| Date | Event |
| 3/18/2025 -4/8/2025 |
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| 3/1/2025 | The ARS Chapter Rep Round Table is a forum in which chapter representatives can meet with their peers from around the country and discuss chapter challenges and best practices. more info... |
| 3/4/2025 | February 11 and 18, March 4 and 11 at 10:00 am - 11:15 am PT/11:00 am - 12:15 pm MT/12:00 pm - 1:15 pm CT/1:00 pm - 2:15 pm ET (no class February 25) Start each session with a short warm up to work on tone, fingers, and tongue, then work on Renaissance duos from Eric Haas’ Duos for Basses, Volume I, and solos from Baroque repertoire. For bass recorder players who read bass clef fluently, and can play a two-octave chromatic scale from the low F. Pitch: a=440. $100 for all four classes. Classes will be recorded and available to stream for one month. To learn how to register, please write to Tish at tishberlin@sbcglobal.net. Duos for Basses can be ordered from the Von Huene Early Music Shop here: https://www.vonhuene.com/p-5579-duets-for-basses-volume-1-music-of-the-renaissance.aspx. Baroque solo repertoire will be provided as PDFs. |
| 3/4/2025 | February 11 and 18, March 4 and 11 at 1:30 pm - 2:45 PT/2:30 - 3:45 pm MT/3:30 - 4:45 pm CT/4:30 - 5:45 pm ET (no class February 250 In this 4-session class you’ll practice technique exercises for 30 minutes with me, then spend 20 minutes on a Renaissance duo and 20 minutes on a Handel sonata, focusing on effective practice methods for both pieces. For intermediate and up players of alto and tenor recorders. Pitch: a=440. Students are welcome to request that we work on repertoire they are practicing. $100 for all four classes. Classes will be recorded and available to stream for one month. To learn how to register, please write to Tish at tishberlin@sbcglobal.net |
| 3/5/2025 -3/15/2025 |  ARS offers our next Free Online Beginners' Course! Learn to play the alto recorder in this 4-part introductory course starting on March 5th, 2025. Professional recorder player and teacher Lisette Kielson will guide you in playing with beautiful tone, expressive articulation, and various rhythms. If you have never played recorder before, or if it has been years since you last played, this is the course for you! Build a solid foundation now and enjoy playing the recorder into the future!
Dates: This course will use the following method book which provides fingerings, exercises, and musical selections from the Renaissance and Baroque to complement each unit: The Sweet Pipes Recorder Book: A method for adults and older beginners by Gerald Burakoff and William E. Hettrick. Alto, Book One. SP2318 (RED cover). Sweet Pipes Recorder Book (alto) can be purchased from one of our partners at these links: Sweet Pipes at Von Huene or Sweet Pipes at Honeysuckle Music Do you need to purchase an instrument? You cannot go wrong with a good plastic recorder—it can actually sound better than a poor wooden one! Aulos makes a very good plastic alto. Consider purchasing an Aulos “Haka” model A709B from one of our business partners: Honeysuckle Music, St. Paul, MN: (651) 644-8545 www.honeysucklemusic.com/ Von Huene Workshop, Boston, MA: (617) 277-8690 www.vonhuene.com/ Lazar's Early Music, Carson City, NV: (866) 511-2981 www.lazarsearlymusic.com/ Recorderforge.com, Happy Valley, OR: (503) 210-1643 www.recorderforge.com/ more info... |
| 3/6/2025 | Long-time friend of BCRS, Pat Unruh, takes us on a tour of English early music when she returns to lead our March playing meeting. In a program entitled "O Lux -- Light on English Polyphony", Pat will conduct us through inspiring works by luminaries such as Byrd, Purcell, and Ferrabosco. Our monthly meetings are hybrid unless otherwise stated; you choose whether you wish to attend in person or over Zoom. Each session starts with easier scores and moves gradually to more challenging materials - we no longer have Prelude and Concerto groups. more info... |
