The Recorder Department of Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University.
Operating as usual
RBC Recorder students proving that not one, but two descant recorders can be played in tune. And that large recorders do sound particularly gorgeous - especially playing the music of William Byrd ❤️
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A few tiny snippets from our Recorder Futures Concert this week. Video thanks to Robin Bigwood Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
22/04/2023
Some pics from our Recorder Futures concert this week. A wonderful exploration of sounds from Riko Suzuki, Gavin Bryars, Dorothee Hahne, Stefan Klaverdal and Annette Ziegenmeyer. Photos thanks to Robin Bigwood
15/04/2023
First event this term. Come and join us!
✨We're looking forward to 'Recorder Futures' on Thursday April 20th in our Organ Studio! This exploratory night will see Recorder students perform new and experimental music by Stefan Klaverdal, Dorothee Hahne, Riko Suzuki and Gavin Bryars, including works with live electronics.
https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/events-calendar/recorder-futures-20-04-2023
18/03/2023
We had our very own Team Recorder / Sarah Jeffery working in the department this week. A very inspiring couple of days, including a Loop station workshop, masterclass and a wonderful concert. Thanks Sarah!
10/03/2023
We are looking forward to welcoming our wonderful alumna Team Recorder / Sarah Jeffery into the department next week. If you want to hear her in concert, make sure to come along to RBC on Thursday, 16th March. Details below
Microcosm: Sarah Jeffery Recorders and Electronics Microcosm: Sarah Jeffery Recorders and Electronics
24/02/2023
What a great week! A trip to the Bate collection in Oxford to look at instruments, a lecture from the amazing renaissance scholar Adrian Brown on the instruments of the Schnitzer family, and a wonderful class on music with electronics from the fabulous Susanna Borsch. What lucky students! 🥰
We had an inspiring and uplifting day at RBC this week with recorder composer extraordinaire, Sören Sieg. Students were able to work on a broad selection of Sören's music, including selections from the beautiful Ukuvalelisa collection for solo recorder, as well as the Suite Siciliano with harpsichord and cello, and African Suite No 4 (snippet below!).
30/11/2022
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire open day tomorrow! Do join us if you can.
24/11/2022
A wonderful evening of renaissance and baroque chamber music last night. Congrats to everyone involved!
11/11/2022
RBC recorders and HP crew getting into the spirit at the London International Festival of Early Music in Blackheath. Come and see us all in concert later today!
09/10/2022
Wonderful opportunity today for our recorder players to work with Tabea Debus - Recorder, Eizabeth Kenny and Jonathan Rees. Thanks to the team at Worcestershire Early Music for making it happen!
21/06/2022
A brilliant way to finish off the year at RBC. Recorders, bagpipes, keyboards, fiddles, viols, drums, singers, dulcian, trumpets playing music on the theme of War, Fire and Plague! What fun it was and thanks to the wonderful Jude Rees for masterminding the whole project and the gorgeous Aston Hall for having us.
24/03/2022
Lucky recorder students working with the wonderful Emily Bannister this week on contemporary music!
01/02/2022
We were incredibly lucky to have the fantastic musician Andreas Böhlen joining us last week from Switzerland. An intense two days of workshopping and masterclasses, covering music from Josquin to Schutz, Castello to Telemann and Phildor, as well as an incredibly inspiring concert. Many thanks to Andreas for sharing his enthusiasm, knowledge and wonderful musicianship with us. Here are a few snaps!
01/02/2022
‘As an instrument of continual reinvention and innovation, its story has only just started…’ A refreshingly well-researched programme featuring our very own Estelle Langthorne 👏 and name checking Team Recorder / Sarah Jeffery, alongside the Dutch virtuoso Lucie Horsch, this is definitely worth a listen.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0013zy2
The Listening Service - Recorders - BBC Sounds Tom Service explores the music and mystery of that schooldays favourite - the recorder.
24/01/2022
Very excited to be welcoming the fabulous recorder player Andreas Böhlen from Switzerland to RBC this week. Do come along and hear him in concert on Thursday, it will be amazing.
https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/events-calendar/jan-andreas-bohlen-27-01-2022?fbclid=IwAR1eRh8vR5MhxfNQkKKLwrrTIAtfFRmFoh7cowHj46QqkCnc4jlDRDS1SZw
Between Improvisation and Diminution: Andreas Böhlen (recorder) Between Improvisation and Diminution: Jan Andreas Bohlen (recorder)
14/01/2022
Come and join us next Thursday 20th January to see what our fantastic recorder and historical performance departments can offer you!
https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/about-us/open-days/book-your-place
Book your place Book your place at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Open Day on 20th January 2022.
06/12/2021
27/11/2021
Exciting concerts coming up in the department! Come and see us in action this week in our showcase concert, with music by Purcell, Bach, Telemann, Dornel, Willaert, Schutz and Byrd - and also on 16th December at Aston Hall 🎶⭐️
https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/events-calendar/consorts-of-several-friends
Consorts of Several Friends Works by Byrd, Purcell, Bach, Dornel and Telemann for recorders, viols, voices, strings and harpsichord.
