2024-2025 Season

We are a group of Rochester-area recorder players who meet from September to May. Together with several talented volunteer teachers, the group provides opportunities to participate in learning sessions, consorts, and several performances. 

Recorder players of all levels from beginner to experienced are welcome.

Our meeting location is the First Baptist Church of Rochester, at 175 Allen's Creek Road. Meetings are on the second and fourth Tuesdays, starting at 7:00pm. Our annual dues this year are $65.

Our schedule for Winter/Spring 2025:

Sunday, Jan 12 10:00am - playing for church service at First Baptist

Tuesday, Jan 14 - General Meeting

Tuesday, Jan 28 - General Meeting

Tuesday, Feb 11 - General Meeting

Tuesday, Feb 25 - General Meeting

Tuesday, Mar 11 - General Meeting

Friday, Mar 21 7:30pm - Musical Moments at Geneva Public Library with our Outreach group

Tuesday, Mar 25 - General Meeting

Saturday, April 5 2pm - Teresa Deskur leads ensemble practice

Tuesday, Apr 8 - General Meeting

Tuesday, Apr 22 - General Meeting

Tuesday, May 13 - General Meeting (last of the season)

Sunday, May 18 - End of season concert

Saturday, August 23 10am-4pm - Workshop with Tish Berlin

General meetings will be on break after May 13 until September. 

We are sponsoring a one-day workshop with Tish Berlin on Saturday, August 23. We would be glad to have you join us. Registration details coming soon.

Other Early Music Events, Spring 2025:

Highland Park Recorder Society online seminars: April 7, May 12, June 9

Pegasus Early Music (Rochester): April 6, May 11

Musica Spei (Rochester): April 18, June 6, June 7

Schola Cantorum (Syracuse): March 30, April 6, June 1

NYS Baroque (Syracuse, Ithaca): April 4, April 5, May 9, May 10

Publick Musick (Rochester): April 17

The chapter was founded in the spring of 1965, and we are proud to have been meeting for over fifty years. 

For more information, you can reach us by email at rochesterars@gmail.com