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Coach Bios 

Each Season of ECRS professional coaches are engaged to work with us at our monthly reading sessions. Information on their background and a picture will appear below when possible. 

Larry Zukof 

Lawrence Zukof (recorder, voice, and viola da gamba), an early music specialist, has performed with numerous ensembles, including the Boston Camerata, the Civic Orchestra of Boston, Orchestra New England, and the Southern CT Camerata. Larry has sung with the Pro-Arte Singers (CT), the Yale Camerata and currently, a member of a vocal quartet at the historic Center Church on the New Haven Green. With extensive experience as a workshop leader for various chapters of the American Recorder Society (ARS), Larry is part of the ARS national Traveling Teacher Program, Music Director of the Eastern CT Recorder Society, and on the teaching faculty for the Junior Recorder Society (a program of Voices of Music). Larry has also been on the faculty at Early Music summer programs at Pinewoods, Amherst Early Music, and he teaches at the Neighborhood Music School (New Haven, CT) as well as privately. Larry received his Master of Music degre​

Héloïse Degrugillier

Héloïse Degrugillier (recorder) has worked extensively as both a recorder performer and teacher throughout Europe and the U.S. She has performed with leading period ensembles, including the Boston Early Music Festival Opera, Newport Baroque, Harmonious Blacksmith, the Dunya Ensemble and L’Academie. Recent performances include a concert at the Indianapolis Early Music festival that was praised by the Indianapolis Nuvo: “Recorder players Justin Godoy and Héloïse Degrugillier blended their dissimilar-looking instruments to near perfection.” Héloïse also enjoys an active teaching career, working with the Boston Recorder Society, Recorder Guild of New York and others. She has recently completed her studies in the Alexander Technique and has a Masters in Music from the Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands. She studied recorder with Heiko ter Scheggett, Saskia Coolen and Pedro Memelsdorff.

Susan Iadone

Susan Iadone’s diverse musical activities run the gamut from Medieval and Renaissance music through contemporary opera. In her incarnation in the world of the recorder, she was the co-founder of the Recorder
Society of Long Island and served as its music director for 15 years. She is the founding music director of the Recorder Society of Connecticut and the Eastern Connecticut Recorder Society and was, for many years, one of the music directors of the New York Recorder
Guild. For over twenty five years, she performed as recorder and viola soloist with the Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in New York City. As a performer on viola, viola d’amore and viola da gamba,
Susan has appeared with some of the leading period ensembles on the east coast, including the Washington Bach Consort, the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, the Classical Band, the Bethlehem Bach Festival,
Concert Royal, the New York Consort of Viols and the Waverly Consort. Some highlights of her career include performing in recital with Victoria de los Angeles at the Metropolitan Museum, touring Europe with Meredith Monk’s opera Atlas, recording with the klezmer
icon Giora Feidman, performing the viola d’amore solos in the St. John Passion with the NY Philharmonic, playing viola da gamba on-stage in the Broadway production of The Three Musketeers, and playing
recorder for 28 years at the Metropolitan Opera. Susan can be heard on the soundtracks of the Coen Brothers remake of “The Ladykillers”, and the Heath Ledger “Casanova”, as well as numerous legitimate recordings. Gerald Burakoff was a musical mentor from an early age; the greatest influence on her musical growth and love of early music was Joseph Iadone.

Chris Rua

Christine Rua graduated magna cum laude with a B.M. from the Crane School of Music at Potsdam, NY with a teaching degree and a focus in oboe. She has recently completed a 10 year tour with Cirque du Soleil’s show Varekai, having performed over 3000 shows all over the World in 25 countries, from Sydney to Seoul, Rio to Russia as well as the Royal Albert Hall in London. While with Cirque she played a wide range of instruments including recorders, flutes, oboe, clarinet, shawms, bombards, bagpipes, percussion and as a vocalist. Before Cirque she lived in the Boston area and was involved in the world of Early Music. She was inspired by the teachings and approach to sound of Marleen Montgomery, director of The Quadrivium, an ensemble who performed Early Music in innovative and creative ways and she also studied recorder with Marion Verbruggen and with Owen Watkins. Chris is a multi-instrumentalist, playing recorders, historical flutes, reeds, bagpipes and percussion as well as singing. She has performed, recorded and toured with such ensembles as The Quadrivium, Libana, The Christmas Revels in Cambridge, Washington, Philadelphia and Hanover, NH, Early Music New York, Piffaro, Ex Umbris and with Anne Azema of the Boston Camerata.

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