Cornelia Sommer is a bassoonist, arranger, and educator based in Detroit, Michigan. She is Second Bassoon with the Detroit Symphony and teaches at Oakland University. Read more here.
Current Projects
The Detroit Symphony streams all classical concerts on Saturday nights for free at DSO Live, and you can watch past performances here. My calendar includes a link to the DSO season as well as my other performances.
I just started a blog! My first post is about Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra. I have plans for more posts with educational content for bassoonists.
Check out the pages for two of my most exciting projects: Pulcinella, all about my arrangement of Stravinsky's ballet for bassoon and piano, and New Enchantments, my forthcoming album of music inspired by fairy tales.
Join my 20k+ followers on Instagram, where I post every week under the hashtag #fairytalefridays. My scholarly work focuses on music inspired by fairy tales, exploring the connection between the universal narratives embedded in the tales and the unique ways in which music conveys those narratives. Every Friday on Instagram, I share a little bit of my research and a short video of fairy tale music for the bassoon. Click below for a sample and follow me for more!