2012 TRS Spring Workshop- Faculty Bios

	Anne Timberlake has appeared across the United States performing repertoire from Bach to twenty-first-century premieres to Celtic tunes. She holds degrees in recorder performance from Oberlin Conservatory, where she studied with Alison Melville, and Indiana University, where she studied with Eva Legene and won the 2007 Early Music Institute Concerto Competition. Critics have praised her "fine technique and stylishness," "unexpectedly rich lyricism" (Letter V), and "dazzling playing" (Chicago Classical Review). Anne has received awards from the American Recorder Society and the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, and was awarded a Fulbright Grant.  With Musik Ekklesia, Anne has recorded for the Sono Luminus label.Anne is a founding member of the ensemble Wayward Sisters, specializing in music of the early baroque. In 2011, Wayward Sisters won Early Music America's Naxos Recording Competition and will record their debut CD with Naxos in the summer of 2012.   In addition, The Newberry Consort presented Wayward Sisters as Emerging Artists during the 2010-2011 concert season.Anne enjoys teaching as well as playing. In addition to maintaining a private studio, Anne has coached through Indiana University's Pre-College Recorder Program, the Virginia Baroque Performance Institute, Mountain Collegium, Catacoustic Consort's community recorder program, and for numerous American Recorder Society chapters.
	Stewart Carter is Editor of the Historic Brass Society Journal and also edited A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music (Schirmer Books). He has performed with early music ensembles throughout the United States as well as in Europe and Asia, and has taught at several early music workshops, including the Amherst Festival and the Mideas Recorder Workshop. His book The Trombone in the Renaissance: A History in Pictures and Documents will be published in 2012 by Pendragon. Carter is Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at Wake Forest University, where he teaches music history and theory and directs the Collegium Musicum.
	Karen Cook is a Ph.D candidate in musicology at Duke University, completing her dissertation on 14th- and 15th-century notation. She is a regular performer and educator in the Durham area, singing with the Duke Vespers Ensemble and Collegium Musicum, the Wassailers, and with various other groups. In addition, Ms. Cook plays a variety of early and modern winds, brass, and percussion with the Collegium, the Trio Rossignol, and other local ensembles, and gives recorder classes and workshops in the area through the Triangle Recorder Society.
	Jennifer Streeter has performed throughout the United States and Europe with ensembles such as the North Carolina, Indianapolis and Seattle Baroque Orchestras, Piedmont Baroque, Music of the Baroque, and the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. She has been featured at the Bloomington, Magnolia Baroque and Amherst Early Music Festivals. She holds masters' degrees in recorder and harpsichord from the Early Music Institute at Indiana University, studying with Eva Legêne and Elisabeth Wright. Originally from Europe, she now calls Cary, North Carolina home where she is a freelance musician and bodyworker.
	Douglas Young has attended many early music workshops,studying with most of the top recorder and early wind teachers from the US and Europe. He plays all sizes of recorders, cornetto, shawms, and curtals.  He performs with Rossignol, and sang in the Renaissance a cappela ensemble, Fortuna, for 15 years.  Doug has a passion for the music and notation of the late 14th through 16th centuries.
	Patricia Petersen holds an MFA in Early Music Performance from Sarah Lawrence College. A Director Emerita of Amherst Early Music, she is a regular faculty member at that and many other weekend and week-long workshops. She currently directs the Mountain Collegium workshop. She performs on recorder and other early winds, and has appeared with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra.  She has coached early music ensembles at Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  An ARS certified teacher, she teaches recorder, early music, and English country dance in North Carolina and at workshops around the country. She has a particular passion for complex late-14 th-century rhythms and for playing from facsimiles of early 15th-century music.  Pat has made 2 CDs, with her vocal ensemble Fortuna and with the Amherst Festival Choir. She serves on the board of the Country Dance and Song Society, and has been known to inflict her banjo-uke playing on unsuspecting old-time jams.
	Kathy Schenley teaches 6 - 10 year-olds at Carolina Friends School and acts as hostess for our workshops.  A performer on recorder since 1974 and viola da gamba since 1980, Kathy has a particular love for the early Renaissance period.  In her "spare" time, Kathy organizes the Conclave  (an annual week-long workshop) for the Viola da Gamba Society of America.

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