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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Orchestra will showcase its bassoon section in three concerts in November. Conductor Eiji Oue (AY'-gee OH'-way) will return to lead the concerts. Oue was the orchestra ...

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.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Three new musicians have joined the Cleveland Orchestra, replacing players who've recently retired or left for other ensembles. The first to begin will be bassoonist Gareth Thomas.

CANYON One of West Texas A&M University’s newest music faculty members will be a featured soloist in an upcoming concert — a “full-circle moment” for a WT alumnus. Dr. Conor Bell was hired this fall ...

The Redlands Symphony Orchestra will present “The Wondrous Bassoon,” a concert featuring Estonian-born bassoonist Martin Kuuskmann and the orchestra’s string players, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 5, in ...

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 ...

Shotaro Mori, Bassoon, originally hails from Fukuoka, Japan, and has made New York City his home since 1996. He is an active freelancer in NYC and a member of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra in MA.

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 ...

Twin musicians from Nigeria went from limited access to instruments to performing at Carnegie Hall. Now they’re sharing their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Catherine Van Handel is principal bassoonist of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Catherine Van Handel is bringing sexy back to ...

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 ...