Listen back to ROCO’s Season 18 Unchambered series performance from November 4 at Life HTX! Kristin Wolfe Jensen, ROCO’s Principal Bassoonist, curated a program centered around our gratitude for educators across the world, featuring chamber music for double reeds, and an interactive Q&A. This heartfelt, vibrant program also included a ROCO World Premiere Co-Commission by Kate Pukinskis for bassoon, oboe, and voice, and other works by Jenni Brandon, Scott Joplin, Astor Piazzolla, Helga Warner-Buhlmann, and Stevie Wonder, presented with fully immersive projections.
Superstition (Stevie Wonder, arr. Amy Casey, for four bassoons)
Ryan Romine: Three Love Songs (Page Stephens, Kristin Wolfe Jensen)
Astor Piazzolla: Libertango (arr. E. Vilkovisky, for bassoon quartet)
Domenico Zipoli: Festival Prelude (arr. Alan Hawkins, for bassoon ensemble)
Scott Joplin: Easy Winners (arr. David Whitehouse, for bassoon ensemble)
Antonio Vivaldi: Quartet in E Minor - Allegro (arr. Alan Hawkins, for bassoon ensemble)
Vinicio Meza: Cha Cha Cha (bassoon ensemble)
Edvard Grieg: In the Hall of Mountain King (arr. Richard Ramey, for bassoon ensemble)