Instructor Information

Name	Bio
Joan Kimball	and Bob Wiemken are the artistic directors of Piffaro, the Renaissance Band. Piffaro brings the sounds of the Renaissance to life through research and performance, using an ever-expanding instrumentarium of shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, recorders, krumhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars, harps, and a variety of percussion - all careful reconstructions of instruments from the period and the only professional collection of its kind in North America.

Name

Bio

Joan Kimball

and Bob Wiemken are the artistic directors of Piffaro, the Renaissance Band. Piffaro brings the sounds of the Renaissance to life through research and performance, using an ever-expanding instrumentarium of shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, recorders, krumhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars, harps, and a variety of percussion - all careful reconstructions of instruments from the period and the only professional collection of its kind in North America.