| 3/6/2025 | Medieval ensemble Alkemie returns to the Jalopy stage in Brooklyn on March 6, 2025 to perform music from their album A FINE COMPANION with opening sets by friends Sibyl and Smoke Ring— two groups who also embrace experimentation alongside historic music traditions. ALKEMIE and its sister ensemble FREELANCE NUN collaborated to create A FINE COMPANION, a program of newly-composed settings of troubadour songs and texts, written in a dream-pop / shoegaze / psychedelic rock style for an amplified combination of medieval and new instruments. The texts of this project were chosen by Charles Mueller (composer) and the ensemble, with a focus on troubadour lyrics that expand or refute the standard tropes of chivalrous love by choosing poems from a feminine perspective, and by delving into the metaphysical and spiritual subsets of the genre. The unbridled sensuality of the arrangements creates space for a raw experience that inspires a visceral reaction in the listener. Mueller has used pre-existing troubadour music as a melodic and modal prompt on a number of pieces, with direct quotations organically morphing as if in an inspired game of telephone. With Tracy Cowart (voice, electric harps, percussion), Jim Hopkins (keyboards), Cameron LeCrone (percussion), Ben Matus (voice, medieval bagpipes, recorders), Charles Mueller (composer & technical director; electric guitar, electric bass) Niccolo Seligmann (vielles, scheitholt, gittern, psaltery), Elisa Sutherland (voice), Sian Ricketts (voice, recorders, douçaines), and Spiff Wiegand (percussion, guitar). SIBYL is a folk duo from New York City formed by Chloe and Lily Holgate, two sisters who draw inspiration from the ancient tradition of the Sibyls—prophetic women of the ancient world who foretold the future through poetry and song. Blending their love for storytelling with their classical foundations, they refract traditional folk music through a contemporary, emotive light. Sibyl has performed on chamber music series around the northeast, at rock music venues around the city and many house concerts for small audiences—their favorite venues! Sibyl has been a resident artist at Avaloch Music Institute and in 2022 they were winners of WNYC's Public Song Project. SMOKE RING is a mixed voice barbershop and contemporary a cappella quartet based in New York, NY pushing the limits of what’s possible in barbershop with a lot of sass and sparkle. Made up of Rebecca Eckes (tenor), Stephanie “Tags” Taglianetti (lead), Gabriel Spector (bass), and Alexander Ronneberg (baritone), their humble beginnings began behind a curtain in Charlotte, NC, where they tucked away for some privacy to ring chords in a crowded room. They made things official in 2023, the same year they took first in Voices of Gotham’s Tin Pan Alley novice quartet contest. Their rapid ascent continued in 2024, when they became the first-ever mixed voice quartet to win the Mid-Atlantic District quartet competition and placed 9th at their debut at the Barbershop Harmony Society’s 2024 International quartet contest—making them the highest-ranked mixed voice quartet in the world. more info... |
| 3/8/2025 | Workshop sponsored by the Central Coast Recorder Society more info... |
| 3/8/2025 | WHERE: Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, 145 West 46th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Manhattan. We meet in Saint Joseph’s Hall, a side chapel of Saint Mary’s. Located in a brick building to the left – or west – of the main church, the entranceway is distinguished by the street number 145 prominently displayed on the door. A colorful sign will also identify the spot. Accessible via the 1/2/3/B/D/F/Q/R/N trains. DAY & TIME: Saturday, March 8, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Doors open at 1:00 p.m. MUSIC: The PDFs of the music will be sent out to NYRG members about ten days prior to each meeting. If you are not a NYRG member for this 2024-25 season but plan to attend this meeting and would like the music beforehand, please contact newyorkrecorders@gmail.com. As always, if you have any questions about the music or any other musical issue, you may contact NYRG Music Director Deborah Booth at 212-864-6490 or boothflutes@gmail.com. New York Recorder Guild welcomes back Dr. David Hurd, Organist and Music Director at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, to lead our March session. David Hurd is known principally as an organist, composer, and choral conductor. He is Professor Emeritus of Church Music of The General Theological Seminary where he taught from 1976 to 2015. As an organ recitalist, he has performed widely in North America and abroad and has won international prizes in repertoire performance and improvisation. In 2010, he received the Distinguished Composer Award of the American Guild of Organists. Organ and choral music figure prominently among his compositions, and a CD recording of fourteen of his choral works entitled O the Depth of Love Divine was released in 2018. He has taught at Duke University, Yale University, and Westminster Choir College. His encouragement of informal gatherings of recorder players at General Seminary evolved into the formation of Chelsea Winds, a quintet which presented concerts in the Seminary Chapel and elsewhere for several years. He has transcribed and arranged extensively for recorder consort. His original compositions for recorders include Three Plainsong Fantasias for alto and tenor, and Suite in Three Movements for fourteen recorders, commissioned for and premiered by the Recorder Orchestra of New York. |
