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ROSE CORRIGAN
Ms. Corrigan enjoys a varied career in orchestras, chamber groups, and recording studios in addition to her success as a soloist and teacher. Ms. Corrigan is a graduate of the University of Southern California where she studied with Michael O'Donovan. While a student at USC, she performed as a member of the Santa Monica Symphony and has served as principal bassoonist for the past two seasons. She is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Los Angeles Music Center Opera Orchestra and the Master Chorale Symphonia. She has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Long Beach Symphony, Pasadena Symphony, American Ballet Theater, Joffrey Ballet, and Kirov Ballet. She has participated in the Oregon Bach Festival under Helmuth Rilling, Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society, Juneau Jazz and Classic Festival, and the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival. Rose is a member of Pacific Classical Winds, a period instrument ensemble, which has recorded on the New World Records label. She can be heard on numerous movie sound tracks, television scores, records and commercials. Currently she is on the faculty at Pomona College and the University of Southern California.
JUDY FARMER
| Bassoonist Judith Farmer enjoys a rich and varied career as an orchestra musician, chamber musician, soloist and teacher. She received her education at Indiana University and at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Vienna. Her principal teachers were Karl Oehlberger and Mordechai Rechtman. From 1984-1996 she was principal bassoonist of the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra, performed and toured regularly with the Camerata Academica of Salzburg and with numerous chamber music ensembles in Vienna. Ms. Farmer has appeared as a soloist at the Salzburg Festival, in Vienna, Moscow and Odessa (in the former Soviet Union) and has participated in chamber music festivals in Prussia Cove, Martha's Vineyard and La Jolla. For the 1995-96 season she held the position of visiting professor at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Graz, Austria. |
| In 1996 Ms. Farmer moved to Los Angeles and since then has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Los Angeles Opera Company, the Long Beach Symphony as well as for major motion pictures. |
KEN MUNDAY
Ken Munday has been principal bassoon of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra since 1975. He has appeared on most of the orchestra's recordings and has collaborated as a soloist with all of the orchestra's music directors.
In 2003, Ken and LACO performed the world premiere of the John Steinmetz Bassoon concerto, the result of a joint commission made possible by the orchestra's Sound Investment program. Ken also performed the West Coast premiere of Luciano Berio's Sequenza XII for solo bassoon in 2000.
Ken has performed with period instrument ensembles throughout the United States, including Musica Angelica, Santa Fe Pro Musica, and the Portland Baroque Orchestra. An active studio musician, he has played on hundreds of film scores and with all the major film composers of our time.
MICHAEL O'DONOVAN
Michael O'Donovan is the former principal bassoonist in the San Francisco Symphony. He is the top bassoon artist in the Los Angeles recording studios. He is heard in hundreds of recent Hollywood film scores.
DAVE RIDDLES
David Riddles, a native Californian, has been playing the Bassoon professionaly in one way or another for the past 35 years. Prior to coming to L.A. in 1976 he received a Masters Degree from Indiana University, Bloominton, Indiana and taught university level music in the mid-west for 4 years. During the years he's been in Los Angeles he was principal Bassoon with the Joffrey Ballet Orchestra for 5 seasons, played numerous times with the L.A. Philharmonic, was principal Bassoon for 18 seasons with the Pacifice Symphony in Orange County, has played on over 450 motion picture scores, numerous television shows, and many record/CD albums.
ALLEN SAVEDOFF
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Allen Savedoff is a member of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony. He has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Pasadena Symphony, Glendale Symphony, Los Angeles Master Chorale and Opera Pacific. Mr. Savedoff’s studio work includes recording for feature ilms and television. A graduate of Hartt School of Music, University of Harford and the University of Michigan, he was formerly on the faculty of Augusta college, Georgia, and St. Cloud State University, Minnesota. He first performed with Southwest Chamber Music in 2000, and recently recorded works of Carlos Chávez with the ensemble.
JOHN STEINMETZ
John Steinmetz, principal bassoonist of Los Angeles opera and an L.A. freelancer who plays everything from Madam Butterfly to Matrix Reloaded, has been composing music ever since junior high, when he and a friend made TV-theme medleys. His most recent compositions were commissioned by the South Bay Chamber Music Society (to commemorate their 40th anniversary) by the innovative Los Angeles Series Pacific Serenades, and by the oboe and bassoon teachers at Arizona State University. John's Quintet for winds has been released on a Helicon CD by the Borealis Quintet. Concerto for bassoon and orchestra was commissioned by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, The Keene Chamber Orchestra, and the Santa Rosa Symphony.
