Ask the average person to describe a bassoon and you’re likely to get a blank stare or a wildly incorrect guess. Despite its warm, vibrant sound and critical role in orchestras, the bassoon remains ...

Tualatin resident Sue Black has created the Lyle Dockendorff endowment for the first chair bassoon in the Portland Youth Philharmonic. It is the first permanent endowment of its kind, specific to a ...

Noah Brown studies bassoon at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, and, according to Noah, if you decide to go to Interlochen for bassoon, you may be putting your life at risk! "We bassoonists ...

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.

When did you start playing the bassoon, and what was it about it that led you to choose it? I started playing the bassoon almost completely by accident. Neither of my parents are musicians, and when ...