Welcome to the website of bassoonist and pedagogue Kathleen McLean, Associate Professor of Bassoon at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
Learn more about announcements of upcoming performances, archives of previous endeavors, full audio-visual gallery, and collections of downloadable pedagogical materials. You will also find links to her affiliated professional and education organizations.
Guilty Pleasures by Kathleen McLean and Chiel Meijering - Listen Now on Spotify
Nonstop Electronic Love - Album by Chiel Meijering, Kathleen McLean - Listen now on Spotify!
We are excited that we have released our 4th CD! It's a combination of electro music with bassoon. This is another electro dance music CD.
Visit Spotify to listen!
It’s a collection of tracks that feature solo bassoon in a mixture of folk, rock, funk, and classical contemporary jazz.
On this follow-up album of "Rave On", McLean again on her ancient primeval bassoon plays her soothing and rousing melodies by Wizard Meijering into another adventure of masterful movie like contemporary soundtracks and pumping instrumental pop songs.
Listen to an interesting project: a electro dance music featuring bassoon melodies and bass lines.
My Surreal Sabbatical
(and how one email to Chiel Meijering has transformed the bassoon world) - by Kathleen McLean
Frank Zappa on the Bassoon: - “The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball. I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.”
