Welcome to our new-look Web Site, where you will find information about the Society and the musical instrument known in the English-speaking world as the Recorder.
Use the general menu above, or see what is happening in our 50+ branches all over the UK, to the right.
Below is a list of recent changes to this site.
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Festival and Conference 2012 will take place at St Teresa’s School, Effingham Hill, nr Dorking, Surrey RH5 6ST
Saturday April 21, 10.00 a.m. – 6.30 p.m. and Sunday April 22 9.30 a.m. – 3 p.m.
The Durham Branch programme is now available, inluding a 25th anniversary Playing Day on 5th May.
An amateur harpsichordist is looking for recorder players who are interested in playing baroque chamber music together. See the Players Wanted page for details.
There is a new Other Festivals page, which contains information about non-SRP recorder festivals and other music festivals and competitions of interest to recorder players. Currently it has information about the Reigate Music and Drama Festival and the Ealing Festival, both in May, and the Cheltenham Recorder Festival in August.
The Peregrine Recorder Orchestra is giving concerts in Bedford in May and Hitchin in July.
Ensemble Tramontana are giving a concert on Saturday 4th February in London. See the Concerts page for details
The dates of meetings for South Staffordshire branch are now available.
See the Other Courses page for details of a Medieval Crossroads of Europe Music Workshop in October 2012.
Chetham’s School of Music will be opening its doors on Saturday 18 February for an Open Morning and encourages recorder players to attend.
Details of a Byrd Recorder Day on 3rd March, the Edinburgh Young Musicians Recorder Course on 2nd 4th April and the Irish Recorder and Viol Course on 18th – 25th August are available on the Recorder Courses page.
Manchester Branch is holding playing days on 3rd March and 19th May.
Ealing Festival is now accepting entries for its Instrumental Section, including its Wind Classes on May 12th 2012 at Ealing Green Church Hall, Ealing W5 5DB.
Leicester Branch are organising a Conducting Course with Moira Usher on 31st March (see the Other Courses page for details) and a Playing Day with Ann Lyall on 28th April.
There is a Weekend Recorder Course at the Friars in Aylesford on 7th-9th September (see the Recorder Courses page for details.
