If you’ve ever been interested in ancient Greek music, join Barnaby Brown and guest tutors Nikos Xanthoulis and Stef Conner for 4 days of singing, playing, and dancing.
You’ll make your own 7-string lyre and accompany texts by Homer, Sappho, Pindar, and Mesomedes, exploring the earliest evidence and latest scholarship.
- Take home your own hand-crafted lyre.
- Learn historically-informed techniques and rhythms through one-on-one lessons and group coaching.
- 22 hours of tutor time with world-leading specialists in lyre-led music making based on ancient evidence.
- Discover Classical Greek and Imperial Roman music through practical experiment: making, singing, playing, composing, and dancing.
- Join an international community bringing archaeological evidence to life, rousing the music and literature of Classical Antiquity from their long silence!
You will be taught in person by Barnaby Brown — Honorary Research Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland — and remotely by Nikos Xanthoulis, world-leading lyre virtuoso, and Stef Conner, singer with Sequentia and composer researching ancient Greek music.
Open to all levels – musicians, educators, researchers, students, anyone interested in the question: What did ancient Greek music sound like? No prior instrument-making skills required.
Full details: https://lotos-lab.com/buffalo-lyre-course-2027/
Benten Music Center, 292 Summer St, Buffalo, NY 14222
This is the first of two courses running consecutively. After the lyre course is one making and playing the ancient Greek aulos — the double reedpipe that led worship and drama in Athens and Rome. You could go home with two instruments and twice as much music! If you sign up for both courses, you will get one half price: https://lotos-lab.com/buffalo-aulos-course-2027
