A recorder player is a musician who plays the recorder, a woodwind

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. The recorder is used as a teaching instrument and has a large amateur following. Because of its ubiquity in these regards, the number of people who can play it in some capacity is enormous. This article consists of four alphabetical lists of people whose

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is established by reliable sources in other Wikipedia articles: first, professional recorder players notable for their playing; second, professional ensembles of recorder players; third, people who have played the recorder in notable works; and fourth, amateur players of the recorder who are otherwise notable.

List of professional recorder players

* Aldo Abreu *

Piers Adams Piers Adams (born 21 December 1963) is a British recorder player and member of baroque group Red Priest. After attending Reading Blue Coat School Adams trained as an astrophysicist, but turned professionally to the recorder at age 21. Known ...

(born 1963) *

Giovanni Antonini Giovanni Antonini (born 1965) is an Italian conductor and soloist on the recorder and baroque transverse flute. He studied in his native Milan, and attended the Civica Scuola di Musica in that city and the Centre de Musique Ancienne in Geneva. In ...

(born 1965) *

Rachel Begley Rachel J. Begley is a professional recorder and baroque bassoon virtuoso from England, now based in Long Island, New York, United States. She has performed and interacted with many of the leading recorder players of this generation, including the ...

Vicki Boeckman Vicki Boeckman (born 1955) is an American recorder artist, performer, and educator. Life and career Originally from Los Angeles, California, Vicki was introduced to the recorder while studying flute at California State University, Northridge. I ...

(born 1955) *

Kees Boeke Cornelis "Kees" Boeke (25 September 1884 3 July 1966) was a Dutch reformist educator, Quaker missionary and pacifist. He is best known for his popular essay/book ''Cosmic View'' (1957) which presents a seminal view of the universe, from the gal ...

(born 1950) *

Erik Bosgraaf Erik Bosgraaf (born 9 May 1980) is a Dutch recorder player and musicologist. Early life Bosgraaf was born in Drachten, Netherlands. He received his Master of Arts in musicology from Utrecht University in 2006. In 2007 Bosgraaf, under the supervi ...

(born 1980) *

Adriana Breukink Adriana Breukink (born 27 May 1957 in Rotterdam, died 6 October 2022) was a Dutch recorder maker and player from Enschede, Netherlands, who made Renaissance, baroque and modern instruments. Life and career Breukink was introduced to the record ...

Drora Bruck Drora Bruck (born December 31, 1966 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli recorder player. Biography Drora Bruck graduated from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where she studied with Michael Meltzer, for her BMus which was obtained in 19 ...

(born 1966) *

Daniël Brüggen Daniël Brüggen (born 1958) is a Dutch recorder player. He is the nephew of Frans Brüggen and studied with Kees Boeke at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. In 1978 he founded, together with Bertho Driever, Paul Leenhouts, and Karel va ...

(born 1958) *

Frans Brüggen Franciscus ("Frans") Jozef Brüggen (30 October 1934 – 13 August 2014) was a Dutch conductor, recorder player and baroque flautist. Biography Born in Amsterdam, Brüggen was the last of the nine children of August Brüggen, a textile factory o ...

(1934–2014) *

Michael Copley Michael Copley is a British virtuoso flautist and recorder player. He is a professional musician who, as well as playing the recorder and flute, is an exponent of other traditional, early and folk woodwind instruments, most notably the ocarina, a ...

Jacob van Eyck Jacob van Eyck ( , ; 26 March 1657) was a Dutch nobleman and blind musician. He was one of the best-known musicians of the Dutch Golden Age, working as a carillon player and technician, an organist, a recorder virtuoso, and a composer. He was ...

({{abbr, c., circa 1590–1657) *

Capilla Flamenca Capilla Flamenca is a vocal and instrumental early music consort based in Leuven, Belgium. The group specialises in 14th to 16th century music from Flanders and takes its name from the historical Flemish chapel (capilla flamenca), the choir of the ...

Arnold Dolmetsch Eugène Arnold Dolmetsch (24 February 1858 – 28 February 1940), was a French-born musician and instrument maker who spent much of his working life in England and established an instrument-making workshop in Haslemere, Surrey. He was a leading f ...

