| Date | Event | |
| 4/12/2024 -5/3/2024 | Starting in April, Seattle Recorder Society will sponsor a four-session beginning recorder program for 9-13 year-olds, called the Junior Recorder Ensemble of Puget Sound (JREPS). The class will be taught by SRS member Nancy Gorbman, who led a similar group last summer on Vancouver Island. The program will run on four consecutive Friday evenings from 4 – 5 pm, April 12, 19, 26 and May 3. . Each participant will be provided with an “Ecodear” soprano recorder, a music folder with sheet music and handouts. Music stands will be provided at the sessions. The cost of the program is $47.50 and includes the recorder. Financial aid is available if needed. more info... | |
| 4/16/2024 -5/7/2024 | Tuesdays: April 16, 23, 30 and May 7, 3:45-4:45, CT It’s easy to want to increase your finger speed, but difficult to know how to actually achieve it. In this live, four-week, small-group Zoom short course we’ll lay the foundations you need to build faster fingers over time. What does faster playing require of you and how can you work toward it? We’ll answer these questions and more. We’ll also complete weekly homework assignments, helping you develop habits of effective practice. Cost: $99 Register here! more info... | |
| 4/20/2024 | Strictly Recorder (for intermediate to advanced recorder players) Saturday, April 20, 2024 9:30am - 4:30pm Eastern 1702 Vista Street, Durham NC The Triangle Recorder Society is an ARS chapter active in the Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill "Triangle" area of North Carolina. Join us on Saturday, April 20, for a convivial day of recorder playing in Durham, NC! Technique, consort skills, repertoire, and recorder orchestra, for intermediate to advanced players, led by Jennifer Streeter and Patricia Petersen. Some music will be available ahead of time. Elevate your skill level and enjoy the thrill of playing with others! Class descriptions & registration information: http://www.trianglerecorder.org/spring-workshop.html Info: 919-802-5586 or jasharpsichord@yahoo.com more info... | |
| 4/20/2024 | San Antonio Recorder Society Shakespeare Day Concert - April 20, 2024 - 1 pm more info... | |
| 4/27/2024 -4/29/2024 | Come make music with old friends and new on the Oregon Coast! Four class periods a day, featuring a range of topics from Medieval to Contemporary music for recorders. Open mic on Saturday! Intermediate to advanced players are welcome. Faculty: Tish Berlin, Frances Blaker, Cléa Galhano. more info... | |
| 4/27/2024 |  French Music II - Ooh La La! Our menu for the day will be a Feast of French music! French music, second installment, because once is never enough, no? Don’t you want to know about French inégal? And about the fight for Calais between the French and the English? Surely you do!more info... | |
| 5/5/2024 | UBC early music scholar Alex Fisher will focus this workshop on a famed composer whose 500th anniversary is rapidly approaching, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525-1594). Vocal music like Palestrina’s beautiful Masses and motets were “fair game” for instrumentalists in the sixteenth century and their texts also help us to understand principles of phrasing and articulation. Time permitting, we may also explore music of Palestrina’s Roman contemporaries, such as Tomás Luis de Victoria (c. 1548-1611) or Giovanni Animuccia (d. 1571). more info... | |
| 5/5/2024 |  "A Night at the Improv!" - Getting Started With Playing Music Away From the PageNot all music is written down, in fact, a large part of all music-making is music that is composed on the spot, or improvised. If you are curious about the vast universe of improvisation but are not really sure where or how to start, this workshop is for you. We will explore step by step how to get started with playing music away from the page, and what kinds of musical framework we might reference while doing so. This workshop will introduce simple models for melodic and harmonic improvisations, using both soprano and alto recorders. more info... | |
