- Ensemble Performance: CSU bassoonists are assigned to full orchestra, wind band, staged performance ensembles, and chamber groups based on audition, preparation, and interest each semester.
- Students have access to a reed workshop room stocked with gouger, profiler, shapers, and finishing supplies for their reed making needs. Weekly masterclasses include mock auditions, peer reviewed performances, special topics discussions, and fundamentals classes, and reed class addresses the variables, processes, and considerations for preparing and adjusting bassoon reeds from the moment the bamboo cane is cut to the finished, stage-ready product. Applied lessons incorporate solo repertoire and standard audition excerpts from the late Renaissance to contemporary style eras, connecting each to the historical significance and relation to the development of the instrument from its earliest predecessors.
- Solo Performance: Bassoonists at CSU receive weekly individual private lessons, group studio and masterclass, and a reed class.
- In the modern classical music world, instrumentalists with any career trajectory must be well versed in each of the four main pillars covered in applied bassoon study at CSU: With developing the ability to self-teach as an overarching goal for private study, well-constructed trajectories based on the below four pillars of applied music instruction guide students down a path of holistic development.
Bellamy’s studio relies upon establishing a symbiotic relationship between student and teacher, which creates not only a sense of trust and engagement, but also one of responsibility, with each holding the other accountable for different parts of the learning process.
Non-Auditioned Ensembles/Classes Open to Non-Majorsĭr.At the same time these innovations and ideas were being brought together, "the bassoon's value to the ensemble" was being recognized more and more. he incorporated the latest knowledge of materials and acoustics into his designs, and his work resulted in a 17-key bassoon that was much more balanced and responsive." Later, partnered with Johann Heckel (another respected bassoon maker) a bassoon-making company emerged, which would later be known as Wilhelm Heckel, GmbH, or just Heckel. by Carl Almenraeder, a bassoonist and instrument maker from Germany. the forerunner of modern bassoons and oboes." "The most important modifications, leading to the development of the modern bassoon, were those. However before the dulcian, "in the Middle Ages shawms - wind instruments played with either a single reed or a double reed - were common throughout Europe. The idea of the bassoon stems from the dulcian, which more or less has the shape of what might be expected of today in the modern orchestra.