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2009 - 2010 Directors

Annette Bauer, a native of Germany, studied medieval and renaissance music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland, specializing on recorder techniques with Conrad Steinmann (2001). She holds an MA in music from UC Santa Cruz (2004), and has been a student at the Ali Akbar College of Music in California since 1998, where she studies North Indian classical music on sarode, a stringed instrument.

As a recorder player, Annette regularly performs with newly formed medieval ensemble Cançonièr, Baroque group Les grâces, Farallon recorder ensemble, and has appeared at the Santa Cruz Baroque and the Carmel Bach Festivals, as well as with the California Bach Society, Catacoustic Consort, Chamber Music San Francisco, Istanpitta, Magnificat, and Texas Early Music Project. She has served on the recorder faculty for several of the San Francisco Early Music Society summer workshops and the Amherst Early Music Festival among others. Certified in Orff Schulwerk, she teaches recorder pedagogy to music teachers at the San Francisco Orff Certification Course.

Annette also plays Brazilian percussion with Maracatu Luta, and is the co-founder of Magic Carpet, a duo dedicated to the art of improvisation.

Tish Berlin  teaches privately and at workshops around the country, including the Amherst Early Music Festival, the Oregon Coast Recorder Society Winds and Waves workshop, and the Prescott AZ Desert Pipes/Mountain Winds workshop. She directs the Hidden Valley Early Music Elderhostel (Carmel Valley, CA) and is the Director of the San Francisco Early Music Society's Music Discovery Workshop for children. With Frances Blaker she is the Co-Director of the Port Townsend Early Music Workshop. Ms. Berlin performs with the Farallon Recorder Quartet, the recorder duo Tibia, and Wild Rose, an ensemble dedicated to the performance of early classical and folk music. She has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, the Carmel Bach Festival and the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. Recordings include Motets, Lieder, and Instrumental Works of Ludwig Senfl with the Farallon Recorder Quartet, and Ladino love songs with Yatan Atan on the New Albion label. Ms. Berlin received a master's degree in early music performance practices from Case Western Reserve University and a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She currently serves on the board of the American Recorder Society.

Ken Andresen was a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music in Manhattan, received his B.S. in Music degree from Hofstra University, and continued with graduate studies at Stony Brook University. As a recorderist, he has recently released his first CD, The Polyphonic Recorder and as a trombonist he can be heard on a recent jazz CD release, By Arrangement, featuring the Rodd Raffell Big Band. Ken is the creator and publisher of Polyphonic Publications, recorder ensemble editions that are distributed worldwide. A past Director of Education for the American Recorder Society and Music Director of the Recorder Society of Long Island, he has taught at recorder workshops throughout the U.S. and in Europe and was a career educator in instrumental music in the Half Hollow Hills school system in New York. He was the founder and director of The Recorder Orchestra of New York, the first of its kind in the United States, which produced a CD, First Impressions, in 1999 and later formed and directed the Connecticut Recorder Orchestra. He performs extensively throughout the Northeast on recorder and trombone, including performances at Carnegie Hall and Tanglewood Music Center. He has worked with entertainers such as Wayne Newton and Bobby Vinton and was recently performing in the orchestra for the national roadshow of “Annie.” He lives in Colebrook, CT, with his wife Julie and five cats.

February 6 - Shira Kammen for a Saturday afternoon meeting

Shelley Phillips received her Masters of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In addition to performing and recording, she is director of the Santa Cruz Community Music School, offering music lessons in folk and conservatory traditions. She is a musician at St. John's Episcopal Church in Capitola, and founder of the Santa Cruz Shape Note Society. She is also a member of the Anjali Quartet and the Coulter/Phillips Ensemble, and tours often, including 10 concerts in Taiwan in 2002, 33 concerts in Germany and Switzerland in 2003, a school year sabbatical in England, Ireland, Holland, Spain and India in 2007, and 2 concerts in the Crimea in 2008. She has appeared on many recordings on the Gourd music label including her solo albums: The Fairie Round, Pavane, and The Butterfly. She has also recorded music of the Shakers, and produced a benefit album Verdant Groves for the Shaker village museums, as well as a benefit recording of Christmas music for the Community Music School of Santa Cruz called Mid Earth Rejoices, which includes the premier recording of her Magnificat.  Barry and Shelley have begun a collaboration with Rumi translator and poet Coleman Barks, and have made two CDs with him: What Was Said to the Rose and I Have Five Things to Say.  Recently Shelley became a certified teacher of bamboo flute making and travels to various music camps in the summer teaching this art.  She is presently living near the coast in central California with her family and two spoiled cats, trying to grow tomatoes in the summer fog.

April 17 - Frances Blaker for a Saturday afternoon meeting

Frances Blaker received her Music Pedagogical and Performance degrees from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen where she studied with Eva Legêne. She also studied with Marion Verbruggen in the Netherlands. Ms. Blaker has performed as a soloist and with various ensembles in the United States, Denmark, England and the Netherlands, including Ensemble Vermillian, the Farallon Recorder Quartet and the recorder duo Tibia. She teaches privately and at workshops throughout the United States, including the San Francisco Early Music Society Baroque workshop and Port Townsend; she is an assistant director of the Amherst Early Music Festival, Inc. Ms. Blaker is the author of The Recorder Player's Companion and the "Opening Measures" column in the American Recorder, and a collaborator and performer on the Disc Continuo series of recordings. She can be heard on Ensemble Vermillian’s “Stolen Jewels” and the Farallon Recorder Quartet’s Senfl CD.

Greta (Haug) Hryciw is the third generation in a family of San Francisco musicians. Her early exposure to these musical influences shaped her understanding and appreciation of great music. As a child, she studied piano technique and theory with Bethel Melvin, and later with symphony pianist, Reina Schivo. Her interest in the recorder blossomed during high school and for several years she played with the San Francisco branch of the New York Recorder Workshop under the direction of Peter Ehrlich. She is currently the co-director of American Recorder Orchestra of the West (AROW) with Richard Geisler, and has recently been guest conductor for several chapters of the ARS. Greta has been music director for Half Moon Bay's Coastal Repertory Theatre, is the founder of the recorder quartet, SDQ, and teaches private recorder lessons to students of all ages. She spends her work days at the family photography studio in San Francisco with her husband, Lloyd, and their two schipperkes.