Sarah Jeffery of Team Recorder
About this episode
Sarah Jeffery is a wonderful and versatile recorder player based in the Netherlands, known worldwide for her outreach with her YouTube project Team Recorder, which at the time of this podcast release has well over 205,000 very engaged followers. She is the Recorder Professor specializing in Contemporary music at the Royal College in London, and we talked about her work teaching recorder technique, improvisation in different styles, her varied career including experimental theatre and her synesthesia which directly informs her work as a musician. There’s lots more to this wide-ranging episode, which features some fantastic recorder performances as well.
Transcript and Video link on my website: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/sarah-jeffery-of-team-recorder
Sarah Jeffery website: https://sarahjeffery.com/
Bach Sarabande: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9paJfIegQ3Q
Constellations album https://team-recorder.myshopify.com/collections/audio
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Timestamps
(00:00) Intro
(02:49) Team Recorder
(06:37) winning the International Nordhorn Competition
(09:13) album Constellations, about Vermont Counterpoint Steve Reich
(11:41) excerpt from Vermont Counterpoint by Steve Reich
(13:46) trio axoLot
(14:54) excerpt from Virgo splendens with trio axoLot
(16:14) Austro
(17:54) excerpt from Austro by Giorgio Tedde
(19:28) recorder family
(20:46) synesthesia
(23:39) recorder challenges
(26:04) Bach Sarabande G major Cello Suite on bass recorder
(29:32) parenting and music education
(32:11) please support the podcast!
(33:01) community of recorder players, importance of music education funding, Team Recorder
(37:17) mentors in England, encouragement to pursue music from high school teachers
(41:08) moving to the Netherlands, learning Dutch
(43:58) teaching improvisation, SoundLAB Amsterdam
(47:42) improvisation, band Jerboah
(49:35) Walking with Jerboah
(55:17) interesting theatre performances, Jetse Batelaan
(01:01:19) challenges with lack of arts funding
(01:02:23) Royal College recorder department, historical instruments 3D printing
(01:05:57) studio work, Bob’s Burgers
(01:06:58) approach to teaching, the future of Team Recorder, Schott publishing books and Hal Leonard
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