BCRS Online Workshops
Bend it like Brüggen! The art and technique of expressive recorder playing, with Piers Adams
Date: October 17, 2020 from 10:00am-12:00pm PT
The Taming of Quantz, a talk with Curtis Foster
Date: November 21, 2020 from 1:00pm-2:00pm PT
The Art of Polyphony: A beginner's guide to interpreting Renaissance music, with Laura Kuhlman
Date: January 23, 2021 from 1:00pm-3:00pm PT
Inside the Score: An instruction manual for your ears, a talk with Conductor-Composer Jaelem Bhate
Date: February 20, 2021 from 2:00pm-3:00pm PT
The Swinging Recorder: Adding jazz to your musical vocabulary, with Montreal virtuoso Vincent Lauzer
Date: March 20, 2021 from 1:00pm-3:00pm PT
Registration: Open
From Cradle to Grave: The ABCs of recorder care and maintenance, a talk with Recorder maker Patrick von Huene
Date: April 17, 2021 from 10:00am-11:00am PT
Registration: Opens in March
Playing by Ear, with Music Program Director of the Edmonton Suzuki Flute and Recorder Society Kathleen Schoen
Date: May 22, 2021 from 1:00pm-3:00pm PT
Registration: Opens in April
Achieving Physical Longevity in Recorder Players, a talk with Osteopathic Practitioner Kaitlin Newman
Date: June 19, 2021 from 11:00am-12:00pm PT
Registration: Opens in May
Date: October 17, 2020 from 10:00am-12:00pm PT
The Taming of Quantz, a talk with Curtis Foster
Date: November 21, 2020 from 1:00pm-2:00pm PT
The Art of Polyphony: A beginner's guide to interpreting Renaissance music, with Laura Kuhlman
Date: January 23, 2021 from 1:00pm-3:00pm PT
Inside the Score: An instruction manual for your ears, a talk with Conductor-Composer Jaelem Bhate
Date: February 20, 2021 from 2:00pm-3:00pm PT
The Swinging Recorder: Adding jazz to your musical vocabulary, with Montreal virtuoso Vincent Lauzer
Date: March 20, 2021 from 1:00pm-3:00pm PT
Registration: Open
From Cradle to Grave: The ABCs of recorder care and maintenance, a talk with Recorder maker Patrick von Huene
Date: April 17, 2021 from 10:00am-11:00am PT
Registration: Opens in March
Playing by Ear, with Music Program Director of the Edmonton Suzuki Flute and Recorder Society Kathleen Schoen
Date: May 22, 2021 from 1:00pm-3:00pm PT
Registration: Opens in April
Achieving Physical Longevity in Recorder Players, a talk with Osteopathic Practitioner Kaitlin Newman
Date: June 19, 2021 from 11:00am-12:00pm PT
Registration: Opens in May
Other Online Workshops
Virtual Easter Recorder Course presented by Recorders-for-All March 19-24, 2021 - During these six days you'll have the opportunity to try many of the things which work better online. Take risks: try out new fingerings or ornaments; go for those high notes; play all the parts and get to know the whole piece; play a sonata with keyboard; experience playing a 1:1 duet with a tutor. Presenters include Andrew Collis, Ruth Burbidge, Annabel Knight, Julie Dean, Annemarie Klein, Chris Orton, and Pam Smith. There will be four 75 minute sessions each day. £15 per day, £90 for six days.
Columbia Gorge Early Music Retreat Online March 20-21, 2021
Information: Portland Recorder Society
Amherst Early Music, Spring Break Workshop March 20-21, 2021 - Two class periods each day, with a Composers’ Forum, an all-workshop playing session, and a Faculty Concert. Recorder faculty includes Saskia Coolen, Frances Blaker, Tish Berlin, and Tom Beets.
National Youth Recorder Orchestras Easter Online 2021 April 6-9, 2021 - Four days with our regular NYRO tutors full of specially arranged and recorded music, technique tips and other fun activities. There will be three or four hours of group tuition per day and the opportunity to socialise before or after the tuition sessions. For ages 8-25. Whole course £120; one day £35.
