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

Marriage:
28 years to a most wonderful and remarkable lady.

What's Important:
love of all living things and care of our planet,
creativity,"choosing a path with heart"
(see below).

    What I used to do:

    Clinical Psychologist

"Retired" 27 years ago (at age 41) to devote full energies to music
and to 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 produces his own accompaniments on the computer and uses these occassionally when performing.

Over the years, Mr. Phypers has performed at college campuses, community concerts, elementary and secondary schools, gourmet restaurants, nursing homes, Sunday worship services, and home concerts.  Since retiring, he has been producing videos of private performances at his home in Mexico.  While music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods is his first love, he also enjoys playing folk music, popular music, light jazz, and contemporary gospel songs and hymns. 

Mr. Phypers plays instruments made by Friedrich von Huene (alto in grenadilla), Conrad Fehr (alto in tulipwood, base in rosewood), Hans Coolsma (Aura tenor), and Andreas Glatt (copy in boxwood of an original soprano recorder at A-396 made by Terton in 1730). In addition to the recorder, Mr. Phypers also plays some Renaissance wind instruments including crumhorn, kortholt, rauschpfeife, and gemshorn.

"Seeds of Greatness" - ahem

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