The Minnesota Bassoon Assocation (MBA) was founded in 1983 by bassoonists John W. Miller, Jr., Bill Jones, Dr. Reuben Berman, James Price, and Chuck Ullery. The organization is based in Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN, and brings professional bassoonists to the area for recitals, workshops, and master classes

President: John W. Miller, Jr.
Officer: Charles Ullery
Officer: Coreen Nordling
Treasurer: Joyce Carlson Rioux
Editor: Elizabeth Kiscaden

About our president:
John Miller received his early musical training at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and the New England Conservatory in Boston. He also holds a BS degree in humanities and engineering from MIT and was awarded a Fulbright grant for music study in Amsterdam. While in Boston he founded the Bubonic Bassoon Quartet and made the premier recording of the Hummel Bassoon Concerto, released with the Weber Concerto on Cambridge Records. He assumed the present position as Principal Bassoon of the Minnesota Orchestra in 1971, when he also joined the faculty of the
University of Minnesota.

Since then he has continued his solo career, performing many times with the Minnesota Orchestra as well as numerous other orchestras, and has presented master classes and recitals and recitals at many of the world's major conservatories and music schools. Among his solo recordings are four concertos by Vivaldi and the Mozart and Vanhal concertos, all conducted by Sir Neville Mariner on two Pro Arte CDs. His teachers have included Louis Skinner, Arther Weisberg, Stanley Petrulis, Sherman Walt, Stephen Maxym, and Thom de Klerk. One of Mr. Miller's educational activites, the Nordic Bassoon Symposium, has attracted an international mix of hundreds of professional, student, and amateur bassoonists.








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