American Recorder Society - American Recorder Society

Event	Date	Time	Contact

Virtual Recorder Technique Class Start your day practicing with a supportive and fun warm-up class community! The first half of the class is appropriate for all levels, with additional challenges offered for more advanced players. The second half focuses on playing and analyzing a Baroque duet, using it to identify places to work on tone, coordination, articulation, and more. My approach is to first determine what we want to say musically, and then find the technique needed to express it. Music-minus-one videos are provided to support your practice. To register, e-mail Cantornote@icloud.com For more information visit: http://www.cantornote.com more info...	3/9/2026 -3/9/2027	9:30am to 10:00am	Sarah Cantor

Morning Recorder Technique Class Morning Recorder Technique Class Mondays and Wednesdays ongoing, 9:30-10:00 AM EST $100 for four classes Start your day practicing with the supportive and fun warm-up class community! The first half of the class is appropriate for all levels, with special challenges for more advanced players. The second half of the class is devoted to playing and analyzing a baroque duet and letting it dictate places to work on tone, coordination, articulation and more. My approach is to figure out what we want to say musically and then find the technique needed to express that. Music-minus one videos provided. The class is ongoing, so you can join anytime E-mail Cantornote@icloud.com to register For more information visit: http://www.cantornote.com for more info more info...	9/16/2026	9:30am to 10:00am	Sarah Cantor

Tucson Recorder Society Meeting Welcome to the 2026-2027 season of the Tucson Recorder Society, a Chapter of the American Recorder Society. We provide opportunities for people to play recorders and other early instruments, to learn more about early music, ranging from the Medieval through the Baroque periods, and to have fun. We have players of all ages and abilities, and we meet about once a month from the fall through the spring. We welcome all members, new and old. The first meeting of the season is on Saturday, September 19th, 1:30 p.m. to 3:15, at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, 602 N Wilmot Road at 5th Street. There is plenty of parking in the NW parking lot under the solar panels. Park and walk around the north end of the church to the east, and meet in the Smith Parish Hall. Please see the attached map. The annual TRS dues are $50 per person this season. The full day Play Day will be a separate charge, and registration will open in January. TRS Meetings Meetings are on Saturdays from 1:30 pm - 3:15 pm, except for the Play Day as indicated Sat., 09/19/2026 - Andy Bade Sat., 10/10/2026 - Sierra Norris Sat., 11/14/2026 - John Snavely Sat., 01/09/2027 - TBD Sat., 02/13/2027, 8:30am-4:00pm - Play Day - Tish Berlin Sat., 03/13/2027 - Brian Cochran Sat., 04/10/2027 - Performance Meeting If you have your own copy of our Consort Music Book, remember to bring it to the meetings. We encourage the session leaders to begin with some warm-up exercises, such as scales, breathing, and technique. The leaders may choose to use the book if applicable. For those who do not have a "Consort Collection Vol I" book (actually edited by Larry Bernstein not Leonard Bernstein as the web site states) and would like to buy one, it is available for $13 from: https://www.performersmusicchicago.com/bernstein-the-consort-collection-vol-1-ultimate-anthology-sc-mag-dol0101/ Please see the web site "Library" tab for a message from our Librarian, Ben Eisenstein, about the TRS music library: http://tucsonrecordersociety.mason701.info/ We especially encourage any member to open a meeting with a short 5 to 10 minute performance. Please try to present a short performance if possible. Please let Scott Mason know which month you or your group would like to perform. If you are interested in receiving the newsletter via e-mail, please send me your e-mail address at scottmason701@gmail.com, with a subject line "TRS Newsletter", and include your real name and address so I can match it up with the member list. Help save the cost of mailing. The TRS Officers: Scott Mason, President (721-0846); Moshe Ben-Yeoshua, Treasurer (949-748-9091); and Ben Eisenstein, Librarian (847-987-4093). Respectfully, Scott Mason, President, Tucson Recorder Society more info...	9/19/2026	1:30pm to 3:15pm	Scott Mason

NAVRS Workshop with Annette Bauer: Medieval Modes If you have played medieval music, you will have encountered the eight medieval church modes: the four authentic modes (dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian) and their plagal counterparts (hypodorian, hypophrygian, hypolydian, and hypomixolydian). These names were borrowed from Ancient Greek music terminology, even though the melodic structures and concepts were applied differently during the Middle Ages. This workshop combines elements of theory, practical exercises, and ear training, as well as exploring a few select modal melodies from the Middle Ages (and beyond), all with the goal to sample, appreciate, and enjoy the captivating beauty of modal music. Open to all players interested in modal music. Basic fluency on C and F instruments recommended. more info...	9/20/2026	7:00pm to 8:30pm	Mike Richart

Morning Recorder Technique Class Morning Recorder Technique Class Mondays and Wednesdays ongoing, 9:30-10:00 AM EST $100 for four classes Start your day practicing with the supportive and fun warm-up class community! The first half of the class is appropriate for all levels, with special challenges for more advanced players. The second half of the class is devoted to playing and analyzing a baroque duet and letting it dictate places to work on tone, coordination, articulation and more. My approach is to figure out what we want to say musically and then find the technique needed to express that. Music-minus one videos provided. The class is ongoing, so you can join anytime E-mail Cantornote@icloud.com to register For more information visit: http://www.cantornote.com for more info more info...	9/21/2026	9:30am to 10:00am	Sarah Cantor

Morning Recorder Technique Class Morning Recorder Technique Class Mondays and Wednesdays ongoing, 9:30-10:00 AM EST $100 for four classes Start your day practicing with the supportive and fun warm-up class community! The first half of the class is appropriate for all levels, with special challenges for more advanced players. The second half of the class is devoted to playing and analyzing a baroque duet and letting it dictate places to work on tone, coordination, articulation and more. My approach is to figure out what we want to say musically and then find the technique needed to express that. Music-minus one videos provided. The class is ongoing, so you can join anytime E-mail Cantornote@icloud.com to register For more information visit: http://www.cantornote.com for more info more info...	9/23/2026	9:30am to 10:00am	Sarah Cantor

Fall Fipple Flute Forum A Fun Filled Flauto-dolce Festival Fostering Friendship, Fugues, Fandangos and Flagrant Fits of Folderol! more info...	9/26/2026 -9/27/2026	9:00am to 4:00pm	Ellis Hillinger

