Frances Feldon lives in Berkeley, and has been an educator, arts administrator, conductor, arranger, and performer specializing in early music on recorders and early transverse flutes. She is currently happily and passionately focused on studying jazz improvisation and theory privately and in ensemble at Berkeley’s The Jazzschool, notably conducted improvisation and free jazz standards.

She is musical director of Mixus Mundi, which made its debut in January 2025 on the “Creative Women Series” at The Lost Church in San Francisco. In her current work, she is interested in stretching the boundaries between jazz, early music, world music, new music and improvisation, in order to create a unique and lively voice for the recorder.

Frances holds a Doctor of Music degree from the Historical Performance Institute of Indiana University’s School of Music. She taught at UC Davis, Albany Adult School, and at early music workshops in the United States, Canada, and Holland. She has performed in the Bay Area with Jubilate Baroque Orchestra, California Bach, Sonoma Bach, SF Bach Choir, American Bach Soloists, and SF Opera. Her recorder articles are available on academia.edu, and arrangements on IMSLP. She directed the SFEMS Recorder Workshop for twenty years and was a founding co-director of The Barbary Coast Recorder Orchestra for ten years.