| 5/8/2024 | Webinar Season Pass with Anne Timberlake Get auto-magic, hassle-free registration for all six of my Wednesday Webinars in 2023-24 by purchasing a season pass. You’ll only have to register once, and you’ll save money off the single ticket price. Past Topics: 8/30/23: Where Do I Breathe?!?! 10/4/23: Vibrant Vibrato 11/15/23: Mysterious Musicality 12/13/23 Recorder Messiah! 1/17/24: Alternative Fingerings 3/6/24: Hemiolas…and Why You Care! Upcoming: 5/8/24: Intro to Memorization Are you interested in trying to play from memory? In this one-hour, live Zoom webinar, we’ll talk about the essentials of memorization and how you can begin to practice this unique skill. To purchase, visit my website and complete the purchase process. If you have questions or you prefer to pay offline, please contact me at anne@annetimberlake.com | |
| 5/12/2024 | Capitol Early Music presents:
Letitia Berlin, recorders Frances Blaker, recorders Lawrence Lipnik, recorders and viola da gamba Amy Domingues, viola da gamba Jessica Powell Eig, viola da gamba Ronn McFarlane, lute more info... | |
| 5/14/2024 -5/17/2024 | The Old Avoca Schoolhouse in Avoca, Nebraska will be streaming three on line Klezmer Fiddle Tunes Workshops for violins, violas, cellos, basses, mandolins, soprano recorder, and alto recorder. The Workshops will be on Tuesday, May 14, 7 PM, Central Time, Wednesday, May 15, 10 AM, Central Time, and Friday, May 17, 7 PM, Central Time. Different tunes will be played at each session. We will read, play, and discuss various survival skills for these charming pieces. A treble clef version of the sheet music for the tunes being played will be displayed on the screen during the workshop. There is limited enrollment, and pre-registration is required. The cost for each workshop is $10.00. The cost of each optional book is $15.00 (includes shipping if ordered with workshop registration). For more information, and to register: https://greenblattandseay.com/workshops_klezmer.shtml more info... | |
| 5/17/2024 -5/19/2024 | United States Premier of the Sub-Sub Great Bass – The Pensacola Early Music Consort Invites you to perform with us and guest artist: Dr. Valerie Austin Please join us for this unique opportunity to premier our long- awaited Paetzold Sub-sub Great Bass, the first in the United States – the lowest pitched recorder at a COST: $60 to cover the costs of music and food. Music will be sent out in advance via email. Dates: Friday, May 17th Gather at 5:30 p.m. for cheese and wine; 6:00 p.m. for Dinner; Rehearsal 7:00- 9:00 P.M. Saturday, May 18th Rehearsal 9:00 a.m.- noon; lunch, then rehearsal until 2:00 p.m. Sunday, May 19th Lunch at church, set up for concert and then dress rehearsal. The Event The 14-member Pensacola Early Music Consort will form the core of this celebration. Please add your talents in the goal to give Pensacola and the surrounding area a taste of a large Renaissance Orchestra including recorders, krummhorns, strings, sackbuts and percussion (and others).The repertoire will include Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and modern compositions for early instruments. The event will be held at St. Paul Lutheran Church (ELCA), 4600 N. 9th Avenue in Pensacola, Florida. Come be part of the celebration. more info... | |
| 5/18/2024 |  Villancicos and polyphonic repertoire from 17th c. Mexico Polyphonic liturgical and para-liturgical music had an extraordinary development in 17th century New Spain, where composers from Spain, Italy and Mexico, found a fertile ground to create. Hundreds of works were composed and imported for ecclesiastical services and festivities, as well as for the theatre and other secular institutions. We will learn about the main musical archives where thousands of works have been kept until today: Mexico City Cathedral, Durango, Oaxaca and Puebla cathedrals among them. We will play polyphonic music examples in 4 to 5 parts, including hymns with texts in original languages like Náhuatl, villancicos and chansonettas by Gaspar Fernández, Fray Jerónimo González, Juan García de Céspedes, Antonio de Salazar and Hernando Franco, that make extensive and fun use of syncopated rhythms and hemiolas.more info... |
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