A Proud Chapter of the American Recorder Society
April 10, 2010 is our Spring Workshop! The Princeton Recorder Society Annual Spring Workshop is a popular event for recorder players from near and far.
Registration is now open and must be completely filled out, signed, and sent in by mail along with payment by check. The registration form is available here. You may print it out and fill it in with ink, or fill it in on the browser page, then print it out. Instructions are on the form itself.
The 2010 workshop is on Saturday, April 10, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm at All Saints Church, All Saints Road, Princeton. The workshop sold out early last year, and we received a lot of positive feedback on how well the workshop was run.
You will be assigned to a group and room (by playing level) where you will set up for the day. The instructors will travel to you with their musical selections, thus eliminating set-up and pack-up time between classes. Enrollment is limited to 50 participants, so register early (coming soon) to assure a place in this popular workshop.
Please bring a music stand to the workshop.
Order a gourmet box lunch (see registration form) or bring your own. We'll provide coffee and tea throughout the day and iced lemon tea with lunch.
Courtly Music Unlimited (1-800-274-2443) will be at the workshop with music and instruments for sale from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (half an hour past the workshop closing).
| Start | End | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | 9:30 | Registration and Snack |
| 9:30 | 10:45 | Recorder Class #1 |
| 11:00 | 12:15 | Recorder Class #2 |
| 12:15 | 1:15 | Lunch (Order gourmet box or bring your own) |
| 1:15 | 2:30 | Recorder Class #3 |
| 2:45 | 4:00 | Recorder Class #4 |
| 4:00 | 4:30 | Music shop still open |
Music shop (open throughout the day)
Joan Kimball is co-director and a founding member of the Piffaro, The Renaissance Band. She gave full time to early music performance in 1980 after a number of years as an educator. She continues teaching recorder and early winds to children and adults and is on the music faculty of The Philadelphia School, an elementary and middle school, where she has a full roster of private recorder students and recorder ensembles.
In addition, Ms. Kimball collaborates with instrument maker Joel Robinson of New York City on the construction of Medieval and Renaissance bagpipes and is a maker of double reeds for Renaissance shawms, dulcians, and capped winds. Ms. Kimball teaches bagpipe, recorder, and double reed classes at summer music workshops and festivals.
In addition to her recordings with Piffaro, Ms. Kimball can also be heard on Vanguard Classical, Eudora, and Vox Amadeus.
Wendy Powers has played and taught recorder in New York City for many years and is a musicologist specializing in music of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, particularly in Italy and France.
She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1994, submitting a dissertation on "The Music Manuscript Fondo Magliabechi XIX.178 of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence: A Study in the Changing Role of the Chanson in Late Fifteenth-Century Florence," and is currently working on an edition of the complete works of the French composer Nicolle des Celliers d'Hesdin (d. 1538) for Broude Brothers.
She is an assistant director and faculty member of the Amherst Early Music Festival and has taught at early music workshops throughout the Northeast. She has written about musical instruments for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History. She is the former book review editor of American Recorder magazine, to which she has contributed articles and reviews. With Patricia Ann Neely, Ms. Powers co-directed Sag Harbor Early Music, a small spring concert series on Long Island, and she has sat for more than a decade on the Board of Directors of the New York City series Music Before 1800.
Ms. Powers is adjunct assistant professor at Queens College of the City University of New York, where she directed the Collegium Musicum in 2006-07, and this past semester she was adjunct assistant professor of music at Vassar College.
In recent seasons, Gwyn Roberts has been a featured soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Hesperus, Recitar Cantando of Tokyo, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
American Record Guide has called her "a world-class virtuoso", and the Washington Post remarked, "with her sparkling technique and sensitive attention to musicality, she infused the music with operatic drama." Her recording of Veracini Recorder Sonatas earned a five-star rating from BBC Music Magazine.
As co-director of Philadelphia baroque orchestra Tempesta di Mare, she leads the ensemble in frequent performances from Oregon to Prague, records for Chandos (UK), and appears frequently on NPR's "Performance Today". Other recordings include Deutsche Grammaphon, Dorian, Sony Classics, Vox, PolyGram, PGM, Newport Classics, and Radio France.
Ms. Roberts is Director of Early Music at the University of Pennsylvania and is on faculty at Peabody Conservatory. She studied recorder with Marion Verbruggen and Leo Meilink and baroque flute with Marten Root at Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands.
Pete Rose is recognized as America's leading composer and performer of modern recorder music. His compositions have received worldwide acclaim. "Tall P," commissioned by the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, has been performed thousands of times throughout Europe, North America and the Far East. Another commissioned work, "The Kid From Venezuela," written for Concert Artists Guild Competition winner Aldo Abreu, has also been very widely performed. Pete Rose's works have been featured in many European recorder competitions and have been published by Universal Edition, Moeck, Carus-Verlag, Ricordi, and Heinrichshofen.
As a performer, Mr. Rose has given recitals at numerous concert series in the USA and Europe and his performances usually include a variety of written and improvised music. He has been most acclaimed for his interpretations of works that involve microtonality, circular breathing and jazz elements. His eclectic repertoire has made him welcome in such diverse venues as Merkin Hall and The Kitchen in New York City, the Spinoy Cultural Center in Mechelen, Belgium and the Porgy And Bess Nightclub in Vienna.
In addition to composing and performing, Mr. Rose has served as columnist, critic, and contributing editor for the American Recorder magazine and has also written articles for the German woodwind magazine TIBIA. He has been a regular faculty member of the Amherst Early Music Festival, teaching in both the virtuoso program and the general program, and has given many master classes in the USA and Europe.
Pete Rose is the 2005 recipient of the American Recorder Society's "Distinguished Achievement Award."
Bob Wiemken, a French hornist for many years before turning to early music and period instrument performance, is now a multi-instrumentalist, focusing on the recorders and double reed instruments of the late Medieval through the Baroque periods, most notably the Renaissance shawm and dulcian, or curtal, and the Baroque bassoon.
Mr. Wiemken is currently co-director of Piffaro, The Renaissance Band and also directs the early music ensembles at Temple University's Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance in Philadelphia.
He has performed with numerous ensembles, including Early Music New York, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, King's Noyse, The Newberry Consort, The Folger Consort, the Philadelphia Classical Symphony, Brandywine Baroque, and others.
He has recorded on the Newport Classics, Deutsche Grammophon Archiv Produktion, Dorian Records, Vanguard Classics, Windham Hill, Pasacaille and Eufoda labels. He is also a noted reed maker, specializing in the double reeds of the medieval through Baroque periods.
