Orum Stringer studied Baroque recorder technique with Prof. M.S. Rubin in New York. After coming to Philadelphia in 1973, he extended his studies to include music of Medieval and Renaissance Europe. He mastered the Renaissance cornetto and kortholt and has sung with the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Renaissance Choir under the direction of Edward Handy since 1975. He teaches recorder and cornetto and directs large ensembles in meetings of the American Recorder Society, and in workshops of the Historic Brass Society. Mr. Stringer founded Spectra Musica in 1980 and serves as its director. He founded the Baroque ensemble, The Gloria Consort in 1994. He sat on the Board of the Lower Makefield Society for the Performing Arts (Bucks County, PA) for eight years and, for twelve years, was the artistic director for the Lake Afton Concert Series for Early Music, a consortium of central New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania early music ensembles. He was invited to join the Manhattan Recorder Orchestra, under the direction of Matias Maute, and has performed with them since 2003.
Mr. Stringer has also given numerous ensemble coaching and master classes in technique and musical interpretation for solo recorder, recorder ensemble, cornetto and early brass, and capped double reeds (krumhorns, cornemuse, kortholts, etc.) He is the President and CEO of Griffin Renaissance Records and is an expert in multitracking recording techniques. Some of his expertise involves the "how to" set up and making of ensemble recordings of up to nine voices while using a simple, inexpensive 4-track recording machine to the creation of demo CDS and commercial quality recordings on high end equipment.
SAMPLE SYLLABUS OF A WORKSHOP DIRECTED BY ORUM STRINGER FOR THE BALTIMORE ARS (Northern Maryland) CHAPTER:
I. The Roots of the Renaissance (1250-1400).
Ars Antiqua and Ars Nova to Machaut
II. Development of the Flemish Style (1400-1557)
Dunstable, Dufay, Ockeghem, Josquin, Crequillon
III. The Italian and English Renaissance Styles (1550-1615)
Tye, Gastoldi, Morley, Phillips, Veadana, and Canali
IV. Bach to the Modern Era (1750-2000)
Bach, Bruckne, Holst, Staeps, Baines, Hemphill