Mr Hanft has been playing baroque and Renaissance
music on recorder and flute for more than forty years. He
has studied recorder and flute privately with Eleanor
Lawrence, Peter Bloom, and Christopher Krueger, and
studied music theory and baroque performance practice
at the Longy School of Music. He has also participated in
the Oberlin Baroque Performance workshop.
From September 1983 to November 1989, he taught
recorder, baroque flute, and music theory at the
Brattleboro Music School (Brattleboro, Vermont) and
during those same years taught and coached ensembles
at the Putney School, the Putney Grammar School, and
elsewhere in the Brattleboro area. During this time he
performed locally on recorder and flute with guitarist
Steve Proctor as the Proctor-Hanft Duo.
Currently he is on the faculty of the Manchester
Community Music School, Manchester, NH, where he
participated in a Music Educators' workshop on October
16, 2008, on the subject of teaching recorder to children.
He will give a faculty recital on December 17, 2008, and is
planning a recital with harpist Piper Runnion-Bareford in
the Keene area in November, 2008.
Mr Hanft is available to teach recorder and baroque flute


