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Faculty/Presenters

Louise Austin 
Annette Bauer 
Tish Berlin
Frances Blaker
Joyce Callanan
Louise Carslake
Mark Davenport
Cléa Galhano
Lisette Kielson
Judith Linsenberg
Nina Stern
Marion Verbruggen
Leslie Timmons 
Jim Tinter 
Mary Halverson Waldo
Peter Maund 
Jeffrey Holt
Thomas Prescott

Exhibitors

AOSA - St. Louis
American Recorder Society 
Courtly Music Unlimited
Jeff Holt, Recorder Builder
Honeysuckle Music
Prescott Workshop
Unicorn Music

Performers


Marion Verbruggen


Adam Pearl, Harpsichord



Farallon Recorder Quartet

PLUS MINI CONCERTS!

Nina Stern and percussionist Peter Maund

Judith Linsenberg

Welcome Packet for Registrants (pdf)

Registrants, select your class preferences! (Updated July 6)

Application for Next Generation Concert

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CEU's

One semester hour of graduate credit will be available through Utah State University. Documentation of attendance at 15 hours of recital, workshop, and other conference activities is required.

Register on site.
Fee $150.

FESTIVAL AND CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

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SELECT YOUR CLASS PREFERENCES HERE (Updated July 6): PDF or Word doc

THURSDAY JULY 30
2 PM - 9 PM

Registration and Exhibit Hall Open

7 PM

Orientation

7:30 PM
ARS Annual Meeting
8:15 PM

All-Festival Orchestra - The Gift of Gab: The Music of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli

Select your parts and bring to class!

Lisette Kielson
FRIDAY JULY 31

Exibition Hall open all day and after concert

8:30 AM - 8:50 AM Bend and Stretch: Prepare your Body for a Day of Recorder Playing Mary Johnson
9 AM - 10:15 AM

Wide bore, narrow bore, straight bore, good bore, bad bore, perhaps I’m a bore, and the recorder: The Difference between Renaissance and Baroque Recorders

Jeff Holt

Teaching Jazz to Children

Jim Tinter

Coached Consort: J.S. Bach: Double Choir Motets for Recorders

Split Session: Mark Davenport and Mary Halverson Waldo

10:45 AM - 12 PM

Suzuki Method for the Recorder: In the Studio and the Classroom

Mary Halverson Waldo

Developing a Website

Joyce Callanan

Recorder Building:Discover what it takes to make a Recorder from Wood Selection to final Result

Jeff Holt

Coached Consort: Let's Swing! - Tin Pan Alley Favorites

Judith Linsenberg

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM

Flutes and Drums Around the World

Nina Stern

Incorporating Percussion Into Your Ensemble

Peter Maund

Teaching Articulation and Phrasing

Letitia Berlin

Coached Consort: Contemporary Music for Recorder Ensemble

Split Session: Frances Blake and Annette Bauer

3:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Ensemble 101: Repertoire and Rehearsal Techniques for Beginning to Intermediate Ensembles

Leslie Timmons

Teaching Baroque Ornamentation

Frances Blaker

Fear of Heights? Playing in the High Register with Beautiful Tone

Lisette Kielson

A Whole Different Instrument:
Issues of the Renaissance Recorder, Including Fingering, Blowing, and Articulation
Tish Berlin
Coached Consort: Franco-Flemish Renaissance Music Louise Carslake
4:45 PM - 5:30 PM

Mini-Concert: Nina Stern and Peter Maund

7 PM - 7:45 PM Rooms Available for Self-coached Playing Sessions
  ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS:  
  Breathing Techniques and Challenges that Recorder Players and Singers have in Common Frances Blaker and Linda Banister (Professor of Voice, Augusta State University)
Challenges Facing Teachers: Traditional, Suzuki, Orff, Waldorf, Private Studio, College Teachers  Mary Halverson-Waldo and Leslie Timmons
8 PM Concert: Marion Verbruggen with Harpsichordist Adam Pearl

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SATURDAY AUGUST 1
  Exibition Hall open all day and after concert  
Silent Auction Open
8:30 AM - 8:50 AM Bend and Stretch: Prepare your Body for a Day of Recorder Playing Mary Johnson
9 AM - 10:15 AM

Master Class for Advanced Players

(Performing slots full: Auditors welcome)

Marion Verbruggen

(Adam Pearl, Harpsichord Accompanist)

 

Teaching Improvisation to Children: An Orff Approach

Annette Bauer

Coached Consort: Popular and World Music

Split Session: Cléa Galhano and Nina Stern

10:45 AM - 12 PM

Master Class for Advanced Players (Continued)

(Performing slots full: Auditors welcome)

Marion Verbruggen

(Adam Pearl, Harpsichord Accompanist)

 

Recorder Maintenance

Tom Prescott

 

First Lesson for Adults

Louise Carslake

Coached Consort: Medieval Repertoire

Annette Bauer

12:45 PM - 1:15 PM

Mini-Concert: Judy Linsenberg performs a Bach Cello Suite

 

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM

Developing Technique through Ensemble Playing

Cléa Galhano

 

Master Class for Advanced Players (Continued)

(Performing slots full: Auditors welcome)

Marion Verbruggen

 

Jazz Recorder Jam Session

Jim Tinter

Incorporating Percussion Into Your Ensemble (Repeated Session)

Peter Maund

Coached Consort: Celebrating Handel!

Split Session: Lisette Kielson and Louise Austin

3:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Telemann Fantasias

(Performing slots full: Auditors welcome)

Judith Linsenberg

Master Class for Intermediate to Upper Intermediate Soloists or Ensembles

(Performing slots full: Auditors welcome)

Cléa Galhano
Introduction to Improvisation for Adults Leslie Timmons
Coached Consort: The Spanish Renaissance Motet Mark Davenport
4:45 PM - 5:30 PM Presidential Special Honor Award Ceremony and Reception
6:15 PM Silent Auction Closed  
7 PM - 7:45 PM Rooms Available for Self-coached Playing Sessions
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS:
Ensemble Directors: Collegium Directors, Recorder Orchestra Conductors, Consort Leaders  Mark Davenport (Regis University), Moderator, with Judith Linsenberg (Musica Pacifica) and Cléa Galhano (Recorder Orchestra of the Midwest, Belladonna)
Chapter Development, Leadership, and Money Issues Matt Ross and Laura Sanborn-Kuhlman
8 PM Concert: Farallon Recorder Quartet (Annette Bauer, Letitia Berlin, Frances Blaker and Louise Carslake)

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SUNDAY AUGUST 2
Exibition open all day

9 am - 10:15 am

 

The Breath of Life: Using your Breath to make your Music Live

Frances Blaker

Recorder Maintenance (Repeated session)

Tom Prescott

Coached Playing Session: Bach’s Art of Fugue

Letitia Berlin

10:45 AM - 12 PM

Bach’s Wood: Pruning the Bach Cello Suites for Recorder

Judith Linsenberg

 

Creating Successful Programs for Your Consort

Louise Austin

Coached Playing Session: 16th Century Chansons, Madrigals, and Diminutions

Split Session: Mary Halverson Waldo and Louise Carslake
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Recognition of ARS Chapter Birthdays and Long-time ARS Members
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM All-festival Orchestra (Continued from Friday)

Lisette Kielson

   

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