Fall Fipple Flute Forum Faculty
At each workshop you will be introduced to new instructors from around the country as well as familiar people from our local community.
Here are the faculty who will be joining us at the 2026 Fall Fipple Flute Forum. Click on their names for their full bios.
Vicki Boeckman
Vicki Boeckman is a passionate musician who has been performing and teaching since the 1980s. Her career as a professional recorder player has been a highly rewarding journey which has taken her to many countries and given her the opportunity to record numerous CDs with incredible musicians in various ensemble settings. She is honored to be an integral part of Seattle’s vibrant early music community as well as being in demand as a teacher at workshops and seminars across the US.
Before settling in Seattle, Vicki resided in Denmark from 1981-2005, first as a student at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, later collaborating with some of the finest musicians and composers of the day including Per Nørgård, Hans Abrahamsen, Ole Buck, and Markus Zahnhausen to name a few. Her Danish recorder trio Wood’N’Flutes had a fantastic 15-year run performing all over Europe and received government grants to work with contemporary composers in addition to children’s theater. She was an adjunct professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen for 12 years and taught at the Ishøj Municipal School of Music for 23 years. Many of those students are now professionals, performing and teaching in conservatories in Denmark and around Europe.
In the Pacific Northwest Vicki has been a featured soloist with the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the Yakima Symphony, Portland Baroque Orchestra, The Oregon Symphony, Portland Opera, Medieval Women’s Choir, Gallery Concerts, Boise Philharmonic, Philharmonia Northwest Orchestra, and the Skagit Symphony. She is currently a member of the Farallon Recorder Quartet, Music director for the Seattle Recorder Society, co-director for the Recorder Orchestra of Puget Sound (ROPS), and Artistic Director for the Port Townsend Early Music Workshop. She adores teaching children as well as adults and has been on the faculty at Music Center of the Northwest since 2005 in addition to having a thriving home and Zoom studio. Vicki is a two-time recipient of the recorder residency at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Oregon, and a two-time recipient of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
Vicki embraces opportunities to laugh and appreciate friends and family, spend time outdoors, cook and eat good food, sip wine responsibly, walk briskly, and make things grow in the garden. She is eagerly looking forward to the Fahenina Fall Fipple Flute Forum and re-connecting with favored faculty from near and far!
Miyo Aoki
Miyo Aoki is a dedicated recorder player and teacher, performing music ranging from medieval to modern and teaching students of all ages and levels. She is a member of the Farallon Recorder Quartet and has performed in the US, Germany, and Poland, with groups including The Eurasia Consort, Utopia Early Music, and Gamut Bach Ensemble; and at the Amherst Early Music Festival, Bloomington Early Music Festival, and Whidbey Island Music Festival. She has premiered works by contemporary composers Natalie Williams, Agnes Dorwarth and Adam Haws, and in recent years she was delighted to play with the Boise Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Oregon Symphony, and Eugene Symphony, respectively, in performances of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Miyo holds a KAZ Diplom (Artist Diploma) from the University of the Arts in Bremen, Germany, where she studied with Professor Han Tol. While living in Bremen, she also maintained a private studio and worked in the musical outreach program “Musik-im-Ohr”, based in the Bremen concert hall, Die Glocke. She holds degrees in both early music performance and mathematics from Indiana University, where she studied with Professor Eva Legêne and received the Austin B. Caswell award for her paper on Ars Subtilior music. Miyo is a strong proponent of music education and strives to make music accessible to people from varied backgrounds. She has collaborated in planning and performing several outreach programs for children, including “Shakespeare’s Ear” and “Oskar und die Blockflötendiebe”, and she founded a successful elementary school recorder club program sponsored by Early Music Seattle. In addition to her teaching work for Early Music Seattle’s outreach programs and private lessons, she teaches regularly for Seattle Historical Arts for Kids and at workshops around the country, such as the Port Townsend Early Music Workshop, SFEMS Recorder Workshop, Amherst Early Music Festival, Early Music Week at Pinewoods, and Hidden Valley Early Music Workshop.
Hanneke van Proosdij
Hanneke van Proosdij is an award-winning music director, conductor, composer, and a keyboard and recorder player known for the expressiveness, elegance, and virtuosity of her playing. She received her solo and teaching diplomas from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with a unique set of three majors in recorder, harpsichord, and composition.
She is a co-founder and co-director of the Voices of Music ensemble and regularly performs as a soloist and continuo specialist. She is the principal early keyboard player for Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, and has appeared with other groups such as the LA Phil, American Bach Soloists, and Concerto Köln. She has also recorded over one hundred albums for various labels and has more than 500 videos on the Voices of Music YouTube channel.
In addition to performing and directing, van Proosdij has taught recorder at UC Berkeley and has served as a guest professor at several other universities, including Stanford, Oberlin, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and the University of Vermont. She served as co-director of the San Francisco Early Music Society Medieval Renaissance Workshop and the Recorder Workshop for twenty years.
Her compositions include “Wu Song and the Tiger” and “Musical Crossroads.” “Musical Crossroads” won two first-place prizes in the SFCV Best of the Bay 2019 Awards for Best New Music Performance and Best Chamber Music Performance.
Hanneke van Proosdij lives in California and enjoys reading books and hiking.
Rotem Gilbert
Recorder and double reed player Rotem Gilbert is a founding member of Ciaramella, an ensemble specializing in music of the 15th and 16th centuries with recordings on the Naxos and Yarlung labels. Rotem was a member of Piffaro (1996-2007) and has appeared with many early music ensembles in the United States, Israel, Europe and South America. She serves as Vice Dean of the Research and Scholarly Studies Division at USC’s Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles and is Professor of Practice in Early Music and Musicology where she teaches early performance practice courses, Renaissance notation seminars, classes on women composers, and takes turns directing the USC Baroque Sinfonia. She has been a regular faculty member of early music workshops and can be heard on the Deutsche Grammophon’s Archiv, Passacaille, Musica Americana, Dorian, Naxos and Yarlung labels.
For more information see www.ciaramella.band