Cantornote Early Music Workshop 2026 Cantornote Early Music Workshop Strafford, Vermont September 26th-27th 2026 All instruments and voices Welcome! Additional Private Lessons and master class available Friday, September 25th Led by members of the Tanto Tempo Ensemble Sarah Cantor, recorders Claudia Gantivar, recorders Matthew Wright, Lute Four coached playing sessions and three performances Faculty concert -church service performance with workshop participants, student recital Renaissance consort offered for those experienced with historical fingerings more info...	9/26/2026 -9/27/2026	9:00am to 4:00pm	Sarah Cantor

With Several Friends, A Workshop for Mixed Instrument Ensembles: Perfoming Music of the Medieval Music of 1360-1430 This is a workshop for pre-professional, advanced, and upper intermediate singers and instrumentalists on soft instruments: lutes, recorders, viols, and the like. Registrants should be experienced ensemble players, comfortable singing or playing one on a part. more info...	9/26/2026	9:30am to 4:30pm	Ellen Farrell

NAVRS Playing Meeting with Rachel Begley: Asleep or Awake? NAVRS' Founding Music Director Rachel Begley explores lullabies, night music, and uneasy dreams. The program will feature “Schlafe, mein Liebster” from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, the Coventry Carol, a fun and colorful arrangement of Brahms’ famous lullaby "Wiegenlied", Shearing’s jazzy “Lullaby of Birdland”, and the premiere of a new “Lullaby” in 5/8 that Rachel has composed in celebration of NAVRS’ fifth anniversary. By turns comforting, haunting, playful, and gently off-balance, these pieces inhabit the shifting space between sleep and wakefulness. Rachel Begley is a recorder player, historical bassoonist, teacher, arranger, and musical curator whose work spans historical performance, orchestral playing, chamber music, and community music-making. Originally from England, she has performed throughout the United States and beyond as a specialist in recorders and historical bassoons, appearing with leading orchestras, opera companies, and period-instrument ensembles, including The Metropolitan Opera, Apollo’s Fire, and the Newberry Consort. Known for her expressive musicianship, imaginative programming, and stylistic versatility, Rachel is committed to creating rich and engaging musical experiences, both with colleagues and with musicians of all levels. Her teaching, both privately and at workshops, combines deep historical knowledge with warmth, humor, and a strong instinct for ensemble culture. For more than thirty years, she has brought those same qualities to her work as Music Director of the Recorder Society of Long Island, encouraging others to learn through shared musical exploration. As the Founding Music Director of NAVRS, Rachel envisioned and cultivated a thriving online community bringing together recorder players from across North America and beyond. Through imaginative programming and a strong commitment to musical quality and participant experience, her work helped redefine the possibilities of online music-making for the North American recorder community. more info...	9/26/2026	2:00pm to 3:30pm	Mike Richart

A Distant Mirror: The Twilight of the Gothic Era & Dawn of the Renaissance Severall Friends presents a concert illuminating the rich musical traditions from the end of the Gothic era and the rise of the Renaissance. From an ensemble, all of whom are experts in medieval performance, comes a performance of beautiful and highly complex chansons of the late 14th century ars subtilior and limpid French chansons that also became popular in Italy in the early fifteenth century. more info...	9/27/2026	3:00pm to 5:00pm	Ellen Farrell

Morning Recorder Technique Class Morning Recorder Technique Class Mondays and Wednesdays ongoing, 9:30-10:00 AM EST $100 for four classes Start your day practicing with the supportive and fun warm-up class community! The first half of the class is appropriate for all levels, with special challenges for more advanced players. The second half of the class is devoted to playing and analyzing a baroque duet and letting it dictate places to work on tone, coordination, articulation and more. My approach is to figure out what we want to say musically and then find the technique needed to express that. Music-minus one videos provided. The class is ongoing, so you can join anytime E-mail Cantornote@icloud.com to register For more information visit: http://www.cantornote.com for more info more info...	9/28/2026	9:30am to 10:00am	Sarah Cantor

Morning Recorder Technique Class Morning Recorder Technique Class Mondays and Wednesdays ongoing, 9:30-10:00 AM EST $100 for four classes Start your day practicing with the supportive and fun warm-up class community! The first half of the class is appropriate for all levels, with special challenges for more advanced players. The second half of the class is devoted to playing and analyzing a baroque duet and letting it dictate places to work on tone, coordination, articulation and more. My approach is to figure out what we want to say musically and then find the technique needed to express that. Music-minus one videos provided. The class is ongoing, so you can join anytime E-mail Cantornote@icloud.com to register For more information visit: http://www.cantornote.com for more info more info...	9/30/2026	9:30am to 10:00am	Sarah Cantor

Brandywine Chapter Meeting The dates for our meetings this year will be (please note we are meeting in October rather than September for our first meeting because of scheduling conflicts with the church and my football schedule). Clinicians will be announced shortly, I'm waiting to hear back from some on availability and evaluating the number of clinicians we can invite from the outside due to budget constraints discussed last season. October 2, 2026 November 13, 2026 January 8, 2027 March 12, 2026 May 14, 2027 Music, when provided by the clinician, will be available digitally before the meetings. If anyone requires or desires a print copy for the meeting, please let me know. I'm more than happy to make as many physical copies as needed, but don't want to waste paper on unneeded copies. Our meetings will be held from 7:30-9:30 pm at: New Ark UCC Church 300 East Main Street Newark, DE 19711 The fee for our meetings will be $15 per meeting or $60 for an annual membership (covers all 5 meetings). Fees help support the chapter by providing stipends for our guest clinicians as well as an honorarium for New Ark UCC for allowing us to use the space. You can bring payment with you to the first meeting or send a check made to "Brandywine ARS" to our treasurer, Fred Litcofsky. Fred can be reached fredlitcofsky@gmail or 19 Savoy Rd., Newark, DE 19702 As always, guests are free on their first visit, so please feel free to invite a friend (or 2 or 3)! more info...	10/2/2026	7:30pm to 9:30pm

