WIND IN THE WOODS INSTRUMENTS


Recorders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorder_(musical_instrument)

Lute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lute http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/lute.htm

Viola da Gamba (Viol): https://www.vdgsa.org/about-the-viol

Crumhorn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumhorn

Kortholt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kortholt

WIND IN THE WOODS MUSICIAN BIOGRAPHIES.

AAA014.jpg (47859 bytes) MARGARET  ERIN Director:
Recorder, Viola da Gamba - Margaret started playing the recorder as a child in England. She attended early music workshops in England, Ireland and the United States. Margaret later studied viola da gamba with Patricia Olds at the Early Music Center in Yellow Springs, Ohio and at Wright State University (graduating Magna cum Laude, B.A. Music). Margaret has a Master of Humanities degree and was the recipient of the WSU Outstanding Humanities Graduate Student Award for 2002, and the Outstanding Music Alumni Department of Music Award for 2007-2008. She enjoys doing historical research and writing the scripts and narratives for the groups performances. She started Wind in the Woods in 1990.  Margaret started and directed a student early music ensemble from 2001 to 2012 at the University of Dayton. From 2014 until 2023 Margaret taught private lessons on Recorder and Viola da Gamba at University of



JENELLE ALLEN:
A former clarinetist, Jenelle has enjoyed playing the recorder since childhood.  She has been active in local early music ensembles for a number of years, and has performed as a soloist in churches throughout the Miami Valley. She also enjoys playing the crumhorn and viola da gamba.  Jeni has a Master of Library and Information Science degree and is a Children Services Librarian for Washington Township/Centerville Library. Jenelle is pictured playing the great bass recorder







SARVANI NICOLOSI
is mezzo-soprano.She studied voice at Sarah Lawrence College and studied with Isabelle Garcisanz in Paris. She later went on to receive her MA/JD at the University of Cincinnati.  She sang with the Cincinnati May Festival Choir and currently sings with The World House Choir - https://worldhousechoir.org/.
 Sarvani’s singing truly enriches Wind in the Woods music and we are delighted that she has joined us! She also plays percussion.





LAWRENCE (SKIP) PITZER
Plays Lute, Recorder, and crumhorn with Wind in the Woods. He received a B.F.A. FROM Miami University (Ohio). Skipstarted the Guitar Department at Wright State University. He taught classical guitar at Cedarville University for many years and until 2025 taught guitar and lute at Wittenberg University in Springfield Ohio. At Wittenberg Skip has been the instrumental director of the early music ensemble "Kalliope." Skip has studied and played the lute since 1975, and performs extensively throughout Ohio as a solo classical guitarist and lutenist. Skip is seen here playing the lute - the lute is a plucked fretted instrument, the strings are in pairs (like a mandolin) with an extra single string - this lute has thirteen strings in all. 





 

AMY VAUBEL: 
voice, recorder, crumhorn, kortholt, percussion. Amy holds a Bachelor of Music degree with concentrations in voice and choral conducting   and a Masters in Music Education from Wright State University. Amy has directed choirs at WSU and at United Theological Seminary in Dayton.  She is currently the Director of Traditional Music at Kirkmont Church in Beavercreek.



Amy, holding a bass crumhorn



 

 

Michael Mattimore, recorders, crumhorns, kortholt, shawm

Michael received a B.M. in Theory & Composition from Wittenberg University and a Masters in  Music Education from Wright State University.  He began playing the recorder while in high school, and later studied with Shelly Gruskin and LaNou Davenport of the New York Pro Musica. He taught at the Early Music Center in Yellow Springs, was a founding member of the Early Music Group (later the Greene Consort) and is retired from teaching instrumental music in the Springfield City Schools.  Michael has played basoon with several different orchestras. He  taught the recorder at Antioch University, the Springfield Community Schools Program and Chantry Music Press in Springfield.  With Wind in the Woods Michael plays recorders, crumhorns, and kortholt – he is holding a kortholt in the picture.