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"The Canberra Recorder and Early Music Society is aimed at people of all ages and abilities in the Canberra region who share a love of this ancient instrument. We offer regular playing opportunities with those who are like-minded in an informal and social atmosphere, as well as workshops led by professional tutors. Members are encouraged to play in consorts or small groups, and to form links with other players in the Canberra region. Members are entitled to use of the CREMS music library. Twice a year CREMS participates in a weekend workshop in Bundanoon, in southern NSW, in conjunction with the Sydney Society of Recorder Players. ..."

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“Genevieve Lacey is acclaimed as a recorder virtuoso. She performs music spanning nine centuries with commanding passion. ..” Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Activities:

• We play fortnightly at St. Peters Lutheran Church, 207 Davey St
• We have an Annual Concert, normally in Hobart
• We usually have one or two Weekend Workshops per year and recent instructors have been:
  • Anthony Roland-Jones (UK)
  • Robyn Mellor (Canberra)
  • Glyn Marillier (Perth)
  • Ruth Wilkinson (Melbourne)
  • David Bellugi (Italy)
  • Roy Sansom & Roxanne Layton (USA)
  • Colin Touchin (UK)
  • Drora Bruck (Israel)

  These are also Culinary extravaganzas (if you don't like the music, come for the food)“

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“Racheal Cogan is a recorder player who has worked extensively in modal music forms around the world. She completed her BMus (Hons) degree at Monash University in 2005 with a thesis on Sufism and Persian classical music. Since July 2005 she has been based in Sydney, where she performs in duo with percussionist Tony Lewis, freelances as a recorder player, teaches, and composes. She is currently performing as a musician in the new Cirque du Soleil resident show in Macau, Zaia ..“ Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Formed in 1995, the Society continues and extends the activities of the former West Australian Recorder Guild. The Society aims to:

• promote an interest in early music (pre-1800) played o­n all instruments, and all music for recorders, early to modern;
• encourage the study of the performance and interpretation of early music;
• stimulate community interest in, and appreciation of, recorder music and early music -- listening, playing and composing;
• promote fellowship and musicianship of players of all early instruments. ..."

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"Links to articles, lists, catalogues and databases concerning all aspects of the recorder worldwide. An ideal springboard for players, students, teachers, makers and researchers alike. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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“Rodney Waterman is a performer, teacher and composer who specialises in the recorder. He studied with Kees Boeke in Italy and Holland in the mid-1980s. His repertoire is eclectic, including early, folk and contemporary and Brazilian music, with a particular interest in improvised music. He has performed and tutored widely in Australia and New Zealand including numerous major Festivals. ..“ Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"The Sydney Society of Recorder Players was formed in 1956 to promote the playing of the recorder, and to foster interest in the musical repertoire of the instrument from medieval to modern times.

The Society provides opportunities for recorder players throughout Sydney and surrounding districts to meet and play the recorder. The Society supports other associations with similar aims. We sponsor the composition of original music for recorders.

There is a wide range of performance and competence on the recorder within the Society. Membership is open to all. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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"The Guild is a society for recorder players and for all who enjoy recorder music.

The Victorian Recorder Guild is located in Victoria, Australia and many of its activities are based in Melbourne. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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Recorder Consort established in 2003. Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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The Ensemble MEZZALUNA was founded in 2003 as a logical consequence of many years of musicological and organological co-operation between the Belgian recorder player Peter van Heyghen and the English recorder maker Adrian Brown. Their collaboration reached a climax in 2003, when both were asked to present papers at the "International Symposium on the Renaissance Flute and Recorder", organised by the Dutch musicological organisation STIMU. Both considered it a priority to present their ideas through a musical collaboration and thus the idea of MEZZALUNA was born.

The composition of the ensemble, depending on the programme, typically consists of three to six experienced instrumentalists from Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Austria. Their aim is to interpret polyphonic music composed between ca. 1480 and ca. 1630 using historically documented performance practice.