Professional Coaching with Anne Timberlake & special guest You are invited to attend CMRS' monthly chapter meeting with Professional Coach Anne Timberlake; special awards ceremony will occur at break. more info...	10/3/2026	1:00pm to 3:00pm	Sharen Hafner

Playford English Country Dance Tunes for Two The Old Avoca Schoolhouse in Avoca, Nebraska will be streaming three on line Playford English Country Dance Tunes Workshops for violins, violas, cellos, basses, mandolins, soprano recorder, and alto recorder. The workshop will explore tunes from our "Playford English Country Dance Tunes for Two". This curated collection contains 37 tunes from the 1651 edition of Playford's "The English Dancing Master" arranged for two players. The melodies are on the top stave, and the harmony/backup is on the bottom stave. The Workshops will be on Tuesday, October 6, 7 PM, Central Time, Wednesday, October 7, 10 AM, Central Time, and Friday, October 9, 7 PM, Central Time. Different tunes will be played at each session. We will read, play, and discuss various survival skills for these tunes. There is limited enrollment, and pre-registration is required. The cost for each workshop is $15.00. The cost of each optional book is $15.00 (includes shipping if ordered with workshop registration). To view a sample tune from the collection, and to see a list of the tunes, click on the following link: https://greenblattandseay.com/book_42_playford.shtml Review: This edition would make for great additions to one's recorder library. Because they contain a mix of easier and a bit more challenging pieces that are pleasingly arranged, they offer less and more experienced players both a challenge and an opportunity to play simplay for the enjoyment of the music.... ...Victor Eijkhout American Recorder, Fall 2020... For more information, and to register for the workshop: https://www.greenblattandseay.com/workshops_playford.shtml more info...	10/6/2026	Oct. 6, 7 PM CT; Oct. 7, 10 AM CT; Oct. 9, 7 PM CT

Three Week Recorder Practice Challenge: With Tish Berlin and Frances Blaker 10:00 am - 11:15 am Pacific/11:00 pm - 12:15 pm Mountain; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Central; 1:00 pm - 2:15 Eastern Join Tish and Frances in three sessions. The goal is to practice (even just a little) every day. Each week we'll start with a brief check-in to see how you all did the previous 7 days. What were your challenges? Was it easy to practice all 7 days? Did you fall off the wagon, but jump back on? A short technique warm-up comes next, getting fingers, tongue and breath ready to play music together. During each session we will spend the bulk of our time playing two three-part pieces - you play with Tish and Frances. We'll discuss aspects of each piece, special challenges, and how to practice to overcome these challenges. Participants will be muted but will hear Tish and Frances. In week 1 we'll work on Medieval pieces; week 2 Renaissance; week 3 Baroque. Fee: $90, includes access to class recordings for two months. Geared to intermediate to advanced players. To register and learn how to pay, please contact Tish at tibiarecorderduo@gmail.com. Letitia Berlin tishberlin@gmail.com 510-882-1169 more info...	10/6/2026	10:00am to 11:15am	Tish Berlin

Back to the Bass with some of Tish's Favorites! With Tish Berlin Back to the Bass with some of Tish's Favorites! With Tish Berlin 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm Pacific/4:00 pm - 5:15 pm Mountain/5:00 pm - 6:15 pm Central/6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Eastern Let's get back on the bass bandwagon! We'll drill exercises for intonation, resonant low notes, clear high notes and everything in-between, we'll work on solos and duets from the Middle Ages and Baroque periods. Let the bass recorder become your voice so you can let your musicality soar! Fee: $75, includes access to class recordings for two months. Geared to intermediate to advanced bass recorder players. To register and learn how to pay, please contact Tish at tibiarecorderduo@gmail.com. Letitia Berlin tishberlin@gmail.com 510-882-1169 more info...	10/6/2026	3:00pm to 4:15pm	Tish Berlin

Playford English Country Dance Tunes Workshops The Old Avoca Schoolhouse in Avoca, Nebraska will be streaming three on line Playford English Country Dance Tunes Workshops for violins, violas, cellos, basses, mandolins, soprano recorder, and alto recorder. The workshop will explore tunes from our “Playford English Country Dance Tunes for Two”. This curated collection contains 37 tunes from the 1651 edition of Playford’s “The English Dancing Master” arranged for two players. The melodies are on the top stave, and the harmony/backup is on the bottom stave. The Workshops will be on Tuesday, October 6, 7 PM, Central Time, Wednesday, October 7, 10 AM, Central Time, and Friday, October 9, 7 PM, Central Time. Different tunes will be played at each session. We will read, play, and discuss various survival skills for these tunes. There is limited enrollment, and pre-registration is required. The cost for each workshop is $15.00. The cost of each optional book is $15.00 (includes shipping if ordered with workshop registration). To view a sample tune from the collection, and to see a list of the tunes, click on the following link: https://greenblattandseay.com/book_42_playford.shtml Review: This edition would make for great additions to one’s recorder library. Because they contain a mix of easier and a bit more challenging pieces that are pleasingly arranged, they offer less and more experienced players both a challenge and an opportunity to play simplay for the enjoyment of the music…. ...Victor Eijkhout American Recorder, Fall 2020… For more information, and to register for the workshop: https://www.greenblattandseay.com/workshops_playford.shtml more info...	10/6/2026	7:00pm to 8:00pm	Deborah Greenblatt

Playford English Country Dance Tunes for Two The Old Avoca Schoolhouse in Avoca, Nebraska will be streaming three on line Playford English Country Dance Tunes Workshops for violins, violas, cellos, basses, mandolins, soprano recorder, and alto recorder. The workshop will explore tunes from our "Playford English Country Dance Tunes for Two". This curated collection contains 37 tunes from the 1651 edition of Playford's "The English Dancing Master" arranged for two players. The melodies are on the top stave, and the harmony/backup is on the bottom stave. The Workshops will be on Tuesday, October 6, 7 PM, Central Time, Wednesday, October 7, 10 AM, Central Time, and Friday, October 9, 7 PM, Central Time. Different tunes will be played at each session. We will read, play, and discuss various survival skills for these tunes. There is limited enrollment, and pre-registration is required. The cost for each workshop is $15.00. The cost of each optional book is $15.00 (includes shipping if ordered with workshop registration). To view a sample tune from the collection, and to see a list of the tunes, click on the following link: https://greenblattandseay.com/book_42_playford.shtml Review: This edition would make for great additions to one's recorder library. Because they contain a mix of easier and a bit more challenging pieces that are pleasingly arranged, they offer less and more experienced players both a challenge and an opportunity to play simplay for the enjoyment of the music.... ...Victor Eijkhout American Recorder, Fall 2020... For more information, and to register for the workshop: https://www.greenblattandseay.com/workshops_playford.shtml more info...	10/7/2026	Oct. 6, 7 PM CT; Oct. 7, 10 AM CT; Oct. 9, 7 PM CT

