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The Wireless Consort Recorder Ensemble
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.

The Wireless Consort Recorder Ensemble
Jennifer Carpenter, Cornell Kinderknecht, Lee Lattimore, Susan Richter, Sara Funkhouser
The Wireless Consort is affiliated with the American Recorder Society.

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.

 
Contact The Wireless Consort
 
Highlights from our April 24, 2005 concert:
Concert information, announcement, and program

Audio clips from the concert
 
Highlights from our March 28, 2004 concert:
Concert information, announcements, and program

Audio clips from the concert

Photos from the concert
 
Related Websites:
Texas Camerata

Texas Bach Choir

Dallas Recorder Society

Orchestra of New Spain

Texas Early Music Project

Lee Lattimore's Website

Cornell Kinderknecht's Website

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