Somebody jack your bassoon? Fear not — the International Double Reed Society has your back. Picture it: Several weeks ago in a seemingly safe, quiet neighborhood of Walnut Creek, Karla Eckholm ...

Eugene Izotov has been the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s principal oboist since 2005. In the midst of While on the orchestra’s recent European tour, he spoke about his instrument as well as the perils ...

Oboists and bassoon players spend a lot of time watching weather reports from the south of France. You would, too, if your livelihood depended on the quality of your double reed. Keith Koster is the ...

There’s going to be double-reed madness this month at Towson State University. That’s because this week the university is hosting the 20th anniversary conference of the Double Reed Society. The ...

Decades ago, Ripley’s Believe It or Not clued readers in about the English horn. The instrument, it declared, is “neither English nor a horn.” In fact, there’s little agreement about where the name of ...

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 ...