Recorder31 Day 25 | Side-By-Side Interview: Sarah Jeffery & Finn Collinson
For the fourth and final Recorder31 Side-By-Side Interview, we have a discussion about the recorder's presence in different genres including folk, pop and prog music, along with thoughts on boosting the instrument's public reputation, a common thread through many of this year's interviews.
Making her third appearance of this year's Recorder31, we welcome back Sarah Jeffery. Sarah is recognised as a member of ensembles including BLOCK4 and Jerboah, and as a professor at London's Royal College of Music. She is perhaps best known as the presenter of the popular YouTube channel Team Recorder. Talking with Sarah is Finn Collinson. Finn is a freelance recorder specialist with The Early Music Shop and has been responsible for curating much of this year's Recorder31 schedule, but aside from this work, he is also a recorder player and folk music specialist. This interview provides a chance to hear from one of the voices behind The Early Music Shop's recorder celebrations!
Sarah and Finn spoke about their work with the recorder in different contexts, their inspiration from varied contexts, and their hopes for the continued promotion and celebration of the recorder.
Listen to the interview in full here:
About the artists:
Sarah Jeffery is one of the world’s foremost promoters of the recorder, and a passionate champion of both early and contemporary music. She has commissioned and premiered dozens of contemporary works and is regularly found performing on stages and festivals all over the globe. Off-stage, she is recognized as an expert on the instrument, appearing on the BBC, as well as being a regular feature on radio and television. In 2022 she was appointed ‘Recorder Professor Specialising in Contemporary Music’ at the Royal College of Music in London. In addition to her solo career, Ms. Jeffery performs regularly with a number of her own projects, ranging from experimental pop band Jerboah, to recorder trio aXolot, to Renaissance recorder consort The Royal Wind Music, and much more. In an effort to maximise her reach, Ms. Jeffery has cultivated an educational presence both on and offline. Online, she posts weekly instructional tutorials on technique, improvisation, repertoire, and much more on her YouTube channel, Team Recorder. One of the most recognisable resources for recorder, the channel has amassed over 200,000 loyal subscribers. www.sarahjeffery.com
Finn Collinson is a recorder player, multi-instrumentalist, folk musician and composer based in East Anglia. Widely regarded as one of the foremost recorder players on the English folk circuit, Finn has released two solo albums, Call To Mind (2019) and The Threshold (2022), to critical acclaim. A graduate of the prestigious Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Finn’s classical training often informs his performance and composition within his folk music specialism, in which he often uses fragments of historical music and collaborates with a range of different performers. Aside from his solo work, Finn is in high demand as session musician and educator. He works extensively with FolkEast (notably as curator of the festival's Youth Moot workshop programme), and has also undertaken visiting teaching roles with the English Folk Dance & Song Society, Newcastle University and Britten Pears Arts. www.finncollinson.com
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The Sound of Recorder Music!
On the last day of our Recorder31 Sopranos & Smaller weekend, we hear clips of the Takeyama Soprano Recorder in Maple. These instruments are very lightweight and the wood staining gives them an attractive and premium finish. The clips demonstrate the a442 model but it is also available at a415 baroque pitch. Listen to the clips below or follow this link to find out more about this instrument.
Sammartini Allegro:
Van Eyck Nightingale:
Scale:
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