Berlin, Letitia

Letitia Berlin grew up in Augusta, Georgia. She teaches recorder and coaches ensembles in California and at workshops around the country, including the Amherst Early Music Festival, and the Port Townsend early music workshop. She is the director of early music workshops at the Hidden Valley Institute of the Arts in Carmel Valley, CA. She is the director of the San Francisco Early Music Society Music Discovery workshop for children. Ms. Berlin performs regularly with the Farallon Recorder Quartet and the recorder duo Tibia. She has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, the Carmel Bach Festival and the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra as well as other ensembles. Recordings include works by Ludwig Senfl with the Farallon Recorder Quartet on the Pandore label, Ladino love songs with Yatan Atan on the New Albion label and the second edition of the Disc Continuo play-along CD on the Katastrophe label. Ms. Berlin received a master's degree in early music performance practices from Case Western Reserve University and a bachelor of music from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her mentors and teachers have included Inga Morgan, Sabine Evers, Frances Blaker, Marion Verbruggen, and Carol Marsh.