Category: Past News & Events

The CBSO Youth Orchestra is now inviting applications for 2020-21. This is a great opportunity for young people to receive […]

Bassooning our way out of the coronavirus Free musical offerings every day to inspire and raise the spirits ~ A […]

This event, which the BDRS is supporting, has been postponed to March 27th 2021. For further details and updates, please […]

William Winstead, former principal bassoonist of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, dies at 77 For further details please click here.

***CANCELLED*** Dartington Music Summer School are delighted to be joined by the hugely talented Magnard Ensemble, who will lead coaching […]

Increase in Subscriptions from 1st January 2020 As advised in the cover letter of the last Double Reed News (DRN), […]

A Memorial Celebration for John Whitfield Many of you will have known and worked with John Whitfield – alongside him […]

BDRS supported the 2019 Sound Festival, an annual festival in North East Scotland which aims to highlight contemporary music. In […]

Earlier this year eighty double-reed players joined junior members of the Royal Academy of Music in London in a commemorative […]

We have heard from Phil Westwell who has taken some interesting slow-motion photography of an uilleann bagpipe chanter double reed; […]

Oboists might be familiar with the abridged version of Silent Aria which appears on the ABRSM oboe syllabus; here is […]