TRS Spring Music Workshop 2025
Strictly Recorder!
Join us on Saturday, March 15, for a convivial day of recorder playing in Durham, NC! Technique, consort skills, repertoire, and recorder orchestra, for intermediate to advanced players, led by Jennifer Streeter, Ellen Cooper, and Patricia Petersen. Some music will be available ahead of time. Elevate your skill level and enjoy the thrill of playing with others!
WHEN: Saturday, March 15, 9:30-4:30 pm
WHERE: 1702 Vista St., Durham, NC - home of Pat Petersen and Doug Young
FEES:
-Full day - $90
-Half day - $50
Please ask for tuition assistance if you would like to come but are feeling stretched.
LUNCH:
There isn’t time to go offsite for lunch; order a catered lunch for $15, or plan to bring your own. Beverages will be provided. Lunch orders must be placed by March 10.
SCHEDULE:
9:30 COFFEE and SOCIAL TIME
10:00
11:15
1:15
2:45 Group Play and Recorder Orchestra (sopranino-contrabass), including:
REGISTRATION:
Please fill out the online registration form. BE SURE TO CLICK THE "SUBMIT REGISTRATION" BUTTON AT THE BOTTOM! You should receive an email confirmation of your registration. Please check your spam folder if you don't see an email confirmation in your inbox. If you still don't see an email confirmation within 24 hours, please contact us to make sure your registration was processed.
Registration deadline is Tuesday, March 11.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Contact Jennifer Streeter at [email protected], (919) 802-5586, or Pat Petersen, [email protected], (919) 536-8922.
UNDER THE WEATHER? If you don’t feel well, please don’t share! We will refund your money if you are ill on the day of the workshop.
WHEN: Saturday, March 15, 9:30-4:30 pm
WHERE: 1702 Vista St., Durham, NC - home of Pat Petersen and Doug Young
FEES:
-Full day - $90
-Half day - $50
Please ask for tuition assistance if you would like to come but are feeling stretched.
LUNCH:
There isn’t time to go offsite for lunch; order a catered lunch for $15, or plan to bring your own. Beverages will be provided. Lunch orders must be placed by March 10.
SCHEDULE:
9:30 COFFEE and SOCIAL TIME
10:00
- Dufay Chansons: songs of the early Renaissance (Ellen)
- What to do BEFORE you read: tips, tricks, and lots of music to exercise and help you to improve your sightreading skills (Pat)
11:15
- 16th c. Canzonas and Pavanes: late Renaissance instrumental music (Jennifer)
- Baroque Ornamentation, the “essential graces”: what, where, and how, with exercises to take home (Pat)
1:15
- Renaissance repertoire (Pat)
- Baroque repertoire (Jennifer)
2:45 Group Play and Recorder Orchestra (sopranino-contrabass), including:
- ARS Play the Recorder Day piece:Stokes-Flight Games_intro score and parts.pdf
- Selections from Second Suite in F Gustav Holst (N S S A A A T T B GB CB)
- Ave Maris Stella, Edvard Grieg (S A A T T B GB)
REGISTRATION:
Please fill out the online registration form. BE SURE TO CLICK THE "SUBMIT REGISTRATION" BUTTON AT THE BOTTOM! You should receive an email confirmation of your registration. Please check your spam folder if you don't see an email confirmation in your inbox. If you still don't see an email confirmation within 24 hours, please contact us to make sure your registration was processed.
Registration deadline is Tuesday, March 11.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Contact Jennifer Streeter at [email protected], (919) 802-5586, or Pat Petersen, [email protected], (919) 536-8922.
UNDER THE WEATHER? If you don’t feel well, please don’t share! We will refund your money if you are ill on the day of the workshop.
***REGISTER HERE if you do not see the form above: https://form.jotform.com/250356817621154 ***
Additional information
Contact Jennifer Streeter at jasharpsichord@yahoo.com or (919) 802-5586.
Additional information
Contact Jennifer Streeter at jasharpsichord@yahoo.com or (919) 802-5586.

