Recorder Workshop

Faculty 2026

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Annette Bauer

Director

Annette Bauer is a recorder player and multi-instrumentalist. Born and raised in Germany, she holds a diploma in medieval and Renaissance music from the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland (2001), and an MA in music from the University of California in Santa Cruz (2004). From 2001-2012 she called the San Francisco Bay area her home. There, she studied North Indian classical music on sarode, a 24-stringed lute, with her teacher Ali Akbar Khan, and worked as a freelance musician with early music groups all over the United States, including Piffaro, Texas Early Music Project, Magnificat, Canconier, Les Graces, Farallon Recorder Quartet, and The Lost Mode. From 2012-2020, she spent eight years touring the world as a musician for the Cirque du Soleil's show Totem. Since 2020, Annette is now making a new home with her family in Montréal. She is currently sharing her love of music by offering online instruction to students of all ages, including an ongoing class on 15th and 16th-century mensural notation through Amherst Early Music.

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Greta Haug-Hryciw

recorder faculty

  • Greta Haug-Hryciw had her initial recorder experience with the San Francisco branch of the New York Recorder Workshop in the early '70s. She is a frequent conductor at ARS chapter meetings, and when the pandemic prevented in-person meetings, she took it upon herself to conduct meetings online in May last year for the San Francisco Recorder Society. Greta is a co-founder and co-director of the Barbary Coast Recorder Orchestra with Frances Feldon, and assistant director for the Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra (MPRO) with Frederic Palmer.

    A San Francisco native with musical roots in the San Francisco Bay Area classical and early music scenes that span three generations, Greta loves having an active part in the recorder community. She teaches students of all ages, coaches ensembles of all sizes and is a frequent director’s assistant at summer workshops. Now the Director of Patron Services for the highly acclaimed non-profit arts organization Voices of Music, Greta also serves on the ARS Board of Directors. She and her husband Lloyd live at the edge of the Pacific Ocean on the San Mateo County (CA) coast.

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Miyo Aoki

  • Miyo Aoki is a dedicated recorder player and teacher and creator of Recorder from the Ground Up, a unique teaching method forthcoming from Seattle Historical Arts for Kids. She is a member of the Farallon Recorder Quartet and has performed in the US, Germany, and Poland, with groups including The Eurasia Consort, Utopia Early Music, and Gamut Bach Ensemble; and at the Amherst Early Music Festival, Berkeley Early Music Festival and Whidbey Island Music Festival. She has premiered works by contemporary composers Natalie Williams, Agnes Dorwarth and Adam Haws, and in recent years she was delighted to play with the Boise Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Oregon Symphony, and Eugene Symphony, respectively, in performances of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. In addition to private lessons, she teaches regularly for Seattle Historical Arts for Kids and at workshops around the country, including the Port Townsend Early Music Workshop, Amherst Early Music Festival, Early Music Week at Pinewoods, and Hidden Valley Early Music Workshop. Miyo holds a KAZ Diplom (Artist Diploma) from the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen, Germany, where she studied with Professor Han Tol, and degrees in both early music performance and mathematics from Indiana University, where she studied with Professor Eva Legêne.

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Hanneke Van Proosdij

  • Hanneke van Proosdij is an award-winning music director, conductor, composer, and a keyboard and recorder player known for the expressiveness, elegance, and virtuosity of her playing. She received her solo and teaching diplomas from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with a unique set of three majors in recorder, harpsichord, and composition.

    She is a co-founder and co-director of the Voices of Music ensemble and regularly performs as a soloist and continuo specialist. She is the principal early keyboard player for Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, and has appeared with other groups such as the LA Phil, American Bach Soloists, and Concerto Köln. She has also recorded over one hundred albums for various labels and has more than 500 videos on the Voices of Music YouTube channel.

    In addition to performing and directing, van Proosdij has taught recorder at UC Berkeley and has served as a guest professor at several other universities, including Stanford, Oberlin, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and the University of Vermont. She served as co-director of the San Francisco Early Music Society Medieval Renaissance Workshop and the Recorder Workshop for twenty years.

    Her compositions include "Wu Song and the Tiger" and "Musical Crossroads." "Musical Crossroads" won two first-place prizes in the SFCV Best of the Bay 2019 Awards for Best New Music Performance and Best Chamber Music Performance.

    Hanneke van Proosdij lives in California and enjoys reading books and hiking.

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Katherine Heater

harpsichord

  • A native of San Francisco, Katherine Heater plays keyboards with Bay Area early music groups such as Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Musica Pacifica and the Voices of Music. She has performed throughout the United States, including with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New Century Chamber Orchestra, the Sun Valley Summer Symphony in Idaho and at the Berkeley Early Music Festival, the Bloomington Early Music Festival, and the Tropical Baroque Festival of Miami. She received an Arts Bachelor from the University of California, Berkeley in music and a Masters of Music in historical performance from Oberlin Conservatory. At the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam Ms. Heater studied harpsichord with Bob van Asperen and fortepiano with Stanley Hoogland. Also an active teacher, Ms. Heater teaches harpsichord at UC Berkeley and piano at Crowden.

Héloïse Degrugillier

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  • Héloïse Degrugillier has worked extensively as both a recorder and traverso performer, and teacher throughout Europe and the United States. She has performed with leading period ensembles, including Handel and Haydn, the Boston Camerata, Boston Early Music Festival, Aston Magna and Tempesta di Mare. Heloise also enjoys an active teaching career. She teaches at Tufts university and Rhode Island College. She is the president and music director of the Boston Recorder Society. She has completed her studies in the Alexander Technique and has a Master’s in Music from the Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands.