Sarah
Jeffery
RecorderThrough avenues as varied as music theatre, chamber music, live electronics, and a successful Youtube presence, Sarah Jeffery is one of the world’s foremost promoters of the recorder. A specialist in contemporary music, Ms. Jeffery 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 international radio and television. For her efforts, she has received praise for “standing out from the established repertoire” and “fresh, surprising, and explosive” performances from NRC Handelsblad, with additional recognition from numerous publications across the world.
Audiences recognize Jeffery as the only recorder player invited to join Splendor, the award-winning Amsterdam-based music collective, as of 2019. She has gained significant notoriety over the years, with a full suite of past performances that include the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Gaudeamus Festival NL, Sonorities festival Belfast, and NEU/NOW festival Glasgow. In 2021 she was appointed Honorary Vice-President of the Society of Recorder Players in the UK.
Recent career highlights include a guest star appearance on BBC children’s programme ‘YolanDa’s Band Jam’, recent travels to Singapore to act as musical director for the film ‘Recorder Rewrite’, which was screened at the Venice Biennale. Jeffery’s debut album, Constellations was released in 2018, for which Jeffery attained rare permission to arrange and perform Steve Reich’s “Vermont Counterpoint.” This season she has performed in venues as far flung as London and Helsinki, Sao Paulo and Singapore.
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. Other notable ensembles Sarah has worked with include the Nieuw Ensemble, Het Zuidelijk Toneel, s t a r g a z e orchestra, Psallentes choir, Amsterdam Cello Octet, Jeugdtheater Sonnevanck, PRIME recorder ensemble, the Veenfabriek, Resonate Productions, Atlas Ensemble, and the White Noise Orchestra.
In an effort to maximize 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 recognizable resources for recorder, the channel has amassed over 150,000 loyal subscribers. Her channel has worked in partnership with global brands such as Netflix, Yamaha, and Primephonic.
Outside YouTube, Ms. Jeffery not only has teaching experience from age five to the professional level, but also conducts improvisation and composition workshops in the SoundLAB of the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ. She has taught more specialized recorder courses across Europe and in Brazil and New Zealand, including at the Birmingham Conservatoire, Dartington Summer School, FolkWorld Summer School, and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
Outside pedagogy, Ms. Jeffery co-ordinates the biannual ORDA Teachers Conference in Amsterdam, and can be found giving lectures at a range of education conferences, including MERYC and the Utrecht Early Music Festival. She also has written for music publications such as Tempo, Primephonic, and Blokfluitist magazine, where she is part of the editorial team.
Originally from Derbyshire in the United Kingdom, Sarah Jeffery is currently based in Amsterdam. She holds both a Master of Music cum laude and Bachelor of Music diploma from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where she completed a thesis on the relationship between clog dancing and contemporary music theatre, and also holds a first class Bachelor of Music degree from the Birmingham Conservatoire. She is grateful to her masterful pedagogues, who include Jorge Isaac, Walter van Hauwe and Annabel Knight.
Audiences recognize Jeffery as the only recorder player invited to join Splendor, the award-winning Amsterdam-based music collective, as of 2019. She has gained significant notoriety over the years, with a full suite of past performances that include the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Gaudeamus Festival NL, Sonorities festival Belfast, and NEU/NOW festival Glasgow. In 2021 she was appointed Honorary Vice-President of the Society of Recorder Players in the UK.
Recent career highlights include a guest star appearance on BBC children’s programme ‘YolanDa’s Band Jam’, recent travels to Singapore to act as musical director for the film ‘Recorder Rewrite’, which was screened at the Venice Biennale. Jeffery’s debut album, Constellations was released in 2018, for which Jeffery attained rare permission to arrange and perform Steve Reich’s “Vermont Counterpoint.” This season she has performed in venues as far flung as London and Helsinki, Sao Paulo and Singapore.
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. Other notable ensembles Sarah has worked with include the Nieuw Ensemble, Het Zuidelijk Toneel, s t a r g a z e orchestra, Psallentes choir, Amsterdam Cello Octet, Jeugdtheater Sonnevanck, PRIME recorder ensemble, the Veenfabriek, Resonate Productions, Atlas Ensemble, and the White Noise Orchestra.
In an effort to maximize 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 recognizable resources for recorder, the channel has amassed over 150,000 loyal subscribers. Her channel has worked in partnership with global brands such as Netflix, Yamaha, and Primephonic.
Outside YouTube, Ms. Jeffery not only has teaching experience from age five to the professional level, but also conducts improvisation and composition workshops in the SoundLAB of the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ. She has taught more specialized recorder courses across Europe and in Brazil and New Zealand, including at the Birmingham Conservatoire, Dartington Summer School, FolkWorld Summer School, and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
Outside pedagogy, Ms. Jeffery co-ordinates the biannual ORDA Teachers Conference in Amsterdam, and can be found giving lectures at a range of education conferences, including MERYC and the Utrecht Early Music Festival. She also has written for music publications such as Tempo, Primephonic, and Blokfluitist magazine, where she is part of the editorial team.
Originally from Derbyshire in the United Kingdom, Sarah Jeffery is currently based in Amsterdam. She holds both a Master of Music cum laude and Bachelor of Music diploma from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where she completed a thesis on the relationship between clog dancing and contemporary music theatre, and also holds a first class Bachelor of Music degree from the Birmingham Conservatoire. She is grateful to her masterful pedagogues, who include Jorge Isaac, Walter van Hauwe and Annabel Knight.
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