Education: B.A. in history, Ph.D. in psychology

Married 22 years to a most wonderful and remarkable lady.

Important things:
laughter, love of animals and nature, creativity,
care of our planet,
"choosing a path with heart" (see below).

    What I used to do:

    Clinical Psychologist. 

"Retired" 22 years ago (at age 41) to devote full energies to music
and living simply and as close to the natural world as possible.

From "don Juan" by Carlos Castaneda:

"For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart,
on any path that may have heart,
and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--
and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly."

My background in music:

Jim Phypers has been playing woodwind instruments most of his life, beginning on the clarinet when he was eight. He has been teaching and performing on the recorder since 1961. He has studied recorder and early music with Dr. Carl Dolmetsch, Dr. George Houle, and Frans Bruggen. He received his education from Pomona College (B.A., 1962) and the University of Colorado (Ph.D., 1969).

He has played with the Renaissance Consort and the Feld Sinfonietta in Los Angeles, the Collegium Musicum of the University of Colorado, and the Boulder Early Music Ensemble in Colorado. He has taught recorder and Renaissance music through the University of Colorado and the Idyllwild Arts Foundation of the University of Southern California as well as privately. He likes to produce his own accompaniments on the computer and to use these when performing.

"Seeds of Greatness" - ahem

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