Our 8th annual Real Roots! residential music course is now open for booking. This edition will be held over a weekend so we are hoping more people will be able to make it. As usual, you will be guided through the delights of Renaissance consort music, playing mainly 4 or 5 part music. Bring your […]
Tickets for our Christmas Concerts are now available! Tickets for the Leek concert on 9th December, hosted by ourselves, are available from WeGotTickets https://www.wegottickets.com/event/592590 and details for contacting Matlock Music Society (1st December) are available here http://www.matlockmusic.org.uk/ We are, as ever, strutting our stuff at Little Moreton Hall over the weekend of 16/17th December. No […]
We are really excited to be performing our Measure for Measure programme at the Museum of the Order of St John, in a 12th century crypt! This historic building is not only the birthplace of St John’s Ambulance but it housed the office of the Master of the Revels back in the 16th century. There […]
We are delighted to be paying a return visit to Norway to the Hamar Middelalderfestival over the weekend of 9-11 June. We’re playing around and about at this wonderful event and doing our very best to avoid the Vikings!
We are delighted to be performing our popular programme ‘Measure for Measure’ for the Keswick Music Society at the Theatre by the Lake in Keswick. Booking and further information available here: https://www.theatrebythelake.com/event/piva/
We have a couple of concerts coming up this April. We are so pleased to be performing our most popular show – Measure for Measure – this spring. Bringing to life the world of Shakespeare’s theatre through words and music, this concert will run the gamut from the lively streets to the refined courtly atmosphere. […]
We are delighted to be giving a Christmas Concert in Leek again this year. It will be held on Saturday, 10th December at 7.30pm. We will include many of our favourite seasonal pieces (and what would Christmas be without Gaudete?!) as well as some new ones for this year. Tickets can be bought online from […]
We are delighted to be performing again at LIFEM and we have developed a new programme, especially for this prestigious festival. ‘The Road to Venice’, showcases how Italian musical style was influenced and absorbed by the English. The concert will feature music from both English and Italian composers of the late 16th century, all delivered […]
Thanks to The Early Music Shop and Matt Jolly, we have some great footage of PIVA playing on the Dome Stage at Snape Maltings. Either look at our Sights and Sounds page on our website (https://piva.org.uk/classic-shop/piva-in-performance/sights-and-sounds/) for a selection or go to our YouTube page to watch these and others. (https://www.youtube.com/user/pivarenaissancemusic) They’re a great souvenir […]
PIVA are honoured that LIFEM (London International Festival of Early Music) has commissioned the composer, Toby Young, (theothertoby.com/) to write a fanfare for the group. Its premiere will be at the opening of this year’s event on the 11th November. The piece is called ‘At the Fair’ written for four rauschpfeifen, bass dulcian and percussion. It must be […]