Israeli recorder player Tamar Lalo is a member of the period ensemble La Ritirata, and she also appears with other chamber groups and orchestras in performances of Renaissance and Baroque music. Lalo began lessons on the recorder at age seven, and studied at the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts, winning a scholarship from the American-Israel Cultural Foundation. She studied with Drora Bruck and Michael Meltzer at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and earned her bachelor's degree in 2006. She went on to study with Peter van Heyghen and Daniël Brüggen at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, and in 2012 she completed her master's degree at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya in Barcelona, working with Pedro Memelsdorff. While she has toured internationally, Lalo has chiefly performed in the Netherlands, Spain, and Israel, and she has participated in the Utrecht Early Music Festival, the Kol Hamusica Festival, the Abu Gosh Vocal Festival, and the Yechiam Renaissance Festival. She has collaborated with Christina Pluhar and L'Arpeggiata, Música Ficta, Ensemble Fontegara, and the Euskal Barrokensemble, in addition to her performances with La Ritirata. ~ Blair Sanderson