Our 2023 TRS spring workshop was a success! Thanks to attendee Toby Speed for this great write up:
Mediterranean Holiday with the Triangle Recorder Society
Music from France, Spain, and Italy filled the high-ceilinged rooms of the First Presbyterian Church in Durham, NC, on April 15th as the Triangle Recorder Society (TRS) welcomed back its annual early music workshop. TRS’s signature offering has been held for more than a quarter of a century with a break only in the last two years for COVID. This year’s theme, Mediterranean Holiday, attracted 25 attendees from the Triangle and beyond as well as an elite faculty of seven recorder professionals.
Our tour guides for the musical journey through Southern Europe were Stewart Carter, Phil Hollar, Holly Maurer, Patricia Petersen, Kathy Schenley, Jennifer Streeter, and Douglas Young. Small-group workshops were presented for all levels throughout the day.
Topics for those sessions included beginning consort playing, ornamentation, menuets from King Louis XIV’s dance parties, antiphonal music of the Venetian composers, the rhythms of Spanish dance, and one-line melodies with improvised drones, percussion, and voice. Besides recorder, many of the workshops welcomed voices, strings, and early reeds and brass, which made for some very fun ensemble playing. A session on loud Renaissance band music, for instance, featured cornettos, crumhorns, sackbuts, and more.
The highlight of the day was an inspiring group playing session in the main room for all musicians. It perfectly capped the uplifting nature of the day and marked a welcome return to in-person ensemble playing.
Mediterranean Holiday now joins the archives of Spring Workshops in TRS’s history that have covered such territory as North Sea Odyssey, French Connection, A Musical Brexit, March Musical Madness, Northern Lights, Saints and Sinners, and Viva Petrucci!
TRS has been in existence since 1967 and meets on the third Sunday of each month at rotating locations throughout the Triangle. All skill levels are welcome, and the first meeting is free. For more information and to sign up for our monthly newsletter, visit trianglerecorder.org or contact the group at trianglerecorder@gmail.
More Photos: here on our Facebook page
Mediterranean Holiday with the Triangle Recorder Society
Music from France, Spain, and Italy filled the high-ceilinged rooms of the First Presbyterian Church in Durham, NC, on April 15th as the Triangle Recorder Society (TRS) welcomed back its annual early music workshop. TRS’s signature offering has been held for more than a quarter of a century with a break only in the last two years for COVID. This year’s theme, Mediterranean Holiday, attracted 25 attendees from the Triangle and beyond as well as an elite faculty of seven recorder professionals.
Our tour guides for the musical journey through Southern Europe were Stewart Carter, Phil Hollar, Holly Maurer, Patricia Petersen, Kathy Schenley, Jennifer Streeter, and Douglas Young. Small-group workshops were presented for all levels throughout the day.
Topics for those sessions included beginning consort playing, ornamentation, menuets from King Louis XIV’s dance parties, antiphonal music of the Venetian composers, the rhythms of Spanish dance, and one-line melodies with improvised drones, percussion, and voice. Besides recorder, many of the workshops welcomed voices, strings, and early reeds and brass, which made for some very fun ensemble playing. A session on loud Renaissance band music, for instance, featured cornettos, crumhorns, sackbuts, and more.
The highlight of the day was an inspiring group playing session in the main room for all musicians. It perfectly capped the uplifting nature of the day and marked a welcome return to in-person ensemble playing.
Mediterranean Holiday now joins the archives of Spring Workshops in TRS’s history that have covered such territory as North Sea Odyssey, French Connection, A Musical Brexit, March Musical Madness, Northern Lights, Saints and Sinners, and Viva Petrucci!
TRS has been in existence since 1967 and meets on the third Sunday of each month at rotating locations throughout the Triangle. All skill levels are welcome, and the first meeting is free. For more information and to sign up for our monthly newsletter, visit trianglerecorder.org or contact the group at trianglerecorder@gmail.
More Photos: here on our Facebook page