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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Nothing embodies the way classical music is evolving — in positive ways — better than the Boulder Bassoon Quartet. A professional bassoon quartet? Yes, ...

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 ...