Music Director
Guest Conductor
Guest Conductor
Guest Conductor
Guest Conductor
Guest Conductor
Guest Conductor
Vicki Boeckman....Music Director
Vicki Boeckman has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Scandinavia, England, Scotland and Germany, and has appeared on countless productions for Danish and Norwegian radio and television. Her recordings can be heard on the Kontra Punkt, Classico, Da Capo, Horizon, Musical Heritage America, Paula, Kadanza, and Primavera labels.
Vicki resided in Denmark from 1981-2004. While there she taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen for 12 years, and at the Ishøj Municipal School of Music for 23 years. Together with colleague Dorte Lester she co-founded a regional recorder orchestra for children and young adults which continues to flourish and grow. In great demand as a teacher here in the United States, Vicki coaches and teaches at workshops and seminars all over the country. She has taught in Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon and Washington, and British Columbia. She has been on the faculty of the Music Center of the Northwest in Seattle since February 2005 and as of October 2007 is the Music Director for the newly formed Portland Recorder Society.
In the Seattle area, Vicki has been a featured soloist with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra and the Philharmonia Northwest Orchestra. She is a returning guest with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the Gallery Concerts Series with harpsichordist Jillon Stoppels Dupree, the Northwest Girl Choir, and the Medieval Women’s Choir led by Margriet Tindemans.
Vicki was co-founder of two Danish-based ensembles: Opus 4, who concentrates on performing trio sonatas from the 17th and 18th centuries, and Wood’N’Flutes, a recorder trio playing works spanning the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Wood’N’Flutes has commissioned and premiered several works by Danish composers. Since 2003 they have been invited back to the United States three times to perform and teach in Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington State. Vicki continues to perform with these ensembles abroad as often as she can. Wood’N’Flutes recently recorded a new cd entitled, Woodworks with contemporary works by Danish composers, which was nominated for a Danish grammy in the category of contemporary chamber music recordings.
To contact Vicki: vickiboeckman@comcast.net
Kim Pineda....Guest Conductor
Kim Pineda (Transverse Flute and Recorder) has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, in Israel, and on NPR. Founder and music director of Baroque Northwest <http://www.baroquenorthwest.com>, he performs regularly with leading early music ensembles in the U.S. He has performed at the Boston, Berkeley, Long Beach Bach, and Bloomington early music festivals, Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, and has recorded on the Focus, Centaur, and Origin Classical labels.
Kim received the Master of Music degree from Washington University, St.Louis, and the Bachelor of Music degree from California State University Northridge. He has taught at Indiana University, USC, North Seattle Community College, at workshops sponsored by the San Francisco and San Diego early music societies and the Seattle Recorder Society, and directs Baroque Northwest's Baroque Flute Boot Camp <http://www.baroquenorthwest.com/nfbfbc.html> in Seattle. Other interests include the culinary, martial, and healing arts, cycling, zymurgy, and the pursuit of the ultimate cadence. In his spare time he reads non-fiction. Kim has recently moved to Eugene, Oregon and can be reached via email at kimpineda@gmail.com.
Philip Neuman, Guest Conductor
Philip Neuman, a performer on recorder, sackbut, and numerous other wind and string instruments, co-founded and co-directs the Oregon Renaissance Band, which has performed for the Regensburg Early Music Festival and recorded the CD "Carnevale." He has produced and recorded seven CD's for Pandourion Records including "French Music of the 14th Century," "Music of the Ancient Greeks," and "The One-Horse Open Sleigh." He has written and recorded for productions by Oregon Public Broadcasting. He has played for audiences on three continents, including performances at several ancient theatre sites in Greece.
He has taught Recorder, Renaissance Winds, and Loud Band Classes at the Community Music Center in Portland since 1981. He teaches Counterpoint and Orchestration at the University of Portland and Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Music History at Marylhurst University. Philip is a member of the Trail Band, has performed under the baton of Christopher Hogwood and Nicolas McGeegan, recorded with the American Bach Soloists, and has played in the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, The Chicago Chorale, Handel & Haydn Society Orchestra, and Spiritus Collective. He has composed, arranged and transcribed over a thousand works for recorder ensemble, brass ensemble, and symphonic wind ensemble, including "Theme and Variations" that won 1st place in the San Francisco Recorder Composition Competition.
To contact Phil: neuman@emgo.org
Early Music Guild of Oregon: www.emgo.org
Gayle Stuwe Neuman, Guest Conductor
Gayle Stuwe Neuman, a performer on violin, recorder, sackbut, and many other instruments, is also a vocalist who has received international acclaim for her renditions of the "Song of Seikilos", the "Chorus from Orestes", and others upon the release of Ensemble De Organographia's "Music of the Ancient Greeks", now in its seventh pressing. Several of the tracks from that recording have also appeared in the Norton Scores CD Anthology and numerous films and television programs. She has performed for audiences in the U.S., Japan, Israel, Turkey, Greece, Canada, Norway, Germany, and for members of the royal family in Jordan.