Playford English Country Dance Tunes Workshops The Old Avoca Schoolhouse in Avoca, Nebraska will be streaming three on line Playford English Country Dance Tunes Workshops for violins, violas, cellos, basses, mandolins, soprano recorder, and alto recorder. The workshop will explore tunes from our “Playford English Country Dance Tunes for Two”. This curated collection contains 37 tunes from the 1651 edition of Playford’s “The English Dancing Master” arranged for two players. The melodies are on the top stave, and the harmony/backup is on the bottom stave. The Workshops will be on Tuesday, October 6, 7 PM, Central Time, Wednesday, October 7, 10 AM, Central Time, and Friday, October 9, 7 PM, Central Time. Different tunes will be played at each session. We will read, play, and discuss various survival skills for these tunes. There is limited enrollment, and pre-registration is required. The cost for each workshop is $15.00. The cost of each optional book is $15.00 (includes shipping if ordered with workshop registration). To view a sample tune from the collection, and to see a list of the tunes, click on the following link: https://greenblattandseay.com/book_42_playford.shtml Review: This edition would make for great additions to one’s recorder library. Because they contain a mix of easier and a bit more challenging pieces that are pleasingly arranged, they offer less and more experienced players both a challenge and an opportunity to play simplay for the enjoyment of the music…. ...Victor Eijkhout American Recorder, Fall 2020… For more information, and to register for the workshop: https://www.greenblattandseay.com/workshops_playford.shtml more info...	10/7/2026	10:00am to 11:00am	Deborah Greenblatt

Playford English Country Dance Tunes for Two The Old Avoca Schoolhouse in Avoca, Nebraska will be streaming three on line Playford English Country Dance Tunes Workshops for violins, violas, cellos, basses, mandolins, soprano recorder, and alto recorder. The workshop will explore tunes from our "Playford English Country Dance Tunes for Two". This curated collection contains 37 tunes from the 1651 edition of Playford's "The English Dancing Master" arranged for two players. The melodies are on the top stave, and the harmony/backup is on the bottom stave. The Workshops will be on Tuesday, October 6, 7 PM, Central Time, Wednesday, October 7, 10 AM, Central Time, and Friday, October 9, 7 PM, Central Time. Different tunes will be played at each session. We will read, play, and discuss various survival skills for these tunes. There is limited enrollment, and pre-registration is required. The cost for each workshop is $15.00. The cost of each optional book is $15.00 (includes shipping if ordered with workshop registration). To view a sample tune from the collection, and to see a list of the tunes, click on the following link: https://greenblattandseay.com/book_42_playford.shtml Review: This edition would make for great additions to one's recorder library. Because they contain a mix of easier and a bit more challenging pieces that are pleasingly arranged, they offer less and more experienced players both a challenge and an opportunity to play simplay for the enjoyment of the music.... ...Victor Eijkhout American Recorder, Fall 2020... For more information, and to register for the workshop: https://www.greenblattandseay.com/workshops_playford.shtml more info...	10/9/2026	Oct. 6, 7 PM CT; Oct. 7, 10 AM CT; Oct. 9, 7 PM CT

Playford English Country Dance Tunes Workshops The Old Avoca Schoolhouse in Avoca, Nebraska will be streaming three on line Playford English Country Dance Tunes Workshops for violins, violas, cellos, basses, mandolins, soprano recorder, and alto recorder. The workshop will explore tunes from our “Playford English Country Dance Tunes for Two”. This curated collection contains 37 tunes from the 1651 edition of Playford’s “The English Dancing Master” arranged for two players. The melodies are on the top stave, and the harmony/backup is on the bottom stave. The Workshops will be on Tuesday, October 6, 7 PM, Central Time, Wednesday, October 7, 10 AM, Central Time, and Friday, October 9, 7 PM, Central Time. Different tunes will be played at each session. We will read, play, and discuss various survival skills for these tunes. There is limited enrollment, and pre-registration is required. The cost for each workshop is $15.00. The cost of each optional book is $15.00 (includes shipping if ordered with workshop registration). To view a sample tune from the collection, and to see a list of the tunes, click on the following link: https://greenblattandseay.com/book_42_playford.shtml Review: This edition would make for great additions to one’s recorder library. Because they contain a mix of easier and a bit more challenging pieces that are pleasingly arranged, they offer less and more experienced players both a challenge and an opportunity to play simplay for the enjoyment of the music…. ...Victor Eijkhout American Recorder, Fall 2020… For more information, and to register for the workshop: https://www.greenblattandseay.com/workshops_playford.shtml more info...	10/9/2026	7:00pm to 8:00pm	Deborah Greenblatt

In-Person Consort Studio Workshops (NJ) Join us for a series of Consort Studio Workshops in central New Jersey, monthly sessions in ensemble playing for intermediate to advanced level recorder players to learn to play with one another and other instruments under a skilled conductor, with professional accompaniment. These events will be led by conductor, recorder player, and harpsichordist, Steven Russell (see below). It is an opportunity to play a variety of Baroque literature for small ensembles, through rehearsal, instruction, and demonstration, in a supportive environment, with a focus on ensemble playing, and end with the option to play the lead alto part with a professional ensemble. We will have opportunities to warm up on Renaissance music with SATB recorders, so bring all sizes. Register early to receive the music well in advance. Auditors welcome to attend. Sessions culminate in a performance. Dates: One Saturday of the month, 1:00 – 5:00 P.M. w/ a 15-min. break Nov. 8, 2025 Open for General Registration. A Taste of Things to Come Jan. 10, 2026 Feb. 28, 2026 March 14, 2026 April 25, 2026 May 9, 2026 Workshop-Rehearsal June 13 Oct. 10 Nov. 14, 2026 Location: Reformed Church of Highland Park, 19-21 South Second Avenue, Highland Park, NJ. There is plenty of parking at the location, which is a 30-minute walk or 5-minute taxi ride from the New Brunswick NJT train station. To register, Visit https://hprecorder.org/events/2026-consort-studio/. For more information contact recorderdonna@gmail.com more info...	10/10/2026	1:00pm to 5:00pm

