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Bassoonist and Pedagogue

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New CD Release: Night Ride

We are excited that we have released our 4th CD via CD Baby! It's a combination of electro music with bassoon. This is another electro dance music CD.

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Visit the CDBaby Website to listen!

New CD Release: SHIMMY SHIMMY – McLean Meijering

SHIMMY SHIMMY - McLean Meijering

It’s a collection of tracks that feature solo bassoon in a mixture of folk, rock, funk, and classical contemporary jazz.

On this follow-up album of "Rave On", McLean again on her ancient primeval bassoon plays her soothing and rousing melodies by Wizard Meijering into another adventure of masterful movie like contemporary soundtracks and pumping instrumental pop songs.

Listen to Shimmy, Shimmy, an exciting new CDBaby release.

New CD Release: Rave On – McLean Meijering

Rave On - McLean Meijering

Listen to an interesting project: a electro dance music featuring bassoon melodies and bass lines.

Upcoming Performances

  • Playing Bassoon In The Backup Band for The Who at Ruoff Mortgage Center
  • New Premiere Performance at the 2019 International Double Reed Society Conference in Tampa, Florida
  • 2019 National Youth Orchestra Faculty Chamber Concerts

Recent Posts

  • Playing Bassoon In The Backup Band for The Who at Ruoff Mortgage Center May 1, 2019
  • Performance & Audition Strategies April 23, 2019
  • Interview from WFIU – The Soul Of The Orchestra: Bassoonist Kathleen McLean April 23, 2019
  • Exercise Based on “Tchaikovsky 6” April 23, 2019
  • “The Split” in the three registers of the bassoon April 23, 2019

Resources for Bassoonists

  • Musician's Way
  • The Orchestral Bassoon
  • Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
  • TrevCo-Varner Music - A publishing company specifically for double reed players. They collect any piece of music that is an arrangement or new composition and distributes them worldwide.
  • Christian Davidson: Advanced Reed Adjusting
  • Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University - Bloomington
  • Naxos Records
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Kathleen is a featured Yamaha Woodwind Artist

Featured Article

My Surreal Sabbatical
(and how one email to Chiel Meijering has transformed the bassoon world) - by Kathleen McLean

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Frank ZappaFrank Zappa on the Bassoon: - “The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.”
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