SFEMS Recorder Workshop, July 19-25, 2009

Louise Carslake is well known to Bay Area audiences as a performer on the baroque flute and the recorder.  She is a member of the baroque ensemble Music's Re-creation, the Farallon Recorder Quartet, and Magnificat and has performed widely in her native Britain, as well as in New Zealand, Poland, Ireland, and the Netherlands.  She has made over ten CD recordings.

 Louise is ensemble director at Mills College, and is co-founder of the Junior Recorder Society in the East Bay.  For seven years she was co-director of the SFEMS Medieval Renaissance Workshop and she has taught at many workshops including Palomar, Port Townsend and the Elderhostel Workshop in Carmel Valley.

Frances Feldon lives in Berkeley, CA, is a freelance musician in the San Francisco Bay Area, and performs with Flauti Diversi, a baroque/contemporary chamber music ensemble, and Danza!, a renaissance mixed consort. She teaches recorder and baroque flute privately at her studio in Berkeley, and is a regular conductor and faculty member at recorder workshops throughout North America.

Ms. Feldon has directed the San Francisco Early Music Society's Recorder Workshop for fifteen years, and teaches the recorder program at Albany Adult School. She has conducted her arrangements of Gershwin and Ellington classics at the international recorder festival "Les Journees de la Flute a Bec" (Montreal 2003) and again at the International Congress of Recorder Orchestras (Holland 2004).

Current projects include performing contemporary works for recorder and multiple percussion in a duo with multiple percussionist Karolyn Stonefelt, exploring jazz recorder, and interviewing and writing on jazz and pop recorder players for the magazine American Recorder. She produces her own concert series, "Baroque and Beyond." Ms. Feldon studied recorder and baroque flute at Indiana University, where she completed a doctorate in collegium directing. She has taught at Indiana University, UC Davis and The Greenwood School in Mill Valley,

Rotem Gilbert-- Recorder player Rotem Gilbert is a native of Haifa, Israel and a founding member of Ciaramella, an ensemble that has recently made its second recording of Burgundian 15th century music to be released in 2009. Ciaramella has performed in early music festivals and concert series in the United States, Canada and Europe. As a member of Piffaro (1996-2007), she toured the United States, Europe and South America. Rotem has appeared with many American and European early music ensembles (Chatham Baroque, King's Noyse, Newberry Consort, Capilla Flamenca) and has been featured as a soloist for the Pittsburgh Opera (Corronatione di Poppea), the LA Opera (Britten's Noye's Fludde), and Musica Angelica (Brandenburg #4). She recently made her debut at Disney Hall with the LA Phil  (Living Toys by Thomas Adès) .

After studies on recorder at Mannes College of Music in New York, she earned her solo diploma (1995) from the Scuola Civica di Musica of Milan where she studied with Pedro Memelsdorff.  She earned her doctorate in Early Music performance practice at Case Western Reserve University (2005) and is  currently teaching Baroque and Renaissance performance practice courses at USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles and is an instructor of early music winds. She has been a regular faculty member of early music workshops in San Diego, Seattle, Madison, Amherst, San Francisco and Israel's Ayala. Rotem can be heard on the Deutsche Grammophon's Archiv, Passacaille, Musica Americana, Dorian and Naxos labels.  For more information see www.ciaramella.org

Katherine Heater--Harpsichordist, fortepianist, and organist Katherine Heater makes her home in the San Francisco Bay Area where she is a frequent performer with early music groups such as Magnificat. She has performed throughout the United States, including at the Bloomington Early Music Festival, the Berkeley Early Music Festival, and the Tropical Baroque Festival of Miami, as well as abroad in Iceland, Taiwan, France and the Netherlands. Currently, Katherine teaches harpsichord at UC Berkeley, and continuo accompaniment at the Crowden Music School. A former director of the SFEMS Music Discovery Workshop, and co-director of the SFEMS Baroque workshop, this will be Katherine's fifth summer co-directing the San Francisco Early Music Society’s summer recorder workshop.

Katherine received her BA in music from UC Berkeley, her MM in historical performance from Oberlin Conservatory, and studied harpsichord with Bob van Asperen and fortepiano with Stanley Hoogland at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam.

Norbert Kunst studied recorder, double bass and bassoon at the Utrecht Conservatory and was active for several years as a maker of recorders. Following his specialisation in historical bassoon, he played in a number of European Baroque orchestras, including Les Arts Florissants (Paris), Musica Antiqua Köln, Concerto Köln, La Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy, Ensemble Bouzignac, Anima Eterna, Musica Ad Rhenum and Trio Passaggio.

In 1997 he became successor to his father Piet Kunst, who was the founding conductor of Recorder Orchestra Praetorius Leiden. He has directed a number of musical theatre performances with this orchestra. All disciplines of art came together in "The 4 Elements (1999)", La Spagna (2001)" and "March & Swing (2003)". For the 40th anniversary of Praetorius he programmed the International Congress of Recorder Orchestras, a workshop/festival for recorder players from all over the world.

From 1982 to 1989 and from 1999 to 2002 he conducted the student baroque orchestra "Het Kunstorkest". With this orchestra he performed three special projects: the Opera "Karel ende Elegast", the music theatre production "O Mio Sole" and the marathon-video-concert "Cembalo Concerti J.S. Bach". The Baroque orchestra "La Prunelle", which uses ancient instruments, is also under his leadership.

Patrick O'Malley-- Hailed as “distinguished” by the Chicago Tribune, Patrick O'Malley has performed from California to New York, as well as in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. He appears regularly with Chicago's early music ensembles and orchestras. He has presented the premieres of new works for the recorder. With Lisette Kielson he has released a 2-disc recording, Telemann: Canons and Duos.

Mr. O’Malley is on the faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago and the Suzuki Music School of Lincoln Park.  He runs a private studio, including online teaching via videoconference to students in remote locations, at www.PatrickRecorder.com. In addition to teaching at workshops nationally and making outreach presentations at schools, he has given master classes at Northwestern University and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. 

Patrick earned a Master of Music degree in recorder from Indiana University, where he studied with Eva Legêne and served as Associate Instructor. As the recipient of a Netherlands Fulbright Fellowship, he pursued further studies with Han Tol at the Rotterdam Conservatory. He has served as board member of the American Recorder Teachers Association. His article, “Applying Rhetoric and Preluding to Recorder Education,” was published in The Recorder Education Journal.

Hanneke van Proosdij received her solo and teaching diplomas from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague where she studied recorder, harpsichord and composition. She performs regularly as soloist and continuo specialist with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Voices of Music, American Bach Soloists, Concerto Palatino and Magnificat. She has appeared as a guest artist with Hèsperion XX, Concerto Köln, Orchestre d’Ambronnay, Gewandhaus Orchester and the Arcadian Academy.

Together with David Tayler, Hanneke cofounded and codirects Voices of Music. Hanneke is a cofounder of the Junior Recorder Society in the East Bay and was the codirector of the SFEMS Medieval Renaissance Workshop for seven years. Her article Freestyle Group Improvisation was published in The Recorder Education Journal June 2005. She has recorded over thirty discs for Magnatune, BIS, Koch, Musica Omnia, Carus, AVIE and Delos. Her solo harpsichord recording is available online at www.magnatune.com/artists/proosdij. Hanneke enjoys reading books, downhill skiing and gardening.