Youth are welcome at all BCRS playing meetings and events! If you'd like to try us out you can come to your first meeting for free, then you can choose whether or not you want to become a member. Either way, you're welcome to use the website and contact us with any recorder-related questions you have.
Clubs
Fanfare Youth Recorder Club is a free group for young recorder players who want to connect with other recorder players their own age. Hosted by Peabody Conservatory students Teresa Deskur and Sara Shoja in collaboration with Amherst Early Music, FYRC will meet monthly online and be a place for middle and high school recorder players to meet, play, and talk all things recorder. Q&A with a professional recorder player each meeting! See a video message from Teresa and Sara here, and go to amherstearlymusic.org/fanfare to sign up and find more information.
Competitions
2021 Society of Recorder Players/Moeck Solo Recorder Competition
Entries are now open. Closing date for entries is March 31, 2021. The first prize winner will receive £1500 plus a recital at the 2022 London International Festival of Early Music. Cash prizes are donated by Moeck, the Society of Recorder Players & the Philip Cole Bursary. The competition finals will take place on November 12, 2021 at the London International Festival of Early Music. This is an international competition open to recorder players under 30 years of age on November 1, 2021.
Piffaro Bi-annual National Recorder Competition
Piffaro offers a National Recorder Competition every second year which showcases serious middle and high school players and brings four to five finalists to a live competition in Philadelphia. The winner performs alongside Piffaro members in one of our series programs in Philadelphia. Ask your teacher to contact us about how to get involved https://www.piffaro.org/contact-us/
Entries are now open. Closing date for entries is March 31, 2021. The first prize winner will receive £1500 plus a recital at the 2022 London International Festival of Early Music. Cash prizes are donated by Moeck, the Society of Recorder Players & the Philip Cole Bursary. The competition finals will take place on November 12, 2021 at the London International Festival of Early Music. This is an international competition open to recorder players under 30 years of age on November 1, 2021.
Piffaro Bi-annual National Recorder Competition
Piffaro offers a National Recorder Competition every second year which showcases serious middle and high school players and brings four to five finalists to a live competition in Philadelphia. The winner performs alongside Piffaro members in one of our series programs in Philadelphia. Ask your teacher to contact us about how to get involved https://www.piffaro.org/contact-us/
Organizations
National Youth Recorder Orchestras
This UK organization puts on a variety of courses and recorder days.
This UK organization puts on a variety of courses and recorder days.