Annette Bauer is a recorder player and multi-instrumentalist. Born and raised in Germany, she holds a diploma in medieval and Renaissance music from the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland (2001), and an MA in music from the University of California in Santa Cruz (2004). She's performed all over the world with groups including Piffaro, Texas Early Music Project, Magnificat, medieval ensemble Cançonièr, Baroque ensemble Les Graces, the Cirque du Soleil show TOTEM, and Farallon Recorder Quartet, as well as her own modal crossover project The Lost Mode.
Based in Montreal, she offers online instruction to students of all ages in her private studio and teaches an ongoing class on 14th-16th-century notation through Amherst Early Music. Annette is the Music Director for NAVRS, the North American Virtual Recorder Society, and directs the San Francisco Early Music Society's summer Recorder Workshop.
