It's not the instrument young people usually choose to become musicians. But for Donovan Tong it has opened up worlds of possibilities. I started playing the bassoon, the most wonderful instrument I ...

“Save the Bassoon” say musicians of the Holland Festival, aiming to revive the instrument’s popularity and inspire more young people to learn it. “Save the Bassoon” is the cry from musicians in the ...

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.

Composer Jeff Scott. Courtesy of Jeff Scott's Instagram. The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Live at the Sheldon series was the best thing to come out of the renovation of Powell Hall, which left the ...

Ask the average person to describe a bassoon and you’re likely to get a blank stare or a wildly incorrect guess. Despite its warm, vibrant sound and critical role in orchestras, the bassoon remains ...

David McGill has blazed an inspirational trail in his career as a teacher and, before that, as principal bassoon player in major orchestras in the United States and Canada. To him, music isn’t an ...

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Marko Bajzer started playing the piano when he was little, picked up the trombone in fifth grade and sings in a handful of choirs. It’s another musical ambition, however, that the Lourdes senior plans ...

Middle school is a time when students usually decide to pick up an instrument. Some choose the trumpet, flute, clarinet or even the triangle, if they are feeling bold. But one ASU grad student picked ...

Local musician Chris Harrison has spent the past 15 years performing and teaching in the Roaring Fork Valley, and now, after never believing it was possible, he’s taking the next big step in his ...

Eighteen indispensable men got ready last week for another winter’s work. They were the contrabassoonists of the eighteen big U.S. symphony orchestras. Without them, the U.S. symphonic season could ...

Daniel Matsukawa is an orchestral bassoonist — and a former punk rocker. Fred Child joins Matsukawa backstage at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, where Matsukawa makes his confession and ...