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Kathryn Canan
Recorders, modern and early flutes |
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Kathryn Schaeffer Canan studied flute and toured Europe with America's
Youth in Concert as a teenager. She played flute
and piccolo in the University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra while earning
her B.A. in biological sciences. She learned recorder at age
12 because it fit better in a backpack than modern flute, but began seriously
studying it in the early 90's. Ms. Canan has studied recorder and baroque
flute with Frances Feldon and Judith Linsenberg and medieval music with
Shira Kammen. She has been a soloist with Apollo Baroque Orchestra
and a guest member of the Recorder Orchestra of New York on their 2001 tour
of England. She plays medieval, Renaissance, and baroque music in several
ensembles, including Absent Minded Women, Beyond Baroque, Simply Renaissance,
the New Queen's Ha'penny Consort, and Briddes Roune. She has performed on baroque
and modern flute at the Edinburgh
Fringe Festival and the Avignon Theater Festival with Early Music Maui. Ms. Canan
also plays modern flute and piccolo
in the pit orchestras of Runaway
Stage Productions and Light Opera
Theater of Sacramento.
Ms. Canan teaches recorder and flute privately in her Citrus Heights
home. Lessons are available weekdays and occasional nights and weekends for
adults or children. Group lessons, workshops, and school demonstrations
are available by arrangement. Her CD of medieval English songs with Briddes
Roune is available at
http://magnatune.com/artists/briddes_roune.
Ms. Canan also holds a professional
certificate in Multimedia Design from UC Davis. She designs websites for
musicians and ensembles, including the Sacramento Recorder Society, and
Musica Pacifica.
She has recently earned a master's degree in liberal arts from CSU Sacramento, with a thesis on Anglo-Saxon medicine. She is now fully qualified to practice medieval medicine, should the need arise. Meanwhile, she has added Latin tutoring to her repertoire.
Contact Kathryn at kacanan@yahoo.com.
Early Music Maui performs "Bach for Breakfast" at the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe
Festival
Recorder Orchestra of New York at Hengrave Hall, Bury St. Edmunds, England