Annette Bauer Awarded ARS Professional Development Grant

ARS, in collaboration with the Oregon Coast Recorder Society, supports a four to six week recorder residency at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology on the Oregon coast. Upon Professional Development Grant approval, the ARS provides a residency stipend, while the Oregon Coast Recorder Society, through the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, provides living space and a studio for professional development for recorder professionals.

Annette, a professional recorder player and highly esteemed teacher (see below), will be busy with several projects -- creating online study materials for teaching recorder players (and other instrumentalists and singers) to read and play from original notation, researching a future program for live performance and/or recording, exploring a connection between historical herbology and music, as well as refreshing her personal practice.

"I believe that my time at the Sitka Center will result in a tangible musical and creative output, benefiting not only myself as a performer and educator, but also my students and the larger community of recorder players. I am particularly excited about the intensive teaching of early notation that I have been able to do in the past two years, and further developing these new kinds of training and teaching tools that I believe will help open up the beautiful world of early notation to new students, amateur and professional players alike."

Read more about the Professional Development Grant and the Sitka Residency here.

Annette Bauer is a recorder player and multi-instrumentalist with a wide range of musical interests and expertise. She spent eight years traveling the world as a musician for the Cirque du Soleil show TOTEM, with over 2300 performances in the US, Canada, Europe, Russia, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. Before that, she called the San Francisco Bay Area her home for over a decade. There, she studied classical Indian music on sarode at the Ali Akbar College of Music, and worked as a freelance musician all over the US with early music groups such as Farallon Recorder Quartet, Ensemble Cançonièr, Les Grâces Baroque Ensemble, Piffaro, Texas Early Music Project, and her own cross-over project, The Lost Mode.

Annette was born and raised in Germany, holds a diploma in historical performance practice of medieval and Renaissance music from the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland, and an MA in music from the University of California in Santa Cruz. Annette was on parental leave from touring when the Covid pandemic shut down the performing arts all over the world in 2020. She is now making a new home with her partner and young daughter in Montreal. Annette is currently sharing her love of music by offering online teaching to students of all ages, including an ongoing class on medieval and Renaissance notation through Amherst Early Music, as well as teaching for ARS. She has just been named workshop director for the San Francisco Early Music Society's summer Recorder Workshop.