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Piffaro Recorder Fest!
April 13 @ 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
Free- What: Free Mini-festival
- When: Saturday, April 13, 2024, 3:00-8:00 p.m.
- Where: Settlement Music School, Mary Louise Curtis Branch, 416 Queen St., Philadelphia, PA
- Registration & Info: 215-235-8469 or piffaro.org/recorder-fest
Piffaro’s free-to-all Recorder Fest! is returning after a pandemic hiatus. A love letter to the recorder, the mini-festival welcomes musicians of every ability and stage of life, from elementary school students to busy professional recorder players, to perform for and play with one another.
Festival Schedule
3PM: Workshop for High School Students (registration closed)
Artistic director Priscilla Herreid, Piffaro co-founder Joan Kimball, and world-renowned harpsichordist Leon Schelhase offer workshops for select students.
6PM: Community Play In (New!)
All are welcome! Artistic director Priscilla Herreid will lead participants through 2-3 pieces of music. Sheet music will be provided in advance to anyone who registers by April 10; copies will also be available at the venue.
7PM: Live Performances & Video
- Fountainwood Elementary School Recorder Ensemble, dir. Miriam Arbelo;
- Video: Josselin Roger of NY, student of Nina Stern (Telemann, Van Eyck)
- Corvin Fuchs-Orner, student of Joan Kimball, and Clara Kersting, student of Rainer Beckmann, both of Philadelphia, acc. Leon Schelhase, harpsichord (Telemann)
- Video – David Brown of MO, student of Laura Townsend (his own composition)
- Gregory Weaver, acc. Schelhase (Telemann)
- Knox Seabolt of VA, student of Anne Timberlake, with professional recorder players Sarah Shodja & Teresa Deskur (Quantz)
- Recorder Demonstration by Piffaro artistic directors past & present
- Video – Claudia Griffel and Sruthi Kommana of CT, students of Lawrence Zukof (Telemann)
- Knox Seabolt, acc. Schelhase (Barsanti)
- Video – Vinayak Vikram of CA (Vivaldi)
- Musica Sophia Recorder Ensemble (adult amateur);
- Video – Seattle Historical Arts/Agnes, Cecelia & Theodora Berry of WA
- Special guests: Sarah Shodja & Teresa Deskur (winner of Piffaro’s 2016 National Recorder Competition)
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