Daniel Matsukawa

Daniel Matsukawa, principal bassoon of The Philadelphia Orchestra, performs a concerto by Clarice Assad — part of this episode of The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert, also featuring music by Rachmaninoff and Berio.

Hollywood may have typecast the bassoon as comedic star, but Philadelphia Orchestra Principal Bassoon Daniel Matsukawa fills us in on the instrument’s…

WRTI's Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast on Sunday, May 2nd at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, May 4th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 celebrates Wolfgang…

A new video features 11 original musical works by young composers spanning a range of styles and visuals—reflections from the year of the pandemic,…

In the mid-19th century, there were few performance opportunities for large-scale works by women composers. Today, a symphony composed in the 1840s by…

In this episode of The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert on WRTI, Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the orchestra while Richard Woodhams, formally the orchestra's principal oboe player, returns to the stage with his principal colleagues.

Many great composers in history wrote for the bassoon. But in the last 70 years or so, the instrument has often been associated with one particular bouncy…

Classical serenades by chamber ensembles were often light, outdoor entertainment in late 18th-century Vienna. As WRTI’s Susan Lewis reports, this week’s…

Jim Cotter speaks with The Philadelphia Orchestra's Principal Bassoon Daniel Matsukawa. He's the soloist this week for performances of Mozart's Bassoon…