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 ...

While there are many bassoon concertos out there, orchestras like the Stockton Symphony don’t often feature them on their concert schedule, choosing instead to spotlight instruments like violins, ...

Much like a Stradivarius is to the violin world, a Heckel is considered one of the gold standards in bassoons. So when Laine Bryce decided to sell her Heckel upon retirement after 26 years of playing ...

Recent Kenmore East grad AJ Neubert picked up the bassoon in the fourth grade. “I decided I wanted to play the biggest, weirdest thing I could find in the band room, so I picked up the bassoon,” ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Tatia Slouka remembers the conversation that started her down the path to becoming one of the finest young bassoonists in the country. She was at recess in ...

On September 26, bassoonist Deborah Torp celebrates 50 years of playing bassoon with a concert spotlighting the instrument. What began as an interest in music at Slater Elementary school in Lakewood, ...

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 ...

Let’s face it, to some, the bassoon doesn’t always come across as the most serious of instruments in an orchestra. It doesn’t have the fame of the ensemble’s most abundant instrument, the violin; it ...

There’s a lot that people don’t know about the bassoon: what it looks like (long and cylindrical), what it sounds like (rich, deep, slightly buzzing), or the name of a single person who plays it ...