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Advanced Melodeon Study Week 2025

Monday 24 Nov 12pm — Friday 28 Nov 11:30am, 2025

To make a booking enquiry please complete the form below. We will contact you to confirm availability and complete your booking.

Pricing

Full board per person (tuition, activities, all meals & accommodation):

£470 – single occupancy ensuite room/cabin
£430 – sharing an ensuite room/cabin
£430 – single occupancy non-ensuite room
£390 – sharing a non-ensuite room (exclusive use for you plus your partner or friend[s])
£350 – a single bed in a dormitory style room (Room 1, 3, 6 or 11)

Camping per person (tuition, activities, all meals):

£285

Non Resident (tuition, activities, all meals except breakfast):

£265

Get a closer look at the accommodation options here.

We are delighted to welcome Lucas Thébaut to teach this extended course (please note the earlier start and later finish) at Halsway Manor for advanced, and advanced-intermediate level D/G melodeon players. Lucas will be joined by a second tutor, who will be announced as soon as they are confirmed.

This will be an intensive week of skills-based learning focusing on your development as a musician, discovering new ways to interpret and play, and to make the music your own. You need to be open to trying new things, and to be prepared to work hard – it will be intensive but also an enjoyable and rewarding week, with time to relax in the evenings and enjoy informal sessions.

The group – limited to approximately 22 students – will be split in two by the tutors at the start of the course; you’ll spend roughly the same amount of time with each tutor. This will be done according to ability level; if you are coming with friends this may mean you will be working in different groups, but there’s plenty of informal time to meet, chat and play with others.

Arrival is from noon on Monday, with lunch at 1pm, and work begins after lunch! The course ends late morning on Friday.

Who is it for?

  • This course is for advanced and advanced-intermediate level players of the DG melodeon (If you also have a box in GC, you’re welcome to bring that along as well)
  • Please read the Halsway Melodeon Levels description carefully before you make a booking, this course is for levels 4 and 5
  • If you have any doubts please email us for advice

Click here for Halsway Melodeon Levels

The Tutors

Lucas Thébaut is a diatonic accordion player from Poitou (France). He started music and dance in his early twenties and hasn’t stopped yet experimenting to improve phrasing and groove over various repertoires in search of what in dance and music movement will make the specificity, the essence of each dance.

All these elements brought together in a unique, musical universe.

After 20 years of thinking and tinkering, of sharing experiences and joy all over the world, still the path ahead lies anew, full of possibilities – and the journey continues. Rest assured that he will never miss an opportunity to share a tune, a dance… or a drink with you.

Second tutor TBC