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" The Flanders Recorder Quartet wonderful enthusiasm and virtuosity of Bart Spanhove, Tom Beets, Joris van Goethem and Paul van Loey is more than sufficient to convince international audiences of the limitless possibilities and sheer beauty of their instrument. Jubilant critiques following CD releases and live performances attest to the success of their daring and unique programming. The four members of the FRQ are regularly lauded for their crystal clear ensemble playing, their seemingly effortless virtuosity and their expressive interpretation. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Known for his stunning blend of dazzling virtuosity and colorful expressivity, Matthias Maute is recognized as one of the foremost recorder players of his generation, and has earned an international reputation for his formidable talents as a traverso player as well as a composer. In 1990, after finishing his studies in Freiburg and Utrecht with Baldrick Deerenberg and Marion Verbruggen, he was awarded first prize in the prestigious Musica Antiqua Competition in Bruges, Belgium. That same year his CD Les Barricades, which includes some of his own works, was released. Four years later, he won the Dutch Impresariat Chamber Music Competition with Trio Passagio. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Since 1964, the Montreal Recorder Society (MRS), a non-profit organization, has been providing amateur musicians of all ages the opportunity to play music together under the leadership of professional musicians. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Born in 1988, Vincent Lauzer has studied the recorder since 1993. He has won several first prizes in regional and provincial competitions. He has also won six 1st prizes during the National Finals of the Canada Music Competition. In 2008 and 2009, he won the Grand Prize in the 19 to 30 years old category.

 Recently, he won First Prize and the Audience Appreciation Prize in the 3rd Montreal International Recorder Competition. In the 2007 edition of this competition, he was awarded the Best Canadian Recorder Player Prize. In May 2009, he was awarded the Oliver-Jones 1st Prize at the Festival de musique classique du Bas-Richelieu in Sorel-Tracy. In 2007, Vincent won the Montreal Baroque Prize for audaciousness and musicality in the Galaxie-CBC Rising Stars Competition during the Montreal Baroque Festival. In June 2003, Vincent performed in a concert of l’Alliance Musicale at Pierre-Mercure Hall.

Vincent is a member of the recorder quintet Flûte Alors! with whom he performs regularly in the Montreal area, including performances at the Montreal Baroque Festival. In August 2009, the ensemble was awarded 1st Prize in the chamber music division at the National Music Festival in Saskatoon. Lately, Vincent performed in the concert series Clavecin en concert and with the ensemble Les Idées Heureuses. He also works with The Kids and La Félicité.

A graduate of l’École de musique Vincent d’Indy, Vincent also completed his Diploma of College Studies at Cégep de Saint-Laurent with Sophie Larivière and Matthias Maute. He currently studies performance with Matthias Maute at McGill University.”

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"Alfred Zachertz received his first recorder lessons in his hometown Limbach-Oberfrohna. Aged nine, he learned to play the violin. After having studied the viola at the Hochschule für Musik Leipzig with Professor Arnold Matz, he was engaged as solo violist at the state orchestra Leipzig. During this period, through studies with Gudrun Berger, Zachertz could distinguish himself on the recorder, thus making it his main instrument. During the last years his range of instruments was extended by Praetorius instruments such as loud altoregister, crooked horn and chamois-horn. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Since 1991, there is our recorder ensemble at the VHS-Ahrensburg, led by Katrin Stobbe. Our 10-year anniversary of 2001 we finally gave us a name: BLOCK WAY. Meanwhile, we have 22 players and players into 2 groups that meet once a week on Wednesdays and Fridays in the course of the semester VHS to rehearse. ..“ (Google translate)

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"Dorothee Oberlinger is one of the most amazing discoveries of recent years, an expressive virtuoso who - quite rightly - received numerous awards while still quite young. Today she is seen as one of the best recorder-players in the world. Her concerts have been received with enthusiasm by critics and audiences alike, earning her unanimous acclaim. Her CDs are regularly fêted as the best new issues on the market.

Dorothee Oberlinger has given solo recitals at festivals all over Europe, in America and Japan, for example at the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, the Musikfestspiele Potsdam, the Settimane Musicale Stresa, the Nederlandse Oude-Musik-Network, the Festival de Musica Antigua Sajazarra, the Warsaw Beethoven Festival, the Europäische Musikfestwoche Passau, the Rheingau-Musikfestival, the Tage der Alten Musik Regensburg and the MDR-Musiksommer. Other venues in which she has played include the Wigmore Hall in London, the National Philharmonie in Warsaw, the Marianischer Saal in Lucerne, the Rosée Theater in Fuji and the Philharmonie in Cologne.

She has been the guest soloist with leading international Baroque ensembles such as London Baroque and Musica Antiqua Köln directed by Reinhard Goebel, and she also plays regularly with modern symphony orchestras such as the WDR-Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester and the Detmolder Kammerorchester. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"The Dortmund Recorder Consort (DORC) was formed in 1994 as a result of a course on recorder ensemble playing held by Dietrich Schnabel during the First Dortmund Sacred Music Week. Now, the DORC is the largest recorder orchestra, that rehearses and performs regularly in Germany.

