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The Wireless Consort Recorder Ensemble is a performing
ensemble based in North Texas specializing in music for recorder
quartet and quintet. In addition to the vast literature for
recorder from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the group also
performs modern music composed for the recorder and arrangements of
music from other periods.
All versatile musicians, The Wireless Consort members play a variety
of instruments. In a performance, many sizes and styles of recorder
are employed.
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Cornell Kinderknecht, Susan Richter, Lee
Lattimore, Sara Funkhouser
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The Wireless Consort Performer Biographies
Sara Funkhouser served as principal oboist of the Kansas City
Philharmonic. She attended the Juilliard and Manhattan Schools of
Music where she studied with Harold Gomberg. She received her DMA in
Music History from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She did
post-graduate study on Baroque oboe with Ku Ebbinge and recorder with
Saskia Coolen. Sara currently lives in Fort Worth and performs on
Baroque oboe and recorder with the Texas Camerata (Fort Worth), Texas
Bach Choir (San Antonio), and Sarabande (Washington, D.C.). She also
teaches Baroque oboe and recorder at the University of North Texas.
Lee Lattimore performs frequently on both historical and modern
flutes with Texas Camerata, Orchestra of New Spain, Texas Bach Choir,
and Musica Dominica among others. He also maintains an active Suzuki
flute studio in Dallas and teaches Baroque flute at the University of
North Texas in Denton. In addition, Lee serves on the executive board
of the North Texas Suzuki Association and is a member of the National
Flute Association's Oral History and Historical Flute Committees. He
received a DMA in Flute Performance from the University of North
Texas, and his teachers have included Mary Karen Clardy, Deborah
Baron, Gretel Shanley, Frances Shelly, David Hart, Sandra Miller and
Thomas Nyfenger. Visit Lee Lattimore's website at www.leelattimore.net.
Cornell Kinderknecht received a music degree in woodwind
performance from Kansas State University where he studied modern oboe,
bassoon, and historic woodwinds with Sara Funkhouser. He has studied
recorder in workshop and masterclass settings with Han Tol, Joris von
Goethe, Saskia Coolen, and Frances Blaker. In 2005, Cornell released
a CD of original music for world flutes and was a finalist for
"Musician of the Year" at the 2006 Texas Music Awards. Currently
living in Addison, Texas and working as a software engineer, Cornell
actively pursues his interest in historic and ethnic woodwinds. He is
a member of the Dallas Recorder Society and the Heart of the Cedar
Native American Flute Circle. He frequently performs as a solo artist
playing original works on wind instruments from cultures around the
world. Visit Cornell Kinderknecht's website at www.cornellk.com.
Susan Richter earned a music education degree from North Texas
State University (now UNT) and after a brief foray as a
junior high band director, turned to computer science as a way to earn
a living -- but music remains her life's interest. She has played
recorder with the South Bay Recorder Society (Manhattan Beach,
California) and the Early Music Ensemble of Los Angeles. She was a
founding member of the TRW Anechoic Chamber Music Club in Redondo
Beach; and currently performs both on recorder and as a singer with
the Texas Early Music Project in Austin, Texas. Other musical
interests include choral and small ensemble singing, playing clarinet
and saxophone in pit orchestras, and playing penny whistle duets with
her husband, Win Bent. Susan works as a data modeler for the
Texas Education Agency.
Jennifer Carpenter holds a Bachelor of Music degree in clarinet
performance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a
Master's degree in musicology with an emphasis in historical
performance practices from the University of North Texas. While
attending UNCG, she began playing early wind instruments in the
Collegium Musicum. Her pursuit of performance practice studies
brought her to UNT where she studies with Lyle Nordstrom and Sara
Funkhouser. As a recorder player, Jennifer performs with the UNT
Baroque Orchestra, the Plano Baroque Chamber Ensemble, and has been a
guest artist with the Texas Camerata and Denton Bach Society.
Currently, Jennifer serves as the director of the UNT recorder
ensembles. She has taught clarinet and recorders in Greensboro, NC,
Gaithersburg, MD, and Argyle, TX. Jennifer was awarded a Toulouse
Graduate Fellowship to complete her Ph.D. studies in musicology and
historical performance practices at UNT.
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