Ashley Allerton is the Branch Chairman and Secretary. If you would like any further information, please contact him by email () or phone (07725 093160).
Amanda Haste has now generously agreed to be our MD for the next year. Some people locally may already know her from her work with u3a.
Amanda is an experienced musician who has tutored and led courses at all levels. She also has an extensive academic background and has lived, studied and worked in the UK and France.
Amanda is primarily a flute and saxophone player, performer and teacher, and a comparative newcomer to the recorder world, but is enjoying this new instrument and its challenges. She has been running the Sidmouth u3a Recorder Group since 2022, and enjoys exploring new repertoire.
Details of Amanda’s programme will be announced in due course.
We will not be meeting every month and not always on our usual second Saturday of the month because of clashes with rehearsal dates for Exeter Recorder Orchestra, and our venue being already booked for some of our desired dates.
Please see here for details of our Venue.
Half-day meetings will be from 10am to 1pm, with a break for coffee mid-morning.
Playing Days are from 10am to 4.30pm, with breaks mid-morning and mid-afternoon, and a break for lunch from 1pm – 1.45pm. We will serve tea and coffee during breaks, and maybe cake !
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Saturday 21st September 2024 Playing Day. 10am – 4.30pm Fee: Branch Members £5, Visitors £20 Venue: St James Church Hall, Mount Pleasant Rd, EXETER, EX4 7AH |
Sophie Middleditch After graduating from Lancaster University, Sophie went on to study recorder, modern and baroque flute at Trinity College of Music. Since then, she has gained a reputation as a friendly, enthusiastic, professional recorder player with a wealth of teaching and performing experience. Alongside her professional playing, which includes chamber, orchestral and solo engagements as well as her work with her own baroque period chamber group, the Parnassian Ensemble, she has worked with small and large recorder groups and SRP branches throughout the UK, including conducting sessions with Wessex SRP, the Easter Recorder Course, the October Recorder Festival and coaching sessions at Exeter University, South West Early Music Forum, Chichester University (where she has been the recorder tutor since 1997) and her work with younger players at Lancing College and the Prebendal Cathedral school in Chichester. Sophie regularly tutors for the Baroque Buffet course at Benslow Music in Hertfordshire, introducing modern players to the delights of baroque style and recently coached students at the Grieg Academy in Bergen, Norway. For several years, Sophie also ran both the recorder and woodwind sections in the Chichester Festival for Music, Dance and Speech. She loves all areas of repertoire, including eighteenth century pieces (with the questions of historically informed performance practice this raises) and contemporary music. Sophie’s playing can be heard on A Noble Entertainment – Music from Queen Anne’s London 1702-1714 (AV2094) released on the Avie Records label and on the New London Chamber Ensemble’s recording: Carl Nielsen – Music for Wind and Piano released on the Meridian records label. |
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Saturday 9th November 2024 Morning only: 10am – 1pm Fee: Branch Members £5, Visitors £10 Venue: St James Church Hall, Mount Pleasant Rd, EXETER, EX4 7AH |
Amanda Haste
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Saturday 25th January 2025 Morning only: 10am – 1pm Fee: Branch Members £5, Visitors £10 Venue: St James Church Hall, Mount Pleasant Rd, EXETER, EX4 7AH |
Amanda Haste
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Saturday 8th February 2025 Morning only: 10am – 1pm Fee: Branch Members £5, Visitors £10 Venue: St James Church Hall, Mount Pleasant Rd, EXETER, EX4 7AH
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Amanda Haste
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Saturday 22nd March 2025 Morning only: 10am – 1pm Fee: Branch Members £5, Visitors £10 Venue: St James Church Hall, Mount Pleasant Rd, EXETER, EX4 7AH
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Amanda Haste
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Saturday 10th May 2025 Morning only: 10am – 1pm Fee: Branch Members £5, Visitors £10 Venue: St James Church Hall, Mount Pleasant Rd, EXETER, EX4 7AH
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Amanda Haste
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Saturday 7th June 2024 Recorder Orchestra Playing Day: 10am – 4.30pm Fee: Branch Members £5, Visitors £20 Venue: St James Church Hall, Mount Pleasant Rd, EXETER, EX4 7AH
This event is likely to be popular, so please let us know if you will be coming. There isn’t any need to pay at this stage. Contact Ashley Allerton (), or 07725 093160 |
Anna Stegmann Anna is a passionate performer and educator of early and contemporary recorder music. She is recorder professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she teaches an enthusiastic, selected group of next-generation recorder professionals. She is also a regular guest teacher at Wells Cathedral School and Jackdaws Music Educational Trust. Anna enjoys conducting and leading groups of all abilities and enjoys working with adult amateurs. In this capacity, she has led workshops, masterclasses, and conducted recorder groups for Recorder Courses Lyme, Airforce UK, Recorder Summer School, Easter Early Music School, LIFEM, Blokfluitdagen Mechelen, Orpheus Recorder Boutique and many more. Since 2013 she has co-organised ORDA, Open Recorder Days Amsterdam; a biennial recorder festival which has quickly grown into one of the biggest recorder events worldwide and brings together both amateurs and professionals, from all over the world. Anna has performed in concert halls from Europe to Australia and recorded several CDs with her own groups Ensemble Odyssee and The Royal Wind Music, as well as performing as guest soloist with La Risonanza, The New Dutch Academy, and others. In 2020 Anna established her own digital recital series, and so far has completed two seasons of recorder solo and chamber music. These professionally filmed music videos aim to make performances accessible to audiences that are unable to attend live concerts and to bring the listener closer to the performer than is possible in a conventional live-stream. |
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Saturday 12th July 2025
Venue: St James Church Hall, Mount Pleasant Rd, EXETER, EX4 7AH |
To be decided
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