Bassoon Blog

Bassoonists beware! Every once in a while we are asked to step outside the box and do something unusual, such as perform as solo bassoonist ...

Bravo! Vail is a Colorado-based summer music festival which features three top U.S. orchestras this summer: the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, ...

Have you tried to fly with your bassoon lately?   According to a June 10, 2014 article in USA Today, some airlines are cracking down on...

Rumor has it then when the Boston Symphony's retired principal bassoonist Sherman Walt died in 1989, the orchestra performed the Berce...

I strongly suspect that professional bassoonists spend more time consulting fingering charts (for bassoon!) than any other professional inst...

Respighi and his wife Elsa in the garden of their idyllic Roman villa Italian post-Romantic composer Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) is ...

  Last night I had the privilege of adjudicating the final round of the Columbus Symphony Young Musicians Concerto Competition 2014.   E...