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Experience the glory and magnificence of music that enchanted Europe's royalty for hundreds of years. Music by Handel, Byrd, and Dufay will be the focus. Classes are offered for intermediate and advanced players, amateurs and professionals, ensemble players and soloists, conductors and music teachers. Fill your days with recorder ensembles, technique, Renaissance consort, recorder orchestra, master class, concerts, lectures, and more. Explore medieval, Renaissance, baroque, contemporary, and world music in small classes with world-class teachers. Develop your recorder technique and ensemble skills while working with master teachers in an inspiring and supportive atmosphere.

Bring your ensemble (minimum of five players) and be guaranteed a daily group class. Please apply before March 1.

Enrollment for the Recorder Workshop is now closed. If you would like to be on a waiting list, please email us at recorderworkshop@sfems.org. We will accept names from the waiting list in the order received and will let you know as soon as there is an opening.

Faculty

Faculty this year will include the internationally known Dutch recorder player Saskia Coolen as leader of the recorder orchestra. We welcome two well-loved Bay Area instructors: recorder player Louise Carslake and percussionist Peter Maund, a specialist in medieval hand drumming. Israeli virtuoso recorder player Daphna Mor, an advocate of contemporary, popular, and world music, will join us from New York City, and sackbut and recorder player Greg Ingles will be arriving from Boston. Finally, our new directors Hanneke van Proosdij and Rotem Gilbert will bring their own expertise in a wide range of music.

Note: Due to our record enrollment we are happy to welcome Eileen Hadidian to our faculty.

Venue

We are located on a quiet campus one block from the Rockridge BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) station in Oakland. St.Albert’s Priory offers comfortable classrooms, private dorm rooms, a serene courtyard, and a beautiful church with splendid acoustics for our student and faculty concerts. Surrounded by beautiful gardens, we are secluded from the outside world yet only blocks away from our favorite coffee shops, restaurants, and grocery store in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood.

Workshop Fees and Online Enrollment [Enrollment is now closed]

The fee for the Recorder workshop is $445 for enrollment by May 1, $495 for enrollment received after May 1. Discounts are available for SFEMS members and for enrollment in more than one workshop. Room and board at St. Albert's Priory is $335, single occupancy only. All details are on the online enrollment page. Mark your calendars now for the SFEMS Recorder workshop. Enroll before May 1 and save!

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop!

Contact Us

If you have any questions, please contact
Rotem Gilbert, recorderworkshop@sfems.org, 626-441-0635

Last updated 06/25/2010.