Vicki Boeckman, recorder
Vicki Boeckman has been on the faculty of Music Center of the Northwest since 2005.
In great demand as a teacher of the recorder and related performance practices, Vicki coaches and teaches at workshops and seminars all over the country. She has taught in Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon and Washington, and British Columbia. She is actively involved in the Seattle Recorder Society and is the Music Director for the newly formed Portland Recorder Society. Since 2006, she and colleague Darlene Franz have been the resident recorder teachers for the 3rd grade recorder program at West Woodland Elementary.
Vicki is an active and passionate performer of all styles of music and plays all sizes of recorders. Her travels and performances have taken her across the United States as well as Denmark, Norway, Sweden, England, Scotland and Germany. Her various recordings can be heard on the Kontra Punkt, Classico, Da Capo, Horizon, Musical Heritage America, Paula, Kadanza, and Primavera labels.
Since settling in Seattle in 2004, she has been a featured soloist with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Portland Opera, Philharmonia Northwest Orchestra and is a returning guest with the Gallery Concerts Series, The Northwest Girl Choir, and the Medieval Women’s Choir led by Margriet Tindemans. Her Seattle-based chamber trio, Ensemble Electra, with violinist Tekla Cunningham and harpsichordist Jillon Stoppels Dupree, specialize in music of the 17th and 18th centuries as well as newly-composed works. Her duo with recorder maker David Ohannesian is a popular addition to the Early Music Guild’s School Programs, and is often asked to return to the same schools year after year. David and Vicki use a variety of styles and sizes of recorders modeled after instruments from the 11th through 18th centuries, many made by David himself.
Vicki resided in Denmark from 1981-2004. She taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen for 12 years, and at the Ishøj Municipal School of Music for 23 years. Together with colleague Dorte Lester she co-founded a regional recorder orchestra for children and young adults which continues to flourish and grow. She was co-founder of two Danish-based ensembles: Opus 4, who concentrates on performing trio sonatas from the 17th and 18th centuries, and Wood’N’Flutes, a recorder trio playing works spanning the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Vicki continues to perform with these ensembles as often as she can in spite of the geography. Wood’N’Flutes has commissioned and premiered several works by contemporary Danish composers, which resulted in a CD called Woodworks. Wood'N'Flutes will be on tour in the Pacific Northwest and the Southwest in October of 2009; their fourth tour to the United States.
Programs taught at Music Center of the Northwest:
