Rainer Beckmann: November 8, 2026

Description

They can be fantastic friends or fierce foes. Alternate fingerings allow us to do amazing things on the recorder. They help us play super softly, louder than normal, or much more smoothly than with regular fingerings. They enable us to change tone colors and perform all kinds of trills. But, to be honest, they often confuse us! This workshop will let you experience the many different ways alternate fingerings can serve us recorder players well. Through a step-by-step approach, it will support your quest to incorporate more and more alternate fingerings into your playing. Level: upper intermediate / advanced German born recorder player Rainer Beckmann performs with a large variety of early music ensembles in the Philadelphia Tri-State area and is a founding member of New World Recorders and La Bernardinia Baroque Ensemble. As a soloist and ensemble player, he appears with such groups as Tempesta di Mare Baroque Orchestra, The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra, Camerata Ama Deus, The Clarion Choir and Orchestra, Brandywine Baroque and Vox Renaissance Consort. Rainer teaches at Amherst Early Music workshops, coaches the recorder players of Temple University's Early Music Ensemble, and serves as the music director of the Philadelphia Recorder Society. He is a graduate of the Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands where he studied recorder and historical performance practice with Heiko ter Schegget, Baldrick Deerenberg and Marion Verbruggen. (Photo credit: Charles Grove) This is a NAVRS members only event. NOTE: After you register, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to the music for the session, which will be available at least one week before the event. The session begins at 7:00 PM, Eastern. The Zoom link will be live 15 minutes prior.