Bassoon with Andrea B.

Holding past positions in international professional orchestras with a wealth of chamber music and teaching experience, Andrea is currently completing her doctoral degree at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of William Winstead. She is the 2017 winner of the Boston Woodwind Society Sherman Walt Merit solo competition. Previously, she held the position of assistant principal/second bassoon with the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra in Bosnia i Herzegovina. She earned her master's degree from New England Conservatory studying with Boston Symphony principal bassoonist Richard Svoboda. She holds a B.M. from Penn State University, and her previous teachers include Daryl Durran and Shirley Curtiss.