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" The London Recorder Orchestra usually has 30-40 members but always welcomes new players. Prospective members should have a good standard of playing and sight-reading and be prepared to play any of the usual sizes of recorder (descant, treble, tenor or bass) as required. Players of larger instruments (great bass and contrabass recorders) are particularly welcome. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Kathryn Bennetts and Peter Bowman have performed throughout the UK, in Germany, Norway, Estonia and the United States and have broadcast for TVS, Classic FM, BBC Radio 3, Lyric FM Dublin, Radio Netherlands and Deutschland Radio.

In 1998 "The Quarter Tone Recorder Manual" (Edition Moeck No. 2084) was published. The Quarter Tone Recorder Manual is an introduction to quarter-tonality on the recorder through a series of graded studies and compositions written by Bennetts and Bowman in collaboration with composer Donald Bousted.

Their CD recording of Bousted's A Journey Among Travellers and their most recent CD, Flights of Fancy, have received wide critical acclaim." Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Helen Hooker studied the recorder at Trinity College of Music under Philip Thorby, graduating in 1993 with a first class degree and the Post-Graduate Certificate in performance with distinction. She now combines performing on the recorder with teaching the instrument.

Helen regularly teaches on residential courses for players of all ages, including the Recorder Summer School, of which she is Chairman. Helen has also tutored on the Northern Recorder Course and the Irish Recorder and Viol Course. She directed recorder courses at The Old Rectory, Fittleworth from 1998 until the College closed in 2002 and now directs weekend recorder courses at West Dean College. Helen also tutors on weekend recorder courses at Dillington House in Somerset and Belstead House in Suffolk.

Helen is a visiting conductor and Musical Advisor to the Society of Recorder Players, regularly conducting playing days,pastoral visits and workshops for SRP branches throughout the country. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"The Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia (HRS) is one of only four recorder orchestras regularly rehearsing and performing in the UK. It owes it's origins to The Old Town Hall Consort. The addition of basses, great bass and contrabass to this rather large ensemble (it was never a one-to-a-part consort) allowed it to develop into a fully fledged orchestra with instruments ranging from the tiny sopranino to the man-sized contrabass over six-feet tall. In recognition of this changed character, the name Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia was adopted in late 1995 and the HRS Committee established shortly afterwards. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Francesca Thompson has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician with many distinguished groups, including The Bach Players, the Fitzwilliam Quartet and the Endymion Ensemble, the last of whom she performed and recorded with for the BBC Proms. She has performed in Cadogan Hall, the Purcell Room, on Dutch, German, Polish and Swiss radio, on BBC Radio 3 and 4, in Amsterdam’s Bachzaal, at Krakow Early Music Festival, Davos Festival in Switzerland, Amherst Early Music Festival in the U.S.A., the London Handel Festival and St. James, Piccadilly, and as a soloist with the festival orchestra of the Internationale Bachakademie at the Europaisches Musikfest Stuttgart. This summer she was invited to perform an evening of concertos with members of Capella Cracoviensis at the ‘Music in Ancient Krakow’ Festival in Poland, which was received with great critical acclaim.

With her chamber ensemble La Follia, Francesca has performed throughout the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands, including engagements at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, the London Handel Festival, the Utrecht Early Music Festival Fringe, Musica Antiqua Festival in Brugge, and the Telemann Festtage in Magdeburg, Germany. The group won the 2004 Century Early Music Prize, and were prize winners in the Internationale Telemann –Wettbewerb 2007. The group has also appeared several times on BBC Radio 3’s live In Tune programme and at the prestigious Early Music Network Showcase 2006. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Fontanella is the UK's leading professional recorder ensemble, featuring five of the country's most talented and respected recorder players. Their distinctive line-up combines a friendly and charismatic stage presence with the finest musicianship, offering something to everyone from the general music lover to the most seasoned early music enthusiast. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Flauti Animati Scotica is a recorder quartet based in South West Scotland. Formed in October 2000, we comprise four dedicated recorder players from varying walks of life who, between us, have amassed a wealth of musical talent and experience. All four of us have given recitals and played at various concert venues throughout the United Kingdom. We have taught and been taught by some of the most respected musicians in the field. Drawn together by our common love of the recorder and the desire to share our music, Flauti Animati Scotica is at the forefront of professional recorder playing in Scotland. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Férdia combines performance, research and teaching. She thereby aims to explore the many facets of musical experience, including the intellectual and the physical.

