Alana Blackburn

Australian recorder player Alana Blackburn has performed as a soloist and chamber musician with a number of notable ensembles including Salut! Baroque, The Bell Shakespeare Company, The Sydney Consort, The Tall Poppeas, The Sydneian Bach Choir, La Folia, The Sydney Conservatorium Early Music Ensemble, Manly-Warringah Symphony Orchestra and Bellatrix: The Australian Recorder Quartet, with which she has also toured Queensland and New Zealand as well as performing on Radio NZ and 2GB Sydney. Alana was also a founding member of Batalla Famossa, Australia’s leading youth recorder ensemble, which toured New Zealand and recorded their debut CD in 1998.After completing a Bachelor of Music (performance) degree with First Class Honours at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2004, Alana was awarded a University of Sydney Postgraduate Award to continue with a Master of Music (performance) degree specialising in contemporary Japanese compositions for recorder under the instruction of Hans-Dieter Michatz.Alana has had lessons and master classes with distinguished recorder icons; Walter van Hauwe and Paul Leenhouts (The Netherlands), Gerd Lünenbürger and Ulrike Volkhardt (Germany), Eva Legene and John Tyson (USA), David Bellugi (Italy), Piers Adams and Ashley Soloman (UK).Alana is now studying at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam under Paul Leenhouts.Interested in all styles of recorder performance, Alana performs works spanning over 500 years.