North Queensland Recorder Society
David Ellis conducting NQRS members at the October 2006 playday.
About the Society
The North Queensland Recorder Society was established in 1995 to bring together all recorder players in the Townsville and wider North Queensland region for skills development (through workshops, etc) and social playing.
Its large-group activities have settled into a pattern of about four 'Playdays' - themed Sunday afternoon playing sessions - each year plus an annual weekend residential workshop with an out-of-town tutor. Guest tutors for the workshops have included Zana Clarke, Genevieve Lacey, Peter Madge, Jessica Shaw, Rodney Waterman and Ruth Wilkinson.
The society also encourages formation of amateur consorts, maintains a library of recorder music, and produces a newsletter. Individual members of the Society appear with performing groups such as The Telemann Ensemble which feature recorders.
Coming Events
The next Playday will be from 2.00 – 4.30 p.m. on Sunday February 14th at St Joseph’s School, 65 Ross River Road, Mundingburra. See February Newsletter for more details.
Our annual weekend workshop will be from 21-23 May and features Rodney Waterman (Melbourne) as guest tutor.
2009 Events
Christmas busking in the Mall. See December Newsletter for details.
Last playday for 2009: October 18, at Riverside Gardens. Details in the October Newsletter.
Concerts in Cairns and Innisfail by the Telemann Ensemble on September 5 and November 8 respectively. Details on their website, here.
Our 2009 Residential Weekend Workshop from Fri 12 - Sun 14 June at the Hotel Noorla in Ingham, and its associated workshop and concert in Townsville. Guest tutor: Robyn Mellor (Canberra). See this page for more details and this page for some photographs.
The previous committee put a lot of work into gathering funds to buy a great bass recorder. This is a wonderful instrument and adds to the tone and depth of a recorder consort but the price puts it beyond most of us. We finally got one (hooray!) just in time for the Noorla workshop - see it here.
A big Thank You to Townsville City Council
whose grant, added to our own funds,
made the purchase possible!
Committee and Contacts
- Heather Coleman (President) by email at hc4816@bigpond.net.au or by phone on 4778 8275.
- Write to Jean Dartnall (Secreatary and Newsletter editor) at 17 Kepler St, Wulguru, Qld 4811, ring her on (07) 4729 0068, or email her at jeandartnall@hotmail.com
- Vice President: Lynn Saunders
- Treasurer: John Batterham
- Past President: Margaret Caley
- Malcolm Tattersall (web page manager) can be contacted here.
News and Notices
If you would like anything included in this section, please contact the newsletter editor jeandartnall@hotmail.com
Local Recorder Teachers
- Heather Coleman ph. 4778 8275
- Malcolm Tattersall offers group or individual tuition. Phone 4725 6937.
Playing opportunities
A small friendly group meets every Monday night 7.30 p.m. at the Tattersalls’. Ring Glenda (4725 6937), or email Jean, for more information.
Are you a financial member?
Membership fees are used by the society to purchase additional music for the library, to send out regular newsletters, and to save towards a great bass recorder. We try to keep the fees low, and are probably the least expensive recorder or early music society in Australia. Benefits of membership include:
- Access to the Society’s library. (Members can receive a copy of the library catalogue as a CD or as an email attachment on request).
- Guaranteed receipt of newsletters.
- Opportunities to be involved in organising and deciding on Society activities.
Membership fees are $12 (single), $20 (family), $10 (concession). Please check with Lynn Saunders if you think your membership may be due for renewal.
And also...
Resources on Malcolm's website: his music for recorders; a survey of the one-volume reference books for recorder players.
Mozart's Music Online - Free
The Complete Mozart Edition has been published online by the Mozarteum in Salzburg and is available to everybody for free. The Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum (International Mozart Foundation) has digitized Mozart’s music, and in this groundbreaking project is making it accessible to everyone via its web site. From December 2006, the ISM and the Packard Humanities Institute will make the complete musical texts of the NMA (Neue Mozart Ausgabe) available to everyone for private, scholarly, and educational use at http://dme.mozarteum.at/. Comprehensive search capabilities allow users to easily find, study, and print any of Mozart’s works as PDF files.
Last updated 2.2.10