FARGO - If you called Ilonna Pederson a blowhard, she'd probably take it as a compliment. As the director of the New York Kammermusiker (taken from the German translation for chamber music), Pederson ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Department of Music at Miami University will present its annual Double Reed Day on Saturday, April 6 from 9:00a.m. - 5:00p.m. in Presser Hall at 501 S. Patterson Avenue on the Oxford campus.

Listener Karen Birch of Miami offers us a peek into the world of oboe players. To prepare to play the instrument, the double-reed mouthpiece must be prepped. It's critical to a good sound. Birch walks ...

Study says the naturalistic respiratory muscle training with high resistance wind instruments may potentially reduce musicians' risk for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Study says the naturalistic ...