Advanced Recorder Technique

This technical volume is addressed to advanced treble recorder players looking for repertoire that is suited for consistent work on the foundations of their instrumental and musical abilities. In accordance with the original literature for the treble recorder, the exercises are mainly tailored to this instrument. Some technical chapters can be practised on both the treble and descant recorder (with transposed fingering). The term 'technical' must not be misunderstood here: ultimately, the exercises aim at artistic expression, emotion, and tonal interpretation.

Gudrun Heyens was born in 1950 and now lives in Duisburg / Germany. Between 1968 and 1973 she studied recorder and violin with Günther Höller and Franz-Josef Maier and between 1973 and 1981 was a founding member of Musica Antiqua Köln with whom she has made numerous radio broadcasts and performed extensively both in Germany and internationally. She received the German Prize for Recording in 1977 for 'Concerti per Flauto', a recording with Musica Antiqua Köln of concertos by Sarri, Valentine, Barbella and Mancini. Gudrun Heyens has been a member of the Marais Consort since 1984 and professor of recorder at the Folkwang-Hochschule since 1985. She is currently President of the German branch of the European Recorder Teachers' Association (ERTA).