Member
Albany, California
Website:
http://www.tibiaduo.com
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Early Music Skills & Interests
Bassoon, Recorder, Renaissance Winds
Early Music Affiliations
Administrator, Composer, Conductor, Educator, Performer
Biography
Letitia Berlin grew up in Augusta, Georgia. She teaches recorder and coaches ensembles in California and at workshops around the country, including the Amherst Early Music Festival, Next Level Recorder Retreats, and the Winds and Waves recorder workshop. She is the Co-Executive Director of Amherst Early Music, and Co-Director of early music workshops at the Hidden Valley Institute of the Arts in Carmel Valley, CA. Ms. Berlin performs regularly with the Farallon Recorder Quartet, Bertamo Trio, Calextone, and the recorder duo Tibia. She has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, the Carmel Bach Festival and the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and with the San Francisco Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra for the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban live-orchestra viewings. Recordings include works by Ludwig Senfl with the Farallon Recorder Quartet on the Pandore label, English music from the 14th century to Purcell with Farallon, and Ladino love songs with Yatan Atan on the New Albion label. Ms. Berlin received a Master's degree in early music performance practices from Case Western Reserve University and a Bachelor of Music from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her mentors and teachers have included Inga Morgan, Sabine Evers, Frances Blaker, Marion Verbruggen, and Carol Marsh.
Frances Blaker received her Music Pedagogical and Performance degrees in recorder from the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen where she studied with Eva Legêne. She also studied with Marion Verbruggen in the Netherlands. Frances has performed as a soloist and with various ensembles in the United States, Denmark, England and the Netherlands. She is a member of Farallon Recorder Quartet, Calextone, the Tibia Recorder Duo, and Ensemble Vermillian. She teaches privately and at workshops throughout the United States and is Festival Director and Co-Executive Director of the Amherst Early Music Festival, Inc. and a former board member of the American Recorder Society. Frances is the author of The Recorder Player’s Companion and the “Opening Measures” column in the American Recorder, and a collaborator and performer on the Disc Continuo series of recordings. She was awarded month-long residencies focusing on music composition at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Otis, Oregon in April 2003 and 2006. Her compositions have been published by PRB Productions and Lost in Time Press.
She has recorded works by Ludwig Senfl with the Farallon Recorder Quartet, and two CDs of 17th century German chamber music centering around Buxtehude with Ensemble Vermillian – volume I: Stolen Jewels, and volume 2: Saphire and Topaz.
