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Kathleen McLean

Bassoonist and Pedagogue

About Kathleen McLean
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End-of-year celebration for my students, complete with snacks and drinks. It was a lovely gathering to mark the last day of the school year.
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Video Recordings

Bassoon Concerto Performance

Orchestral Performance

https://youtube.com/watch?v=h25p1JnGkyE

Caliban 4-tet life nov 13 1997

Caliban 4-tet life nov 13 1997

Recent Posts

Upcoming concerts March 3, 2024
Upcoming concerts Camerata Pacifica may 2025 March 3, 2024
End-of-year celebration for my students, complete with snacks and drinks. It was a lovely gathering to mark the last day of the school year. March 3, 2024
Laurier Double Reed Day 2024 March 3, 2024
IDRS 2022 March 3, 2022

New Release: Guilty Pleasures

Guilty Pleasures by Kathleen McLean and Chiel Meijering - Listen Now on Spotify

New Release: Nonstop Electronic Love

Nonstop Electronic Love - Album by Chiel Meijering, Kathleen McLean - Listen now on Spotify!

New Release: Night Ride

We are excited that we have released our 4th CD! It's a combination of electro music with bassoon. This is another electro dance music CD.

Visit Spotify to listen!

New Release: SHIMMY SHIMMY – McLean Meijering

It’s a collection of tracks that feature solo bassoon in a mixture of folk, rock, funk, and classical contemporary jazz.

On this follow-up album of "Rave On", McLean again on her ancient primeval bassoon plays her soothing and rousing melodies by Wizard Meijering into another adventure of masterful movie like contemporary soundtracks and pumping instrumental pop songs.

Listen to Shimmy, Shimmy, an exciting new Spotify release.

New Release: Rave On – McLean Meijering

Listen to an interesting project: a electro dance music featuring bassoon melodies and bass lines.

Resources for Bassoonists

Musician's Way
The Orchestral Bassoon
Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
TrevCo-Varner Music - A publishing company specifically for double reed players. They collect any piece of music that is an arrangement or new composition and distributes them worldwide.
Christian Davidson: Advanced Reed Adjusting
Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University - Bloomington
Naxos Records

Kathleen is a featured Yamaha Woodwind Artist

Featured Article

My Surreal Sabbatical
(and how one email to Chiel Meijering has transformed the bassoon world) - by Kathleen McLean

Read the article

About Kathleen McLean
Upcoming concerts
- Upcoming Performances
Upcoming concerts Camerata Pacifica may 2025
Listen
End-of-year celebration for my students, complete with snacks and drinks. It was a lovely gathering to mark the last day of the school year.
Teaching
Resources
Photos
Contact

Frank Zappa on the Bassoon: - “The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.”