Tucson Recorder Society Meeting Welcome to the 2026-2027 season of the Tucson Recorder Society, a Chapter of the American Recorder Society. We provide opportunities for people to play recorders and other early instruments, to learn more about early music, ranging from the Medieval through the Baroque periods, and to have fun. We have players of all ages and abilities, and we meet about once a month from the fall through the spring. We welcome all members, new and old. The first meeting of the season is on Saturday, September 19th, 1:30 p.m. to 3:15, at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, 602 N Wilmot Road at 5th Street. There is plenty of parking in the NW parking lot under the solar panels. Park and walk around the north end of the church to the east, and meet in the Smith Parish Hall. Please see the attached map. The annual TRS dues are $50 per person this season. The full day Play Day will be a separate charge, and registration will open in January. TRS Meetings Meetings are on Saturdays from 1:30 pm - 3:15 pm, except for the Play Day as indicated Sat., 09/19/2026 - Andy Bade Sat., 10/10/2026 - Sierra Norris Sat., 11/14/2026 - John Snavely Sat., 01/09/2027 - TBD Sat., 02/13/2027, 8:30am-4:00pm - Play Day - Tish Berlin Sat., 03/13/2027 - Brian Cochran Sat., 04/10/2027 - Performance Meeting If you have your own copy of our Consort Music Book, remember to bring it to the meetings. We encourage the session leaders to begin with some warm-up exercises, such as scales, breathing, and technique. The leaders may choose to use the book if applicable. For those who do not have a "Consort Collection Vol I" book (actually edited by Larry Bernstein not Leonard Bernstein as the web site states) and would like to buy one, it is available for $13 from: https://www.performersmusicchicago.com/bernstein-the-consort-collection-vol-1-ultimate-anthology-sc-mag-dol0101/ Please see the web site "Library" tab for a message from our Librarian, Ben Eisenstein, about the TRS music library: http://tucsonrecordersociety.mason701.info/ We especially encourage any member to open a meeting with a short 5 to 10 minute performance. Please try to present a short performance if possible. Please let Scott Mason know which month you or your group would like to perform. If you are interested in receiving the newsletter via e-mail, please send me your e-mail address at scottmason701@gmail.com, with a subject line "TRS Newsletter", and include your real name and address so I can match it up with the member list. Help save the cost of mailing. The TRS Officers: Scott Mason, President (721-0846); Moshe Ben-Yeoshua, Treasurer (949-748-9091); and Ben Eisenstein, Librarian (847-987-4093). Respectfully, Scott Mason, President, Tucson Recorder Society more info...	10/10/2026	1:30pm to 3:15pm	Scott Mason

ARS Site-Seeing Tour Many of the ARS member benefits are right at your fingertips, only a few keystrokes away. In an ongoing effort to make these perks as accessible as possible, we offer a tour of the website twice a year. Join us on Saturday, October 10, at 2 pm Eastern Time for a tour of the website, an orientation of our redesigned menu, and an overview of the member benefits that help you take advantage of all we have to offer. ARS President Jody Miller will lead the tour, assisted by former Board member Phil Hollar, who will also lead an online playing session using music from our online music library. more info...	10/10/2026	2:00pm to 3:00pm

Cypriot, Italian and Spanish Music East Bay Recorder Society Workshop with Phil and Gayle Neuman. The full option is a day and a half: Sunday, October 11 from 2 PM to 4:30 PM music will feature early 15th century Cypriot-French music. This unique repertoire is stylistically related to lat 14th century French Ars Subtilior music. Monday, October is a full day with a half-day option. The music will be a selection of Italian and Spanish pieces from the late 15th century through the early 17th century. more info...	10/11/2026 -10/12/2026	afternoon and all day	Cindy Keune

Three Week Recorder Practice Challenge: With Tish Berlin and Frances Blaker 10:00 am - 11:15 am Pacific/11:00 pm - 12:15 pm Mountain; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Central; 1:00 pm - 2:15 Eastern Join Tish and Frances in three sessions. The goal is to practice (even just a little) every day. Each week we'll start with a brief check-in to see how you all did the previous 7 days. What were your challenges? Was it easy to practice all 7 days? Did you fall off the wagon, but jump back on? A short technique warm-up comes next, getting fingers, tongue and breath ready to play music together. During each session we will spend the bulk of our time playing two three-part pieces - you play with Tish and Frances. We'll discuss aspects of each piece, special challenges, and how to practice to overcome these challenges. Participants will be muted but will hear Tish and Frances. In week 1 we'll work on Medieval pieces; week 2 Renaissance; week 3 Baroque. Fee: $90, includes access to class recordings for two months. Geared to intermediate to advanced players. To register and learn how to pay, please contact Tish at tibiarecorderduo@gmail.com. Letitia Berlin tishberlin@gmail.com 510-882-1169 more info...	10/13/2026	10:00am to 11:15am	Tish Berlin

Back to the Bass with some of Tish's Favorites! With Tish Berlin Back to the Bass with some of Tish's Favorites! With Tish Berlin 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm Pacific/4:00 pm - 5:15 pm Mountain/5:00 pm - 6:15 pm Central/6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Eastern Let's get back on the bass bandwagon! We'll drill exercises for intonation, resonant low notes, clear high notes and everything in-between, we'll work on solos and duets from the Middle Ages and Baroque periods. Let the bass recorder become your voice so you can let your musicality soar! Fee: $75, includes access to class recordings for two months. Geared to intermediate to advanced bass recorder players. To register and learn how to pay, please contact Tish at tibiarecorderduo@gmail.com. Letitia Berlin tishberlin@gmail.com 510-882-1169 more info...	10/13/2026	3:00pm to 4:15pm	Tish Berlin

