2022 Recorder Workshop Faculty
Rotem Gilbert, Workshop Co-Director
Recorder and early wind player Rotem Gilbert is a native of Haifa, Israel and a founding member of Ciaramella, an ensemble specializing in music of the 15th and 16th centuries. Ciaramella has performed throughout the United States, in Belgium, Germany, and Israel, and released a CD on the Naxos Label, and two recordings with Yarlung Records. Their CD Dances on Movable Ground earned five stars by the British magazine Early Music Today and was picked the Editor’s Choice, lauded for its “expressive fluidity and rhythmic vitality”. Rotem was a member of Piffaro (1996-2007), and has appeared with many early music ensembles in the United States, Brazil and in Europe. After studies on recorder with Nina Stern at Mannes College of Music in New York, she earned her solo diploma from the Scuola Civica di Musica of Milan where she studied with Pedro Memelsdorff. She earned her doctorate in Early Music performance practice at Case Western Reserve University studying with Ross W. Duffin. Rotem is a Professor of Practice at USC Thornton School of Music where is serving as Vice Dean of the Research and Scholarly Studies Division, teaching musicology courses in Early Music, Renaissance notation seminars, Renaissance and Baroque Performance Practice courses and directing Early Music ensembles. Rotem received the 2012 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at USC and is the joint recipient with Adam Gilbert of Early Music America’s 2014 Thomas Binkley Award for “outstanding achievement in performance and scholarship by the director of a university or college early music ensemble.” She has been a regular faculty member of early music workshops and is the co-director of SFEMS Recorder Workshop in the Bay Area. Rotem can be heard on the Deutsche Grammophon’s Archiv, Passacaille, Musica Americana, Dorian, Naxos and Yarlung labels.
Hanneke van Proosdij, Workshop Co-Director
Hanneke van Proosdij is renowned for the elegance, virtuosity, and expressiveness of her playing. She performs regularly as soloist and continuo specialist and is principal early keyboard player with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Festspiel Orchester Goettingen and has appeared regularly with Concerto Palatino, the LA Phil and the Dallas Symphony, among others. She received her solo and teaching diplomas from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague where she studied recorder, harpsichord and composition. Together with David Tayler, Hanneke co-founded and co-directs Voices of Music. With more than 100 million views on their YouTube channel, 2.7 million every month, Voices of Music is the most popular Early Music ensemble in America and was the first Early Music ensemble to receive the prestigious Silver Creator Award by YouTube.
Malachai Komanoff Bandy
A native of Los Angeles, Malachai Komanoff Bandy has amassed a professional performance record on some twenty instruments spanning over 800 years of music history. He graduated cum laude with Distinction in Research and Creative Work from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music with double bass and music history degrees. In recent years, Malachai has performed as a violist da gamba and violonist with various ensembles in the U.S. and Europe, including The Orpheon Consort, Ars Lyrica Houston, and Ciaramella. He is also a featured soloist in Bear McCreary’s scores to the films 10 Cloverfield Lane (yaylı tanbur, 2016), Welcome Home (viol, 2018), and Emmy-winning title theme for the STARZ television series DaVinci’s Demons (viol, 2013), and the videogame God of War (nyckelharpa, 2018). After completing a Wagoner Fellowship-funded individual course of viola da gamba and organological study with José Vázquez in Austria, Spain, and Switzerland, Malachai began graduate studies in Historical Musicology as a Provost Fellow at the USC Thornton School of Music in 2015. He is currently in the final stages of creating the first comprehensive aural catalog of the Orpheon Foundation’s fifty historical violas da gamba (Duino, Italy) with the support of a Presser Graduate Award (2016). His present scholarly interests include topics pertaining to number symbolism in the North-German baroque, as well as viola da gamba technique, repertoire, instrument design, and iconography.
Peter Maund
Peter Maund studied percussion at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and music, folklore, and ethnomusicology at the University of California, Berkeley. A founding member of Ensemble Alcatraz and Alasdair Fraser’s Skyedance, he has performed with early and contemporary music ensembles including the American Bach Soloists, Anonymous 4, Chanticleer, Hesperion XX, Musica Pacifica, Pacific MusicWorks, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Texas Early Music Project, and Voices of Music, among others. He is the author of “Percussion” in A Performer’s Guide to Medieval Music, Indiana University Press, 2000. He has served on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley as well as in workshops in the US, Canada, Israel and Great Britain. Described by the Glasgow Herald as “the most considerate and imaginative of percussionists” he can be heard on over 60 recordings.
Vicki Boeckman
Vicki Boeckman has been performing and teaching since the 1980s. Pre pandemic she traveled all over the US and to many other countries to perform and teach. When the world went virtual she adapted to the challenges and embraced the remote platform with enthusiasm and awe, discovering formerly inconceivable possibilities reaching students all across the globe. She is thrilled to be returning to in-person workshops and performances and especially excited to be on the SFEMS 2022 recorder faculty lineup. Since settling in Seattle in 2005 Vicki has been a featured soloist with the Seattle Symphony, the Yakima Symphony, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, The Oregon Symphony, Portland Opera, Medieval Women’s Choir, Gallery Concerts, Philharmonia Northwest Orchestra, and the Skagit Symphony. She is currently music director for the Seattle Recorder Society, co-director for the Recorder Orchestra of Puget Sound (ROPS), and Artistic Director for the Port Townsend Early Music Workshop. She adores teaching children and has been on the faculty of the Music Center of the Northwest since 2005 as well as having a vibrant private studio in her home.
Gwyn Roberts
Gwyn Roberts is one of America’s foremost performers on recorder and baroque flute, praised by Gramophone for her “sparkling technique, compelling musicianship, and all-around excellence.” She is also co-founder and -director of Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra Tempesta di Mare, recently hailed by the Miami Herald as “the model of a top-notch period orchestra.” She serves on the Historical Performance faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, has been Director of Early Music Ensembles at the University of Pennsylvania for 27 years, and was the 2021 recipient of Early Music America’s Thomas Binkley Award. Soloist engagements include the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Recitar Cantando of Tokyo, the Washington Bach Consort and the Kennedy Center. She has recorded for Chandos, Deutsche Grammophon, Dorian, Sony Classics, Vox, PolyGram, PGM, and Radio France. Her latest solo recordings include the Fasch Recorder Concerto in F, Bach’s Concerto in G after BWV 530, and Sonatas by Francesco Mancini. She enjoys collaborating with modern composers, recently recording James Primosch’s Sacred Songs and Meditations with the 21st Century Consort for Albany Records.
Her ensemble, Tempesta di Mare, is now in the 20th season of its Philadelphia Concert Series. It tours from Oregon to Prague, recently released its 12th CD on the British label Chandos and reaches audiences in 56 countries around the world with broadcasts of live performances. Tempesta specializes in deep dives into lesser-known repertoire. The group has performed dozens of modern premieres and stands in the vanguard of revivals of music by Fasch, Janitsch and Reutter.
A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Roberts holds a Performer’s Certificate from Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands, where she studied with Marion Verbruggen, Marten Root and Leo Meilink.
In between gigs, she loves to cook. You should try her peach Pavlova.