For the first time in history, musicians represented the University of Hawaiʻi at the International Double Reed Society (IDRS) Conference held in Flagstaff, Arizona. Last summer, the event was ...

Andrea Ridilla, Professor of Music (Oboe) has received a prestigious invitation to join with esteemed international cadre of double reed artists in a project funded by a grant from the Ministry of ...

Members of the oboe and bassoon families are attending a reunion in Redlands this week: The University of Redlands School of Music is hosting more than 1,000 musicians at the 42nd Annual Conference of ...

Abe Weiss began playing the bassoon in sixth grade and within several years began making his own bassoon reeds. He continued to make them from scratch during the 41 years he was the principal ...

This season, Bravo! has two interns of double-reed heritage, an Oberlin-trained bassoonist and myself, an oboist from Juilliard. Naturally, with two such woodwind musicians, a short vent on the nature ...

Dana Jessen is the founder of Splinter Reeds, a reed quintet, and she has performed with Anthony Braxton's Tri-Centric Orchestra. In 2017, the bassoonist/composer gave us the enterprising solo project ...

This year’s “Double Reed Day” takes place on Saturday, Jan. 14 at UW–Madison. Under the leadership of Marc Fink, professor of oboe, and Marc Vallon, associate professor of bassoon, Double Reed Day ...