Eric HaasEric Haas has taught recorder and chamber music at New England Conservatory, Tufts University, Brandeis University and Wheaton College, and is a popular coach at early music workshops, including Amherst Early Music, the Long Island Recorder Festival, Pinewoods, and the Mideast Workshop. A talented composer and arranger, his ‘Five Variants on “Wondrous Love”‘ won both First and Audience prizes in the 1991 VdGSA Leo Traynor Competition for new works for viols. Mr. Haas has edited four volumes of solo repertoire for recorders and his many arrangements and transcriptions are played worldwide. He was a founding member of La Sonnerie and the Renaissance flute consort Travessada, and currently performs on recorders & early flutes with lutenist Olav Chris Henriksen as the duo Pentimento. He served as Music Director of the Boston Recorder Society for more than 15 years and has managed the retail division of the von Huene Workshop, Inc. since 1990.