Bassoon professor, Laura Koepke, presents recital on September 20

Laura Koepke

Laura Koepke, Bassoon professor, will perform solo and chamber works in Rosch Recital Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 20.  The recital starts at 8 p.m. at Rosch Recital Hall, and is free and open to the public.

Joined by I-Fei Chen on piano, Jordan Frazier on bass, several members of the Fredonia Bassoon Studio, and music students Agustin Faundez (percussionist), and Michael Vescovo (bassist), Ms. Koepke will be performing solo works by Carl Maria von Weber and Lars-Erik Larsson. In addition, she will perform a bass and bassoon duo based on “Los Tres Golpes,” written by Ignacio Cervantes/Gregg August, and a few bassoon chamber pieces, including arrangements of “Take Five” and Harlem Express.

“I am excited to not only be performing two great solo works for the bassoon, a premiere of a bass and bassoon duo with my husband, Jordan Frazier, but also to be playing chamber music with my students,” said Ms. Koepke. “Rehearsing and performing with my bassoon students gives them the rare opportunity to experience ‘first hand’ the concepts that I am working on with them in lessons. As their teacher, I gain insight into how they learn and how the musical concepts that they are studying translate into performance. There is nothing more meaningful to me as a musician and teacher than having performance experiences with my students. They have all worked very hard, and they sound fantastic!”

In addition to performing with many of New York’s finest orchestras, she is the principal bassoonist of CityMusic Cleveland, a chamber orchestra based in Cleveland, Ohio.

Ms. Koepke joined the SUNY Fredonia Music Department in 2007, previously teaching at NYU, Manhattan School of Music Pre-college, and the Aaron Copland School of music at Queens College. She holds an undergraduate degree from Baldwin-Wallace College and holds a Master's Degree and Artist Diploma from Yale University School of Music, where she studied with Maxym and Frank Morelli.