Renowned bassoonist Rebekah Heller will be accompanied by 10 of the world's most impressive bassoonists for a one-night-only event that features three world premieres on Saturday, June 8, 2024 at 7:30 ...

Bassoonist Andrew Brady performs a commissioned piece based on his grandmother’s words. Years before bassoonist Andrew Brady was born in Johnson City, Tennessee, his grandmother, an amateur poet, ...

Meet the bassoon — a double-reed woodwind instrument with rich tones and intricate fingering. Professor Richard Church introduces young learners to the bassoon and the rest of the woodwind family.

When you’re friends with William Safford, you learn a lot about bassoons. The names of principal bassoonists in the major American orchestras over the last 75 years, the specifications and ...

Our day job is as a clerk in a sheet music store, and in general it is a pretty sweet gig. We like being around music students, teachers, and people who just want to play. It truly is an invigorating ...

FRANK ZAPPA once wrote, “The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has the medieval aroma -- like the days when everything used to sound like that.... It’s a great noise -- nothing else makes ...

ROCKY RIVER, Ohio -- It's not often that one encounters a bassoon quartet in its natural habitat. When the number of bassoons increases to nine, the occasion becomes as noteworthy as a grand alignment ...

PORT ANGELES — The bedpost-shaped, sometimes comical instrument accompanies Hunter Gordon across continents. Just this month, the Port Angeles-bred musician is performing with orchestras in ...

A unique take on classical music filled Distler Performance Hall in the Granoff Music Center on Friday with the premiere of “New at Noon: Living Patterns,” an interdisciplinary performance of six ...

A concert performed by UMass professors and colleagues will be played in the Bezanson Recital Hall. The show will fill the hall with sounds from the trumpet, piano, bassoon, trombone and English horn ...