She cofounded and co-directs the Oregon Renaissance Band, now in its 17th season. Gayle is a member of the Trail Band and performs with Cappella Romana and the Portland Baroque Orchestra Chorus. She has played under the baton of Monica Huggett and Ton Koopman. She teaches Recorder and Renaissance Song Classes at Portland's Community Music Center, and Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Music History at Marylhurst University. She has given workshops and presentations at many institutions including Oberlin Conservatory, Rice University, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Getty Museum. She has built with her husband Philip over 400 early wind and stringed instruments, including crumhorns, corna musen, racketts, and vielles.
Bryce Peltier, Guest ConductorBryce is the newest addition to our list of guest conductors. For more about him, please consult his website at...
Eileen Hadidian, Guest Conductor
Eileen Hadidian is a professional recorder and baroque flute player living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her B.A. in Music from the American University of Beirut (Lebanon), and her M.A. and D.M.A. in Early Music from Stanford University, specializing in baroque and Renaissance performance practice. Her scholarly work and editions of music have been published by C.F. Peters, Indiana University Press, Cambridge University Press, Dovehouse and Tree Editions
She has served on the music faculty at Mills College, where she taught music history and developed the early music program. She has appeared in concert and taught workshops throughout the Western United States, and was for many years the director of Hausmusik, an early music concert series in Albany, CA, for which she received the annual Citizen in the Arts Award, given by the City of Albany to honor a significant contribution to the arts.
Eileen is also founder and artistic director of Healing Muses, a non profit organization that brings soothing music to Bay Area medical centers, and has received grants from the Alameda County Arts Commission, the East Bay Community Foundation, the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, and the Institute of Noetic Sciences. She has recorded four CDs on the Healing Muses label, and her work with healing music has been featured in The American Recorder, Early Music America, ARTAFacts (American Recorder Teachers’ Association), Yoga Journal, The Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients, and the Journal of the San Francisco Medical Society.
Having grown up in the multi-cultural milieu of Lebanon, Eileen’s special interests in early music involve studying what was being composed and performed outside the mainstream of Western Europe; she has developed numerous workshop topics and concert programs exploring early music in Spanish America, French Canada, Ireland and Scotland, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries, as well as music by women.
Her interests outside music include immersing herself in novels set in different cultures, learning languages, yoga, hiking, attending international fairs and discovering new ethnic restaurants. Her new challenges in the past few years have included taking Celtic harp lessons and Arabic classes.
Peter Seibert, Guest Conductor
Peter Seibert is in his 40th year as music director of the Seattle Recorder Society, is music director of the Recorder Orchestra of Puget Sound and is founder and former director of the Port Townsend Early Music Workshop. He has taught at workshops in the U.S., Canada and Britain since 1968. While on the ARS board (1977 – 1984) he was the architect of the ARS Educational Program, now nearly 30 years old.
After a career in teaching and conducting, Peter turned his attention to composing during the 1990’s, and his works have now been performed on four continents. His recorder works have been published by PRB Productions, Polyphonic Publications, and Hargail Music. Forthcoming premieres for the 2009 - 2010 season include Mass with Bells by the St. Mark’s (Seattle) Cathedral Choir and Fantasia on English Folksongs by the Recorder Orchestra of Puget Sound. His Terpsichore Revisited was premiered by the Lake Forest College (Illinois) Chamber Orchestra last March, and in May, his Il canto delle creature on a text of St. Francis of Assisi was performed and recorded by the Medieval Womens Choir and also performed by the St. Mark’s Cathedral Choir. He is currently at work on a composition for four cellos and three viols for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Among the works he plans to lead at the PRS December meeting will be selections from his PRB editions Suite on Early Carol Tunes and Brightest and Best. The first group is based on medieval carol melodies and the latter on seasonal American folk melodies. In addition, he is considering a “surprise” work of the season.
Glen Shannon, Guest Conductor
Glen Shannon is an American composer living near San Francisco, California. His love of straightforward, approachable music for the recorder has garnered him several prizes in composition contests since 1997. With clear influences of Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi, and other masters of the Baroque and Classical periods, Shannon's music is largely contrapuntal, with fugues featuring prominently in his collection. He publishes his music under his own name, and has also had works published by Moeck Verlag, PRB Productions, and the American Recorder Society. Most recently, In 2007 he was a prize winner in two composition contests — one sponsored by the Chicago Recorder Society, and the other jointly sponsored by the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet and the American Recorder Society.
Glen is active in the American Recorder Society, as editor of the semiannual Members' Library Editions, a series introducing new recorder music to the worldwide membership