About the Triangle Recorder Society

The Triangle Recorder Society is a group of recorder players from the Triangle area of North Carolina. We are a chapter of the American Recorder Society.  TRS recently celebrated our 53 anniversary! We meet on the third Sunday of each month in Durham, Raleigh, or Chapel Hill. All skill levels are welcome.


Current TRS Officers

• President: Open
• Treasurer: Nancy Williamson
• Membership: Doug Young
• Communications: Dana Deaton
• Schedule Coordinator: Marie Grauerholz
• Past President: Sue Ann Wright 

Contact us:   [email protected]


Local recorder teachers:

• Patricia Petersen, Durham -- [email protected]
  Patricia Petersen holds an M.F.A. in Early Music Performance from Sarah Lawrence College. She has been intensely involved with recorder, early music, and English country dance for more than 30 years. A Certified Teacher of the American Recorder Society, she is currently the Music Director of the Triangle Recorder Society in central North Carolina, a Director Emerita of Amherst Early Music Inc., the past director of Mountain Collegium in Cullowhee, NC, and a popular teacher of English country dance, recorder, early music, and Renaissance notation, both at home and at summer and weekend workshops across the country.

• Jennifer Streeter, Cary -- [email protected]  
  Jennifer Streeter has performed throughout the United States and Europe with ensembles such as the North Carolina, Indianapolis and Seattle Baroque Orchestras, Three Notch'd Road, Music of the Baroque, and the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. She has been featured at the Bloomington, Magnolia 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 sought-after freelance musician and bodyworker.  Jennifer took over as music director as Pat Petersen "retired" in 2014 after 25 years with TRS.  She was the TRS music director until Spring 2021, and now works with TRS occasionally.