National Road Scholar Recorder Early Music Workshop

National Road Scholar Recorder/Early Music Workshop

Program No. 6254RJ

Heighten your recorder, viola da gamba or reeds talents in large and small ensembles with world-class instructors — and end your week with a concert in bucolic Carmel Valley!

PB On Campus

Campus Upgraded

Off Campus HTL

PB On Campus

Campus Upgraded

Off Campus HTL

At a Glance

Revel in the lyrical sounds of the recorder, viola da gamba and harpsichord as you share your musical gifts during a week-long intensive early music workshop. Enhance your skills in small classes taught by expert instructors with emphasis on improving technique and playing with ensembles. At Hidden Valley Music Seminars, An Institute of the Arts, nestled amongst oak and buckeye trees below majestic hillsides, enjoy a serene and inspiring place for playing music.

Best of all, you’ll…

Improve your musical talents with instruction from seasoned professional performers.
Rehearse for ensemble performances with your fellow musicians.
Delight in musical arrangements that include compositions from the medieval through baroque periods.

General Notes

This program is for intermediate to advanced recorder and viola da gamba players. Recorder players must be able to play at least two sizes (at least one F instrument and one C instrument). The November 5, 2023 and November 3, 2024 programs include dulcian and shawm. The dulcian and shawm programs are open by audition. Please contact the workshop director at tishberlin@sbcglobal.net to arrange an online audition. The theme for 2023 is 'Music of England, Spain, and the Netherlands from the Middle Ages to the 18th Century.' Instructors and specific class offerings differ by date and will be posted when they are available. Due to the nature of this program, listening devices are not available. The Retreat Difference: This unique, often basic and no-frills experience at a Road Scholar Retreat includes opportunities for early morning exercise, interaction with the local community for insight into local life, an authentic farm-to-table or locally sourced meal, and a live performance or event.

Letitia Berlin View biography

Letitia Berlin has shared her talents with the recorder in ensembles and orchestras throughout the U.S. A member of the Farallon Recorder Quartet, Bertamo Trio, and Calextone, she teaches early music workshops and is the co-director of Tibia Adventures in Music. Letitia has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, the Carmel Bach Festival and the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and her recordings include Ladino love songs with Yatan Atan on the New Albion label and two CDs with Farallon.

Frances Blaker View biography

Frances Blaker performs on recorders of all types and sizes as a soloist and with Ensemble Vermillian, Farallon Recorder Quartet, Calextone, Sitka Trio and Tibia Recorder Duo. As a member of Ensemble Vermillian she performs and records chamber music of the 17th and 18th centuries. She has performed throughout the U. S., Denmark, England, France, Italy and the Netherlands. She is conductor and music director of the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, and of BABO (Bay Area Baroque Orchestra), a community orchestra for accomplished amateur players.

Lawrence Lipnik View biography

Lawrence Lipnik has performed with many acclaimed early music ensembles from ARTEK and Anonymous 4 to Piffaro and the Waverly Consort, and is a founding member of the viol consort Parthenia and vocal ensemble Lionheart. In addition to performing, he enjoys a busy teaching schedule which has included national and international festivals including the Benslow Music Trust in the UK, Port Townsend, San Diego Early Music Festival and Pinewoods. He is a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists.

Joan Kimball View biography

Joan Kimball, artistic co-director and a founding member of Piffaro: the Renaissance Band is a professional musician and educator. A member of The Philadelphia School’s music faculty, she has a full roster of private recorder students and recorder ensembles. She collaborates with instrument maker Joel Robinson of Portland, OR on the construction of Medieval and Renaissance bagpipes and is a maker of double reeds for Renaissance shawms, dulcians and capped winds. Joan teaches bagpipe, recorder and double reed classes at summer music workshops and festivals.

Deanna Ross View biography

Deanna Ross is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Born in California, she began her studies at age seven at the Redwood Empire Ballet in Santa Rosa, then spent 12 years at the San Francisco, Pennsylvania, and Milwaukee Ballet Schools, the HARID Conservatory, and the North Carolina School of the Arts. Deanna lives in Monterey, Ca., where she has choreographed numerous works, and has served as Bay Area guest artist. She also teaches ballet, modern dance, dance improvisation, E-STRETCH, slow breathing and stretching.

Peter Meckel View biography

Peter Meckel is the founder and General Director of Hidden Valley Music Seminars. Born and raised in the Midwest, he attended university at Rockford University in Illinois, and Occidental College in California. His leadership of Hidden Valley has resulted in one of the most respected opera training centers in America and a major contributor of arts education programs for vocalists, instrumentalists, and dancers. Students from throughout the world come to study with master teachers from many of America’s most prestigious orchestras and opera companies.

Judith Linsenberg View biography

Judith Linsenberg is a recorder teacher and performer, having performed extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. She is the winner of national performance awards and featured with many leading ensembles, orchestras, and festivals. Based in Oakland, California, she holds degrees from Vienna Academy of Music and Princeton, as well as a doctorate from Stanford. She has been a visiting professor at the Vienna Conservatory and the Indiana University Early Music Institute, and is the artistic director of Musica Pacifica.

If you transfer or cancel:	Transfer Fee:	Cancel Fee:
fee will be applied if you do not call road scholar participant services at least one business day prior to the program start date.	100% of trip total	100% of trip total
less than 14 days prior to program start date	50% of trip total	50% of trip total
55 to 14 days prior to program start date		$200.00
119 to 56 days prior to program start date		$100.00
up to 120 days prior to program start date		$50.00
up to 14 days prior to program start date	$0.00

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