Anne Timberlake

Recorder player and teacher

Anne Timberlake has appeared across the United States performing repertoire from Bach to twenty-first-century premieres to Celtic tunes. She holds degrees in recorder performance from Oberlin Conservatory, where she studied with Alison Melville, and Indiana University, where she studied with Eva Legene and won the 2007 Early Music Institute Concerto Competition. Critics have praised her "fine technique and stylishness," "unexpectedly rich lyricism" (Letter V), and "dazzling playing" (Chicago Classical Review).

Anne has received awards from the American Recorder Society and the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, and was awarded a Fulbright Grant to study recorder performance in Belgium. With Musik Ekklesia, Anne has recorded for the Sono Luminus label.

Anne is a founding member of the ensemble Wayward Sisters, specializing in music of the early baroque. In 2011, Wayward Sisters won Early Music America's Naxos Recording Competition. In addition, The Newberry Consort presented Wayward Sisters as Emerging Artists during the 2010-2011 concert season.

Anne enjoys teaching as well as playing. In addition to maintaining a private studio, Anne has coached through Indiana University's Pre-College Recorder Program, the Virginia Baroque Performance Institute, Mountain Collegium, Catacoustic Consort's community recorder program, and for numerous American Recorder Society chapters.

Press and Reviews

preternaturally persuasive

"Then there was Timberlake's preternaturally persuasive recorder playing, sweet most of the time, stinging the rest of the time, and sensitive all of the time." James Leonard, The Ann Arbor Observer

floods of clarion tones

"Timberlake . . . produced floods of clarion tones on several recorders but was particularly prominent in two items by Tarquino Merula, a Sonata Prima and Ciaconna, that made her instrument the equivalent of a coloratura soprano, and an awfully good one at that." Peter Jacobi, Herald Times

dazzling

"Timberlake was a rich-toned presence throughout with some dazzling playing in Tarquinio Merula's Sonata Prima and Ciaconna." Lawrence A. Johnson, Chicago Classical Review

fine technique and stylishness

"Anne Timberlake, playing alto recorder in the Sonata in D minor, demonstrated fine technique and stylishness in fast sections... and brought unexpectedly rich lyricism to the slow movements." Clark Bustard , Letter V: The Virginia Classical Music Blog

Upcoming Appearances

April 20-21, 2013
Guest Faculty
Spring Workshop
Recorder Society of Long Island
Dix Hills, NY

Sunday May 12, 2013
Session Leader
Tidewater Recorder Society
Williamsburg, VA

Sunday May 19, 2013
Session Leader
Shenandoah Recorder Society
Charlottesville, VA

Wednesday May 22, 2013
Revolutionary and Banned
with the Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia
Richmond, VA

June 10-14, 2013
Guest Faculty
Virginia Baroque Performance Institute
Harrisonburg, VA

Saturday June 22, 2013
The Naughty List
with Wayward Sisters
Connecticut Early Music Festival
New London, CT

June 30-July 6, 2013
Faculty
Mountain Collegium
Cullowhee, NC

Friday July 12, 2013
The Naughty List
with Wayward Sisters
Indianapolis Early Music Festival
Indianapolis, IN


Recent Appearances

April 10-April 14, 2013
 with Seraphic Fire
Miami, FL; Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Saturday, March 16, 2013
 Spring Workshop Faculty
Triangle Recorder Society
Durham, NC

Sunday March 10, 2013
 Session Leader
Tidewater Recorder Society
Williamsburg, VA

Saturday March 3, 2013
 The Naughty List
with Wayward Sisters
The Arizona Early Music Society
Tucson, AZ

Saturday March 2, 2013
 Full Day Workshop
Desert Pipes
Phoenix, AZ

Saturday March 2, 2013
 The Naughty List
with Wayward Sisters
Phoenix, AZ

Friday, February 22, 2013
 The King's Private Musick
with Three Notch'd Road
Charlottesvile, VA

Sunday February 17, 2013
 Session Leader
Shenandoah Recorder Society
Charlottesville, VA

Friday February 15, 2013
 The King's Private Musick
with Three Notch'd Road
Staunton, VA

Saturday, February 9, 2013
 Session Leader
Recorder Society of Long Island
Dix Hills, NY

Sunday, January 20, 2013
 Session Leader
Shenandoah Recorder Society
Charlottesville, VA

Sunday January 13, 2013
 A Restless Heart
with Wayward Sisters
Early Music at the Barn
Grayslake, IL

Saturday, January 12, 2013
 A Restless Heart
with Wayward Sisters
Chicago, IL

Sunday, December 16, 2012
Session Leader
Shenandoah Recorder Society
Charlottesville, VA

Saturday, December 8, 2012
with UVA Chamber Singers
with Three Notch'd Road
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

Friday November 16
The Naughty List
with Wayward Sisters
Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg, KS

Sunday November 11, 2012
Session Leader
Tidewater Recorder Society
Williamsburg, VA

Sunday October 21, 2012
with Three Notch'd Road
Charlottesville, VA

Friday October 19-20, 2012
Bach-Handel Festival
Winchester, VA

Saturday September 14 & 15, 2012
Private house concerts
with Three Notch'd Road
Charlottesvile, VA

Sunday September 9, 2012
International Beethoven Festival
with Wayward Sisters
Chicago, IL

Friday September 7, 2012
Ashes, Ashes: Music and Plague
with Wayward Sisters
St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral
Memphis, TN

Musick for Severall Friends: Locke's London

Thursday July 5 - Sunday, July 8, 2012
Presenter and session leader:
"This is Your Body on Music"
American Recorder Society 2012 Festival
Portland, OR

Sunday, June 24 - Saturday, June 30, 2012
Faculty Member
Mountain Collegium
Cullowhee, NC

Musick for Severall Friends: Locke's London

Vocal and Instrumental Masterworks of Vivaldi and Handel

Sunday, May 6, 2012
Session Leader
Tidewater Recorder Society

Williamsburg, VA

Saturday, April 21, 2012
Locke's London
with Wayward Sisters
Chicago, IL

Sunday April 15, 2012
Session Leader
Shenandoah Recorder Society
Charlottesville, VA

Sunday, March 11, 2012
Session Leader
Tidewater Recorder Society

Williamsburg, VA

Geminiani Goes To Scotland: Baroque Music from Scotland and Italy