Whitewater Early Music Festival June 5-6, 2021 - Two days with a gifted faculty of recorder, early winds, voice and viola da gamba instructors. There will be music for recorders of all shapes and sizes, historic double reeds, violas da gamba, voices and maybe some bagpiping! All instruments are welcome in all classes. Players of all levels welcome. There will be special classes for advanced beginners. Register for eight 75 minute sessions over two days US$75, or, for four 75 minutes sessions on one day US$40.
Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, June 21-27, 2021. Recorder faculty are Christopher Krueger and Michael Lynn.
Mountain Collegium Early Music and Folk Music Workshop, June 27–July 2, 2021 - Participants will have the option to attend single classes (one meeting); series classes (classes that meet two or more times); Big Blow and Bow; Folk Lectures; and MORE as workshop plans develop.
Port Townsend Early Music Workshop Online July, 2021
Information: Seattle Recorder Society
Columbia Baroque Online Summer Recorder Institute Mondays, July 6-27, 2021 - Please join us for our twelfth annual summer master classes for Baroque recorder players meeting four consecutive Monday evenings beginning July 6. Sessions will feature recorder duets by G. P. Telemann, Jacques Hotteterre, Giuseppi Sammartini, and more. US$40.
West Coast Amateur Musicians Society Online Summer Music Camp July 19-23, 2021
Fall Fipple Flute Forum at Seattle Pacific University. September 2021 (to be confirmed)
Denman Island Baroque Music Workshop September 11-19, 2021
Salt Spring Island Baroque Music Workshop September 24-26, 2021
Columbia Gorge Early Music Retreat Online March 20-21, 2021
Information: Portland Recorder Society
Amherst Early Music, Spring Break Workshop March 20-21, 2021 - Two class periods each day, with a Composers’ Forum, an all-workshop playing session, and a Faculty Concert. Recorder faculty includes Saskia Coolen, Frances Blaker, Tish Berlin, and Tom Beets.
National Youth Recorder Orchestras Easter Online 2021 April 6-9, 2021 - Four days with our regular NYRO tutors full of specially arranged and recorded music, technique tips and other fun activities. There will be three or four hours of group tuition per day and the opportunity to socialise before or after the tuition sessions. For ages 8-25. Whole course £120; one day £35.
Whitewater Early Music Festival June 5-6, 2021 - Two days with a gifted faculty of recorder, early winds, voice and viola da gamba instructors. There will be music for recorders of all shapes and sizes, historic double reeds, violas da gamba, voices and maybe some bagpiping! All instruments are welcome in all classes. Players of all levels welcome. There will be special classes for advanced beginners. Register for eight 75 minute sessions over two days US$75, or, for four 75 minutes sessions on one day US$40.
Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, June 21-27, 2021. Recorder faculty are Christopher Krueger and Michael Lynn.
Mountain Collegium Early Music and Folk Music Workshop, June 27–July 2, 2021 - Participants will have the option to attend single classes (one meeting); series classes (classes that meet two or more times); Big Blow and Bow; Folk Lectures; and MORE as workshop plans develop.
Port Townsend Early Music Workshop Online July, 2021
Information: Seattle Recorder Society
Columbia Baroque Online Summer Recorder Institute Mondays, July 6-27, 2021 - Please join us for our twelfth annual summer master classes for Baroque recorder players meeting four consecutive Monday evenings beginning July 6. Sessions will feature recorder duets by G. P. Telemann, Jacques Hotteterre, Giuseppi Sammartini, and more. US$40.
West Coast Amateur Musicians Society Online Summer Music Camp July 19-23, 2021
Fall Fipple Flute Forum at Seattle Pacific University. September 2021 (to be confirmed)
Denman Island Baroque Music Workshop September 11-19, 2021
Salt Spring Island Baroque Music Workshop September 24-26, 2021