| 3/10/2025 | Presented by Rainer Beckmann, this seminar session focuses on English music from the early 15th through late 17th century that is highly suitable for consorts of recorders. The compositions to be explored encompass a variety of genres and styles, and were originally performed in such differing settings as church, court, private home and public theatre. Among others, they include a polyphonic carol from the Windsor Carol Book, dances from the Court of Henry VIII, a masterful fantasia by William Byrd plus instrumental music written for an opera. Pre-recorded renditions of the music will offer plenty of play-along opportunities for players of all levels. SATB Recorders, A=440hz. more info... |
| 3/11/2025 | February 11 and 18, March 4 and 11 at 10:00 am - 11:15 am PT/11:00 am - 12:15 pm MT/12:00 pm - 1:15 pm CT/1:00 pm - 2:15 pm ET (no class February 25) Start each session with a short warm up to work on tone, fingers, and tongue, then work on Renaissance duos from Eric Haas’ Duos for Basses, Volume I, and solos from Baroque repertoire. For bass recorder players who read bass clef fluently, and can play a two-octave chromatic scale from the low F. Pitch: a=440. $100 for all four classes. Classes will be recorded and available to stream for one month. To learn how to register, please write to Tish at tishberlin@sbcglobal.net. Duos for Basses can be ordered from the Von Huene Early Music Shop here: https://www.vonhuene.com/p-5579-duets-for-basses-volume-1-music-of-the-renaissance.aspx. Baroque solo repertoire will be provided as PDFs. |
| 3/11/2025 | February 11 and 18, March 4 and 11 at 1:30 pm - 2:45 PT/2:30 - 3:45 pm MT/3:30 - 4:45 pm CT/4:30 - 5:45 pm ET (no class February 250 In this 4-session class you’ll practice technique exercises for 30 minutes with me, then spend 20 minutes on a Renaissance duo and 20 minutes on a Handel sonata, focusing on effective practice methods for both pieces. For intermediate and up players of alto and tenor recorders. Pitch: a=440. Students are welcome to request that we work on repertoire they are practicing. $100 for all four classes. Classes will be recorded and available to stream for one month. To learn how to register, please write to Tish at tishberlin@sbcglobal.net |
| 3/11/2025 -3/14/2025 | The Old Avoca Schoolhouse in Avoca, Nebraska will be streaming three on line Rounds Workshops for violins, violas, cellos, basses, soprano recorder, alto recorder, tenor recorder, and bass recorder. The workshop will explore tunes from our Book of Rounds collection. It has 40 tunes in 13 keys from 12 countries. The lyrics for 27 tunes are included, with handy indexes to organize it all. more info... |
| 3/15/2025 -3/16/2025 | The Sacred and ProfaneAEM's Springbreak Workshop! Join us for an exciting weekend of classes for recorders, viols, lutes, and singers. For 2025, we are happy to return to St. George's Episcopal Church, in Arlington, VA. The All-Workshop sessions will focus on works by Guerrero and Monteverdi. Class choices, and music for Choral Program will be available in February. Register now! Recorder Classes with faculty Rainer Beckmann, Letitia Berlin, and Wendy Powers more info... |
| 3/15/2025 | Technique, consort skills, repertoire, and recorder orchestra, for intermediate to advanced players. Some music will be available ahead of time. Elevate your skill level and enjoy the thrill of playing with others! more info... |
| 3/15/2025 | Celebrate Early Music Month with a fun day of workshops, concerts, and a community sing-along/play-along. SCEMS, Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble, and The Foundation for the Neo-Renaissance, and Early music America sponsor this day for all musicians in the early music community and children to come together and play and sing music together, and to expose children (ages 5 and up) to the riches and fun of early music. Professionally-coached workshops for all levels of singers, winds, and strings (all at A440) will sight read music (provided) and prepare for the finale mass performance, coached by Nicole Baker, Jon Lee Keenan, and Andrea Zomorodian, (singers), Inga Funck and Rotem Gilbert (recorders), Andrew Justice (strings), Ashley Salinas and Marylin Winkle (children's recorder and strings) The final concert, in addition to the tutti massed performance, includes a play-and-tell showcase of local Early Music groups.
