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. Her debut album New Enchantments: Fairy Tale Music for Bassoon will be released September 20, 2024. Read more here.

Current Projects

New Enchantments: Fairy Tale Music for Bassoon will be released on September 20, 2024. Click here to pre-save the album on your platform of choice. Pre-saves are important for album visibility, so I hope you will consider supporting New Enchantments in that way! Check out my calendar for upcoming events related to the album.

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.

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!