Mozart used the bassoon for evoking urgency ... but also as the longtime director of the Settlement Music School and a civic leader. The recent episode — Evans’ death, the ongoing limbo ...

Les Arts Florissants — a renowned Baroque chamber orchestra from France — visits the Mondavi Center on Friday for the first ...

These included orchestra mainstays like the bassoon, oboe and flugel horn as ... kazoo which was once commonly used in jazz and comedy music. Despite their dwindling sales many of these ...

Leah Kohn, a facility artist, filled the Shigemi Matsumoto Recital Hall with her bassoon music on Feb. 22. Pianist Jason Stoll, clarinetist Sérgio Coelho and flutist Chang Lu accompanied Kohn’s ...

The title is Quintet for Piano and Winds, and Mozart really does feature the piano, with oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn ...

Mexican bassoonist Carlos M. López began his musical career at age six on the piano before discovering his passion for the bassoon at age 18. He began his studies at the School of Music of the ...

The bassoon is a very versatile instrument. It can play very low notes and still get quite high. It can also play very quick passages of music. The basoonist is sometimes asked to play the ...