(1858–1940) *

Bertho Driever Bertho Driever (born 1953) is a recorder player. He studied physics at the Utrecht University and music at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. In 1978, together with Daniël Brüggen, Paul Leenhouts, and Karel van Steenhoven Karel van ...

(born 1953) *

Horacio Franco Horacio Franco (born 11 October 1963) is a Mexican flautist and recorder player. He studied at the National Conservatory in Mexico City and later at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam, with Marijke Miessen and Walter van Hauwe. Franco h ...

(born 1963) * Walter van Hauwe (born 1948) *

Peter Holtslag Peter Holtslag (born 1957 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch recorder and flauto traverso virtuoso. Holtslag studied recorder at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam (now Conservatorium van Amsterdam), Frans Brüggen being his great inspiration, g ...

(born 1957) * Lucie Horsch (born 1999) *

Friedrich von Huene Friedrich von Huene, born Friedrich Richard von Hoinigen, (March 22, 1875 – April 4, 1969) was a German paleontologist who renamed more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe. He also made key contributions about v ...

(1929–2016) *

Edgar Hunt Edgar Hubert Hunt (28 June 1909 – 16 March 2006) was a British musician and musicologist. He was a key figure in the early music revival in Britain in general, and in the revival of the recorder in particular. He was a founding member of the ...

(1909–2006) * Jorge Isaac (born 1974) *

Ricardo Kanji Ricardo Kanji (born 1948 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian recorder player and luthier. For twelve years, he was a professor at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague. He is a member of the Orchestra of the 18th Century, and the choir and orchestra V ...

(born 1948) *

Erich Katz Erich Katz (July 31, 1900 – July 30, 1973) was a German-born musicologist, composer, music critic, musician and professor. He fled the Nazis in 1939, arriving first in England, emigrating to the United States in 1943, where he became a citizen. He ...

(1900–1973) *

Jill Kemp Jill Kemp (born 24 November 1979, Yorkshire) is a British recorder player. Early life Kemp attended Honley High School and took her A-levels at Greenhead College in Huddersfield. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama; Goldsmit ...

(born 1979) *

Hans Maria Kneihs Hans Maria Kneihs (born 1943) is a leading performer and teacher of the recorder. He was born in Vienna and studied at the Music Academy, later to become the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst. Originally, he studied the violoncello ...

(born 1943) *

Bernard Krainis Bernard Krainis (1924-2000) was an American musician and co-founder of New York Pro Musica. He played recorder and studied with Erich Katz Erich Katz (July 31, 1900 – July 30, 1973) was a German-born musicologist, composer, music critic, music ...

(1924–2000) *

Barthold Kuijken Barthold Kuijken (; born 8 March 1949, Dilbeek) is a Belgian flautist and recorder player, known for playing baroque music on historical instruments and particularly known for pioneering this manner of performance with his brothers, cellist ...

(born 1949) *

Genevieve Lacey Genevieve Lacey (born 1972) is an Australian musician and recorder virtuoso, working as a performer, creator, curator and cultural leader. The practice of listening is central to her works, which are created collaboratively with artists from a ...

(born 1972) *

Dan Laurin Dan Laurin (1960 in Jönköping, Sweden) is a Swedish recorder player. Life and career He studied under Ulla Wijk, Paul Nauta and Eva Legêne at the Conservatories of Odense and Copenhagen from 1976 to 1982. Since 1980 he has been on the conce ...

(born 1960) *

Paul Leenhouts Paul Leenhouts is a Dutch recorder player, composer and conductor. Leenhouts studied music at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. Together with Daniël Brüggen, Bertho Driever, and Karel van Steenhoven, he founded the Amsterdam Loeki Sta ...

(born 1957) *

Hans-Martin Linde Hans-Martin Linde (born 24 May 1930 in Werne, Germany) is a German noted virtuoso flute and recorder player of (mainly) baroque and early music Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but ...

