Rachael Elliott
Rachael Elliott is a founding member of the improvisatory quartet Clogs, with whom she has produced five albums and toured widely, sharing the stage with Bang on a Can, Bell Orchestre, The Books, The National, Shara Nova (My Brightest Diamond), Sufjan Stevens, and Terry Riley. She has performed across the globe at venues ranging from the Sydney and Adelaide Festivals to the Mudbrick Pavilion in Mallacoota, Australia; on boats on the North Sea and the Seine; off-the-grid churches in Vermont; at Central Park’s SummerStage and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall to The Knitting Factory and CBGB’s in New York City; from the Bar Fly in Montréal to London’s Barbican Hall. Her solo CD, Polka the Elk, includes world premiere recordings of music by David Lang, Padma Newsome and Tawnie Olson.
Rachael teaches bassoon at Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA, where she also co-directs Ensemble Uncaged and is an ICF certified coach, a Certified Start With Heart Facilitator, and a member of Longy’s career coaching staff.
Lynn Hileman
Lynn Hileman’s performances as a soloist and chamber musician have taken her around the world, with appearances in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia at venues including the Festival Internacional de Sopros (Rio de Janeiro), November Music and GLOW Festivals (the Netherlands), the Surround Festival (Brugge, Belgium), and the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival. A passionate advocate of contemporary and experimental music, she has given workshops on live looping techniques for bassoon and is a founding member of the contemporary bassoon collectives Tuple Bassoon Duo, Dark in the Song, and Rushes Ensemble.
Equally at home with traditional repertoire, she is Principal Bassoon of the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra and Acting Principal Bassoon of the West Virginia Symphony. She has also performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, among others, and is a frequent presenter at annual International Double Reed Society conferences.
Lynn served as Associate Professor of Bassoon at West Virginia University for 16 years before becoming a LCS and Flow Research Collective certified coach and founding Mental Musicianship, a program focusing on life, flow, and mental performance coaching for classical musicians.