Mosaic recorder ensemble - Triple tapestries

A selection of Baroque music for three recorders. Composers include Telemann, Quantz and Bach, with a selection of instrumentations and recorder sizes!

Netty Rhodes, Julie Dean and Louise Strickland, recorders

Netty followed a career in social work before turning a passion for the recorder into a profession. In 2005 she was awarded a Masters degree from the Royal College of Music where she studied with Ashley Solomon (early music) and Julien Feltrin (contemporary). Netty’s eagerness to promote her often misunderstood instrument is fundamental to all her work. Keen to encourage new writing for the recorder, in March 2005 Netty was privileged to premiere a new work by British composer Laurie Beamon. Another favourite activity is the transcription and performance of little known English stage works of the later 18th century and with her Baroque ensemble My Lady’s Chamber she has brought about the modern premiere of a collection of pieces probably not heard for around 250 years.

As an educator Netty tries to inspire from the very beginning a love and respect for the recorder amongst primary and secondary age school children. To this end she coordinatesSWeet! Recorder Consort CIC,providing opportunities for young players in Lambeth to perform together in consort, and has delivered schools workshops with renowned recorder ensembleConsortium 5.

Julie Dean studied the recorder at Goldsmith’s College, London andat Trinity Conservatoire of Music.Past performances have included the Greenwich International Early Music Festival, St Martin-in-the-Fields,Handel House Museum, Southbank Centre and many other venues across London. She was a winner of the Trinity College of Music Early Music Competition in 2011withEnsemble Tramontana, performing with the group at the Greenwich International Early Music Festival 2011. She performs regularly with the comedy and jazz influenced BRLO 'British Recorder Light Orchestra' and Belsize Baroque Orchestra as well as many solo and ensemble performances.

Julie works actively with children (using the Suzuki method for recorder) and adult amateur recorder players, directing several weekly groups and offering individual tuition. She teaches at numerous recorder events around the UK such as the Society of Recorder Players, Easter Recorder Course, NORVIS Early Music Course and the Cheltenham Summer Recorder Festival. She has published 4 volumes of'Rounds for Recorders' and a guidebook'Looking after your wooden recorder'.

Julie also runs her online recorder shop, RecorderShopLondon.co.uk and has repaired and revoiced recorders for over 15 years for both professional and amateur players. She regularly gives a presentation to help recorder players understand recorder maintenance and revoicing, including at various amateur player’s courses, the Royal Academy of Music, Royal Birmingham conservatoire, and Encontrode Música Antiga de Loulé, Portugal.

Louise Strickland is a specialist in recorders and historical clarinets, as well as an enthusiastic educationalist. She studied at the GSMD, Goldsmith’s College and in Saintes, France with the Jeune Orchestre Atlantique andhas freelanced with many high profile period instrument groups such as English Concert, Oae, La Serenissima, AAM and Gabrieli. Recordings include Vivaldi’s Women (chalumeau, La Serenissima 2022), Et in arcadia ego (recorder, Concentus VII 2013) and Handel’s Queens (recorder, London Early Opera, 2019) as well as radio broadcasts for stations such as BBC Radio 3 and France musique.Having been involved in teaching for many years, shewas a consultant for the 2026 Abrsm recorder syllabus and currently teachesat St Paul’s Girls School, London.

Refreshments will be served after the concert, with donations to church funds