Recorder Workshop
Faculty 2025
Annette Bauer
Director
Annette Bauer is a recorder player and multi-instrumentalist. Born and raised in Germany, she holds a diploma in medieval and Renaissance music from the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland (2001), and an MA in music from the University of California in Santa Cruz (2004). From 2001-2012 she called the San Francisco Bay area her home. There, she studied North Indian classical music on sarode, a 24-stringed lute, with her teacher Ali Akbar Khan, and worked as a freelance musician with early music groups all over the United States, including Piffaro, Texas Early Music Project, Magnificat, Canconier, Les Graces, Farallon Recorder Quartet, and The Lost Mode. From 2012-2020, she spent eight years touring the world as a musician for the Cirque du Soleil's show Totem. Since 2020, Annette is now making a new home with her family in Montréal. She is currently sharing her love of music by offering online instruction to students of all ages, including an ongoing class on 15th and 16th-century mensural notation through Amherst Early Music.
Rainer Beckmann
recorder faculty
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German born recorder player Rainer Beckmann performs with a large variety of early music ensembles in the Philadelphia Tri-State area and is a founding member of New World Recorders and La Bernardinia Baroque Ensemble. As a soloist and ensemble player, he appears with such groups as Tempesta di Mare Baroque Orchestra, The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra, Camerata Ama Deus, The Clarion Choir and Orchestra, Brandywine Baroque and Vox Renaissance Consort. Rainer teaches at Amherst Early Music workshops, coaches the recorder players of Temple University's Early Music Ensemble, and serves as the music director of the Philadelphia Recorder Society. He is a graduate of the Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands where he studied recorder and historical performance practice with Heiko ter Schegget, Baldrick Deerenberg and Marion Verbruggen.
Greta Haug-Hryciw
recorder faculty
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Greta Haug-Hryciw had her initial recorder experience with the San Francisco branch of the New York
Recorder Workshop in the early '70s. She is a frequent conductor at ARS chapter meetings, and when
the pandemic prevented in-person meetings, she took it upon herself to conduct meetings online in May
last year for the San Francisco Recorder Society. Greta is a co-founder and co-director of the Barbary
Coast Recorder Orchestra with Frances Feldon, and assistant director for the Mid-Peninsula Recorder
Orchestra (MPRO) with Frederic Palmer.
A San Francisco native with musical roots in the San Francisco Bay Area classical and early music scenes
that span three generations, Greta loves having an active part in the recorder community. She teaches
students of all ages, coaches ensembles of all sizes and is a frequent director’s assistant at summer
workshops. Now the Director of Patron Services for the highly acclaimed non-profit arts organization
Voices of Music, Greta also serves on the ARS Board of Directors. She and her husband Lloyd live at the
edge of the Pacific Ocean on the San Mateo County (CA) coast.
recorder faculty
Tali Rubinstein
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Tali Rubinstein is a virtuoso recorder player based in LA who has revolutionized the use of the recorder in jazz and contemporary music. Her distinctive playing style and personal expression have made her one of the most influential recorder players in the world.
Tali has performed at some of the most prestigious venues worldwide, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Birdland, and Blue Note. She has collaborated with world renowned musicians such as Javier Limón, Alejandro Sanz, Mariza, Tomatito, and Paco De Lucia's band, among others.
Tali has performed as a soloist with orchestras worldwide and with her band across the USA, Latin America, Asia, and Europe. She has also recorded for numerous TV and film productions and collaborated on Grammy-nominated/winning projects. Tali's musical talents have been recognized by Barack Obama, who included her on his Favorite Songs of 2018 list.
Lisette Kielson
recorder faculty
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Based in Central Illinois and the Chicago area, Lisette Kielson performs as recorder soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player throughout the Midwest. Past President of the ARS and former Director of Bradley University’s Collegium Musicum, Lisette serves as Music Director of the ARS Chicago Chapter, teaches in Wisconsin on the faculties of the Whitewater Early Music Festival and Madison Bach Musicians Summer Chamber Music Workshop, and maintains an active Zoom studio for students of all levels from across the country. Lisette holds Bachelor and Master Degrees in flute performance from Indiana University and a post-master’s Diploma in recorder performance from The Royal Conservatory of The Hague. She has recorded with Centaur Records as well as with her own label. For more information on Lisette’s activities, visit LisetteKielson.com.
Katherine Heater
harpsichord
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A native of San Francisco, Katherine Heater plays keyboards with Bay Area early music groups such as Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Musica Pacifica and the Voices of Music. She has performed throughout the United States, including with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New Century Chamber Orchestra, the Sun Valley Summer Symphony in Idaho and at the Berkeley Early Music Festival, the Bloomington Early Music Festival, and the Tropical Baroque Festival of Miami. She received an Arts Bachelor from the University of California, Berkeley in music and a Masters of Music in historical performance from Oberlin Conservatory. At the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam Ms. Heater studied harpsichord with Bob van Asperen and fortepiano with Stanley Hoogland. Also an active teacher, Ms. Heater teaches harpsichord at UC Berkeley and piano at Crowden.