Next Concert: Sunday 9th May

Youth Music’s Endangered and Protected Species programme was a £1m initiative in partnership with The Music Group and Classic FM, putting specific musical instruments into the hands of over 5,000 children to tackle the problem of the falling numbers of young people taking up, and continuing to play, six instruments - namely, the bassoon, double bass, French horn, oboe, trombone and tuba/euphonium. Inspired by this project Kath, Graeme and Vick formed Faggottissimo, a light-hearted ensemble to bring the bassoon to the fore and in turn inspire and encourage a new generation of young bassoonists.

Katherine Nagle works with schools in Greater Glasgow and London to increase the popularity of the bassoon amongst school children. She completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Performance with distinction at the Royal College of Music. As a bassoonist Katherine has worked with the Orchestra of Scottish Opera, London Kensington Sinfonia, Contemporary Consort and is the bassoonist in the Glasgow based group, The Auricle Ensemble.

Graeme Browne grew up in the distillery village of Windygates, Fife, and started playing the bassoon at the age of 12. He is currently a fourth year BMus student at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama studying with David Hubbard. Graeme would love to become a fulltime orchestral bassoonist and has already taken steps toward this by winning trials with The RTE Concert Orchestra in Dublin and The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He is the grateful recipient of both the John Barborolli Award and a Donald Dewar Arts Award which enabled him to buy the Heckel bassoon he plays on today.

Victoria Scott was born in York and began playing the bassoon when she was 14 years old. She moved to Scotland 8 years ago to study at the RSAMD, where she graduated with an MMus (Performance). Victoria works as a woodwind and piano instructor throughout Scotland’s central belt, and regularly performs with Scottish wind quintet Amici Winds.

Recital programme:

• John W. BRATTON, arr. Toddy Harman: The Teddy Bears' Picnic
• Adolf BERGT: Allegro vivace
• Geoffrey HARTLEY: Suite for 3 Bassoons (I. Hornpipe II. Waltz III. March)
• J. H. WANHAL: Andante grazioso (from Concerto in F major for 2 bassoons and orchestra)
• M. NORRIS: Dances for Bassoon Trio (I. Tango II. Rumba III. Tarantella)
• Marion HOLLAND: The Lost Kilt
• Dave BRUBECK, arr. David Carroll: Take Five for Three
• Gilbert VINTER: Scherzo