Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Nothing embodies the way classical music is evolving — in positive ways — better than the Boulder Bassoon Quartet. A professional bassoon quartet? Yes, ...

Judith LeClair performs with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in Hamburg, Germany. (Photo Provided) PARKERSBURG — A musical instrument once owned by a young Parkersburg musician whose life was ...

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 ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. This section of the orchestra got its name from the fact that many of its ...

Karla Ekholm has bassoon music in her bones. It started with her hands. When she was growing up in Texas and all the kids in school were starting to play musical instruments, a teacher took one look ...

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 ...

The local electric bassoon ensemble — perhaps the world's only electric bassoon ensemble — began as a joke. Matt Gutwein mused about his teenage hobby of playing bassoon, the double-reed woodwind ...

The best Father’s Day for Rufus Olivier Jr. was in 2011, when he and his son, Rufus David Olivier, sat through 5½ hours of “Gotterdammerung” from “The Ring of the Nibelung” at the War Memorial Opera ...