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The Performers: Helene Rosenblatt - Director
Sopranino,Soprano,Alto,Tenor,F Bass,Great Bass (C)
Primarily a flutist, Helene has played recorder for many years including a stint as Bass Recorder player in the Hofstra University Collegium conducted by William Hettrick. A link to information on Helene's other groups is listed below.
Deborah Forest Hart - Chief Recorder Maven
Sopranino, Soprano, Alto,Tenor, F Bass (soon to have Great Bass)
Deborah also plays hammered dulcimer, concertina and whistle and come to music, by way of about twenty years experience in historic/traditional dance. This includes, Vintage, English, Scottish, Contra, Renaissance and Swing dance.
She has only been *playing* early/traditional music seriously "lately!" (Which I think means about 5-10 years!) But has been immersed in the music via dancing for a much longer time. Her early "training" was in art and literature and she exhibited professionally for nearly twenty years before switching over to dance and music. ""Light" and "Color" and "Phrasing" and "Le Mot Juste" have always been very important to me, and I suspect have followed me into the musical milieu, shaping my playing. "
"I also recall being enamored of the Deller Consort and other Early Music finds on Nonesuch records while in college, the group Musikantiga in Brazil, and occasionally singing madrigals during that time period. I also sang in the Yale Slavic Chorus for three years, which whet my appetite for the esoteric and the polyrhythmic!
My initiation into recorder playing and recorder music stems from a chance visit to a small music shop in Cambridge, England, in 1970, where I acquired my first (and thankfully, long gone) wooden recorder and a small book of tunes, _All in a Garden Green_, a collection of English Country Dances. I remembered wondering just what *was* an "English Country Dance." Years later, I was to fall in love with that diversion, as well. "
Susan Candy - The Serious One
Soprano, Alto, Tenor
Carolyn Bernstein - The Best Hostess!
Soprano,Alto,Tenor
Gwendolyn Winkle - Happy Fingers
garklein,sopranino,soprano,alto,tenor,Renaissance recorders
Teri Herel - Chief Clarinet Convert
Soprano, Alto
Teri owns two recorders. In her other life she earns a living playing the clarinet. She studies with Kalmen Opperman, plays with the Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra, and teaches at the Hartford Conservatory. See "web gem" below for a link to Teri's website!!!!
Interestingly 3 of the players are accomplished clarinetists
Teri,Gwen,Carolyn. Two are also flute players. Helene, Susan
And Deborah - is a recorder performer to her core!!! BELOW ARE LINKS TO MEMBER SITES: Teri Herel Helene Rosenblatt and BLACKLEDGE WWQ Additional links to sites members are involved with will
be listed here: Volunteers to help find performance venues for Nutmeg Consort are always welcome! Contact Chambermusic1@yahoo.com. |
