The bassoon is a very versatile instrument. It can play very low notes and still get quite high. It can also play very quick passages of music. The basoonist is sometimes asked to play the ...

and when the time came for me to graduate from recorder lessons at the Junior Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, I was faced with the option of moving to the clarinet, or the bassoon.

Mexican bassoonist Carlos M. López began his musical career at age six on the piano before discovering his passion for the bassoon at age 18. He began his studies at the School of Music of the ...