The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) has announced that seven new musicians will join the orchestra for the 2025/26 season. In addition, Donovan Bown (oboe) and Triniti Rives (clarinet) will join the ...

Mérida, Yucatán — It’s ungainly and expensive, but worth it. The warm, velvety sounds of a contrabassoon joins the brass, woodwinds and strings heard this season at the Yucatán Symphony Orchestra.

A low sound that seems to rise slowly from beneath the floor, amidst the vast, expansive resonance of an orchestra. It is a deep vibration that reaches your body through your chair and the floor, ...

The low, resonant groan of a bass woodwind can stop you in your tracks. It is the sonic equivalent of a heavy velvet curtain being drawn across a room, rich and dark and somehow bigger than the ...

The contrabassoon looks like someone took a regular bassoon, stretched it across a room, and then decided to hide most of it inside a coiled metal pipe. When it plays, the floor vibrates. That low, ...

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Eighteen indispensable men got ready last week for another winter’s work. They were the contrabassoonists of the eighteen big U.S. symphony orchestras. Without them, the U.S. symphonic season could ...

Kyle Sodman (GPD '26) presents a graduate performance diploma bassoon and contrabassoon recital, featuring new works by Gwen Clores and Gabriel Garza. He will be accompanied by Julian Gau, piano.

When Nicole Buetti first picked up the bassoon, it was supposed to be a not-so-secret weapon in woodwind-on-woodwind combat. She was 11 years old and stuck playing the flute alongside her school ...