Charles Koster

Bassoon Instructor

cjkoster@earthlink.net

CHARLES KOSTER holds degrees in Bassoon and Music Theory from the University of Iowa. His teachers have included Ronald Tyree, John Miller, Sherman Walt, Richard Plaster and Louis Skinner. Mr. Koster has been a member of orchestras in the United States, Mexico and Germany and has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, among many others. As a Baroque and Classical bassoonist, he has performed with American Bach Soloists, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Magnificat, (all San Francisco Bay Area), Tafelmusik (Toronto), The City Musick (Chicago), Portland Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica (Los Angeles) and Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, and has recorded for the Delos, Koch, Newport Classics and Wild Boar record labels. He is an associate editor of the Journal of the International Double Reed Society, in which he has published several articles on reedmaking and the history of the bassoon.

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