Your Recorder Community

2/17/2025
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Pacific

Workshop
Class

Spread the word! We are thrilled to announce open enrollment for the annual San Francisco Recorder Society workshop, Monday, February 17, 2025. Conductors Hanneke van Proosdij and Rotem Gilbert reunite for this workshop to delight players with music that celebrates unity, hope and love. 
 
There will be two playing levels to choose from: Intermediate and Advanced. The SFRS workshops always encourage participation of players of all levels, and we highly encourage first-time workshop attendance.
 
The workshop is also open to "soft" instruments, such as viols and harps.

Reunion!
Monday, February 17, 2025
10:00 am to 4:00 pm Pacific Time
 
In Person at:
Christ Church Lutheran
1090 Quintara St (at 20th Ave.)
San Francisco, CA 94116
 
$60 for the whole day, $40 for half day
(10:00 to 12:45 or 1:15 to 4:00)
 
Click HERE for the online registration form

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Hanneke van Proosdij is renowned for the elegance, virtuosity, and expressiveness of her playing. She received the distinguished Achievement Award from the American Recorder Society in 2024. Hanneke performs internationally with large orchestras as recorder soloist and continuo specialist. She received her solo and teaching diplomas from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague where she studied recorder, harpsichord and electroacoustic composition. Hanneke is a co-founder of the Junior Recorder Society and together with Rotem Gilbert, directed the SFEMS Recorder Workshop (2010-2022) and the SFEMS Medieval Renaissance Workshop with Louise Carslake (2002-2008). She teaches recorder at UC Berkeley and has been guest professor at Stanford, Oberlin, The Juilliard School, and several other universities in the U.S. Together with David Tayler, Hanneke co-founded and co-directs Voices of Music, the most popular Early Music ensemble in America and was the first Early Music ensemble to receive the prestigious Silver Creator Award by YouTube.
 
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Recorder and double reed player Rotem Gilbert is a founding member of Ciaramella, an ensemble specializing in music of the 15th and 16th centuries with recordings on the Naxos and Yarlung labels. Rotem was a member of Piffaro (1996-2007) and has appeared with many early music ensembles in the United States, Israel, Europe and South America. Rotem serves as Vice Dean of the Research and Scholarly Studies Division at USC’s Thornton School of Music and is Professor of Practice in Early Music and Musicology where she teaches early performance practice courses, Renaissance notation seminars, classes on women composers, and takes turns directing the USC Baroque Sinfonia. She co-directed the SFEMS Recorder workshop with Hanneke van Proosdij (2010-2022), and continues to be a regular faculty member of early music workshops all around the U.S. She can be heard on the Deutsche Grammophon's Archiv, Passacaille, Musica Americana, Dorian, Naxos and Yarlung labels.

Setting: In-Person
Christ Church Lutheran
1090 Quintara St (at 20th Ave.)
San Francisco, CA 94116
UNITED STATES

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