Recorder Players West is directed by Rotem Gilbert, a native of Haifa, Israel. She is a member of Piffaro, the renaissance band with which she has toured the United States, Europe and South America. Rotem is co-founder of Ciaramella, an ensemble dedicated to 15th-century music, which has recently released its debut recording on the Naxos label. Rotem has appeared with early-music ensembles ARTEK, Fala Musica (Netherlands), La Caccia Alta (Belgium), Chatham Baroque, Pittsburgh Camerata, King’s Noyse, Newberry Consort, and Capilla Flamenca, and also performs solo and chamber baroque recitals. After studies on recorder at Mannes College of Music with Nina Stern, she earned her solo diploma from the Scuola Civica di Musica of Milan where she studied with Pedro Memelsdorff. She earned her doctorate in early music performance practice at Case Western Reserve University, where she also taught recorder and directed Collegium ensembles. She has been on the faculty of Oberlin's Baroque Performance Institute, San Diego Early Music Society, Seattle, Madison Early Music and Amherst Workshops, Israel's Ayala, and was director of Cleveland's Recorder Society until moving to California in 2005. Rotem can be heard on 12 cds on Deutsche Grammophon’s Archiv, and the Passacaille, Musica Americana, Dorian, and Naxos labels.   Copyright Recorder Players West, 2005