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Performers:

Baldrick Deerenberg
Gudrun Herb
Kathryn Bennetts ja Peter Bowman
Gudrun Heyens
Hans Maria Kneihs
Rosalyn de Groot
Claire Michon
Wolfgang Kostujak
Reinut Tepp
Imbi Tarum
Tiia Ratas
Peeter Sarapuu
Reet Sukk
Taavi-Mats Utt

Baldrick Deerenberg (Amsterdam) studied recorder with Frans Brüggen at the Conservatory of The Hague. He made many recordings for L.P., CD, radio and TV. He played concerts and taught at courses in many European countries, Canada and Israel. He programmed music in almost all combinations of music for the recorder: Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque and Modern. He used to play Van Eyck together with singers as Alfred Deller, James Bowman and Max Van Egmond. Both this and his working together with Anthony Rooley, Andrew Parrot and Emma Kirkby settled his name. With Kees Rosenhart he played many concerts for recorder and organ at historical organs all around in Holland. This excited his interest for historical instruments and their construction. With the "Antwerp Recorder Consort" (with Bart Koen, Koen Dieltiens, Peter De Clerq and Patrick Denecker) he played many concerts: a.o. with original instruments in the Instrumental Museum of Berlin. As member of the famous Huelgas Ensemble (Paul Van Nevel) he got acquainted with many (often unedited) compositions of the Renaissance.With "The Great Charm" (with Gudrun Herb, Frank Agsteribbe and Mark Lambrecht) he explored the repertoire for two recorders and Basso Continuo."With "Vaghezze di Musica" he programmes late Renaissance Polyphone - and early Baroque music for recorder and chant.His contact with the Dutch composer Jacques Bank resulted in a series of compositions for recorder, mostly with other instruments. Besides that he played many first performances of compositions made for him a.o. by Rob du Bois ("Songs of innocence", with René Jacobs), Frans van Doorn("Symphony", for Greatbassrecorder and Tape), Alexandre Hrisanide, Bart de Kemp, Jos Kunst ("Any two", with Harry Sparnaay), Nigel Osborne("Passers by", with Florian Kitt), Joep Straesser("Duplum"). He builds and plays his own instruments: Together with colleague Heiko ter Schegget, in order of the Utrecht Conservatory he constructed a great double- consort of Renaissance Recorders (14 instruments from c" till F) Besides that he realized a couple of performances of Bach’s "The Art of the Fugue", for harpsichord and 4 recorderplayers (instruments from c" to F, at pitch A= 415). As teacher (Conservatories of Groningen, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Antwerp) he developed a very personal way to instruct his pupils. For this he is inspired by Zen, Alexandertechnique and Marie Jaëll (pupil of Liszt), whose oeuvre he studied extensively.

Gudrun Herb (Heilbronn) studied recorder, flauto traverso and flute at the conservatories of Karlsruhe, The Hague and Antwerp and also German philology at the University of Amsterdam. She regularly plays flauto traverso and recorder in cantatas, passions and operas (for example with the "Tölzer Knabenchor"in Italy, Collegium Vocale Gent in the "Concertgebouw" in Amsterdam, the "Amsterdams Bach Consort", the "Nederlandse Bachvereniging"). As a recorder and traverso soloist she interpreted various concertos with members of the "Baroque Orchestra of Freiburg" (Vivaldi, Bach, Telemann) and she plays a lot of chambermusic (Ensemble "The Great Charm", tour with the Huelgasensemble to the USA, the ‘Antwerps Blokfluit Consort’, Vaghezze di Musica). She assisted in radio, television and CD recordings (resp. VRT and RTBF, Ensemble Bouzignac, Ensemble The great Charm, a museum CD with original instruments of the Instrumental Museum of Berlin).

