Rainer Beckmann

German born recorder player Rainer Beckmann performs with a large variety of early music ensembles in the Philadelphia Tri-State area and is a founding member of New World Recorders and La Bernardinia Baroque Ensemble. As a soloist and ensemble player, he regularly appears with such groups as Tempesta di Mare Baroque Orchestra, The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra, Camerata Ama Deus, The Clarion Choir and Orchestra, Brandywine Baroque and Vox Renaissance Consort. Rainer teaches at Amherst Early Music workshops, coaches the recorder players of Temple University’s Early Music Ensemble, and serves as the music director of the Philadelphia Recorder Society. He is a graduate of the Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands where he studied recorder and historical performance practice with Heiko ter Schegget, Baldrick Deerenberg and Marion Verbruggen.