Oude Muziek tour 2018

RUMORUM will be touring the Netherlands with the high-medieval programme Welawey, Weilawei, Weylawey, as part of the Oude Muziek season 2018-2019. For full programme information and tickets, click here.

Residency and concert in Fittleton, UK
​October 26th, 7.30pm

RUMORUM​ will give a concert of medieval British song in the beautiful Norman church of All Saints in Fittleton, UK. This will mark the end of a week's rehearsal retreat in this quiet countryside village.
All Saints' Church is the perfect fit to the time, location and sacred context of the performed programme: Welawey, Weilawei, Weylawey. It is possible that these songs would have been known and sung by Fittleton's 13th-century congregation and preachers.

The Avon River Team description of the church's history includes the following timeline:
"The village is mentioned in the Doomsday book as "Viteltone". As time passed the spelling of the name varied constantly, for example Vitleton and Fyttelton. Evidence of the gradual growth of the community after Saxon times can be found in the dignified simplicity of the Church, dedicated, like many of the Churches in this part of Wiltshire, to All Saints.
The chancel arch is of the late Norman period, as is the font bowl and most of the carved stone heads and corbels, which still support the timbers of the fifteenth century roof. The lower part of the tower may have been the oldest part of the building. The chancel and the two arcades of the nave were added in 13th Century. The tower arch leading into the nave would not necessarily appear later than the arcades, but it is built into them. The tower has a short spire and an unusual outside addition of an octagonal stair turret. All these, together with the north and south aisles are believed to have been finished before the end of the 14th century; the clerestory and new roof about a hundred years later, and the porch in Elizabethan times."

This will be wonderful opportunity to get in touch with the roots of the Welawey programme ahead of its Netherlands tour in November.

EEEmerging Festival, Ambronay 2018

RUMORUM will be performing as part of the 2018 EEEmerging Festival in Ambronay on Saturday 29th September at 15:30.
For full information, click here.

During their stay in Ambronay, the members will also enjoy filming selections from their new programme with Ozango.

RUMORUM at Codex Buranus conference, Brixen

RUMORUM will be performing a programme of songs from the Codex Buranus in Brixen on July 27th at 20:00h. This will be followed with a presentation by Grace Newcombe on the musical setting of the codex's vernacular strophes, on July 28th at 11:30h. For details of the conference programme, click here.

RUMORUM to perform at York International Early Music Festival, July 14th 2018

RUMORUM will perform its new 14th- and 15th-century English programme, The Temple of Glas, at the NCEM. For tickets and more information, click here.

EEEmerging residency at Ambronay

RUMORUM enjoyed a wonderful first residency at the Centre Culturel de Rencontre d'Ambronay in April 2018, as part of their participation in the Emerging European Ensembles programme. To learn more about the programme, click here. 

Two prizes awarded to RUMORUM at IYAC 2017 in York

RUMORUM is honoured to have been awarded both the eeemerging prize and the Festival Friends prize at the York International Young Artists Competition 2017. Further details and the BBC coverage of the performance can be found here.

RUMORUM selected for Brighton Early Music Live! 2017/18

RUMORUM is delighted to announce that it has been selected as one of only five 'young professional early music ensembles' for the Brighton Early Music Festival Live! Scheme, season 2017/18.
Alongside performing at the 2017 Festival on November 4th, RUMORUM will benefit from the Scheme's assistance in publicity, marketing, outreach, fundraising, and further performance opportunities throughout the year.
To learn more about the Scheme, click here.

National Centre for Early Music, York, 12-15 July 2017

RUMORUM is currently a finalist in the prestigious 2017 York Early Music International Young Artists Competition. 

The competition will take place at the National Centre for Early Music in York, UK, from the 12th-15th July 2017. RUMORUM will perform on the 14th and 15th.

For more information on the competition, or to contact the Box Office, click here.

Rencontres Internationales de Thoronet, 23rd July 2017, 21:00

RUMORUM will be performing a concert of 12th-13th century British music at this year's Rencontres Internationales de Musique Médiévale du Thoronet, on July 23rd at 21:00. The programme will present newly-researched performance practice possibilities for British medieval song, as well as new stylistic instrumentals and improvisations from members of the group. Click here for more information on the festival.

'Captivating' radio concert in Herne

Click here to read Der Westen's article about RUMORUM's WDR3 concert for the Tage Alter Musik in Herne.