Save the dates in your calendar as we return with TWO weeks of SFEMS Recorder Workshop!
Pick your week, or come to both. Fill your days with recorder ensembles, technique,
Renaissance consort, recorder orchestra, master class, Feldenkrais movement, concerts,
lectures, and more. Explore Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Contemporary, and World Music
in an intimate setting with world-class faculty. Develop your recorder technique and
ensemble skills in an inspiring and supportive atmosphere.
Note: the Recorder Week I session is now full, but there are still a few places remaining in Week II.
Enroll now to guarantee your place. If you wish to be added to the Week I waiting list, please
contact the SFEMS office at 510.528.1725.
We offer classes for intermediate and advanced players, amateurs and professionals,
ensemble players and soloists, conductors and music teachers. Bring your ensemble
and be guaranteed a daily group class. Please apply before March 1 to be guaranteed
a daily group class for your ensemble (minimum of five players).
We welcome an international faculty of magnificent performers and charismatic
teachers to both Recorder Workshops. Directors Rotem Gilbert and
Hanneke van Proosdij have planned two weeks of intense playing, listening,
and learning in a supportive and social environment.
Week I, July 8-14 "Visions and Miracles"
Faculty
Janet Beazley, Del Mar, CA Inga Funck, Los Angeles, CA Rotem Gilbert, Los Angeles, CA Paul Leenhouts, Denton, TX Peter Maund, Walnut Creek, CA Hanneke van Proosdij, El Cerrito, CA
The Recorder Orchestra project will be a musical portrait of the life of "Joan of Arc"
under the direction of Hanneke van Proosdij. This summer marks the 600th anniversary of
the birth of heroine, soldier, and martyr Joan of Arc.
Directors Rotem Gilbert and Hanneke van Proosdij will bring you a week of intense playing,
listening, and learning in a supportive and social environment.
In addition to our regular faculty, Katherine Heater will join us on harpsichord and
Stacey Pelinka will lead our Feldenkrais movement classes.
Week II, July 15-21 "On Wings of Song"
Faculty
Tish Berlin, Albany, CA Vicki Boeckman, Seattle, WA Louise Carslake, Oakland, CA Rotem Gilbert, Los Angeles, CA David Morris, Oakland, CA Hanneke van Proosdij, El Cerrito, CA
Recorder Orchestra will be under the direction of Rotem Gilbert. Rotem will trace popular
melodies set in different ways, including Mendelssohn's beautiful "On Wings of Song."
Directors Rotem Gilbert and Hanneke van Proosdij will bring you a week of intense playing,
listening, and learning in a supportive and social environment.
In addition to our regular faculty, Katherine Heater will join us on harpsichord
and Stacey Pelinka will lead our Feldenkrais movement classes.
Venue
We are located on a quiet campus one block from the Rockridge BART
(Bay Area Rapid Transit)
station in
Oakland.
St.Albert’s Priory offers
comfortable classrooms, private dorm rooms,
a serene courtyard,
and a beautiful church with splendid acoustics for our student and faculty
concerts.
Surrounded by beautiful gardens, we are secluded from the outside world
yet only blocks
away from our favorite coffee shops,
restaurants, and grocery store in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood.
See what our 2011 participants have to say about our workshop:
"Awesome, friendly, helpful and above all inspiring."
