A Proud Chapter of the American Recorder Society
(near Snowden Lane) (Click here for directions)
March 24, 2012 will be our next Spring Workshop.
The Princeton Recorder Society Annual Spring Workshop is a popular event for recorder players from near and far. As always, an excellent faculty will lead small groups.
Participants are assigned to a group in a 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. Workshop is full - still accepting waiting list registration. Enrollment is limited to 50 participants.
We are happy to have Courtly Music Unlimited returning once again to the workshop with music, instruments, and accessories for sale from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. You may order items from them through their web site or by phone at (1-800-2-RICHIE, that is, 1-800-274-2443).
(PRS reserves the right to substitute faculty as necessary and without notice.)
| 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 |
Music shop (open throughout the day)
Rainer Beckmann is a
graduate of the Utrecht School of the Arts, Netherlands, where he
studied recorder with Heiko ter Schegget, Baldrick Deerenberg, and
Marion Verbruggen.
He is a first prize winner at the Holland Open Recorder Festival Competition and the Performance Contest of the Dutch Concert Agency.
As a founding member of Il Flauto Giocoso and the Landini Consort, he has performed in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Italy, and Israel. In Brazil, he has taught recorder and music history at the State University of Ceará and collaborated with the ensembles Ad Libitum and Syntagma that specialize in Early Music, as well as Brazilian popular and traditional music. Recent engagements include performances and recordings with Ensemble La Bernardinia, Tempesta di Mare, the Ridotto Ensemble, the New Amsterdam Recorder Trio, Early Music New York, and Fuma Sacra.
Mr. Beckmann is currently Music Director of the Philadelphia Recorder Society and was Director of the Early Music Program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music
Deborah Booth
plays Renaissance, Baroque, and modern flutes and recorders.
Her training in flute performance was taken at
Cincinnati Conservatory, the University of Kentucky, the Mannes School of Music - Historical Performance Program,
and she has studied with Marion Verbruggen, Sandra Miller, Thomas Nyfenger, and other noted teachers in Amsterdam and New York.
Ms. Booth played in several orchestras, including the Louisville Orchestra and the North Carolina Symphony. Performances include the Handel & Haydn Society, the Orchestra of St. Lukes, recorder soloist with the Ciompi Quartet, Gotham City Baroque Orchestra, Bach Vespers Period Ensemble, The Long Island Baroque Ensemble, The Ivory Consort, Christmas Revels, The Big Apple Baroque Band, Boston Early Music Festival.
She is co-founder and director of Ensemble BREVE. The Times reviewed her performances as "technically precise and musically expressive." Recent recordings include a CD as flute and recorder soloist with the American Boy Choir (available on iTunes: "American Songfest"), as well as soundtrack for the television show Blues Clues on recorder and krummhorns. Ms. Booth offers lessons at the Princeton Recorder Academy in Dayton, NJ, at Llama Camerata in Greenwich, CT, and at a private studio in Manhattan, NY. She has taught and played each summer at the Amherst Early Music Festival and numerous other summer festivals such as Pinewoods Early Music Week. She conducted the Recorder Orchestra of New York (RONY) from 2004-2008.
Richie Henzler, along with his wife, Elaine Henzler, are the proprietors of Courtly Music Unlimited. Mr. Henzler has had an interest in the recorder since the age of 7 and attended Juilliard School along with his wife. They have been performing and teaching on the recorder for 25 years. For more information, see the biography on their web site.
Daphna Mor
received her Bachelor of Music degree from The Boston Conservatory with highest honors as Valedictorian of the class of 2000. Ms. Mor has won First Prize in Settimane Musicali di Lugano Solo Competition
and is a two-time winner of The Boston Conservatory Concerto Competition.
She teaches many early music workshops around the US and acts as musician to the education department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In addition to early music, Ms. Mor frequently performs contemporary music and world music. Ms. Mor has appeared in festivals all over the US and in Canada, Poland, Italy, Spain, Germany, Slovenia, Austria, Greece, and Israel.
In the November 2007 issue of American Recorder magazine, Ms. Mor wrote an article about her work with children in Africa.
Ms. Mor has performed with ensembles including The New York Collegium, Early Music New York, Little Orchestra Society, the New York Philharmonic, City Opera, Pifarro - The Renaissance Band, and Repast Baroque Ensemble.
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 co-directs the Collegium Musicum.
