Calendar of Events
The American Recorder Society provides this calendar as a convenience to our members. Event information is provided by the event sponsors, and any questions should be submitted to the contact in the event listing.

March 2025
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Second Level Beginners' Alto Class with Anne Timberlake
2/4/2025 - 2/25/2025
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FREE Online Alto Recorder Class for Beginners with Lisette Kielson
3/5/2025 - 3/15/2025
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Second Level Beginners' Class with Annette Bauer: Continuing Technique (soprano/tenor recorder)
3/18/2025 - 4/8/2025
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Events in the month of March 2025
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:
  • Soprano or tenor recorder
  • Sweet Pipes vol. 1 (soprano/blue cover) - we will use the ensemble section in the back. Additional class materials will be provided by the instructor. Consider buying from our business partners Von Huene Workshop or Honeysuckle Music.
  • Basic sight reading skills
  • Being comfortable working with the lower octave including F#/Bb, and the higher octave until at least the high E
Dates:
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)
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.
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:
Wednesday, March 5 at noon ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT)
Saturday, March 8 at noon ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT)
Wednesday, March 12 at noon ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT)
Saturday, March 15 at noon ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT)


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/
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.
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.

 
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!
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.

Music Director Steven Russell will lead a “Consort Studio” ensemble of recorder players in an exploration of Baroque Trio Sonatas through rehearsal, instruction and demonstration and end with the players opportunity to play solo alto with a professional ensemble of harpsichord and violin, flute, or oboe depending on the music. Focusing on ensemble skills, this will take place in a welcoming, intimate environment that encourages people to feel comfortable to get up and play. We will have opportunities to warm up on Renaissance music with SATB recorders, so bring all sizes.
 

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

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.
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.

The Workshop is open to anyone 13 years or older. Previous recorder experience is beneficial, but not required. Participants must provide their own instrument. Questions about workshop registration or playing/learning recorder in Manhattan, KS may be emailed to davidwood@ksu.edu


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The American Recorder Society provides this calendar as a convenience to our members. Event information is provided by the event sponsors, and any questions should be submitted to the contact in the event listing.