The DORC consists of some 50 enthusiastic and experienced recorder players of all ages, from 12 to 75 years, playing instruments ranging in size from the 6-inches Garklein to the 6-foot Contrabass in F (called "Subbass" in Germany). The instrumentation of the DORC consists of up to about 20 great basses in C, 15 contrabasses in F and two contrabasses in C, which gives a rich and beautiful sound. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Flautando Köln was founded in 1990. We, Katharina Hess, Susanne Hochscheid, Ursula Thelen und Kerstin de Witt, received our artistic education a.o. in Amsterdam, Hamburg and Cologne and passed our respective examinations with distinction.

Since our founding, Flautando Köln performs nationally and internationally and we have also produced several recordings for national radio (i.e. WDR, SWF, Radio Bremen, DLF, Saarländischer Rundfunk).

With our broad musical repertoire from middle age to modern music and our interesting range of instruments and musical programmes, Flautando Köln are regular participants at well known festivals across Europe, like a.o. Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Times of Ancient Music Festival in Berlin and Herne, Music Festival Dresden, International Music Exhibition in London, Music Festival Middle-Europe in the Czech Republic, Festival Tirana Autumn in Albania, Festival of Ancient Music in Switzerland and at the Porto Series in Portugal.. .“ Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“According to The Independent, Maurice Steger is «the world’s leading recorder virtuoso».

With a repertoire focused on Early Music, Maurice Steger is a sought-after soloist with the leading Early Music period instrument ensembles, he also appears regularly with modern orchestras.

A major portion of Steger’s artistic activities is devoted to recitals accompanied by just a harpsichord or with small chamber orchestras. But Maurice Steger is also no stranger to contemporary music: He premiered two solo concerts for recorder and orchestra and has performed Rodolphe Schacher’s musical fairytale «Tino Flautino» over 50 times.

After studying with Marcus Creed in Stuttgart and upon Reinhard Goebel’s encouragement, Maurice Steger has now been working as a conductor for a number of years. In his position as the «Baroque Music Director» at the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, he developed and conducted concerts from the baroque and classical eras.

Among his many CD releases, the Telemann flute quartets (Deutsche Grammophon/Archiv), sonatas by Sammartini and Telemann’s suites and concerto for recorder (harmonia mundi) as well as Vivaldi’s concertos for recorder are particularly notable. Several recordings, among them the album «Venezia 1625» and «Mr. Corelli in London» (harmonia mundi) received important international awards. 

May 2011“

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"The history of the trade mark MOLLENHAUER started with a cultural impetus in 1822 given by Johann Andreas Mollenhauer. This impetus will appear in the following history as 'the breath, the soul of the recorder' living and weaving as an 'acting reason, sometimes assembling flexible, sometimes meaty' through all generations up to now. Restating persons of the MOLLENHAUER family in this report first they are representatives for an unknown number of men and women - handcrafters, traders, musicians and music teachers - more or less closely related to the family and inflamed by this impetus and bearing it for almost two hundred years responsibly. "

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“We are a recorder collective devoted to contemporary and early music. One of our biggest goals is to inspire new works and create a dynamic and exciting forum for exploring the music of our time.”

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“The young artist Sabrina Frey belongs to the outstanding recorder virtuosos of her generation. Born in Switzerland she completed her musical studies at the Vienna University for Music and Performing Arts, her concert and soloist diplomas at the University of Music Freiburg i. Br. and in the master class of Kees Boeke at the University of Music Zurich with honors. She has received numerous awards such as the Festa Special Award at the Osaka Chamber Music Competition, Japan, the German Erlanger Prize for the best interpretation of contemporary music, awards from the German Musikleben Foundation and First Prize from the Orpheus Konzerte in Switzerland.

Sabrina Frey has performed in concert and on tour at home and abroad. She has enthused audiences in more intimate surroundings as well as in large concert halls, enchanting and surprising with her natural elegance, virtuosity, vitality and mastery of the countless sides of her often unheralded instrument.

Sabrina Frey has performed with musicians such as Maurice Steger, Naoki Kitaya, Alexander Weimann, Fiorenza de Donatis, Mauro Valli, Marco Frezzato, Vital Julian Frey and Martin Müller. As soloist she has played with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, with leading members of some of Europe's best baroque orchestras (e.g. "I Barrochisti", "Europa Galante", "Accademia Bizzantina" "Giardino Armonico", and the "Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra"), as well as with eminent conductors such as Marcus Creed, Helmuth Rilling and Muhai Tang. She has been repeatedly recorded on television and radio and has recently published her first CD with the label Novalis: Telemann's Twelve Fantasias. …”

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