Kathryn Bennetts and Peter Bowman have performed throughout the UK, in Germany, Norway and the United States. The duo’s commitment to repertoire development has led to "The Quarter Tone Recorder Manual" (Edition Moeck No. 2084), an introduction to quarter- tonality on the recorder through a series of graded studies and compositions in collaboration with Donald Bousted. Bennetts and Bowman have been performing together since 1986. They have broadcast for TVS, Classic FM, BBC Radio 3 and Lyric FM Dublin and Radio Netherlands. The CD recording of Bousted’s A Journey Among Travellers and their most recent CD, Flights of Fancy, have received wide critical acclaim. They also recently recorded a radio opera, Kathryn und Peter Durchqueren die Antarktis (Kathryn and Peter Cross the Antarctic) by Michael Wolters and Marcus Dross which was broadcast during May by Deutschland Radio, Berlin.   http://www.classical-artists.com/bennettsbowman/

Gudrun Heyens is a German recorder player born in 1950. She studied violin with Franz-Josef Maier and recorder with Günther Höller at the Musikhochschule Köln. Between 1973 and 1981, she was a member of "Musica antiqua Köln" and has been a member of the "Marais Consort" since 1984. She has performed in many countries and recorded a lot for radio. She has got a price for CD Concerti per flauto (DGG). Since 1985 Gudrun Heyens is Professor for Recorder at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, Duisburg.   www.gudrunheyens.de

Hans Maria Kneihs studied violoncello (under Frieda Litschauer), recorder (under Elisabeth Schaeftlein) and piano (under Gershon Jarecki) at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts; a musicology degree at the university remains incomplete. From 1964 to 1969 Hans Maria Kneihs was a cellist with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, which he left to be able to devote himself fully to playing and teaching the recorder. Indeed, he was an active cellist for almost another 20 years (regularly as Substitute at the Vienna Philharmonic). During his membership of the Radio Orchestra he also founded and headed the Austrian Radio College of Music: an ensemble that performed Old Music on original instruments. As recorder soloist Hans Maria Kneihs has given performances in concert, on radio and on television in most European countries and as well as in Japan, Australia and the USA . With the Vienna Recorder Ensemble, which he founded and led from 1972 until it disbanded in 1985, he played countless concerts all over the world. The recordings of Hans Maria Kneihs include works, from among others, with the Camerata Tokyo "The Art of Playing the Recorder" in a set of 10 CDs. Teaching and the consideration of teaching were always for Hans Maria Kneihs as important as his own examination of music. This interest has led to numerous commitments to music-pedagogy reforms (especially of teacher-training) and to political -administrative functions (e.g. Head of Department at the University for Music Pedagogic Vienna (1978-1984) and Head of the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz (1990-1995). He has voiced his opinions on general didactic questions in publications, lectures and seminars. His international activity as recorder teacher includes leading numerous courses, workshops and acting as a juror. Hans Maria Kneihs has taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts since 1964.

Rosalyn de Groot studied recorder at the conservatory of Tilburg and later a few years with Pedro Memelsdorff. She played in several recorder ensembles named Recordate and Sermone Blando and they played in a lot of different places and country’s. During her studies she started teaching and is still teaching at two different music schools in the southeast part of Holland. She teaches 5 different ensembles beside her recorder lessons, general music and music for the little ones, so she can really say she teaches music in the age of 1 – 90 years! Since a year she is the chairman of the ERTA-Nederland.

Wolfgang Kostujak is born in 1968 in Bremen. He studied with Arvid Gast (Leipzig) and Wilfried Langosz (Bremen). After final examinations and civil service he studied historical keyboard instruments in Folkwang-Musikhochschule in Essen/Duisburg where he was graduated in 1993. From 1992 till 1994 he studied composition with Silvio Foretic in Köln. Beside that he studied harpsichord in Sweelinck Conservatory with Bob van Asperen in 1993 – 1996 where he got soloist diploma. He has recorded for radio and TV and performed in many European countries. Since 1998 he is teaching historical keyboard instruments in Folkwang-Hochschules in Essen.

Reinut Tepp started his piano studies at Tallinn Secondary School No. 7 with Samuel Lazikin and continued at Tallinn Secondary Music School (with Ell Saviauk) and Tallinn Conservatory (with prof. Laine Mets). In 1993 he continued his studies at Estonian Academy of Music on his masters' degree with Imbi Tarum (harpsichord) and prof. Laine Mets (piano). He has participated in master-classes by Huguette Dreyfus. Reinut Tepp has played with Tallinn Baroque Orchestra, Corelli Consort, Rondellus, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra etc. He is working regularly with early music studio Cantores Vagantes. Since 1998 he plays as harpsichordist in chamber orchestra Kremerata Baltica (under leadership of Gidon Kremer) and has performed everywhere in the world (Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Tokyo Santory Hall etc.). Next to Gidon Kremer and Kremerata he has played with musicians like Michala Petri, Sergio Azzolini, Aleksei Ogriatsuk, Kalev Kuljus, Moshe Aron Epstein, Maria Fedotova a.o. Beside that Reinut Tepp plays in Kremerata Baltica Sextet. He is teaching harpsichord and chamber music at Tallinn Music College.

