Biography

Janet Beazley is an accomplished performer and teacher on recorders and historical flutes.  She has performed with Musica Angelica, Los Angeles Musica Viva, Concordia Clarimontis, Scaramella, Bach Collegium San Diego, Les Folies and with her own group, Accenti.  Janet received a Doctorate in Early Music Performance from the USC Thornton School of Music and now teaches there as an instructor of recorders and historical flutes, and as a lecturer on early music performance practice. She is the director of the Collegium Musicum at the University of California Riverside, instructor on flutes and recorders at Claremont Graduate University, and has also taught music history and music appreciation classes at UC Irvine. As a banjoist, vocalist and songwriter, Dr. Beazley is a member of the California band Chris Stuart & Backcountry, a nationally- and internationally-touring acoustic string band specializing in original bluegrass and Americana music. She has taught banjo, bluegrass history, music theory, songwriting and harmony singing at workshops throughout the United States, Canada and Great Britain.  Her solo album, 5 South, was released in the summer of 2005 and spent 9 months on the Bluegrass Unlimited national airplay chart.