(born 1930) *

Matthias Maute Matthias Maute (born 1963) is a virtuoso recorder player and composer. Maute was born in Ebingen, Germany and studied in Freiburg and Utrecht with Baldrick Deerenberg and Marion Verbruggen. In 1990 he won first prize in the soloist category of ...

(born 1963) *

Frederick G. Morgan Frederick G. Morgan (8 April 1940 - 16 April 1999) was an Australian recorder maker. Life and career Morgan first played recorder at age 12 in the family's home in Mentone, Victoria, Australia. After studying commercial art at Melbourne Tec ...

(1940–1999) *

David Munrow David John Munrow (12 August 194215 May 1976) was a British musician and early music historian. Early life and education Munrow was born in Birmingham where both his parents taught at the University of Birmingham. His mother, Hilda Ivy (né ...

(1942–1976) *

Dorothee Oberlinger Dorothee Oberlinger (born 2 September 1969) is a German recorder player and professor. Biography Dorothee Oberlinger was born in Aachen and raised in Simmern. At the University of Cologne, she studied music education and German studies. Aft ...

(born 1969) *

Michala Petri Michala Petri (born July 7, 1958) is a Danish recorder player. Her debut as a soloist was in 1969. She is the step-granddaughter of Danish actress Ingeborg Brams. Biography Petri, who began playing the recorder at the age of three, is noted for h ...

(born 1958) *

Philip Pickett Philip Pickett (born 17 November 1950) is an English musician. Pickett was director of early music ensembles including the New London Consort, and taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He played recorders, shawms and similar ins ...

(born 1950) *

Barnaby Ralph Barnaby Ralph (born 14 October 1969) is a professional virtuoso recorder player. He studied with a number of teachers, including Rosalind Kelly and John Martin in Australia and Hans Maria Kneihs in Vienna. In 2000, he was awarded the Postgraduate ...

(born 1969) *

Gwyn Roberts Gwyn Roberts, an American recorder and traverso soloist, and educator, is a founding co-director of the Philadelphia baroque orchestra Tempesta di Mare with Richard Stone. Roberts also serves as the Director of Early Music at the University of Pe ...

Pete Rose Peter Edward Rose Sr. (born April 14, 1941), also known by his nickname "Charlie Hustle", is an American former professional baseball player and manager. Rose played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1963 to 1986, most prominently as a membe ...

(1942–2018) * Michael Schneider (born 1953) *

Ashley Solomon Ashley Solomon is a British flute and recorder player. He is both professor of recorder and head of the historical performance department of the Royal College of Music in London. He has taught there since 1994, and became the first head of th ...

Hans Ulrich Staeps Hans Ulrich Staeps (1909–1988) was a German composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or we ...

(1909–1988) *

Karel van Steenhoven Karel van Steenhoven (born November 1958 in Voorburg) is a Dutch recorder player and composer. Biography Starting with a green plastic instrument when he was four years old, Steenhoven began to study recorder with a guitar and mandolin teacher ...

(born 1958) *

Maurice Steger Maurice Steger (born 1971 in Winterthur, Switzerland) is a Swiss recorder player and conductor, mostly in Baroque music. Career Maurice Steger is a frequent guest soloist with leading Baroque ensembles such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berli ...

(born 1971) * Stefan Temmingh (born 1978) *

Linda Turbett Linda Turbett is an English recorder player. After graduating with a fellowship from Trinity College of Music in London, Turbett continued her studies with Peter Holtslag. She has performed throughout the United Kingdom and abroad with variou ...

Marion Verbruggen Marion Verbruggen (born 1950) is a Dutch recorder player and teacher. Verbruggen was born in Amsterdam and studied with Kees Otten at the Amsterdam Conservatory. She then studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Frans Brüggen. Upon ...

(born 1950)

List of professional recorder ensembles

* Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet *

B-Five Recorder Consort ''B-Five Recorder Consort'' is a European recorder quintet. The centerpiece of the ensemble's programs forms the consort music of the renaissance period. In addition to that the musicians try to establish a new repertoire for recorder quintet in ...