Férdia gained a doctorate, entitled Musical Meaning and the Resonance of the Material, from the University of Cambridge (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board). Whilst completing this she undertook a Masters in Music Performance at Trinity College of Music, London, for which she was awarded a scholarship. Here she specialised in recorder within the early music faculty.

Férdia is the Collard Fellow of The Worshipful Company of Musicians for 2009-2010. ..“

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"Eileen was born in Bristol, UK, and started playing recorder and cello at the age of seven. Music was always central to everything, even at that age. She was soon principal cellist of local school and youth orchestras, and was fortunate to find the Bristol Youth Recorder Group at an early age. After A levels, she went on to study for a music degree at Cardiff University, where she had cello lessons with George Isaac, an inspiring teacher and wonderful player.

After her first music degree, Eileen studied the recorder and early music practice in the Netherlands from 1976, with Ku Ebbinge, Ricardo Kanji, Frans Bruggen and Wim ten Have. She lived and worked there until 1988, when she moved to Aberystwyth, Wales. There she taught at the University, as well as teaching in local Carmarthenshire schools.

She lived, performed and taught in Wales and then Iceland where she was principal cellist of the North Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, as well as recorder and cello teacher. Whilst in Iceland, she also set up a Baroque ensemble with other local musicians, and gave national workshops on Baroque style.

Currently Eileen lives in Scotland, where she performs with the Baroque group, Banquet of Musick, and the recorder ensemble Flauti Animati Scotica. She also conducts the Scottish Recorder Orchestra.She also conducts the Scottish Recorder Orchestra, as well as many other groups, including a new orchestra, Recorders Incorporated.

Eileen teaches on recorder and viol courses around Europe. These include the Easter Early Music course, the Recorder and Viol course in Ireland, and the Recorder Summer School, of which she is a director. These involve coaching adults, conducting groups, and performing with colleagues. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Based in South East England, the Berkshire Recorder Consort (BRC) was formed early in 1979. Our repertoire ranges from Early Music to contemporary composers encompassing a wide range of musical styles.

The members are local amateur musicians who aim to perform to a high standard whilst enjoying a friendly, social group.

Seven different recorders are currently used. The smallest is the tiny Garklein, descending in pitch and growing in size are the Sopranino, Descant, Treble, Tenor, Bass and Great Bass. In addition to recorders, the group features a variety of contemporary and period instruments in their interpretation of early music.

Voice, percussion, traditional folk instruments and improvisation all combine to give the BRC a unique style. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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Alan Davis was born in Birmingham in 1945. He studied the clarinet at the Royal College of Music (1963-5), read music at Keble College, Oxford (1965-8) and in 1970 was awarded an MA by Birmingham University for research on the music of Jacques Hotteterre.

A growing interest in renaissance and baroque music and historic performance practice led him to the recorder, and he has devoted most of his professional life to studying, playing, teaching and composing for that instrument.

As a performer he has worked principally with small ensembles including the Halcyon Ensemble, Borromini Ensemble and Trio Faronell, and with the harpsichordist David Ponsford. He has held recorder teaching appointments at Birmingham Conservatoire (1968-91), the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (1994-6) and with Birmingham Music Service (1985-2005).

He currently teaches at Chetham’s School of Music and in the Junior School of the Royal Northern College of Music, and is a regular tutor at The Northumbrian Recorder and Viol School and the South Bohemia Summer School of Early Music. He also continues to direct Birmingham Schools’ Recorder Sinfonia which he founded in 1979.

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“The North Queensland Recorder Society was established in 1995 to bring together all recorder players in the Townsville and wider North Queensland region for skills development (through workshops, etc) and social playing.

Its large-group activities have settled into a pattern of about four 'Playdays' - themed Sunday afternoon playing sessions - each year plus an annual weekend residential workshop with an out-of-town tutor. Guest tutors for the workshops have included Zana Clarke, Genevieve Lacey, Peter Madge, Jessica Shaw, Rodney Waterman and Ruth Wilkinson.

The society also encourages formation of amateur consorts, maintains a library of recorder music, and produces a newsletter. Individual members of the Society appear with performing groups such as “The Telemann Ensemble”  which feature recorders.” Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Per Gross holds a Bachelor and Masters degree (Musiker/Performer Diplomeksamen) from The Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Denmark where he studied with prof. Dan Laurin. Per is currently a post graduate student in the Soloist Diploma programme at The Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden.

