Trapped inside a shuttered musical instrument repair shop in a New York City suburb sits Mark Gigliotti’s livelihood: his prized bassoon, locked up, unattended, and likely pulled apart into pieces.

The famous Scottish pipes joined kazoo, bassoon, tenor horn, oboe and flugelhorn as the least bought instruments of 2024. 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 ...

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

Cassandra Eisenreich couldn’t tell you how many times she has symbolized a bird in the music she plays. As the principal ...

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 ...

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 ...