Elodie age 8 is playing Blown Away with Charanga at school. See in Testimonials her experience of playing from the book at home. Thanks, Elodie for your help and feedback. Great to hear you’re really enjoying the recorder. Heather.
Continue reading →Charanga used Blown Away Recorder Books 1 and 2 for a workshop on choosing the right methods and resources for successful instrumental teaching. The wonderful Madeleine Casson, Education Director, led the session with about 60 participants playing the pieces on … Continue reading →
Exciting news that Blown Away 1 and 2 have been taken up by Charanga, the multi-award-winning schools digital music company. 8,000 British schools subscribe to Charanga, and it’s now spreading internationally. Blown Away will be the main instruction materials for … Continue reading →
Congratulations to the hugely talented Eliza Haskins who was a Woodwind finalist in this year’s competition. So good to see a recorder-player feature again. Before the announcement of the overall winner of the competition, Eliza was presented on stage with … Continue reading →
Decca Classics has signed its first recorder player: 16-year-old Lucie Horsch. The Dutch musician’s debut album is released today and will include four concertos (including La notte and La tempesta di mare) and two arias by Vivaldi. Decca said that it hoped the signing would challenge … Continue reading →
What a treat to see the recorder represented in the woodwind category for the third year running! Congratulations to Polly Bartlett who is also an accomplished oboe player who thrilled the audience with her “very competent and polished performance”. In … Continue reading →
There is a recorder player in the final of the BBC Young Jazz Musician 2016 on Sax and Recorder. His name is Tom Ridout and he is studying at the Royal Academy of Music where he is in his final … Continue reading →
The BBC Young Musician category finalists have been announced. Among the five woodwind finalists are Polly Bartlett playing the recorder. This is the third successive year of the competition that a recorder player has achieved this distinction, with the two previous … Continue reading →
See page 33 (next to Lang Lang inspiring millions!) for Heather’s article on the recorder as a developmental instrument. It has a lovely picture of the recorder players at Kennet Valley Primary School. Thanks to the school for this, and … Continue reading →
Heather has had an article accepted for the November edition of Music Teacher Magazine: The Recorder: It’s seriously fun! She argues the case for keeping the recorder as a developmental instrument after experiences with First Access instruments. The ukulele is becoming popular and … Continue reading →