Multi-instrumentalist Amy Denio, right (Kultur Shock, Tiptons Sax Quartet), deploys her unusual vocal talents in “explorations of voice and environment” involving “simple electronics” at Good Shepherd ...

When you go to the symphony, chances are your eyes are mostly on the conductor and the violins. The bassoon? Not so much. The instrument has a dry, woody timbre with a slightly clogged-up resonance, ...

James Oliver Bolyard, 52, a professional musicologist and leading exponent of the baroque bassoon, died of liver cancer June 4 at Virginia Hospital Center-Arlington. He was a resident of Arlington ...

Jazz Suite is the second album by bassoonist Daniel Smith to be reviewed in these precincts (Smokin' Hot Bassoon Blues was the first). This one is far more agreeable, for at least two reasons: first, ...

That clever combination kept listeners alert after Sunday lunch as they appreciated some energetic and sparkling performances by Brendan O'Donnell, Jackie Hansen and Katrina Brown on recorder, baroque ...

If your tastes in holiday music tend to gravitate more toward Bach than Bing, you’ll want to listen to the Northwest’s newest period instrument ensemble performing in Lynnwood Friday night.

When Daniel Deitch was growing up in Los Angeles in the 1960s, music was his nourishment. His parents were ex-beatniks who played music constantly - everything from Beethoven quartets to John Coltrane ...