Lessons
Local recorder teachers:
Kathryn Canan, kacanan@yahoo.com, Citrus Heights
Adults and children, all ages and levels. Home-schooled children during the weekdays are especially welcome.
Gerry Greer, recorder@inreach.com, Rocklin
Bay Area Teachers:
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 Hanneke van Proosdij 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.
Drina Brooke, Novato, will gladly come to Sacramento once a week to coach ensembles and teach private lessons, so long as a minimum number of four lessons line up on the same day of the week. Learn about breathing, tone, phrasing (an artistic approach is the aim at all times), posture and body mechanics (a specialty of Drina's), the inner game of music, and more. Drina studied with Helga Tutschek, member of the Concentus Musicus of Vienna, thereafter participating in master classes of Marion Verbruggen, Bruce Haynes and Eva Legene. She studied at Indiana University by invitation of Eva Legene
For info, call (415) 892-6452Louise 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.
Eileen Hadidian, recorder and baroque flute. Eileen Hadidian has appeared in concert throughout the Western United States. She was the founder and artistic director of Hausmusik, an early music concert series in Albany, CA. Her involvement with music for healing grew out of her own experience with breast cancer, in 1994 and again in 1997. She used music for her own healing, and began to play for other cancer patients. She has been exploring ways in which music can be used to help soothe critically and chronically ill people
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.
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