Flanders Recorder Quartet The Flanders Recorder Quartet was a professional recorder group based in Belgium. History The group initially formed in 1987 and became more well known upon winning the 1990 competition Musica Antiqua Bruges, Belgium. Active members *Bart Spanho ...

* The Royal Wind Music *

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Quartet New Generation Quartet New Generation (QNG) was a group of four female recorder players. Andrea Guttmann, Petra Wurz (replacing Hannah Pape in 2010), Heide Schwarz (since 2003) and Susanne Fröhlich performed on recorder instruments of many different kinds and ...

* Seldom Sene

List of musicians who have used the recorder

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and Matthew Fisher of

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played the recorder on the track "Boredom" on their third album, "

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Emma Christian Emma Christian is a prominent artist in the recent revival of traditional Manx folk music. Emma was born on the Isle of Man in 1972 and was brought up there on a farm. In 1990, she went to Cambridge University in England to study Celtic histo ...

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singer and folk artist plays the recorder in place of the more traditional

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studied recorder at the junior department of London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama and most famously plays it on the track ''

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'' * Jimi Hendrix played soprano recorder in some of his studio recordings *

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originally) *

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used the recorder as part of his children's TV show, ''

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'' * Keith Jarrett played recorder on his album ''

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Billy Joel William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer, pianist and songwriter. Commonly nicknamed the " Piano Man" after his album and signature song of the same name, he has led a commercially successful career as a solo artist since th ...

played the recorder on Cold Spring Harbor. *

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) notably played the recorder in the song '' Ruby Tuesday'' *

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) played several recorders in the studio recording of ''

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featured the recorder on several of his recordings. *

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of the Association frequently played recorder on Windy, Along Comes Mary, etc. *

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) occasionally uses the recorder in his music (e.g. ''

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Chisato Moritaka (born 11 April 1969) is a Japanese pop singer who also is notable as a songwriter. She is affiliated with Up-Front Create, a subsidiary of the Up-Front Group.

plays the recorder solo on her song "

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Carlos Núñez Muñoz Carlos Núñez Muñoz (born 1971) is a Spanish musician and multi-instrumentalist who plays the gaita, the traditional Galician bagpipe, Galician flute, ocarina, Irish flute, whistle and low whistle. Life and career Nuñez was born in 1971 i ...

* Steve Page of the

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played the recorder on "Helicopters" on their album " Maroon (album)" *

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played recorders on

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, the singles "

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" and "Cuckoo Song" and also on the track "Argiers" *

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, glam-rock guitarist, producer and arranger played multi-tracked recorders on David Bowie's "

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played recorder during his pre- AC/DC career in the band

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played the recorder on the albums

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" and "How Do You Feel"),

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and

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plays recorder on some of his tracks *

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would play recorder frequently on The Move's albums.

List of notable amateur recorder players

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apparently learnt to play Bach on the recorder *

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, Italian novelist, author of ''The Name of the Rose'' *

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, 'Father of the Macintosh' *

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Rainn Wilson Rainn Percival Dietrich Wilson (born January 20, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, podcaster, producer, and writer. He is best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the NBC sitcom '' The Office'', for which he earned three consecutive E ...

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Dwight Schrute Dwight Kurt Schrute III () is a fictional character on ''The Office (American TV series), The Office (U.S.)'' and is portrayed by American actor Rainn Wilson, Rainn Wilson. Dwight's character was a salesman and the assistant to the regional mana ...

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The Office ''The Office'' is a mockumentary sitcom created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, first made in the United Kingdom, then Germany, and subsequently the United States. It has since been remade in ten other countries. The original series of ...

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Bonnie Wright Bonnie Francesca Wright''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.''; at ancestry.com (born 17 February 1991) is an English actress, filmmaker, and environmental activist. She is best known for her role as Ginny Weasley ...

Recorder players Recorder or The Recorder may refer to: Newspapers * ''Indianapolis Recorder'', a weekly newspaper * ''The Recorder'' (Massachusetts newspaper), a daily newspaper published in Greenfield, Massachusetts, US * ''The Recorder'' (Port Pirie), a news ...