Member
Los Angeles, California
Website:
https://www.wessexconsort.com
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Early Music Skills & Interests
Bagpipes, Other Wind, Percussion, Recorder, Renaissance Winds
Early Music Affiliations
Concert Producer, Conductor, Editor, Educator, Instrument Maker/Repairer, Music/Artistic Director, Performer, Writer
Biography
Bruce has been playing recorder for over 40 years, mostly self-taught and studied in many masterclasses with Marion Verbruggen. He plays all recorders – Baroque, Renaissance, and Medieval including Medieval double recorder. Bruce plays many bagpipes these historical copies: musette (French Baroque), Northumbrian smallpipes (Northumbrian Baroque), Breugel pipes (Renaissance), Hummelchen (Flanders Renaissance), Cornish double bagpipe (English Renaissance), Leicestershire smallpipes (English Medieval), musa (Spanish Medieval), double bagpipe (Medieval). Bruce plays capped double reeds – rauschpfiefe and crumhorn. Bruce dabbles in some percussion(ish): nakers drum set, frame drum, castanets, campanille bells, tromba marina, tambourin string drum. Bruce directs ensembles in each music era – Medieval (Los Goytx), Renaissance (Wessex Consort), Baroque (Les Plaisirs Champetre), Regency(ish) (The Picadillys) – see their respective Facebook pages; all the consorts perform in historic costumes. Bruce is President of the Southern California Early Music Society, and maintains the local early music concert calendar (earlymusicla.org).
