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deborahDeborah Booth is a performer and teacher of modern and baroque flute as well as recorder. She is co-founder and director of Ensemble BREVE. She has also performed with the Handel & Haydn Society, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Boston Early Music Festival, Amherst Early Music, Trinity Bach Vespers (NYC), Big Apple Baroque as well as recorder soloist with various ensembles. Deborah teaches in New York City, Greenwich, CT, directs the Princeton Recorder Academy and has taught and played at the Amherst Early Music Festival and Pinewoods Early Music Week. Her conducting experience includes the Recorder Orchestra of New York (RONY) from 2004 to 2008. Click here to see Deborah's website.

Wendy Powers is an active performer and teacher of recorder in New York City. wendyShe received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1994. Wendy is assistant director and faculty member of the Amherst Early Music Festival at Connecticut College and is adjunct assistant professor at Queens College of the City University of New York, where she directed the Collegium Musicum in 2006-07. She taught music history at Vassar College in Fall 2007. She is the former book review editor of American Recorder magazine, to which she has contributed articles and reviews and has written about musical instruments for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History.

karenKaren Snowberg, Music 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.

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