Welcome to recorder players of all ages and abilities!

Join us at 1:00 PM when Nancy Chabala presents music for krummhorns and other capped reeds. (It’s been a while since we’ve played them.) Recorder folks don’t despair! All the music works perfectly fine for mixed consort, including recorders. And for those who have always had a secret yen to try one, Nancy has SAT’s and one B to loan. Music will be on the website or provided at the meeting.

In Lisette’s session from 2:00-4:00, we will have a final opportunity to rehearse and run through Glen Shannon’s Friendship Canzona (before performing it at the Spring Concert!) and also explore Priuli’s 17^th century, 7-part Canzone and selections from Challinger’s Ballad, Blues, and Riffs.

All the music for April available here. Meeting location information found here.

For more chapter info, see our latest newsletter here.

And save the dates May 31 – June 2, for the new and improved music festival in Whitewater, WI! New U of W dorm suites! New instructors! Same great music experience! Registration is now open!

Class info and registration available on the EMF website, here.

Join us at 1:00 PM for an introduction to playing jazz on the recorder. We’ll get into the swing of things (bad pun, sorry) with Ja-Da, St. James Infirmary, a riff blues, and (of course) When the Saints Go Marchin’ In. Be there or be square!

Lisette then leads us from 2:00-4:00 PM in Glen Shannon’s Friendship Canzona (to be performed at the Spring Concert in May) as well as a 17^th century 7-part canzona by Priuli, a 16^th century 6-part madrigal by Gesualdo, Marshall’s arrangement of the Irish tune Star of the County Down, and Challenger’s popular Ballad, Blues, and Riffs!

All the music for March is now available here. Meeting location information is found here.

For more chapter info, see our latest newsletter here.

And save the dates May 31 – June 2, for the annual music festival in Whitewater, WI! This year we’ll be staying in fancy new U of W dorm suites!

Class info and latest updates are always available on the EMF website, here.

Join us at 1:00 PM to start the meeting with a selection of Chaconnes by Purcell and Dornel, plus a short but interesting piece by Telemann!

Lisette leads us at 2:00 PM with selections from Tomaso Albinoni’s 4-movement Sinfonia Op.2 (ATATB, NOT ninoSATB), Franz Tunder’s sacred Ach Herr arranged in two choirs for recorders (SATB, SATB), and movements from Celtic Cluster (SAATTB) by England’s popular Steve Marshall.

All the music for February is now available here. Meeting location information found here.

For more chapter info, see our latest newsletter here.

And save the dates May 31 – June 2, for the annual music festival in Whitewater, WI!

Latest updates always available on the EMF website, here.

Happy New Year!

In the 1st hour of our January meeting, Lisette will bring in the new year with technique in F Major, followed by Philip van Wilder’s 16th century Fantasia and Antonio Bertali’s baroque Sonatella (both in the key of, you guessed it, F Major!). For the 2:00-4:00 Session, we will rehearse Gioseppe Guami’s La Todeschina (from the November meeting) to be performed at the U of C Folk Music Festival; read through our audience play-along dances; and explore William Cornysh’s FA LA SOL and Pierre de Manchicourt’s Adieu!

All the music for January is now available here. Meeting location information is found here.

For more chapter info, see our latest newsletter here.

All are invited to participate in the 1 PM concert, performing or listening. If you or your group would like to perform, contact Mark Dawson at msjddawson@sbcglobal.net . Let him know ahead of time to be included in the printed program, but all will be welcome to play in any case.

The traditional holiday treats table will be featured after the concert portion of the meeting. Feel free to bring some holiday edible to share – or not!

We will then close the meeting with some group playing of music to be provided by the chapter. View a list of music choices here.

Please mark December 17th on your calendar and come to our annual holiday celebration!

Our November opening session at 1 PM, with Lisette, will include technique and musical selections in preparation for our participation in University of Chicago’s Folk Music Festival (Feb 10th).

At 2:00, Lisette will lead us in exploring a Bach Fugue, a Guami Canzonette, and hold our final rehearsal of Peter Beck’s La Marche des Rois for our performance in the Yuletide Concert in December.

NOTE: Players must have been present at October’s meeting and/or our upcoming November meeting in order to perform with the Chapter! Please contact Lisette at LisetteKielson@gmail.com with any questions.

All the music for November to be available here. Meeting location information is found here.

For info on our enjoyable October meeting and future plans, see our latest newsletter here.

Join the Chicago Chapter on Sunday, October 15, at 1 PM at Covenant Presbyterian Church, when we will start with an hour of directed group playing.

Then at 2 PM Lisette Kielson returns, with two early Renaissance trios, an arrangement of Machaut’s Douce Dame, a march by Strauss and another march by one of our own chapter members!

All the music for October available here. Meeting location information is found here.

For info on our thoroughly enjoyable September meeting and future plans, see our latest newsletter here.

Join the Chicago Chapter on Sunday September 17 at 1 PM as we begin our new season. All the music for September is available here now. Meeting location information is found here.

Lisette Kielson returns to lead us for all seven regular meetings as Music Director of the chapter! This season she will offer warm up techniques from 1 to 1:50 PM, guiding us through ensemble exercises and repertoire focusing on tone, articulation, and finger work. Traditional playing sessions follow from 2 to 4 PM featuring in-depth work on small and large-scale compositions from the Middle Ages to the present.

Please come to our May meeting and Spring concert, when all are invited to play, in any solo or group arrangement, or to just listen!

Refreshments and group playing will follow!

Make plans to join us for our final meeting of the 2022-2023 season, our spring concert on May 21 at 1 PM. All are invited to perform, or just listen and enjoy, and all types of music are welcome. If you would like to play in the program, send the names of the performers, the title of the pieces you plan to play, and the name of the composer or composers, to Mark Dawson at msjddawson@sbcglobal.net.

Music selections for group playing after the concert are found here.

For more information on our April meeting and our highly successful weekend workshop, see our May newsletter here.

Join us in April, with

Lisette Kielson

conducting the Chicago Chapter!

As always, we will begin the meeting at 1 PM with free-form group playing, music provided and posted by the chapter.

At 2 PM, Lisette will lead us in our final rehearsal of Charpentier’s Ouverture (in preparation for our Spring Concert). In addition, we will explore JS Bach’s Contrapunctus I, Clara Schumann’s Romance arranged by chapter member Libby Rudolph, and of course some Rooda technique work!

Music for April is available here now! Meeting location information is found here.

And don’t forget to register here for our April 22nd workshop with Anne Timberlake!

For info on our truly entertaining March meeting, and our chapter in general, see the latest newsletter here.