Meet the Board
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Diana has been part of the Long Island recorder scene for nearly 30 years, and has enjoyed every minute! She took up the Viola da Gamba about 15 yrs. ago and plays both that and recorder on a regular basis with a number of groups. |
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Rachel Begley has been playing the recorder since the age of six, when she was given a blue recorder (which was sat upon shortly thereafter). When she is not playing or teaching, she enjoys time in the outdoors with her growing family. PS. Her recorders are no longer blue. |
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Kara Kvilekval spends her
days having fun as a surgeon but dreams about the time when
she can go and make another recorder. |
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I have been an avid
recorder player for the past thirty years. I enjoy many
types of music. Of late, I have particularly enjoyed playing
Renaissance music on Renaissance style recorders. ~Karen Wexler |
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Margaret Brown absolutely loves playing recorders - all sizes in as many groups as she can find. Besides her passion for music, she takes ballet classes, dabbles in watercolor, gardens, volunteers at the hospital, and tries to keep up with her grandchildren. |
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Beverley’s passion for recorder is somewhat new, about two years. Her empty nest at home encouraged her to return to her musical roots after a long hiatus. Back in the day, she studied flute at the University of Louisville School of Music and earned a BME. When she’s not playing and studying recorder she’s working full time at Stony Brook Medicine. She also loves live music of many genres, reading, working out, skiing, and snorkeling. |
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Patricia began playing the recorder in college and now shares her knowledge with elementary and middle school students. |
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Donna first picked up a recorder when she was student teaching. She subsequently taught recorder throughout her career as an elementary general music teacher and co-chaired the SCMEA Day of Recorder since 1999. She also authored a book for the elementary general music class titled " Recorder with Poems and Tales: A Literary Complement." Donna has attended many weeklong recorder festivals and was a member of the Recorder Orchestra of New York. |
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A casual flute player most of his life, David took up the recorder in 2022. He’s enjoying learning all the different recorders, the wonderful diversity of music that exists for the recorder and playing duets and in ensembles. He is semi-retired from a career in book publishing and lives in Huntington. |
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Larry took up the recorder at Harborfields High School under the loving tutelage of Gene Reichenthal. Then was a founding member of the Merriwether Consort at C.W.Post but his interests strayed to singing in the opera for a number of years but that misguided detour has ended and he has returned to the much saner world of recorder players. |