There will be an instrument "petting zoo" where children and adults can hear and try playing more exotic historical instruments like bagpipe, hurdy gurdy, crumhorn, harpsichord, rackett, rummel-pot, etc.
You are welcome to register to participate in either the full day or partial day. Please register no later than March 14 so that we can plan to have enough lunch and score copies. RSVP, registration at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScDw-2g3-Tvfs8TjY0JxPUnh3jxdZ-w_k2IiAVT7ccE534ySQ/viewform
parking in small church lot, and [free] parking in adjacent. more info: info@jouyssance.org, www.earlymusicLA.org/calendar more info... |
| 3/15/2025 | Twin Cities Recorder Guild (TCRG) based in St. Paul, MN, has scheduled a performance at the Wentworth Library on Saturday March 15 2025 (Play the Recorder Day) We will share a wide selection of music, led by our director Kate Stuart. https://dakotacountylibrary.libcal.com/event/14169312?hs=a https://sites.google.com/view/twincitiesrecorderguild/events/play-the-recorder-day-at-wentworth-library more info... |
| 3/16/2025 |  Celestial Music - An Introduction to the Music of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)In this workshop, we will explore the art of performing the monophonic chants of 12th century nun composer, Hildegard of Bingen, on recorders. The session will begin with an overview of the life and work of Hildegard as a theologian/writer and composer and a presentation that covers the unique aspects of her musical style: manuscript sources, notation, text/melody relationship and other unique features of the 72 pieces found in the song cycle, known as the Symphonia (Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations). The second half of the program will be a guided playing session and further exploration of those aspects of Hildegard’s chants that are relevant to recorder performance. Some examples would be – the interpretation of ornamental neumes, the addition of Bb not signed in the manuscript, the ranges of the songs as they relate to recorder performance, expressivity and some creative ways of playing medieval chant. more info... |
| 3/18/2025 -4/8/2025 | Have you taken one of our ARS Online Classes for Beginners? Are you ready for the next step? Join professional recorder teacher and player, Annette Bauer, for a Second Level class. This Level II class will explore repertoire accessible for low intermediate players, and cover the next steps in acquiring a solid technique on C instruments (soprano/tenor). We will explore easily accessible models of improvisation using a limited tone set (pentatonic melodies), basic ideas of melodic ornamentation, and draw playing examples from medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and folk repertoire for recorder. We will also sample some of the ensemble pieces included at the end of Sweet Pipes vol. 1 (soprano). Sound files will be made available as reference recordings to play along with. Some of these examples will include ensemble compositions, giving you a first experience playing along in a pre-recorded, virtual ensemble setting. This class pre-assumes your basic knowledge of the instrument - expected are basic sight-reading skills and being comfortable working with the lower octave including F#/Bb, and the higher octave including at least the high E. Materials will be provided to download a week prior to the start date. Requirements:
Tuesday, March 18th, 12-12:45 ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT) Tuesday, March 24th, 12-12:45 ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT) Tuesday, April 1st, 12-12:45 ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT) Tuesday, April 8th, 12-12:45 ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT) more info... |
| 3/18/2025 | This workshop is for folks who can play a 2 octave scale on a D 6-hole whistle. There is no need to be able to read music notation. This will be more of a play along coached jam session. Coached by David Seay, with Debby Greenblatt providing rhythm accompaniment, experienced advice/suggestions, thoughtful/educated answers to questions, and her usual witty charm. more info... |
