Twelve-year-old Naicha Aguayo saw a picture of it online and thought “it looked cool.” She dropped the trumpet and clarinet and started playing the bassoon. A little more than half a year later, on ...

Lecolion Washington had never worked on a film score before, but his first visit to the Sony Studios lot in Los Angeles, sharing a campus with Hollywood types like Quentin Tarantino and Don Cheadle, ...

Anthony Parnther’s Atlanta Symphony Orchestra classical series debut is a personal affair. The conductor will be leading one of his former students, Andrew Brady, in John Williams’ “Five Sacred Trees” ...

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, ...

Unlike flashy instruments such as the flute or clarinet, the bassoon is a reliable instrument, its elegant, strong sounds heard during 90 percent of most symphonies, often rising to a solo. In many ...

ENCORES: This is the third of four profiles of Cleveland Orchestra members retiring this season. They say you don't know what you've got til it's gone. Well, in the case of Phil Austin, it's true.

Here’s all of our stories on the new arts season. We’ll introduce you to the diverse group of people making vital contributions to the arts. You’ll find them in museums, on stage, in studios and even ...

The graduation recital of bassoonist Emeline Chong. Emeline entered Curtis in 2013 from Lansdale, PA and started playing the bassoon at the age of 11. She held the Suzanne Roberts Cultural Development ...

Fei Xie has played music since he was 3, growing up in China, the son of two professional Peking Opera musicians. But over decades of training, his musical world remained distinct from theirs. Xie ...

Elise Wagner rarely listen to music while she runs. Sometimes, she listens to a sports podcast as she runs laps around Memorial Park, or she’ll turn on an energetic booster song to get her through the ...

INDIANAPOLIS (CN) - The 62-year-old lead bassoonist of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra claims in a federal lawsuit that his young conductor tried to force him out of his position because of his ...

The federal age-discrimination lawsuit filed by a longtime bassoonist against the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra has been settled. John Wetherill, 63, filed the lawsuit in March against the Indiana ...