Lessons
- Recorder & Musical Director
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Teacher:
Raphael B. Meyer
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- Would you like to take recorder lessons with Raphael B. Meyer or play in a recorder orchestra that he conducts? Ordering a commissioned composition from him? Or book a workshop or a few lessons with Raphael for your own ensemble or orchestra? Get in touch with him, he looks forward to your inquiry!
- Recorder & Musical Director
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Teacher:
Manfred Haras
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Manfred Harras gives lessons for adults (beginners, returners and advanced) as well as recorder ensembles from duo to quintet. A complete set of renaissance recorders is available for ensemble work.
Manfred is looking forward to hearing from you.
Events
- Gamba course: competition of voices or moving interaction
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Direction:
Gisela Eggers-Block, Jochen Thesmann, Manfred Harras
April 26-28, 2024
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Competition of voices or dynamic interaction? A question that we want to explore when we work together on the 5- to 6-part English gamba literature of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Target group: Advanced players should play different types of viols and be able to read all the necessary keys.
- Summer sounds with recorders
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Direction:
Manfred Haras
June 30 - July 7, 2024
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The course program includes compositions from the 16th to the 22nd century in various instrumentations up to multi-choral works.
The work in the plenary session takes place on the mornings of the first three days of the course and on the last two days of the course.
The afternoons of the first three days of the course are dedicated to intensive work in small consorts (with simple vocal line-up).
Target group: The course is aimed at experienced players who have good ensemble experience. Good sight reading and mastery of the entire recorder quartet are expected from the participants. Great and sub-bass recorders are required to play the 8-foot register.
- Bergflöten
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Direction:
Raphael B. Meyer
July 21-27, 2024
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The course takes place in Grächen/VS and offers a nice mixture of making music together and hiking activities. Daily recorder playing alternates with excursions. The course concludes – weather permitting – with an all-day hike, during which we play the pieces we have worked out in different places in the great outdoors.
Registrations by February 2024 benefit from a discount on the course costs.
- Consortspiel Intensive (seminar for recorder ensemble)
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Direction:
Manfred Haras
16. - 23. November 2024
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2- to 8-part works from the 15th to 22nd centuries will be created. The work in the plenary session takes place on the mornings of the first three days of the course and on the last two days of the course. In the afternoon of the first three days of the course we work in small consorts (with a simple cast of voices).
Target group: The seminar is aimed exclusively at advanced players. Good sight-reading skills and mastery of the entire recorder quartet are expected. Gross and sub bass recorders can be used. Number of participants limited to 10.
Information and registration: Waldhof eV, Academy for Continuing Education, Im Waldhof 16, D-79 117 Freiburg
E-Mail: sekretariat@waldhof-freiburg.de
Such. : +49 761 6 71 34
- 3. Basler Consort-Tag
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Direction:
Raphael B. Meyer
23 November 2024
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The 3rd Basel Consort Day will take place on November 23, 2024 in the historic guild hall of the Schmiedenhof in Basel. Its motto is “From the Deep” and is aimed at ensemble-proven recorder players who play the tenor or bass recorder, ideally even bass or sub-bass (or even lower instruments). In addition to a work from the 16th century, the program includes a composition written especially for the Basel Consort Day by course leader Raphael B. Meyer.
More information about the 3rd Basel Consort Day and the registration form can be found here:
- Schaffhausen Recorder Day
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Direction:
Raphael B. Meyer
March 29, 2025
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Raphael B. Meyer led the Schaffhausen Recorder Day in 2022. The composer worked on his collection of pieces “Lunae Canticum” over two days with more than 100 recorder players.
The immediate sequel to Lunae Canticum has now been published by our publisher: Solis Canticum. The composer will also rehearse these 12 recorder pieces in a large orchestral recorder setting within the Schaffhausen Recorder Day with up to 90 participants.
More information to follow.