Imbi Tarum (b April 3, 1956 in Tartu), one of the most famous Estonian harpsichordists and pedagogues. Began her music studies in 1963 in Tartu, graduated in 1975 as a pianist from the Heino Eller Tartu Music School, and in 1980 from Tallinn Conservatory under Prof. Bruno Lukk (both cum laude). Has also taken part in the master courses of Ton Koopman (1986, Malmö) and Vaughan Schlepp (1992, Amsterdam), as well as in shorter courses in Tallinn, lead by Richard Egarr, Jacques Ogg, Miklos Spanyi, and in the Capita Selecta Early Music international seminar in Amsterdam (1998, 1999). Between 1978—92 Ms Tarum was the harpsichord player of the Hortus Musicus Ensemble, performing with it in many European countries, USA, Israel, and the centres of the former Soviet Union (Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, etc.), as well as various international festivals (Utrecht, Glasgow, Split, Boston, Helsinki, Kuhmo, Flanders). Since 1992 Ms Tarum has performed together with the Tallinn Baroque Ensemble (as a continuo player and a soloist), with the Tallinn Baroque Orchestra, and the Estonian-Finnish Baroque Orchestra, as well as in continuo projects of other chamber orchestras and ensembles (in which she has also played under Wieland Kuijken, Paul Hillier, Andrew-Lawrence King, Tõnu Kaljuste, Neeme Järvi a.o.) in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Spain and Switzerland. She has also stood up as an orchestra soloist and given solo concerts in Finland and Estonia. Besides Estonian partners she has also collaborated with Dutch bass Harry van der Kamp (with him she has also taught courses in Finland), with German violoncellist Hans-Rolf Hauck, and recorder player Ingrid Paul, with Swedish counter-tenor Mikael Bellini, with harpsichord players Edward Parmentier (USA), Ives Cuenot (France) and Anssi Mattila (Finland), with violin players Xiang Gao (USA) and Lucy van Dael (Holland), with singer Ellen Hargis (USA), flute players Jaume Cortadellas (Spain) and Jari Puhakka (Finland) and others . Between 1989 and 1992 she gave a number of concerts in Finland, Poland, Sweden, Russia and Estonia together with Andres Mustonen, violinist and the artistic director of the Hortus Musicus Ensemble. She has also accompanied vocalists Esa Ruuttunen, Eeva-Liisa Saarinen, Juha Kotilainen (all from Finland) and many others in oratories and cantatas. In her repertoire Imbi Tarum has preferred German, Italian, French, Spanish and English keyboard and ensemble music from the 16th to 18th centuries. Since 1991 Imbi Tarum has been a lecturer of harpsichord and basso continuo music in Estonian Music Academy (since 1996 docent). 1992-02 she has each summer organised harpsichord courses in Raudaskyla, Finland. She was the artistic director of the International Harpsicord Days organised by the Estonian Concert in 1996 and 1999, also in 2002 and 2004 organised by Harpsichord society of Estonia as well as the musical councellor of Estonian International Church Music Festival in 1996-99. Since 1998 she organises a concert series about the history of harpsicord music in the Adamson Eric Museum and other places in Tallinn. She has also recorded music for Estonian Radio and several record companies in Estonia, Germany and Finland, as well as written articles for the press. She is the head of the Harpsichord Society of Estonia founded in Jan 2001.

Tiia Ratas has graduated from Estonian Academy of Music as organist. 1992-1995 she trained her skills in Germany, where she graduated from Herford Church Music High School. At the present, Tiia Ratas is working on her masters' degree at Estonian Academy of Music. In addition, she has participated in master-classes by L. Krämer, L. Lohmann, J. Laukvik, E. Kooiman, B. Haas and W. Zerer.

Sponsors:

Old Town House of Music

ERTA-Deutschland

Organisers:

ERTA-Estonia
 
in collaboration with Eesti Kontsert

Tickets:

Prices at Recorder Festival 10. – 12. 09. 2004
(prices in Estonian kroons - 1 EUR ≈ 15,6 EEK)

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