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RACHEL BEGLEY is
an English recorder virtuoso, now based in New York. She is active as both soloist and
orchestral player, and appears regularly with such ensembles as the New
York Philharmonic, New York City Opera, the American Classical Orchestra,
New York Collegium, Concert Royal, the Long Island Baroque Ensemble, and
Philomel. As a soloist, she has performed at the prestigious Boston and Berkeley Early Music Festivals, as
well as playing concertos and giving recitals throughout the country. She is
a founding member of both the New Amsterdam Recorder Trio, who enjoy
collaborative concerts with the internationally acclaimed Flanders Recorder
Quartet, and the baroque ensemble, Sympatica.
Following studies at Indiana
University's Early Music Institute, she gained a
Doctor of Musical Arts degree in recorder and early music from SUNY Stony
Brook in 1997. In addition to her performing career, Rachel teaches
privately and at festivals and workshops in the US and Europe, and is Music Director for the Recorder
Society of Long Island.
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