Performers/instruments
Sarah Jeffery – recorder, electronics and concept
About the programme
Come along on a journey through the wonderful universe of the recorder. Meet recorder explorer Sarah in her workshop, where she has almost finished building her newest rocket, powered by music! But Sarah will need your help – which piece of music does what? Let’s hope nothing goes wrong…
An interactive theatrical and musical story, created by Sarah Jeffery. You will hear music from the 14th century to… the future! Songs of Ancient Greece to Bach, mind-bending canons of Ciconia to Beethoven, Debussy, and Holst. With a good measure of alien-electronics sprinkled on top!
Finally it’s time to don our helmets and blast off into a galaxy of music and sound! Wormholes and black holes, mysterious aliens, even time travel – anything can happen. But it’s all possible, thanks to the power of music!
With music by J.S. Bach, Johannes Ciconia, Annette Ziegenmeyer, Gustav Holst, Steve Reich, Claude Debussy, Ludwig van Beethoven, Heinrich Schütz, Jacob van Eyck, and Sarah Jeffery.
Recommended age 5+, but younger siblings and babies all welcome!
All young astronauts will be given a free descant recorder!
About the artist
Sarah Jeffery (*1985) has been completely obsessed with the recorder since she started playing at the age of six. Today it’s her mission to help audiences fall in love with music too, and to show what the recorder can really do!
Sarah has performed in children’s music-theatre productions with prestigious companies such as Het Zuidelijk Toneel (the Dutch Theatre of the South), Theater Artemis, Theater Sonnevanck, and Theater fluup!. Her favourite show was a production where there were two live chickens walking around on stage (they only escaped once).
Aside from creating children’s theatre, Sarah is professor of the recorder at the Royal College of Music in London. She reguarly tours the world performing concerts that sadly are not about aliens. Sarah runs the popular YouTube channel Team Recorder, where she has over 200,000 subscribers. She publishes books with Schott Music and Hal Leonard, and has signed to classical label TRPTK for her next album. She was made honorary Vice President of the Society of Recorder Players in 2022, for her services to the community.
www.sarahjeffery.com
Approx. finish 11.55am. No interval.
