Anne Timberlake

Biography

Anne Timberlake has performed in 34 states (North Dakotans– call me!) playing repertoire from across the last millennium. She grew up in early music, beginning her studies as part of Indiana University’s Pre-College Recorder Program, and later earned degrees in recorder performance from Oberlin Conservatory and Indiana University.  Her teachers have included Eva Legene, Alison Melville, and Han Tol.  Critics have praised Anne’s "fine technique and stylishness," "unexpectedly rich lyricism" (Letter V), and "dazzling playing" (Chicago Classical Review).

Anne has received awards from the American Recorder Society and the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, and was awarded a Fulbright Grant. With her ensemble Wayward Sisters, Anne won Early Music America's Naxos Recording Competition, releasing a debut CD on the Naxos label in 2014.

Anne is a passionate and prolific teacher. In addition to teaching private, group, and online recorder lessons, Anne has led hundreds of recorder workshops across the United States.  Faculty engagements have included Oberlin Conservatory’s Baroque Performance Institute, Indiana University's Pre-College Recorder Program, the San Francisco Early Music Society, the Amherst Early Music Festival, Virginia Baroque Academy, Mountain Collegium, Mideast, Pinewoods Early Music Week, and numerous American Recorder Society chapters.  Anne lives with her husband and two children in St. Louis, MO. Find Anne online at annetimberlake.com
 
 

PRESS AND REVIEWS

"preternaturally persuasive"

"Then there was Timberlake's preternaturally persuasive recorder playing, sweet most of the time, stinging the rest of the time, and sensitive all of the time." James Leonard, The Ann Arbor Observer

"brilliant”

 “Anne Timberlake was the brilliant recorder player, her agility and verve bringing zest to this arresting program.”   Lawrence Budman, South Florida Classical Review

"hot and hilarious”

“The biggest crowd-pleaser of the night came during this section, and from recordist Timberlake, who led an instrumental version of one of the songs that sounded like nothing so much as a 16th-century surf-music jam, with Timberlake skirling out seemingly endless streams of rapid notes over stop-time lute chords and elaborate drum work. On and on she went, driving and driven by her excellent partners in ancient-music party planning. It was hot, it was hilarious, and it sent the large audience at All Saints into head-bobbing, foot-tapping madness, followed by lusty, well-deserved bravos and cheers.”  -Greg Stepanich, Palm Beach Arts Paper

"dazzling"

"Timberlake was a rich-toned presence throughout with some dazzling playing in Tarquinio Merula's Sonata Prima and Ciaconna." Lawrence A. Johnson, Chicago Classical Review

"elegant”

“The elegant flourishes of Anne Timberlake’s unfussy recorder playing give a carefree sense of improvisation.“  Jane Shuttleworth, Early Music Review

"fine technique and stylishness"

"Anne Timberlake, playing alto recorder in the Sonata in D minor, demonstrated fine technique and stylishness in fast sections... and brought unexpectedly rich lyricism to the slow movements." Clark Bustard, Letter V: The Virginia Classical Music Blog