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.

Catherine Van Handel is bringing sexy back to the bassoon. In the liner notes for her new CD, scheduled for release Jan. 31, the Milwaukee Symphony's principal bassoonist writes, "Each of the pieces I ...

Nestled deep in the woodwinds, the bassoon rarely gets everyone's complete and undivided attention. Bassoonist Kim Lemak turned that unseemly tendency on its head last Sunday with the Danbury ...

If classical music bears any comparison to the sport of tennis, then Jonathan Sherwin is an all-court player, an artist defined by his versatility. For Sherwin, a bassoonist in the Cleveland Orchestra ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Valerie Trollinger was just 6 years old when she fell in love with an orchestral instrument that ...

The word “symphony” is ultimately from Greek “symphonia,” concord of sounds, harmony, a meld of “syn-,” together (as in synchronize, synthesis) and “phōnẽ,” sound (as in phonetics, telephone). The ...

The goal: reinvent the ways that both composer and listener approach the modern classical orchestra. Friar’s work focused on introducing new instruments into the centuries-old ensemble—in this case, ...

In the first of a multi-part series looking at some uniquely French jobs, RFI introduces us to a musician who plays a French version of a typical orchestral instrument: the bassoon. Most bassoonists ...

UConn Symphony Orchestra concert at the J. Louis Von der Mehden Recital Hall on Oct. 19, 2023. Photo by Brian Jerez/The Daily Campus. This past Thursday, UConn’s Symphony Orchestra had their first ...

A shortage of young players at weekly rehearsals could result in woodwind instruments disappearing from performances. Keith Crellin, director of AdYO, the state’s leading youth orchestra, said wind ...

When did you start playing the bassoon, and what was it about it that led you to choose it? I started playing the bassoon almost completely by accident. Neither of my parents are musicians, and when ...