Upcoming meeting
SATURDAY, MARCH 14, AT 1:30 PM
Led by David Hurd
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David Hurd is best known as an organist, composer, choral conductor, and church musician based in New York City. He has performed widely in North America and abroad and has won international prizes in organ playing and improvisation. He is currently the organist and music director at the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin. He has transcribed and arranged extensively for recorder consort, and his original compositions for recorders range from duets to his Suite in Three Movements for Fourteen Recorders premiered by the Recorder Orchestra of New York. His recent work Sonata in 3 for 4 is the ARS Play-the-Recorder-Month piece for 2026 and will be featured in our meeting.
Recent meetings
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 AT 1:30 PM
A Potpourri of Charming Performance Pieces of the Renaissance and Baroque Eras
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Led by Deborah Booth
This session will include Renaissance music by Claudin de Sermisy, Johannes Schultz, Orlando Gibbons, as well as some anonymous 16th century Italian dances. The Baroque selections are by J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel. NYRG has enjoyed these pieces at several sessions throughout this season. The music has been chosen to represent various styles of Early Music and to help the public understand our love for the recorder and its repertoire. Participants will perform these pieces at our culminating session on May 9.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, AT 1:30 PM
Led by Sian Ricketts
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Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474), perhaps the most well-known composer of his time, is one of instructor Sian Ricketts' personal favorites. Join us on January 24 for a lively session exploring several of Dufay's famed secular works, ranging from the top hit "Se la face ay pale" to rondeaux like "Par droit je puis" and "Adieu, ces bons vins de Lannoys" to the canonic "La belle se siet." Discover (or rediscover) the joy of Dufay's polyrhythms made possible by the notation system used throughout the Renaissance – and learn to grapple with the challenges and delights of playing fifteenth-century vocal music on the recorder. All sizes of recorders are welcome, as are any questions you may have been harboring about medieval music.
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