A weekend celebration of the bassoon on the Indiana University campus was capped Saturday evening with an Auer Hall Bassoon Day 2018 program featuring a dozen bassoons (I counted them and very much ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week's Feature Album, Telemann: Chamber Music For Bassoon and Guitar, showcases just how versatile the bassoon can be. It usually appears as an accompanying instrument, or one that sits in the ...

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 ...

If you closed your eyes and tried to conjure up the perfect music for a warm summer evening at the Redlands Bowl, you might not come up with music for bassoon. But bassoonist Valentin Martchev was ...

The precious instrument was stolen when Francesca’s north London home was ‘ransacked’ at the end of November. A former Royal Academy of Music lecturer is begging for the return of her £30,000 bassoon, ...

A bassoon worth £40,000 which was stolen after a musician accidentally left it on a train has been found hidden behind a tree. Stuart Russell mistakenly got off the Lewes to Brighton service at 2pm ...