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 Observerfloods 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 Timesdazzling
"Timberlake was a rich-toned presence throughout with some dazzling playing in Tarquinio Merula's Sonata Prima and Ciaconna." Lawrence A. Johnson, Chicago Classical Reviewfine 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." Eric Dobbs, Letter V: The Virginia Classical Music BlogGeminiani Goes To Scotland: Baroque Music from Scotland and Italy
- Saturday, March 3, 2012
7:30 p.m.
with Three Notch'd Road
Christ Episcopaal Church
Charlottesville, VA
- Sunday, March 4, 2012
3:00 p.m.
with Three Notch'd Road
Trinity Episcopaal Church
Staunton, VA
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Session Leader
Tidewater Recorder Society
Williamsburg, VA
Sunday April 15, 2012
Session Leader
Shenandoah Recorder Society
Charlottesville, VA
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Locke's London
with Wayward Sisters
Chicago, IL
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Session Leader
Tidewater Recorder Society
Williamsburg, VA
Sunday, May 27, 2012
TBA
with Three Notch'd Road
Charlottesville, VA
June, 2012
with Wayward Sisters
DC Early Music Festival
Washington, DC
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, February 19, 2012
Session Leader
Tidewater Recorder Society
Charlottesville, VA
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Session Leader
Tidewater Recorder Society
Williamsburg, VA
Sunday, December 18
Session leader
Shenandoah Recorder Society
Charlottesville, VA
Sunday, Dec 6, 2011
Bach 4th Brandenburg Concerto
with Ensemble Musical Offering
Wauwatosa, WI
Saturday, Dec 5, 2011
Bach 4th Brandenburg Concerto
with Ensemble Musical Offering
Milwaukee, WI
Sunday, November 20
with Magnolia Baroque
Music in Rembrandt's Amsterdam
North Carolina Museum of Art
Durham, NC
Sunday, November 13
Session leader
Tidewater Recorder Society
Williamsburg, VA
Sunday, October 23
with Three Notch'd Road
St. Paul's Memorial Church
Charlottesville, VA
Friday, October 21
with Three Notch'd Road
Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival
Winchester, VA
Friday, October 14
with Piedmont Baroque
University of Virginia Faculty Concert Series
Charlottesville, VA
Friday, September 30
with Wayward Sisters
Academy of Ancient Music
Ann Arbor, MI
Wednesday June 15, 2011
Guest Clinician
Virginia Baroque Performance Academy
Harrisonburg, VA
Sunday, July 3-Saturday, July 8
Recorder Faculty
Mountain Collegium
Cullowhee, NC
Friday, May 27 - 7:30 PM
with Wayward Sisters
Milwaukee, WI
Saturday, May 28 - 7:30 PM
with Wayward Sisters
Chicago Temple
Chicago, IL
Sunday, May 29 - 4:30 PM
with Wayward Sisters
St. Thomas Lutheran Church
Bloomington, IN
Saturday, Mar 19
Faculty Member
Annual Workshop
Triangle Recorder Society
Durham, NC
Sunday, January 23, 2011 - 8 pm
The Newberry Consort presents Wayward Sisters as 2010-2011 Emerging Artists!
The Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago
126 E. Chestnut St., Chicago, Illinois
Thursday, December 9, 2010 -7:30 PM
Baroque by Candlelight
with The Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia
First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond
Richmond, VA
Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 3 pm
with Wayward Sisters
Staller Center Recital Hall
SUNY Stony Brook, New York
Saturday, October 16, 2010 - 7:30 pm
with Wayward Sisters
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
754 Montauk Hwy, Islip, New York