Phoenix Desert Pipes Workshop with Vicki Boeckman A Musical Adventure in Sounds and Styles - Traveling the world with your recorder! with Vicki Boeckman Saturday, October 17, 2026 9am - 4pm Join Vicki in a globe-trotting day of music. We’ll explore early Italian instrumental canzonas, German and Norwegian motets, then cross the Channel to England for some folk tunes and ballades before making our way over to the United States and ending up in South America with a toe tappin’ rendition of “Brazil.” Come enjoy the music of Biumi, Bruckner, Bach, Grieg, Barroso, and the infamous anonymous, as we play clever arrangements by her brilliant Seattle colleagues Peter Seibert, Charles Coldwell, and Miguel Rode. more info...	10/17/2026	9:00am to 4:00pm	www.desertpipes.org

NAVRS Workshop with Frances Blaker: The Art of Listening When we make music, alone or together, it is a fleeting thing. Once each sound has died away, it’s gone forever. You would think that any musician would hear every note, and enjoy musical satisfaction, but in reality, we get very busy as we play, thinking about playing the right note, the right rhythm, not squeaking, being in tune, moving fingers and tongue with proper agility… And then we fail to hear what we have played, let alone what anyone else has played! What a pity to have missed our music. In this class we will practice opening our ears and honing our attention as we play, learning to listen to ourselves, and our fellow players, even while doing all that it takes to play. Through playing and listening to examples, we'll learn to focus our aural attention. As we hear more, we derive ever more musical satisfaction from our own playing and from playing with others. Level - open to all levels. Although the music won't be overly difficult, the listening tasks will challenge all players. About Frances Blaker more info...	10/18/2026	7:00pm to 8:30pm	Mike Richart

Medieval Mondays Fall 2026 NAVRS is excited to present the 5th edition of Medieval Mondays taught by NAVRS music director Annette Bauer. Medieval Mondays runs from September to December 2026 in four sessions. Each class will focus on a particular medieval topic, composer, or musical source. The sessions include a brief overview of the composer and information about the music’s historical context then a selection of music to discover and play. Scores will be available for registered participants a week ahead of each class. Medieval Mondays will take place on the following dates, always from 12:30-2pm Eastern: September 14: Famous Burgundian Songs - A 15th-century Hit Parade October 19: “La Fortune de Fauvel” - Music from the Roman de Fauvel November 16: Music from the Old Hall Manuscript December 14: “Gaudete!” A Medieval Christmas More detail about the topics All music will be provided in modern notation. The playing level is geared towards recorder players of intermediate and higher skill levels - fluency on C- and F-instruments is expected. For the most part, the chosen music will be accessible on alto and tenor recorders, occasionally also on soprano or bass. Since some portion of every class is spent on the historical and musical background, everyone is welcome to join the series, even if your playing level is a bit lower than suggested. In that case, feel free to work with and absorb the given materials over a longer period of time, at your own pace. more info...	10/19/2026	12:30pm to 2:00pm	NAVRS Secretary

Three Week Recorder Practice Challenge: With Tish Berlin and Frances Blaker 10:00 am - 11:15 am Pacific/11:00 pm - 12:15 pm Mountain; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Central; 1:00 pm - 2:15 Eastern Join Tish and Frances in three sessions. The goal is to practice (even just a little) every day. Each week we'll start with a brief check-in to see how you all did the previous 7 days. What were your challenges? Was it easy to practice all 7 days? Did you fall off the wagon, but jump back on? A short technique warm-up comes next, getting fingers, tongue and breath ready to play music together. During each session we will spend the bulk of our time playing two three-part pieces - you play with Tish and Frances. We'll discuss aspects of each piece, special challenges, and how to practice to overcome these challenges. Participants will be muted but will hear Tish and Frances. In week 1 we'll work on Medieval pieces; week 2 Renaissance; week 3 Baroque. Fee: $90, includes access to class recordings for two months. Geared to intermediate to advanced players. To register and learn how to pay, please contact Tish at tibiarecorderduo@gmail.com. Letitia Berlin tishberlin@gmail.com 510-882-1169 more info...	10/20/2026	10:00am to 11:15am	Tish Berlin

Back to the Bass with some of Tish's Favorites! With Tish Berlin Back to the Bass with some of Tish's Favorites! With Tish Berlin 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm Pacific/4:00 pm - 5:15 pm Mountain/5:00 pm - 6:15 pm Central/6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Eastern Let's get back on the bass bandwagon! We'll drill exercises for intonation, resonant low notes, clear high notes and everything in-between, we'll work on solos and duets from the Middle Ages and Baroque periods. Let the bass recorder become your voice so you can let your musicality soar! Fee: $75, includes access to class recordings for two months. Geared to intermediate to advanced bass recorder players. To register and learn how to pay, please contact Tish at tibiarecorderduo@gmail.com. Letitia Berlin tishberlin@gmail.com 510-882-1169 more info...	10/20/2026	3:00pm to 4:15pm	Tish Berlin

AEM's CityRecorder Workshop Directed by Valerie Horst and Wendy Powers With faculty: Rachel Begley, Deborah Booth, Eric Haas, Susan Hellauer, Susan Iadone, Emily O'Brien, Wendy Powers, Sian Ricketts, and Nina Stern. AEM's tailor-made workshop for recorder players, with an exciting line up of faculty and classes. The workshop takes place Saturday and Sunday, October 24 & 25, at the beloved Ella Baker School on the upper east side of Manhattan. Easily accessible by subway or bus. Class topics will run the gamut from Medieval estampies to Burgundian chansons to Spanish Renaissance villancicos to the extraordinary 17th-century composer Claudia Rusca to the always fabulous Telemann to gorgeous contemporary works by women composers such as Amy Beach and Florence Price. more info...	10/24/2026 -10/25/2026	9:30am to 4:45pm	Sally Merriman

