Lessons

The very basics: http://www.americanrecorder.org/learn/instructional_videos.html

Why Take Recorder Lessons?

Local recorder teachers:

Kathryn Canan, kacanan@yahoo.com, 916-723-2409. Kathryn teaches adults and children, all ages and levels, at her home in Citrus Heights. She has studied recorder with Frances Feldon and Judy Linsenberg and medieval music with Shira Kammen. She performs with Baroque and Beyond, the New Queen’s Ha’Penny Consort, and Simply Renaissance. Her CD of 13^th century English music with Briddes Roune is available at www.magnatune.com. Kathryn also tutors Latin.

Gerry Greer, recorder@inreach.com, Rocklin

Bay Area Teachers:

Annette Bauer, a native of Germany, studied medieval and renaissance music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland. She holds an MA in music from UC Santa Cruz. Certified in Orff Schulwerk herself, she teaches recorder to music teachers at the San Francisco Orff Certification Course. Annette currently also co-directs the music program at a K-8 school in Oakland, CA, and regularly conducts recorder workshops and classes in medieval notation in the San Francisco Bay Area. 510-847-7023.

Letitia Berlin, Albany. Letitia Berlin received a master's degree in early music performance practices from Case Western Reserve University and a bachelor of music from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She performs with Frances Blaker, Louise Carslake, and Annette Bauer in the Farallon Recorder Quartet.

Frances Blaker, Albany. Frances Blaker received her Music Pedagogical and Performance degrees in recorder from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen where she studied with Eva Legêne.  She also studied with Marion Verbruggen in the Netherlands.

Louise Carslake, recorder and early flutes. Louise holds the graduate teaching diploma from Trinity College of Music, London, and the diploma for baroque flute performance from the Arnhem Conservatory in the Netherlands, where her teacher was Wilbert Hazelzet. She also studied baroque music performance practice with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. In addition to her performing activities, Louise teaches on the faculty at Mills College, and is an active teacher at her home studio in Oakland. She is co-director of the San Francisco Early Music Society's Medieval Renaissance Workshop. 

Frances Feldon, recorder and early flutes. Ms. Feldon received her Doctor of Music degree in Collegium Directing from the Early Music Institute, School of Music, Indiana University.  She performs with Flauti Diversi, a chamber music group recreating baroque music on a variety of early winds, and The Odhecaton, which plays early renaissance music on a variety of winds and strings. Frances is interested in giving recorder lessons each month in Sacramento if 4 or more people are interested. Contact Elsa at lsamore@earthlink.net or Doris at dglc@frontiernet.net

Greta Haug-Hryciw

Want to improve your ensemble skills? Or your articulation, intonation, and ability to stay in tune with other players? San Francisco Bay Area teacher, Greta Haug-Hryciw, who has come to conduct and is now a member of SRS, has offered to travel to Sacramento to teach. She is available for private as well as group lesons. Individual (private) lessons are $50 / hour, with a minimum of two and up to four students scheduled consecutively on the same day. Group or ensemble lessons are $100 / 90 minutes, with no requirement to schedule additional lessons on the same day.

Contact Greta: gr8asf@yahoo.com or (415) 377-4444.

Eileen Hadidian, recorder and baroque flute. 

Eileen Hadidian is offering recorder lessons in a nurturing home environment in Albany. Beginners are welcome. She has 30 years of teaching experience, a DMA in early music from Stanford, and is a former faculty member of Mills College. Contact: ehmuse@comcast.net

Judith Linsenberg will come to Sacramento on weekends once a month if at least 4 students are interested.(510) 444-4113 or judyl@sbcglobal.net. A Fulbright scholar to Austria, Ms. Linsenberg holds a doctorate in early music from Stanford University and has been a visiting professor at Indiana University's Early Music Institute and the Vienna Conservatory. She is co-director of the baroque ensemble Musica Pacifica.

Hanneke van Proosdij. Hanneke studied harpsichord and organ with Jacques Ogg at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, the Netherlands, where she also studied recorder and composition. She received her DM (teaching diploma) in 1992 and UM (solo diploma) in 1995. She performs with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the American Bach Soloists, Magnificat, Parnassus Ave, Chanticleer, Orinda and Farallon Recorder Quartet. Hanneke is the Director of the San Francisco Early Music Society Medieval Renaissance Summer Festival.

If you would like to be listed on this page, please send contact information to kacanan@yahoo.com .

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