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For over 25 years, Orpheus Music has been holding recorder courses which have become renowned across the world. The annual Orpheus Recorder Boutique (ORB) includes recorder workshops, technique classes, concerts, and small and large recorder ensemble groups with tuition from some of the world's leading recorder players. A time of wonderful music making, motivation and inspiration, and judging by the many returning participants, Orpheus Music recorder courses are the pinnacle of a recorder player’s year! 

 

 

Australia's leading recorder teachers

Orpheus music recorder courses always feature a selection of Australia's finest recorder players on the tutor list, including (alphabetically): 

 

Alana Blackburn (NSW)

Alexandra Bailliet-Joly (NSW)

Alicia Crossley (NSW)

Barbara Jerjen (ACT)

Benjamin Thorn (NSW)

Brendan O'Donnell (SA)

Caroline Downer ( NSW)

Daniel Murphy (NSW)

Genevieve Lacey (VIC)

Greg Dikmans (VIC)

Hannah Coleman (VIC)

Hans-Dieter Michatz (NSW)

Joanne Arnott (NSW)

Kara Ciezki (VIC)

Kimberley Scrivan (NSW)

Monica McTaggart (WA)

Natasha Anderson (VIC)

Peter Hagen (VIC)

Robert Manley (NSW)

Robyn Mellor (ACT)

Rodney Waterman (VIC)

Ros Bandt (VIC)

Ruth Wilkinson (VIC)

Ryan Williams (VIC)

Zana Clarke (NSW)

 

Recorder tuition from international experts

In addition to the fantastic Australian tutors, over the years we have been lucky enough to have some amazing international tutors join us for the Orpheus Music courses, including (alphabetically): 

 

Aldo Abreu (VENEZUELA)

Amy Power (SWITZERLAND)

António Carrilho (PORTUGAL)

Anna Stegmann (NETHERLAND)

Avery Gosfield (ITALY)

Bernard Wells (NEW ZEALAND)

Chris Orton (UNITED KINGDOM)

Colin Touchin (UNITED KINGDOM)

David Bellugi (ITALY)

David Coomber (NEW ZEALAND)

Evelyn Nallen (UNITED KINGDOM)

Jessica Shaw (NEW ZEALND)

John Tyson (USA)

Joris van Goethem (BELGIUM)

Kamala Bain (NEW ZEALAND)

Maria Martinez Ayerza (SPAIN)

Peter Bowman (UNITED KINGDOM)

Petro Arvo (FINLAND)

Ruth Burbidge (UNITED KINGDOM)

Sarah Jeffery (UNITED KINGDOM)

Simon Borutzki (GERMANY)

Ulrike Volkhardt (GERMANY)