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"The Thames Valley Recorder Orchestra (TVRO) is the UK's newest recorder orchestra. It was set up in March 2007 by Anne Helmore, with Helen Hooker as Musical Director.

TVRO currently has around 20 members but is interested in recruiting more players. " Visit 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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"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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"Annette Bauer, a native of Germany, studied medieval and renaissance music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland, specializing on recorder techniques with Conrad Steinmann (2001). She holds an MA in music from UC Santa Cruz (2004), and has been a student at the Ali Akbar College of Music in California since 1998, where she studies North Indian classical music on sarode, a stringed instrument. As a recorder player, Annette regularly performs with Baroque ensemble Les graces, Istanpitta medieval music ensemble, Farallon recorder consort, and has appeared at the Santa Cruz Baroque and the Carmel Bach Festivals, as well as with Texas Early Music Project, Chamber Music San Francisco, the Catacoustic Consort, and the California Bach Society. She has served on the recorder faculty for several of the San Francisco Early Music Society summer workshops, Amherst Early Music Festival, as well as for the Texas Fall Toot, and the San Francisco Orff Certification Course. Annette currently also teaches music at a K-8 school in Oakland, CA, and regularly conducts recorder workshops and classes in medieval notation in the San Francisco Bay Area. She plays Brazilian percussion with Maracatu Luta, and is the co-founder of Magic Carpet, a duo dedicated to the art of improvisation. " 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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