Besides his regular studies Per has also attended masterclasscourses in Sweden, Portugal, Germany, Hungary and USA. He has also participated in masterclasses with Nigel North, Emma Kirkby and Sergio Azzolini.

Per Gross is very active as a freelance musician in Sweden and abroad, and he has appeared as soloist and chambermusician with The Stockholm Youth Symphony Orchestra (SUSO), Tiranas Young Virtuosos (Albania) and The Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble. …”

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“In recent years the recorder virtuose Dan Laurin has performed in most parts of the world. Tours to the USA, Japan and Australia as well as appearances in the major European musical centres have confirmed his reputation as one of the most interesting - and sometimes controversial - performers on his instrument. His efforts to rediscover the sound possibilities of the recorder have resulted in a technical facility and a style of playing that have won him numerous awards including a Grammy and the Society of Swedish Composers' prize for the best interpretation of contemporary Swedish music. 

A lengthy collaboration with the Australian instrument maker Frederick Morgan resulted in a succession of reconstructions of instruments from earlier rimes, and this has greatly enriched the world of recorder music. Special mention should be made here of the instrument that was designed specifically for Dan Laurin's recording of Jacob van Eyck 's monumental Der Fluyten Lust-hof, the largest work ever written for a wind instrument.  

Besides working with early music. Dan Laurin has also premiéred numerous works by Swedish composers. His efforts to broaden the repertoire and to gain for the recorder the status of a concert instrument together with a large orchestra has resulted in several concertos that are already considered classics. Dan Laurin is professor of the recorder and teaches at Stockholm's Royal College of Music. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and in 2001 he received the medal 'Litteris et Artibus' from the King of Sweden.“

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"The Recorders and Early Music Union is a society of supporters of performance of classical and older music and dance, and recorder playing of all kinds. We promote the use of instruments, techniques and interpretation appropriate to the composer's culture.

We are based in Wellington, New Zealand. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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"The society was founded in 1953 as an offshoot of the Adult Education Centre in Auckland, until in the mid 1960's it became an independant entity.Since then the society has matured and now has members of all ages and abilities throughout New Zealand.

OUR AIMS ARE

• To provide opportunities for recorder players to meet for playing

• To encourage recorder consorts

• To provide a library of music

• To improve the standard of recorder playing and encourage the authentic interpretation of recorder music

• To inform people about concerts, music schools and other events of interest

• To keep in contact with recorder players both in New Zealand and overseas "
  
  
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“Recorder Player Ronald Moelker has performed at major European Music Festivals such as the ECM Festival in Heraklion and the Festivals for Early Music in Utrecht, Brugge, Skara, Basel and St. Petersburg. He won several prizes and received awards at the Van Wassenaer Competition (First Prize) and The Early Music Festival in Brugge.

He moves easily and seamlessly between different musical genres. He unites a large number of styles and timbres and proves that the boundaries of what is possible with a recorder have not yet been reached.

In addition to his work in the area of Early Music, he performs modern compositions and improvisations, including his own work, utilising Live Electronics, Tibetan Bowls and Percussion. Concert tours in Europe, Russia and Brazil are on the program for 2012 and 2013.

He has produced 11 cd’s as a recorder soloist, with Super Librum, the Lacrimae Ensemble and the Bassano Quartet.

Ronald Moelker studied recorder at the Conservatory in Rotterdam and at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. ”

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“Born in Amsterdam in 1957, Peter Holtslag studied recorder at the Conservatorium of his native town, graduating ‚cum laude‘ in 1980, his leading sources of inspiration being Frans Brüggen and Kees Boeke. From then onwards he has toured worldwide as a recorder and transverse flute player.

A distinguished soloist and chamber musician, playing both "early" and contemporary music, he shared the concert platform with musicians such as Gustav Leonhardt, William Christie, Roy Goodman and ensembles such as The English Concert, The Orchestra of the 18th Century, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, La Fontegara Amsterdam, Trio Noname and recorded for radiostations all over the globe ( ABC Sydney, National Radio USA, WDR Köln, NOS Holland, New Zealand Radio, BBC London etc ). He appeared at major festivals in many of the European cultural capitals like Utrecht, London, Lisbon, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen &c.