15/10/2021
So proud of our recorder department graduate Estelle Langthorne who has secured a post at Jo Kunath's workshop in Germany. Read all about her journey here, including her time at RBC where she made two of the recorders she used in her final recital. Extraordinary! https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/about-us/news/graduate-crafting-instruments-in-germany?utm_campaign=2021-10-15%20Tiger%20Today%20-%20Staff&utm_medium=email&utm_source=CMA_COMMUNICATIONS%20OFFICE&utm_content=
Graduate crafting instruments in Germany Graduate crafting instruments in Germany
Thinking of auditioning for us? Check out some top tips shared by Head of Recorder, Annabel Knight in an interview this week for the The Early Music Shop's event. Audition tips at 19'20 secs 😊
18/05/2021
Congrats to our fabulous alumni Kate Allsop, Mark Wilson and co, on their new album!
'La Folia' - 2021 Album Launch - Ensemble La Notte After the long hiatus of 2020, Ensemble La Notte are excited to announce the release of their new album. Entitled 'La Folia', it explores links to 'madness' ...
07/05/2021
Wonderful class zoomed-in to the RBC recorder and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Historical Performance Department yesterday, with the French baroque expert Lisete Da Silva Bull. Loads of historical information and new things to think about, as our students prepare for their recitals and get used to playing live once more. Thanks Lisete!
15/02/2021
Yesterday we very sadly lost the wonderful Ross Winters, who led our department for many years until he retired in 2012. So many recorder players were nurtured, shaped and informed by his teaching and leadership and he will be sorely missed. Ross, we salute you # #
Recorder fun with Jimmy Carr...
17/01/2021
We are having a virtual Open Day on Thursday! Do sign up or tell your students! You would be really welcome to pop into our Recorder and Historical Performance department presentation at 2.15pm, where you can find out what we get up to in more normal times, and how we are still making fantastic things happen during the pandemic. There will also be a chance to chat to tutors and current students. Hope to see you there! https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/about-us/open-days/21-january-2021
Conservatoire Open Day - 21 January 2021 Next Conservatoire Open Day: Thursday 21 January 2021. Book your place now
02/09/2020
Thinking of applying to us for entry in 2021? RBC are delighted to announce a new initiative for talented and dedicated Recorder players who also play another instrument to Conservatoire level and who want to pursue in-depth undergraduate performance studies on both instruments. The option recognises the changing and creative role that the Recorder plays in modern professional music making and how an in-depth knowledge of the instrument (and historical playing practices) can complement many other areas of musicianship and instrumental performance.
More information here: https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/music/departments/woodwind/recorder
Recorder At Birmingham City University, we’ve invested £340 million transforming our campus and facilities and are committed to giving you the skills you need to succeed. Over 97% of our students are employed or in further study within six months of graduating (DLHE survey 2016/17).
25/07/2020
blokfluit.net – The Virtual Meeting Point of Recorder Lovers Welcome Welcome to blokfluit.net, the virtual meeting point of recorder lovers! We have a lot to share – ideas, views, but above all our love for music… This international recorder class intends to focus on the core repertoire of the instrument, but not in a traditional way: The study of histori...
10/06/2020
Want to know more about the wonderful Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and what it's like to study with us? Join us for our first 'Virtual' Open Day - tomorrow, Thursday 11th June. There are lots of informative sessions you can drop in and out of all day - more information on how to access it, including our Recorder and Early Music presentation at 2.30 - 3.30pm, is available here: https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/about-us/open-days. Look forward to 'meeting' you!
09/06/2020
Just a bit of lockdown fun from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Recorder Department with friends from past and present! https://youtu.be/6nYTSe-AHzA
Wallace and Gromit for Recorders Lockdown fun from past and present staff, students and alumni of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Recorder Department. Arranged for Recorders by Annabel Kn...
23/02/2020
A brilliantly busy and stimulating few days in the Recorder Department... big thanks to all our amazing visitors who came and variously gave our students a work out in 4-, 8- and 12-part ensemble playing (Kati Boosey and Rebecca Austen-Brown from Fontanella), 16thC Divisioning (Septenary Editions - Helen Roberts), authenticity and recorders (Jacqueline Sorel), and Tim Cranmore's project with consorts of Medieval and Bressan recorders and tabor pipes... not to mention all the other wonderful activities during our Birmingham International Recorder and Early Music Festival. Fun was had by all!
18/01/2020
Thinking about studying recorder or early music at Conservatoire level? Why not come along to our open day this coming Thursday, 23rd January to see what it's all about! https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/about-us/open-days
Haha spot the RBC Hoodie half way through! Eleanor Tomlinson??! YES we were definitely there!
06/11/2019
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05/11/2019
Our lucky students enjoyed a fab masterclass with the wonderful Lou Bradbury last week! Thanks Lou!
27/10/2019
Thanks to the superb team at Open Recorder Days Amsterdam for a fantastic and inspiring weekend. And congratulations to our very own RBC Birmingham Recorder team (+ guest member Lizzie Knatt!) for a stellar performance in the Competition and for some superb work stewarding all weekend! Very, very proud of you all! (And apologies to Beth Toulson (stewarding!) and Chris Orton who were not around when this pic was taken!) Francesca Clements Sarah Jeffery Charlotte Constantine Eleanor Tomlinson Helen Sophia Kate Allsop
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