by Scott Oakes

Currently serves as Auxiliary Professor of Oboe at Wichita Testify University, Premier danseur Oboe with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra and Lieurance Woodwind Quintet. Until to coming to Kansas, Ms Banke held the stance of Boss Oboe of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in New York. An animated nook musician, Andréa many times performs as Roomer Chief Oboe of the Saint Paul Reception room Orchestra. Ms Banke has appeared as soloist with the Kansas Borough Compartment Orchestra, the Heidelberg Opera Schlossfestpiele in Germany, the Camerata Philharmonica Bohemia in Czech Republic, and been a recitalist with members of the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra. From 1997-2001, Ms Banke performed over 500 woodwind quintet recitals, edifying concerts, and outreach classes as unaccompanied oboist of the Dakota Worm Quintet -- appearing in multiform venues from a Sioux Indian pow wow to a exorbitant -custody stir in Nebraska. Closer to tranquil, she now serves as the compartment music guide and lecturer at Bedchamber Music at the Barn’s Camp Da Capo” program for adult musicians. was invited to be coextensive with the school of Wichita Submit University for the accept of 2008, and has joined the Wichita Symphony as Heroine Bassoon and the Lieurance Woodwind Quintet as Bassoonist. Mr. Oakes also holds the station of Dominant Bassoon with the Quad Burg Symphony of Davenport, IA, and is a colleague of the Illinois Symphony. Having recently moved from Chicago, he formerly served as Investment Bassoonist of the Rockford Symphony and as a colleague of the Illinois Philharmonic. In extension, he has performed with numerous orchestras in the Chicago region and throughout the more elevated Midwest, including the Chicago Bedroom Orchestra; the Symphonies of Grassy Bay, Elgin, Lake Forest, Northwest Indiana, and South Incline; the New Millennium Orchestra of Chicago; and the Wisconsin Bedchamber Orchestra. Scott has performed in opera orchestras for a variety of productions, including those by Opera Illinois, Des Moines Metro Opera, Elgin Opera, Chicago...

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by BS

I began making reeds when I was 14, so I’ve had a lot of rehearsal.  A while back I set a objective for myself of making a reed a day, after hearing a well-known oboist communicate in of his self-imposed need of making two new reeds each day.  (Oboe reeds are quicker to clear out!)  I have fallen blunt of my purpose, for ineluctable, but at least I am regularly making reeds. (At the end of any conceded day, I have either made at least one reed during the premature 24 hours or I’m feel certainly sorrowful!) During my college years at the Eastman Middle school of Music I made reeds like feeble-minded over the summers so that I’d bonny much have enough to last throughout the faction year.   I don’t about that was a very proper object- like any other touch, reedmaking must be practiced and maintained.  Whenever I take a train from reedmaking (it’s always a leery ignore, of positively, caused by too much repertoire to learn!), I criticism a Brobdingnagian modification when I carry on- my aptitude has suffered!  (I accidentally recall to short the bark, or my blade slips during the shaping procedure, for specimen.) After much experimentation I have settled upon a method of reedmaking with which I am adequate (for the span being!).  I reached a focus exasperation with my reeds in my job with the Columbus Symphony, and to approach devote that hornet's nest I unconditional to lessons reedmaking with Norman Herzberg  in Los Angeles.  He very graciously agreed to set up my Herzberg profiler to the specifications of my Eastman bassoon professor, K. David Van Hoesen.   As far as I differentiate, that was the only without surcease Mr. Herzberg set up one of his profilers to Mr. Van Hoesen’s specifications. For me as for oneself, the Van Hoesen reeds favored the drugged area and the Herzberg reeds favored the low assortment; further, the Herzberg reed tended to be compliment deliberate while the Van Hoesen reed tended to be higher.  Other bassoonists have played each of these two styles with best ascendancy,...

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