Asheville Symphony Orchestra Performance - September 20, 2025
Burnt Reeds Performance - February 4, 2024
Tales From the Grove Premiere
Music by Women Festival - 2022
MTSU Bassoons Performance - 2022
Festival!
The COVID pandemic taught me that us musicians are hungry for opportunities to play together again, and I wanted a celebratory piece everyone could play that would be a fun way to wrap up the day’s events.
These Four Directions
This piece is about the directions that you love, directions you can almost not stand to face, and directions you never thought you’d go.
Tall Tales
It occurred to me that the bassoon is still a tree. It’s tall. It’s often brown, and most often made of wood. The tree gives its life and becomes a bassoon, and bassoonists are able to make music because of that priceless generous sacrifice.
Yellow Poplar With Birdsong
“Yellow Poplar With Birdsong” for solo bassoon, composed by Amber Ferenz
Love Medicine
Each of us carries inside our hearts our own special form of medicine… there is snake medicine, fire medicine, plant medicine, and most certainly, bassoon medicine…
Unfinished Conversations
“Unfinished Conversations” is dedicated to bassoonist and dear friend Eric Van der Veer Varner (1974-2019). Eric and I met at Glickman-Popkin Bassoon Camp in 2001 and immediately became friends.