamber-music tuition for serious amateurs and professional musicians. Our highly qualified teaching is based upon experience
and excellence in tuition, performance and musicological research.
We are leaders in French Baroque, Ancient Fingerings and Temperaments

— Please find below details on both Short Courses and Full-term Tuition —

The principle of
"conceptual model" for ancient manners and techniques
is expounded as
our framework for
a coherent interpretation
of classical works and authors
in their instruments and styles.

Short Courses — for groups from 3 to 6 participants,
Each course consists of 6 weekly lessons of 1 hour each.

Baroque Essential Embellishments: Notation and Performance
For singers and players of all ancient and modern musical instruments.
Introduction, peculiarities on the different instruments, Mordents, Trills, Endings, Turns, Appoggiaturas, Slides, Arpeggios, Aspirations, Suspensions. Ornaments and performing style.
The course includes tuition on each participant's own or preferred instrument.

Baroque Harpsichord Registration
For harpsichordists, organists and pianists. Tonal structure of the harpsichord and its stops. Different voicing schools and its bearing on registration. Historical registration hints and score markings. Practical registration principles for 2-manual and 1-manual instruments.
The course includes tuition on our 2-manual harpsichord and also on MIDI samplers.

other short courses available
If asked by a group of 3 or more, we can also feature short courses on the following subjects:
  • Musical Interpretation of a Baroque, Classical or Romantic author
  • Articulation and Phrasing in Bach's Keyboard Works
   • Temperament and practical tuning of harpsichords and spinets

Full-term Tuition

For groups and individual. Working together we can develop the precise training programme
that meets your needs in order to further develop your personal skills.
A sample of the customised courses and masterclasses available:

¤ STYLE AND INTERPRETATION. Full coaching for a stylish and effective rendering
    of Classical Music – from the Renaissance to the Impressionism – for players of
    all modern and ancient instruments. Individual and Group lessons.

¤ CHAMBER MUSIC INTERPRETATION. For music from the 17^th to the 19^th Century

¤ HARPSICHORD. Tonal structure, technique, registration, interpretation, repertoire

¤ EARLY FINGERINGS IN BACH’S MUSIC. For harpsichordists and organists.   
    The ancient techniques: advantages, problems and solutions

¤ INTERPRETATION OF FRENCH BAROQUE MUSIC. A systematic approach for
    a stylish performance of notes inégales and French ornaments

¤ BAROQUE CELLO. Technique and interpretation

¤ BAROQUE AND CLASSICAL FLUTE. Technique and interpretation

¤ NATURAL HORN. For modern-horn players: basic natural- and hand-horn techniques

¤ TUNING. Temperament and tuning of harpsichords and woodwinds:  fundamentals, basic methods and advanced techniques [check the Unequal Temperaments site].

We are multilingual, ready to help you in ENGLISH, SPANISH, ITALIAN or FRENCH.