Join Us!
The East Bay Recorder Society (EBRS) is an association of recorder enthusiasts in the San Francisco Bay area. Recorder players from beginning to advanced levels are invited to join, to play music together and to learn more about the recorder with a different professional conductor each month. Please go to our "Join Us!" page for our membership form.

 

Play with us!
Monthly playing meetings are normally held on the first Friday of the month in Oakland, September through June (except bi-annually when the Berkeley Fesival is held, in which case our last playing session is May). Our next playing session wll be February 3rd with David Hogan Smith.

David Hogan Smith

David Hogan Smith is the founder and director of The King's Trumpetts and Shalmes, a four-member ensemble which performs music of the Renaissance for shawm band. Its repertoire extends from the late fourteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century, utilizing early wind
instruments such as shawms, sackbuts, recorders, and crumhorns. The King’s Trumpetts and Shalmes performs regularly throughout the San Francisco Bay area. Hogan Smith has compiled, arranged and published an extensive collection of printed music for shawms, brass, crumhorns, recorders, oboes, and mixed instruments under The King's Trumpetts and Shalmes Music Editions. He is an accomplished musician and reed maker, who has also published two scholarly works: Reed Design for Early Woodwinds which has been hailed as an exhaustive and well-researched reed handbook for Renaissance wind instruments; and Trombone Technique in the Renaissance: a discussion of the acoustic design and usage of the trombone during the 16th and 17th centuries. Mr. Smith is also a member of and has recorded with the Festival Consort, which released Renaissance Glory: Christmas with the Festival Consort in 2006. He lives in San Francisco.

 


Welcome! We hope you’ll join us soon in convivial music-making.

Susan Jaffe,
President

Susan Jaffe
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Gig-book The East Bay Recorder Society Gig book: Tuneful music (two to four parts) for public performance and private pleasure. $20.00 including postage & handling. Contact Jody for details or to order.
Gig Book link

Go to our "Join Us" page to read about our anthem!

 

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A one day workshop with Frances Blaker will be held February 4, 2012. Click on the image above to download the flyer or go to our "Special Events" page for more information.

 

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