Annette Bauer

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, and an MA from UC Santa Cruz. From 2001-2012 she called the San Francisco Bay area her home, where she studied classical North Indian music on sarode at the Ali Akbar College of Music. and worked as a freelance musician with early music groups all over the United States. From 2012-2020, she toured the world as a musician for Cirque du Soleil's TOTEM. Now based in Montreal, Annette is currently sharing her love of music by offering instruction to students of all ages, including an ongoing online series on notation of the 14th-16th-centuries. She also serves as the music director of the North American Virtual Recorder Society, and directs the annual recorder summer workshop of the San Francisco Early Music Society. In Montreal she frequently performs with her duo Silk Road Diaries, with a cross-cultural program inspired by the historical silk roads, and has collaborated as a guest artist with Ensemble Scholastica, FluteAlors!, Dance Cadence, and singer-songwriter Juulie Rousseau, among others.