Newsletter, February 2010
>>>> 25th anniversary Recorder Foundation!
The Recorder Foundation celebrates this year its 25th anniversary!
The Foundation was established in 1985 as a non-profit organization with the motto “to stimulate and promote the Recorder's repertoire in every possible field”. The first solid step was taken by its founder, Walter van Hauwe, by creating the Catalogue of Contemporary Blockflute Music (CCBM), a catalogue devoted to original recorder music written after 1900.
By the year 1988, Mr. van Hauwe had about 400 titles in his archive, while he estimated another 300 works still to be discovered.
Now, 25 years later, more than 5000 titles can be found in the Catalogue of Contemporary Blockflute Music (CCBM), presumably 95% of the world-wide total.
The Catalogue of Historical Recorder Repertoire (CHRR) started to be created in the year 2000 by Paul Leenhouts. This extensive catalogue contains about 1900 titles portraying Recorder Repertory from the 16th century Renaissance, up to Rococo/Early Classical.
At date, Jorge Isaac is in charge of the database management. The Catalogue of Recorder Repertory is in constant development. New items and updates are uploaded every week, making it the largest database in this field worldwide. Both catalogues are hosted in a powerful open source platform and the user community counts more than 3.000 members from all around the world. The access to the database is totally free of charge.
>>>> 25th anniversary Celebration Activities
The anniversary will be celebrated with a number of activities during the second half of 2010. The Recorder Foundation will launch an online source devoted to composers and arrangers, illustrating how to compose for Recorder. The website will be loaded with clear definitions, to the point approach, images, audio and video, notation examples and free downloads.
Further on, there will be concerts in Amsterdam with prominent Recorder players who have been involved in the development and growth of the Foundation.
More information will be announced in the next newsletter.
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Deadline Inscriptions Season 2010-2011, Amsterdam Conservatory
Candidates for Preliminary as well as Bachelor's Degree Programs wishing to take part in the entrance examination, must submit the application form, completed and signed, no later than 15 March 2010, accompanied by the necessary papers, to the Student Registrar Office of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
More about the Recorder Department Amsterdam Conservatory >>>
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New works for Recorder, Electronics, Chamber Music
The Visisonor Foundation, under the artistic advice of Jorge Isaac, has commissioned another 8 new works for Recorder. For the combination Recorder and Electronics the following composers have been commissioned: Roderik de Man (The Netherlands), Fred Momotenko (Russia), Marcel Wierckx (Canada). New chamber music works for Recorder, Panflute, Viola, Ud and Percussion will be written by the young Turkish composers Selim Dogru, Mehmet Can Özer, Gökçe Altay and Yigit Kolat. A new work for Recorder and Symphony Orchestra is currently being written by Elik Alvarez (USA, film music).
More about the Visisonor Foundation >>>
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New website of the The Royal Wind Music
The Royal Wind Music, a double sextet of Renaissance recorders directed by Paul Leenhouts, has launched a new website with detailed information about the ensemble and diverse multimedia material like videos, pictures and excerpts from CD recordings.