June and August meetings are directed by chapter members here at SFRS. Any member is welcome to try their hand at it, we would love to have you bring your favorite selections to conduct. Contact Greta to volunteer!
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| Our Conductor for October: Hanneke van Proosdij! |
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| Hanneke van Proosdij will conduct the SFRS October meeting |
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HANNEKE van PROOSDIJ is renowned for the elegance, virtuosity, and expressiveness of her playing. As Co-director and co-founder of the award winning Early Music ensemble Voices of Music she has released more than 370 videos to an audience of over 60 million viewers. Hanneke performs regularly as a soloist and continuo specialist and is principal early keyboard player with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and the Festspiel Orchester Göttingen. She has appeared regularly with Hesperion XX, Concerto Palatino, American Bach Soloists. Concerto Köln, Chanticleer, the LA Phil, the Dallas Symphony, Gewandhaus Orchester and the Arcadian Academy. She received her solo and teaching diplomas from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague where she studied recorder, harpsichord and composition. Hanneke is a cofounder of the Junior Recorder Society, now in its 24th year, and directs, together with Rotem Gilbert, the SFEMS Recorder Workshop. She has recorded over one hundred discs for Magnatune, BIS, Koch, Musica Omnia, Carus, AVIE, Accent and Delos. Hanneke teaches recorder at U.C. Berkeley and has been guest professor at Stanford, Oberlin, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, University of Wisconsin and the University of Vermont. Hanneke enjoys reading books and hiking.
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Our in-person meetings have remained suspended since March of 2020 due to the pandemic (see our News & Events page). Most of us are getting pretty tired of simply playing along over our electronic devices, no matter how well we've adapted to the technology. We had so hoped to be able to meet in person in August or September, but with the aggressive Delta and Lambda variants, our best bet is to continue to play it safe and not risk anyone's health and safety. Our host venue, Christ Church Lutheran, has begun holding limited services in person and is eager to welcome us back as soon as possible. We may try a 'hybrid' Zoom/in-person meeting soon via the Zoom Conferencing platform. Since June of 2020, players from other chapters have been invited to join our meetings. The Sacramento Recorder Society joined us for most of last season, and they have now be hosting solo. It's been great to have their presence at our meetings and they are welcome to join us any time. We are SO grateful for the support and enthusiasm shown by so many outside of our local area.
We've been very fortunate to have such a wealth of talented arrangers and presenters lead us in such interesting and varied repertoire through these online meetings. Our special thanks to members Ray White (EBRS, Berkeley) and James Chaudoir (MARS, Oshkosh, WI) for volunteering to bring us gorgeous music from Escorial B and an assortment of Fortuna Desperata settings (respectively). The work they put into the scores and the recordings is significant, and brilliantly done.
For October, local favorite Hanneke van Proosdij will lead us in fun music curated especially for our online meeting.
To participate in the meeting, send an email to Greta and be placed on our invitation list.
NOTE: Be sure to keep your Zoom account up to date (now at version 5.7.6) for the best online musical experience. Click HERE for a PDF sheet of tips to help you with settings for the best results for playing of and listening to recorders on Zoom. Most of these tips - all of the ones pertinent to our needs - are still applicable to the latest Zoom version, although the document was created a while back.
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Although we really miss playing together in person, most of us are either used to attending online music playing events or suffering 'Zoom Fatige.' We had hoped to begin in-person meetings iin September but the Delta variant had other plans. As soon as it is possible to meet and play unmasked indoors we will return to meeting at our home Christ Church Lutheran in San Francisco, with a possible hybrid live/streamed format.
We look forward to next season when we hope to play together again in person and have another brilliant slate of professional musicians direct us. Meanwhile, we will do our very best to stay well and keep up our enthusiasm for playing our beloved recorders while staying well ... get vaccinated if you haven't yet and wear your masks to protect yourselves and others.
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| Pied Piper illustration - the top of an old model Mollenhauer recorder box |
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