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JOANN SIMPSON
BASSOONIST |
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| JoAnn Simpson graduated from the University of Ottawa, Canada in 1978 with a Bachelor of Music, majoring in bassoon performance with Gerald Corey. She continued graduate studies with William Waterhouse in London England. While in London, she was awarded the position of principal bassoon in the Municipal Symphony Orchestra of Caracas Venezuela, a position that she maintained until 1986 when she returned to Ottawa where she has lived ever since working as a free-lance performer. As such she has worked with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony, the McGill Chamber Orchestra, the Montreal Chamber Orchestra, the Kingston Symphony, the Ottawa Symphony, l'Orchestre de Chambre de Hull, Quebec, L'Orchestre Symphonique du Québec and The Orchestra of Northern New York. |
| JoAnn has performed as soloist with orchestras in Venezuela, Uruguay and Canada. Her solo repertoire includes numerous Vivaldi Concerti, Mozart, Weber, Hummel and Otmar Nussio's Variations on a Theme of Pergolesi. She has performed numerous chamber music and solo recitals, which have been recorded by both the CBC and Radio Canada. |
| As a teacher JoAnn Simpson maintains the largest bassoon-teaching studio in Ottawa, Canada. She is the bassoon tutor for both the English and the French arts specialized high schools and Professor of Bassoon at the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec à Gatineau. Graduates of her studio have gone on to study at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Yale and the Glenn Gould School of Music in Toronto, as well as playing with The National Youth Orchestra of Canada. |
| JoAnn Simpson filled the interim position of Bassoon Professor at The Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam New York for the school year 2005/2006. |
| JoAnn Simpson has appeared at IDRS Conferences in Las Vegas (1987), Baltimore (1991), Greensboro (2004) and Muncie (2006) as a member of the North American French Bassoon Quartet and as soloist in Victoria, British Columbia. |
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