NAVRS Playing Meeting with Miyo Aoki: A Polyphonic Potpourri With its independent, interweaving melodies, Renaissance polyphony offers great satisfaction to both the player and the listener. The recorder’s close connection with breath makes it an instrument well-suited to shaping the individual melodies that each play an important role in a polyphonic composition. In this session, we’ll explore fifteenth- and sixteenth-century polyphony from both England and the Continent, including works by Robert Johnson, Christopher Tye, and Cristóbal de Morales. And: NAVRS's anniversary number 5 will make a special appearance in the selected compositions! Miyo Aoki is a dedicated recorder player and teacher and creator of Recorder from the Ground Up, a unique teaching method forthcoming from Seattle Historical Arts for Kids. She is a member of the Farallon Recorder Quartet and has performed in the US, Germany, and Poland, with groups including The Eurasia Consort, Utopia Early Music, and Gamut Bach Ensemble; and at the Amherst Early Music Festival, Berkeley Early Music Festival and Whidbey Island Music Festival. She has premiered works by contemporary composers Natalie Williams, Agnes Dorwarth and Adam Haws, and in recent years she was delighted to play with the Boise Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Oregon Symphony, and Eugene Symphony, respectively, in performances of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. In addition to private lessons, she teaches regularly for Seattle Historical Arts for Kids and at workshops around the country, including the Port Townsend Early Music Workshop, Amherst Early Music Festival, Early Music Week at Pinewoods, and Hidden Valley Early Music Workshop. Miyo holds a KAZ Diplom (Artist Diploma) from the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen, Germany, where she studied with Professor Han Tol, and degrees in both early music performance and mathematics from Indiana University, where she studied with Professor Eva Legêne. more info...	10/24/2026	2:00pm to 3:30pm	Mike Richart

National Road Scholar Recorder/Early Music Workshop Revel in the lyrical sounds of the recorder, viola da gamba and harpsichord as you share your musical gifts during a week-long intensive early music workshop. Enhance your skills in small classes taught by expert instructors with emphasis on improving technique and playing with ensembles. At Hidden Valley Music Seminars, An Institute of the Arts, in Carmel Valley, California, nestled amongst oak and buckeye trees below majestic hillsides, enjoy a serene and inspiring place for playing music. This unique experience includes opportunities for daily early morning stretching and breathing, daily happy hour, locally sourced meals, free time for local exploration or playing, live faculty and student performances, and interaction with the local community. The 2026 musical theme is Music from Spain and England from the Middle Ages on, as well as music of the New World and Netherlands. Specific class offerings differ by date and will be given out 6 weeks before the program begins. Week #1 (Oct 25 - 31, 2026) Faculty: Letitia Berlin (recorder), Frances Blaker (recorder & orchestra), Lawrence Lipnik (recorder & viola da gamba), David Morris (viola da gamba), and Shira Kammen (early strings & repertoire). Week #2 (November 1 - 7, 2026) Faculty: Letitia Berlin (recorder), Frances Blaker (recorder & orchestra), Lawrence Lipnik (recorder & viola da gamba), Mary Springfels (viola da gamba), and Alison Gangler (dulcian and shawm). more info...	10/25/2026 -10/31/2026	Each week long workshop opens Sunday at 2:00 pm and closes on Saturday at 9:00 a	Renee Babcock

National Road Scholar Recorder/Early Music Workshop Revel in the lyrical sounds of the recorder, viola da gamba and harpsichord as you share your musical gifts during a week-long intensive early music workshop. Enhance your skills in small classes taught by expert instructors with emphasis on improving technique and playing with ensembles. At Hidden Valley Music Seminars, An Institute of the Arts, in Carmel Valley, California, nestled amongst oak and buckeye trees below majestic hillsides, enjoy a serene and inspiring place for playing music. This unique experience includes opportunities for daily early morning stretching and breathing, daily happy hour, locally sourced meals, free time for local exploration or playing, live faculty and student performances, and interaction with the local community. The 2026 musical theme is Music from Spain and England from the Middle Ages on, as well as music of the New World and Netherlands. Specific class offerings differ by date and will be given out 6 weeks before the program begins. Week #1 (Oct 25 - 31, 2026) Faculty: Letitia Berlin (recorder), Frances Blaker (recorder & orchestra), Lawrence Lipnik (recorder & viola da gamba), David Morris (viola da gamba), and Shira Kammen (early strings & repertoire). Week #2 (November 1 - 7, 2026) Faculty: Letitia Berlin (recorder), Frances Blaker (recorder & orchestra), Lawrence Lipnik (recorder & viola da gamba), Mary Springfels (viola da gamba), and Alison Gangler (dulcian and shawm). more info...	11/1/2026 -11/7/2026	Each week long workshop opens Sunday at 2:00 pm and closes on Saturday at 9:00 a	Renee Babcock

NAVRS Workshop with Rainer Beckmann: The Wonderful World of Alternate Fingerings They can be fantastic friends or fierce foes. Alternate fingerings allow us to do amazing things on the recorder. They help us play super softly, louder than normal, or much more smoothly than with regular fingerings. They enable us to change tone colors and perform all kinds of trills. But, to be honest, they often confuse us! This workshop will let you experience the many different ways alternate fingerings can serve us recorder players well. Through a step-by-step approach, it will support your quest to incorporate more and more alternate fingerings into your playing. Level: upper intermediate / advanced German born recorder player Rainer Beckmann performs with a large variety of early music ensembles in the Philadelphia Tri-State area and is a founding member of New World Recorders and La Bernardinia Baroque Ensemble. As a soloist and ensemble player, he appears with such groups as Tempesta di Mare Baroque Orchestra, The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra, Camerata Ama Deus, The Clarion Choir and Orchestra, Brandywine Baroque and Vox Renaissance Consort. Rainer teaches at Amherst Early Music workshops, coaches the recorder players of Temple University's Early Music Ensemble, and serves as the music director of the Philadelphia Recorder Society. He is a graduate of the Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands where he studied recorder and historical performance practice with Heiko ter Schegget, Baldrick Deerenberg and Marion Verbruggen. (Photo credit: Charles Grove) more info...	11/8/2026	7:00pm to 8:30pm	Mike Richart

