Annette Bauer is a recorder player and multi-instrumentalist. Born and raised in Germany, she holds a diploma in medieval and Renaissance music from the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland. From 2001-2012 she called the San Francisco Bay area her home, where she studied sarode and voice in the classical North Indian tradition under Maestro Ali Akbar Khan. In 2004, she completed an M.A. degree in music from the University of California in Santa Cruz. As a freelance musician, she worked with early music ensembles all over the United States, including her own groups Cançoniér, Les Grâces, Farallon Recorder Quartet, and The Lost Mode, and as guest artist for Piffaro Renaissance Band, Magnificat, and Texas Early Music Project, among others. From 2012-2020 she toured the world as a musician for Cirque du Soleil’s show TOTEM, performing over 2300 shows across 36 cities, 12 countries, and 4 continents. Annette is now making a new home with her partner and young daughter in Montréal, Quebec. She is currently sharing her love of music by offering online and in person music lessons in her private studio, as well as teaching workshops for the American Recorder Society and Amherst Early Music, including an ongoing online class on early notation. Annette is the current music director of the North American Virtual Recorder Society, directs the annual San Francisco Early Music Society Recorder summer workshop, and coaches Harmonia, one of the ensembles of the Montreal Recorder Society. In the Montreal music scene, she has performed as a guest artist with Montreal-based medieval women’s ensemble Scholastica, Trio Regard Persan, Projet O of choreographer Sarah Dell’Ava, and with singer-songwriter Juulie Rousseau. In the spring of 2024, she was part of a creative residency at the Centre Des Musiciens du Monde, working on a musical duo project inspired by the historical silk road.

Larry Lipnik performs and records with many acclaimed early music ensembles and is a founding member of the viol consort Parthenia and vocal ensemble Lionheart.  In addition to performing, his busy teaching schedule has included early music performance instruction at Wesleyan University, collegium director at Amherst Early Music, national and international festivals including the Benslow Music Trust in the UK and Tibia Adventures in Music Recorder Workshop in Tuscany, Italy.  He is currently co-director of the Viol Sphere 2 workshop in Arizona, Viols West Workshop, and Road Scholar National Early Music Workshop in California.  

Recent performance highlights include concerts with lutenist Paul O’Dette of Dowland’s complete Lachrimae at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, concerts at the Venice Biennale and Berkeley Festival, appearances with the Venice Baroque Orchestra, Folger Consort, and ARTEK, as well as early opera residencies at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists, and The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare.  Larry has been teaching at Bloom Early Music Workshop since 2008.

Laura is the music director for the Portland Recorder Society and the Recorder Orchestra of Oregon, in addition to CGEMR. She is the recent past President of the national American Recorder Society. Along with Juan Carlos Arango and Robert Wiemken, Laura organized the Indiana Early Double Reed Workshop, now in its 18th season and has taught at the Kalamazoo Recorder Workshop in Kalamzoo, MI, the San Francisco Recorder Workshop in California, Whitewater Early Music Festival in Wisconsin and recently the Vernon Proms Festival in Vernon, BC, Canada.

Phil Neuman, a performer on recorder, sackbutt, and various other wind and stringed instruments, co-founded and co-directs the Oregon Renaissance Band which has performed for the Regensburg Early Music Festival and recorded the CDs “Carnevale” and “Now make we joye”. He appears in the movie “Buddymoon”, and on the original soundtrack of the recent remake of Ben-Hur playing ancient Greek instruments. He has played for audiences on three continents, including performances at ancient theater sites in Greece. He teaches regularly at several early music workshops, and conducts Advanced Recorder, Renaissance Winds, and Loud Band classes at the Community Music Center in Portland. He also teaches the online Zoom Consort Class with Gayle Neuman and Laura Kuhlman. Phil has performed with the American Bach Soloists, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the Mercury Baroque Orchestra, and the Handel & Haydn Society Orchestra. He wrote “Fantasia on Faithless Nancy Dawson” for the Play-the-Recorder Month 2019 featured selection of the American Recorder Society. He has composed, arranged and transcribed over a thousand works for recorder ensemble, brass ensemble, and symphonic wind ensemble, including “Theme and Variations” that won first place in the San Francisco Recorder Composition Competition. With his wife Gayle, he has built over 450 early wind and stringed instruments including krummhorns, cornamusen, douçaines, and racketts.

Gayle Neuman, a performer on violin, recorder, sackbutt, and many other instruments, is also a vocalist who has received international acclaim for her renditions of the “Song of Seikilos,” the “Chorus from Orestes,” and others upon the release of Ensemble De Organographia’s CD Music of the Ancient Greeks. Several of the tracks from that recording have also appeared in the Norton Scores Recorded Anthology of Western Music, and numerous films and television programs. She appears as herself in the award-winning film “Buddymoon” and recorded music for the recent remake of Ben-Hur. She composed and arranged music for the production of “Mary Stuart” directed by Elizabeth Huffman for Northwest Classical Theatre. She has performed for audiences in the U.S., Japan, Israel, Turkey, Greece, Canada, Norway, Germany, and for members of the royal family in Jordan. She co-founded and co-directs the Oregon Renaissance Band, and has played under the baton of Monica Huggett and Ton Koopman. She teaches Recorder and Collegium Musicum classes at Portland’s Community Music Center, and has given workshops and presentations at many institutions including Oberlin Conservatory, Rice University, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Getty Center. She has built with her husband Phil over 400 early wind and stringed instruments including krummhorns, cornamusen, racketts, and vielles.