Notes on the Ensemble

The Manhattan Recorder Orchestra (MRO), conducted by Matthias Maute, made its debut in January 2004 at St. John's in the Village Episcopal Church in Greenwich Village.  Since then, MRO has presented numerous concerts, performed at the Montreal Recorder Festival, and participated in the first New York Early Music Celebration in 2004. Using instruments that range from the tiny sopranino to the sub-contrabass, the orchestra plays a repertoire that includes early music as well as arrangements of classical, romantic, twentieth century and new music, with an emphasis on works composed for recorder orchestra.

Conductor Matthias Maute has achieved an international reputation as a recorder player, flautist and composer. In 1990, he won First Prize in the soloist category at the prestigious Early Music Competition in Bruges, Belgium. He is the Artistic Director of Ensemble Caprice and also tours regularly as a recorder and flute soloist with the baroque ensemble Rebel. Matthias’ compositions are frequently heard in concerts in Europe, Canada and the United States. He is a professor at McGill University in Montreal and has taught at the San Francisco Early Music Society, the Recorder Academy in Bloomington, Indiana, Amherst Early Music Festival and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.

In a program entitled

"Concerto Grosso - The Manhattan Recorder Orchestra in Concert"

Featuring MRO's guest artist, percussionist Rex Benincasa
 

Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, William Brade, Giovanni Gabrieli, Glen Shannon, Guus Haverkate, and also feature the world premiere of "Dial Tones" by MRO member Charles Gamble.

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