Tricia van Oers, recorder

Tricia van Oers graduated with high honors in 1998 from the Conservatory of her native city Rotterdam with a Teacher’s and Performer’s Degree. She did graduate work at Indiana University's Early Music Institute, where she received a Performer Diploma with high achievement in Early Music Performance. She then worked making and testing recorders at the world-renowned Von Huene Workshop in Boston.

Based in New York State, her activities include performances with Concert Royal (NYC), Early Music New York (Fred Renz, dir.), Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Cantata Singers (Boston), the Crescendo Period Instrument Orchestra, the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia.

She has performed as a guest soloist with the Bethlehem Bach Festival Orchestra, Tempesta di Mare, Musica Sacra, the Chamber Music Society of Central VA, Amor Artis. As a founding member of the Rotterdam-based recorder ensemble Scarabee she recorded at the Great Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, France.

Ms. van Oers teaches privately, and regularly coaches at workshops and recorder societies in the Northeast and across the U.S.