Come to HISS! It’s a unique music course in a beautiful part of the country that gathers musicians from across folk, medieval, renaissance and baroque music to find common ground.

We have a wonderful course lined up this year, for players of period or modern instruments and singers, with our usual range of daily technique classes to help you improve, larger mixed ensembles where you'll work on putting pieces together, and ad hoc sessions across a huge range of musical topics. For sackbut players we have Emily Saville as our tutor this year - don’t miss it!

Whether you sing or play (or both) there's plenty on offer – previous courses have included players of shawms, crumhorns, curtals, bagpipes, portative organ, harps, hurdy-gurdies, recorders, viols, lutes, theorbos, mandolins, medieval, renaissance and baroque flutes and fiddles, cornetts, sackbuts, violins, cellos, double basses, and even an ocarina. And absolutely anything might turn up at the evening bar sessions…

We’re housed as usual in Bishop Burton College with its excellent food, ensuite single rooms, and wonderful grounds, all for the amazing price of £645.

• If you're a student on a music course, you can apply for a bursary to cover the whole cost.
• If you can recruit a friend or two (or three?), you can save as much as £100.

Our booking deadline is Sunday 12th July, so there’s plenty of time to look at what’s on offer this year, think about what options you’ll choose, and book your place. Find out more.