An illustrated lecture, with live music, on a variety of professional recorders - no plastic in sight!
So often just associated with school music, the recorder has a long and rich history. A favourite of Henry VIII and composers from Purcell, Bach and Handel through to Paul McCartney. An illustrated lecture, with live music, on a variety of professional recorders (no plastic in sight!).
How to book this event:
Visitors are welcome to all our lectures, either in person or online via Zoom.
A single visit costs £9 per person paid on the door at Bishop Perowne College or via eventbrite for online attendance.
THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER
Miss Evelyn Nallen
Founder and Musical Director of The Weaver Ensemble, a baroque theatre troupe, Zero Gravity, Cambridge’s Recorder Band and founder member of Respectable Groove the innovative early-music/jazz group. She made her BBC debut as a recorder player at the age of nine and since then has appeared on BBC TV and BBC Radios 1, 2, 3 & 4 and given concerts and presented lectures in Europe, the Americas and Australia. She was Director of The European Recorder Teachers Association for 5 years and taught recorder at The Royal Academy of Music, Junior Department, retiring in 2022.
OTHER EVENTS
Mozart, Haydn, Gluck, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Strauss, Mahler, Bruckner, Schoenberg – all lived in Vienna.