His ca. 25 CD-recordings on most major labels ( such as Hyperion, DGG/Archiv, Chandos, &c. ) have won international acclaim . ..“

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"Born in 1983 in Rio de Janeiro, Inês d’Avena attended as a four-year-old her first music class with Luiz Carlos Csekö and on the next year began to take recorder lessons regularly with Cláudia Ernst Dias and Tina Pereira, having participated in concerts in Rio and Brasília with the group “Os Flautistas da Pró-Arte”. Also studied piano from 1991 until 1994 with Elza Usurpator Schachter.

With fourteen began to participate in early music festivals both in her native Brazil – Juiz de Fora, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, and abroad – the X Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition and the XIII Baroque Academy of the Amherst Early Music Festival.

In such occasions worked with Gwénaël Bihan, Hans-Joachim Fuss, Cléa Galhano, Geert van Gele, Pierre Hamon, Dan Laurin, Marion Verbruggen, Reine-Marie Verhagen, having chamber music lessons with Francisco Gato, Edmundo Hora and Homero de Magalhães Filho and participating in baroque orchestra projects with Manfred Kraemer and Sigiswald Kuijken.

In 2001, after being accepted in many European conservatories, amongst which the Civica Scuola di Milano, Rotterdams Conservatorium, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague, decided for the latter, having concluded in May 2005 the Bachelor Degree in Music under the orientation of Reine-Marie Verhagen. Also in the same year, finished the teaching diploma (Muziekpedagogiek), with the juri’s compliments on working with young musicians.

In 2003 performed Hans Werner Henze’s Pollicino with the Nationale Reisopera and participated in the Steve Reich Festival performing at the most important music halls in Holland. In 2004 took part of the Fringe program of the Holland Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht and performed also at the Soloists of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Concert at the Chateau de Chimay during the 5th International Baroque Singing Competition in Chimay (Belgium). In 2005 performed as soloist at the opening concert of a series of concerts at the Anton Philipzaal in cooperation with the Koninklijk Conservatorium.

Performed A. Campra’s L’Europe Galante with the 12e Académie Baroque Européenne d'Ambronay, under the direction of William Christie.

Currently working on the Master’s Degree at the Koninklijk Conservatorium, under the orientation of Sébastien Marq. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Brisk gave its first concert in the Bachzaal in Amsterdam in 1986. The ensemble has been active ever since then, and thus became the quartet of renown which it is now. Over the last twenty years Brisk has been bombarding concert halls with its original, innovatory and quite unusual concert programmes. ...

The quartet also excels in performances of early music, enhanced by a never-ending search for unknown repertoire and arrangements made in agreement with the tradition of their instrument. Many musicians have been working together with Brisk. Among them were Michael Chance, Johannette Zomer, Maarten Koningsberger, the Egidius Kwartet, the Gesualdo Consort, Bernard Winsemius, Leo van Doeselaar, Susanne Braumann, Mike Fentross, and The Locke Consort. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Giorgio Matteoli is the President of Early Music Italia Association, founder of the ROmaMusicanticA Early Music Festival as well as leader of FESTA RUSTCA italian baroque ensemble; gratuated in cello, recorder, chamber music; with a degree in Music History at Rome “La Sapienza” University is now teacher of recorder at L’Aquila conservatoire. After performing with his own instruments on Baroque repertoire, he worked with several ensembles, concert institutions and Italian and foreign theatres both as a cello player (obbligato and continuo), and recorder solo player, he was also involved in several recordings, including radio and received several positive feedbacks from national and international music critics. He is the founder of Festa Rustica ensemble (see Festa Rustica curriculum) and of ROmaMusicanticA recorder quartet ensemble, thanks to the contribution of young talented flute players presents a wide program from late Renaissance to Baroque, up to Classicism, all adapted on timber and execution of different recorders and ensembles. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"ERTA ITALIA is an association of recorder teachers of all levels, open to students of all ages and abilities, to manufacturers of instruments, composers and performers and anyone who supports the purposes and intent of the association. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"David, born and raised in the USA, graduated Summa cum Laude from the University of California at San Diego where he studied with flautist Bernhardt-Ambros Batschelet, composers Robert Erickson and Bernard Rands, harpsichordist Anthony Newman, conductor Thomas Nee and double bass player Bertram Turetzky (his advisor for musicology). After graduating David went to Paris where he continued his studies of Early Music interpretation with harpsichordist Antoine Geoffroy-Dechaume, a student of Early Music pioneer Arnold Dolmetsch, and then settled in Florence, Italy where, since 1979, he has taught Recorder at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Luigi Cherubini" in Florence, Italy." See website for more information. (ed.)

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