Have an ensemble that needs some help playing in tune?  Interested in improving the tone color of your alto recorder?  All of our monthly conductors are accomplished musicians AND willing teachers!  Contact any of them via direct email (see sidebar) or through PRS at pdxrecorders@comcast.net for scheduling and lesson fee information.  Vicki Boeckman is regularly available every other month in Portland during the PRS year.

On April 23rd and 24th, recorder music composer Glen Shannon will be in Portland and available for coaching. An opportunity not to miss! Here is his biography:
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Glen Shannon is an American composer living near San Francisco, California. His love of straightforward, approachable music for the recorder has garnered him several prizes in composition contests since 1997. With clear influences of Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi, and other masters of the Baroque and Classical periods, Shannon's music is largely contrapuntal, with fugues featuring prominently in his collection. He publishes his music under his own name at www.glenshannonmusic.com, and has also had works published by Moeck Verlag, PRB Productions, and the American Recorder Society. In 2007 he was a prize winner in two composition contests ' one sponsored by the Chicago Recorder Society, and the other jointly sponsored by the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet and the American Recorder Society. Performances of some of his works can be found on YouTube at www.youtube.com/glenshannon. In October 2009 he traveled to Dortmund, Germany to participate in the world premiere of a new recorder orchestra piece written expressly for the Dortmund Recorder Consort's 15th Anniversary Celebration concert.

Glen is active in the American Recorder Society, as editor of the semiannual Members' Library Editions, a series introducing new recorder music to the worldwide membership. He has also been selected by the ARS to compose the piece to be played worldwide in March 2011 for their annual Play the Recorder Month celebration.

In addition to musical pursuits, Glen is a freelance graphic designer for members of the musical community, including the East Bay Recorder Society, the San Francisco Early Music Society and the choral group Soli Deo Gloria. By day Glen works in a small graphic design boutique in San Francisco, as one of the few non-Japanese staff in a multilingual office that specializes in East Asian print and web design and production. He also enjoys cooking spicy food, foreign languages, and won the Novice Division Championship title at an international baton twirling competition in February 2010.

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