Brandywine Chapter Meeting The dates for our meetings this year will be (please note we are meeting in October rather than September for our first meeting because of scheduling conflicts with the church and my football schedule). Clinicians will be announced shortly, I'm waiting to hear back from some on availability and evaluating the number of clinicians we can invite from the outside due to budget constraints discussed last season. October 2, 2026 November 13, 2026 January 8, 2027 March 12, 2026 May 14, 2027 Music, when provided by the clinician, will be available digitally before the meetings. If anyone requires or desires a print copy for the meeting, please let me know. I'm more than happy to make as many physical copies as needed, but don't want to waste paper on unneeded copies. Our meetings will be held from 7:30-9:30 pm at: New Ark UCC Church 300 East Main Street Newark, DE 19711 The fee for our meetings will be $15 per meeting or $60 for an annual membership (covers all 5 meetings). Fees help support the chapter by providing stipends for our guest clinicians as well as an honorarium for New Ark UCC for allowing us to use the space. You can bring payment with you to the first meeting or send a check made to "Brandywine ARS" to our treasurer, Fred Litcofsky. Fred can be reached fredlitcofsky@gmail or 19 Savoy Rd., Newark, DE 19702 As always, guests are free on their first visit, so please feel free to invite a friend (or 2 or 3)! more info...	11/13/2026	7:30pm to 9:30pm

In-Person Consort Studio Workshops (NJ) Join us for a series of Consort Studio Workshops in central New Jersey, monthly sessions in ensemble playing for intermediate to advanced level recorder players to learn to play with one another and other instruments under a skilled conductor, with professional accompaniment. These events will be led by conductor, recorder player, and harpsichordist, Steven Russell (see below). It is an opportunity to play a variety of Baroque literature for small ensembles, through rehearsal, instruction, and demonstration, in a supportive environment, with a focus on ensemble playing, and end with the option to play the lead alto part with a professional ensemble. We will have opportunities to warm up on Renaissance music with SATB recorders, so bring all sizes. Register early to receive the music well in advance. Auditors welcome to attend. Sessions culminate in a performance. Dates: One Saturday of the month, 1:00 – 5:00 P.M. w/ a 15-min. break Nov. 8, 2025 Open for General Registration. A Taste of Things to Come Jan. 10, 2026 Feb. 28, 2026 March 14, 2026 April 25, 2026 May 9, 2026 Workshop-Rehearsal June 13 Oct. 10 Nov. 14, 2026 Location: Reformed Church of Highland Park, 19-21 South Second Avenue, Highland Park, NJ. There is plenty of parking at the location, which is a 30-minute walk or 5-minute taxi ride from the New Brunswick NJT train station. To register, Visit https://hprecorder.org/events/2026-consort-studio/. For more information contact recorderdonna@gmail.com more info...	11/14/2026	1:00pm to 5:00pm

Tucson Recorder Society Meeting Welcome to the 2026-2027 season of the Tucson Recorder Society, a Chapter of the American Recorder Society. We provide opportunities for people to play recorders and other early instruments, to learn more about early music, ranging from the Medieval through the Baroque periods, and to have fun. We have players of all ages and abilities, and we meet about once a month from the fall through the spring. We welcome all members, new and old. The first meeting of the season is on Saturday, September 19th, 1:30 p.m. to 3:15, at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, 602 N Wilmot Road at 5th Street. There is plenty of parking in the NW parking lot under the solar panels. Park and walk around the north end of the church to the east, and meet in the Smith Parish Hall. Please see the attached map. The annual TRS dues are $50 per person this season. The full day Play Day will be a separate charge, and registration will open in January. TRS Meetings Meetings are on Saturdays from 1:30 pm - 3:15 pm, except for the Play Day as indicated Sat., 09/19/2026 - Andy Bade Sat., 10/10/2026 - Sierra Norris Sat., 11/14/2026 - John Snavely Sat., 01/09/2027 - TBD Sat., 02/13/2027, 8:30am-4:00pm - Play Day - Tish Berlin Sat., 03/13/2027 - Brian Cochran Sat., 04/10/2027 - Performance Meeting If you have your own copy of our Consort Music Book, remember to bring it to the meetings. We encourage the session leaders to begin with some warm-up exercises, such as scales, breathing, and technique. The leaders may choose to use the book if applicable. For those who do not have a "Consort Collection Vol I" book (actually edited by Larry Bernstein not Leonard Bernstein as the web site states) and would like to buy one, it is available for $13 from: https://www.performersmusicchicago.com/bernstein-the-consort-collection-vol-1-ultimate-anthology-sc-mag-dol0101/ Please see the web site "Library" tab for a message from our Librarian, Ben Eisenstein, about the TRS music library: http://tucsonrecordersociety.mason701.info/ We especially encourage any member to open a meeting with a short 5 to 10 minute performance. Please try to present a short performance if possible. Please let Scott Mason know which month you or your group would like to perform. If you are interested in receiving the newsletter via e-mail, please send me your e-mail address at scottmason701@gmail.com, with a subject line "TRS Newsletter", and include your real name and address so I can match it up with the member list. Help save the cost of mailing. The TRS Officers: Scott Mason, President (721-0846); Moshe Ben-Yeoshua, Treasurer (949-748-9091); and Ben Eisenstein, Librarian (847-987-4093). Respectfully, Scott Mason, President, Tucson Recorder Society more info...	11/14/2026	1:30pm to 3:15pm	Scott Mason

NAVRS Playing Meeting with Annette Bauer: Semper Dowland, Semper Dolens English composer, lutenist, and singer John Dowland, an exact contemporary of William Shakespeare, was active during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. Dowland primarily composed for lute (solo lute, voice and lute, viol consort and lute), and was stylistically influenced by popular Elizabethan consort songs and dance music of the day, such as pavans and galliards. His self-penned nickname “Semper Dowland, semper dolens” (always Dowland, always doleful) reflects the melancholic quality of many of his most famous musical compositions, but it is unclear if this was matched by his personality. This month’s playing meeting commemorates the 400-year anniversary of Dowland’s death, with compositions by John Dowland and his contemporaries, arranged for recorders. more info...	11/14/2026	2:00pm to 3:30pm	Mike Richart

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Directed by Valerie Horst and Wendy Powers With faculty: Rachel Begley, Deborah Booth, Eric Haas, Susan Hellauer, Susan Iadone, Emily O'Brien, Wendy Powers, Sian Ricketts, and Nina Stern.

Directed by Valerie Horst and Wendy Powers
With faculty: Rachel Begley, Deborah Booth, Eric Haas, Susan Hellauer, Susan Iadone, Emily O'Brien, Wendy Powers, Sian Ricketts, and Nina Stern.