Lessons and Online Classes
We are teaching private lessons and classes via Zoom. Please contact us through our Contact page for more information. We are also running the Amherst Early Music Festival Online classes which start up again on January 6, 2024. Please visit https://www.amherstearlymusic.org to register.
American Recorder Society members are invited to apply for scholarships to weekend and weeklong workshops. Scholarships are available to players of all ages and ability levels. Applicants may join the ARS at a special ½ price rate if not already a member. Visit americanrecorder.org/scholarships for more details and to apply.
Zoom classes with Tish in April and May 2024
Sunday April 7, 2024: I’ll be teaching a class for Amherst Early Music on settings of the “Est-ce Mars” tune by Van Eyck, Samuel Scheidt, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, and Hans Ulrich Staeps. For more information and to register for this and other online classes with Amherst Early Music this weekend, please visit https://www.amherstearlymusic.org/online-classes
More classes with Tish!
Out and Beyond the Bass-ics
10:00 am – 11:30 am Pacific/1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Eastern.
Tuesdays, April 9, 16, 23, May 7 (note no class on April 30) Take all four or many as you like. Each individual class is $25.00, or $30 if you want to be able to download the recording. Streaming, included in the $25, will be available for one week after each class.
This class builds on my Beyond the Bass-ics class which began with the American Recorder Society Second Level Bass class I taught in March 2023, but participation in the ARS class or my subsequent classes is not a pre-requisite for joining this class. Anyone wishing to go to the next level with their bass recorder playing who can read bass clef and can play a chromatic two-octave scale from the low F is welcome. We will use some material from the 1986 edition of Helmut Mönkemeyer’s bass method, work with Eric Haas’ books of duets for the bass, and learn how to play a bass line in a Baroque sonata. Some work on improvising over ground basses will be included. Pitch: a=440. Materials to be purchased for class: (I will provide PDFs of a Baroque sonata)
- 1986 edition of Helmut Mönkemeyer’s bass method
- Duets for Basses volume 1, ed. Eric Haas (available at the Von Huene Early Music Shop)
Duos by Telemann and Boismortier
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Pacific/4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Eastern.
Tuesdays, April 9, 16, 23, May 7 (note no class on April 30) Take all four or many as you like. Each individual class is $25.00, or $30 if you want to be able to download the recording. Streaming, included in the $25, will be available for one week after each class.
Join me in an exploration of two of the great duo composers of the 18th century. We’ll work on Telemann’s fourth sonata transposed for recorders to G minor in his 1752 publication (TWV 40:127) and Boismortier’s Opus 2 #4, transposed to F major for recorders. Geared toward upper intermediate to advanced alto recorder players but all are welcome.
Telemann 1752 duos are available from the Von Huene Early Music Shop, at https://www.vonhuene.com/p-681-telemann-gp-6-new-duos-1752.aspx. For immediate access to an online edition see https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/3/39/IMSLP386005-PMLP414979-Telamann-6_duettos_Flautos.pdf.
Boismortier 1724 collection of duos, Opus 2 #4 is available online at https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/a/a0/IMSLP379798-PMLP572645-2.4_FB_-_Partition_compl%C3%A8te.pdf
IN-PERSON WORKSHOPS
April 13, 2024
Central Coast Recorder Society all-day workshop with Tish Berlin and Frances Blaker. Private lessons can be scheduled for Friday afternoon April 12th. For more information visit https://centralcoastrecorders.org/workshop/
April 27-29, 2024
Winds and Waves Recorder Workshop with Tish, Frances, and Cléa Galhano in Lincoln City on the beautiful Oregon coast! Download flyer here:
May 11, 2024, St. George’s Episcopal Church, Arlington Virginia
Capitol Early Music presents Camerata Transcontinental in a workshop for recorders, viols, and lutes. Recorder faculty are Tish Berlin, Frances Blaker, and Lawrence Lipnik. Classes for viol and lute also. Visit here for more information and to register.
June 30 – July 14, 2024
Amherst Early Music Festival, Union College in Schenectady, NY. Visit here for more information and to register.
August 25 – 29, 2024
Next Level Recorder Retreat Southeast, Shrinemont Conference Center, Orkney Springs, Virginia. Faculty: Tish Berlin and Frances Blaker.
October 27-November 2, and November 3-November 9, 2024
Hidden Valley Early Music Road Scholar, Carmel Valley, CA. Open to intermediate to advanced recorders and viols. Week 2 includes a special auditioned track for advanced dulcian and shawm players with Marilyn Boenau and Tish Berlin. Visit https://www.roadscholar.org/find-an-adventure/6254/national-road-scholar-recorder-early-music-workshop/dates/ to register. If you are told that enrollment is closed, write to hiddenvalleymusic.org to ask about openings.
Week 1 faculty: Recorder: Tish Berlin, Frances Blaker, Larry Lipnik; Viola da gamba: David Morris; Early strings: Shira Kammen
Week 2 faculty: Recorder: Tish Berlin, Frances Blaker, Larry Lipnik; Viola da gamba: Mary Springfels, Larry Lipnik; Dulcian/shawm: Marilyn Boenau
Concerts
The Academy of Ancient Music (Ann Arbor, MI) presents Calextone. Friday January 12th and Saturday January 13th. Visit here for more information.
Cantori New York presents a new work by Calliope Tsoupaki, with Farallon Recorder Quartet and Parthenia Viol Consort. March 9th and 10th. Visit here for more information.
Capitol Early Music presents Camerata Transcontinental in a musical tour across England and the European continent in a concert featuring recorders, viols and lute. May 12th in Arlington Virginia. Visit here for more information.
The San Francisco Early Music Society presents the Farallon Recorder Quartet on the Main Stage at the Berkeley Festival and Exhibition. Friday June 14th, the Parthenia Viol Consort on Saturday June 15th, and a Farallon and Parthenia joint concert Sunday June 16th. More information at https://www.sfems.org/berkeley-festival