| 3/22/2025 | The Highland Park Recorder Society is offering a Consort Studio in central New Jersey, monthly sessions in ensemble playing for intermediate and above recorder players to play with one another and other instruments under a skilled conductor, with professional accompaniment. January 11, 2025 Giuseppe Sammartini Sonata II in F for 2 Alto Recorders and Continuo Meredyth Coleman, oboe Ruth Ochs, cello Second part played by oboe February 22, 2025 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Trio in F Major for Bass Recorder, Viola, and Continuo Tina Wagner, viola Ruth Ochs, cello We will play the recorder part on alto first, then anyone who wants can play on bass Both treble clef and bass clef parts are available March 22, 2025 Georg Friedrich Handel Sonata II in F for Alto Recorder and Violin (Op. 2 No. 4) Alexei Yavtuhovich, Violin Ruth Ochs, cello April 26, 2025 Georg Philipp Telemann Trio Sonata in A Minor (42:a6) for alto recorder and oboe. Nick Gatto, oboe Ruth Ochs, cello May 24, 2025 Georg Philipp Telemann Trio Sonata in F (42:F6) for alto recorder and violin. Alexei Yavtuhovich, Violin Ruth Ochs, cello June 28, 2025 Georg Philipp Telemann Trio 8 in B Flat Major for alto recorder and solo harpsichord. Steven Russell, harpsichord TBA, cello more info... |
| 3/22/2025 | Join the Chicago chapter of the American Recorder Society for our next recorder workshop on Saturday, March 22, 2025. This event will feature music making both for recorder and for Renaissance wind instruments. For the first time we are holding our biennial workshop at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, and the School will sponsor and advertise the workshop as one of their official teaching events. Registration starts at 8:30 AM. Bring a music stand and your instruments. Lunch will be provided. Register at the Old Town School of Folk Music web page: https://www.oldtownschool.org/classes/detail/?courseid=7740 We are welcoming Liza Malamut as the workshop director for the first time. Liza is the artistic director of the celebrated Newberry Consort in Chicago, and she plays sackbut, teaching the instrument at Indiana University. In June of 2024 she joined the faculty at the Early Music Festival at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater, offering a class in Renaissance loud band. As Liza is a specialist in Renaissance brass and wind music, we will host a broader recorder workshop than have in past years. In addition to recorder players will also welcome for music making for people playing sackbut, crumhorn, shawm, dulcian, and other Renaissance instruments. We figure that the same sort of folk who enjoy Tom Paxton and Pete Seeger would also brake for John Dowland and Orlando de Lassus. We should have a natural draw from people who hang out at the Old Town School, and the Newberry Consort audience would appreciate our music as well. more info... |
| 3/22/2025 |  Early Music by Female ComposersDuring our time together, we will meet and explore the madrigals of Maddalena Casulana, the sacred works of Vittoria Aleotti, the songs of Francesca Caccini, the cantatas of Rosa Giacinta Badalla, and the polyphonic magic of Leonora Duarte. And there is so much more to discover! Bring your recorders and join in as we enjoy playing this wonderful repertoire together. more info... |
| 3/24/2025 |  Medieval Mondays Spring Edition 2025NAVRS is excited to announce the continuation of Medieval Mondays taught by NAVRS music director Annette Bauer - thank you for your continued interest in medieval music! The Medieval Mondays Spring Edition 2025 runs from February to May in four sessions. Each class will focus on a particular medieval topic, composer, or musical source. A brief overview of the historical context is followed by a selection of music to discover and play together. Scores will be available for registered participants a week ahead of each class. Play-along files will be created on recorders. Each zoom meeting will be recorded and will stay available to view on demand until one full month after the final class of the series. Medieval Mondays will take place on zoom on the following dates, always from 12:30-2:00 pm Eastern:
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| 3/29/2025 | The School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at Kansas State University is excited to relaunch the K-State Recorder Workshop for student and professional music educators, recorder players and enthusiasts, early-music fans, and more. Our guest clinician once again is Anne Timberlake. more info... |
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