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.

The bassoon has been called “ the clown of the orchestra” — but the best clowns are performers capable of doing so much more than making people laugh. That is something that Richard Ramey and Susie ...

The bassoon is a complex musical instrument. It’s a horn with six parts called bocal, boot, bell, bore, joint and reed. Bassoon history goes back earlier than the mid-16th century but it’s being ...

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 ...

Music, education, family and Chinese heritage are passions of Principal Bassoon Fei Xie. Fei Xie has been the Minnesota Orchestra's principal bassoon since 2017. When he won the principal role with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nothing embodies the way classical music is evolving — in positive ways — better than the Boulder Bassoon Quartet. A professional bassoon quartet? Yes, they’re rare. But it’s just the sort of clever ...

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 ...