After a couple of years of encouragement from University of North Carolina Greensboro alumna, Connie Kotis, UNCG added a recorder component to their two-week summer music camp. This camp for middle- and high school wind, percussion, string, piano, and vocal students is among the largest in the US and is attended by nearly 2000 students. 

A short instruction by Jody Miller on tone production, posture, fingerings, and articulation and the students created performances of a passamezzo antico and a passamezzo moderno on their respective instruments. The sound was amazing to many of them. This event gave them hands-on experience with the recorders.

In a time in which recorder opportunities for young people are sometimes difficult to find, UNCG has taken the bold step of incorporating the instrument alongside their more mainstream modern counterparts.

I am grateful to Jody for introducing many budding musicians to the world of recorders.