List of recorder players

A recorder player is a musician who plays the recorder, a flute-like woodwind musical instrument. The recorder is often used in teaching the rudiments of music, as it is cheap to buy and relatively easy to play at a certain level of accomplishment (although its mastery is as demanding as that of any other instrument). Because of this widespread use of the recorder, the list of people who can play it is enormous. Therefore, this article lists three categories of people: firstly, those who are notable recorder players and are widely recognised as performers on the instrument; secondly, those who are not famous as recorder players but who have used the instrument as a notable feature of their work; and, thirdly, people who are famous for some other reason but are known to be recreational recorder players.

List of notable recorder players

* Andrew McKee of the Brobdingnagian Bards
*Aldo Abreu
*Tom Beets
*Rachel Begley
*Frans Brüggen
*Michael Copley
*Patrick Denecker
*Carl Dolmetsch
*Richard Harvey
*Jill Kemp
*Hans Maria Kneihs
*Bernard Krainis
*Hans-Martin Linde
*Sarah Martin (Belle & Sebastian)
*Matthias Maute
*David Munrow
*Mani Neumann
*Dorothee Oberlinger
*Michala Petri
*Philip Pickett
*Roy Sansom
*Ashley Solomon
*Sufjan Stevens
*Linda Turbett
*Marion Verbruggen
*Neil Adams

Other musicians who have made notable use of the recorder

*Jimi Hendrix played soprano recorder in some of his studio recordings
*Bob Homme ("The Friendly Giant") used the recorder as part of his TV show
*Rahsaan Roland Kirk featured the recorder on several of his recordings.
*Keith Jarrett played recorder on his album "The Survivor's Suite"
*Billy Joel played the recorder on Cold Spring Harbor.
*Brian Jones (Rolling Stones) notably played the recorder in the song "Ruby Tuesday"
*John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) played several recorders in the studio recording of "Stairway to Heaven"
*Paul McCartney (The Beatles) occasionally uses the recorder in his music (eg "The Fool on the Hill")
*Bon Scott played recorder during his pre-AC/DC career in the band Fraternity
*Bruce Springsteen plays recorder on some of his tracks
*Dido studied recorder at the London Guildhall school of music and most famously plays it on the track "Thank You" from her debut album "No Angel"
*Mick Ronson, glam-rock guitarist, producer and arranger played multi-tracked recorders on David Bowie's "Life on Mars?" and on Lou Reed's "Satellite of Love"
*Gary Brooker and Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum played the recorder on the track "Boredom" on their third album, "A Salty Dog".
*Roy Wood from The Move would play recorder frequently on The Move's albums.
*Steve Page of the Barenaked Ladies played the recorder on "Helicopters" on their album "Maroon (album)".
*Emma Christian, native Manx Gaelic singer and folk artist plays the recorder in place of the more traditional tin whistle.
*Jowan Merckx, plays many recorders and also whistles in folkgroup Amorroma.

Notable people who also play the recorder

*James Dean apparently learnt to play Bach on the recorder
*Patrick Troughton, who often played while in character as the Second Doctor in "Doctor Who"
*Umberto Eco
*George Bernard Shaw
*Richard Stallman
*Sarah Vowell
*Rainn Wilson who also plays the recorder while in character as Dwight Schrute in The Office
*Rasmus Fleischer
*Bonnie Wright

External links

* [http://www.recorderhomepage.net/players.html A large list of links for recorder players]