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Coaches

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Deborah Booth is a performer and teacher of flute (both historical and modern) and recorders. She performs widely as a soloist and chamber musician (with her chamber ensemble, BREVE, as well as FLAUTO D'AMORE) and has been a regular performer at the Boston Early Music Festival. Deborah is on the faculty of Brooklyn Conservatory, Greenwich Academy, and the Lucy Moses School of Music and Dance, as well as directing her own Princeton Recorder Academy in Princeton, New Jersey. She has conducted solo workshops in the US, Mexico, and Europe. Deborah teaches and plays each summer at the Amherst Early Music Institute.

Susan Iadone has a varied and active career as a performer, teacher, and coach on recorder, viola, and viola da gamba. Her experiences include accompanying Victoria de los Angeles in recital, recording Klezmer music with Giora Feidman, touring Europe with Meredith Monk's opera Atlas, and performing at the Metropolitan Opera on sopranino recorder. She has performed with Concert Royal, Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, New York Consort of Viols and the Waverly Consort, and has recorded extensively. She is on the faculty of the St. David's School in New York City.

Carol Leibman earned a Master of Arts in Musicology from Columbia University. She coaches classes in several neighboring chapters.

Karen Snowberg, Musical Director of WRG, has an MFA degree in Early Music Performance from Sarah Lawrence College with additional study at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland. Karen is an active recorder teacher and church musician (specializing in recorder and early brass instruments) and has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Company, the Artek Ensemble, Ex Umbris, Holy Trinity's Bach Vespers, Chicago Baroque Festival Orchestra, the New York Renaissance Band, and Sinfonia Antiqua. She is a member of the teaching faculty of the Westchester Recorder Guild and the Recorder Society of Connecticut.