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Frank and Kim Wangler
| Kim L. Wangler Kim Wangler holds a Bachelors degree in Musical Studies from the Crane School of Music and a Masters in Woodwinds from Michigan State University. She has done post-graduate work at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the Sweelink Conservatory of Amsterdam, Holland, and completed her MBA from Norwich University in 2004. Ms. Wangler has studied bassoon with Frank Wangler, Edgar Kirk, Otto Eiffert, and Yoep Terwey. She has played with many orchestras including the Lansing Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, and the Orchestra of Northern New York. Kim taught at Albion College, West Virginia University and SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music before joining the faculty at Appalachian State University in 2005 where she is the Director of Music Industry Studies and teaches music business classes. FRANK D. WANGLER Frank Wangler holds a bachelors degree and a masters in Woodwinds from Michigan State University where he studied bassoon with Edgar Kirk and Charles Sirard, and clarinet with Elsa Verdehr and Keith Stein. Sabbatical study has brought further study with master bassoonists Sherman Walt, Williard Elliot, Bernard Garfield and Leonard Sharrow. He has played co-principal bassoon in the National Symphony Orchestra in Johannesburg, South Africa and has performed as principal bassoonist and as soloist with orchestras in Michigan, Ohio and New York. He has also appeared as soloist with the Faculty Orchestra and the Faculty Band at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan, where he taught bassoon for ten years and coached the bassoon section of the World Youth Orchestra. He has premiered new works at Weill Recital Hall and the American New Music Festival at New York University and performed new music for two bassoons (with Kim Wangler) by Crane composers at the 2001 International Double Reed Society Convention in Morganton ,West Virginia. He has presented masterclasses at various Universities and Conservatories including his most memorable, in Corunna, Spain with his son, Steve, the principal bassoonist with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia. Mr. Wangler retired from the Crane School of Music, S.U.N.Y., Potsdam, where he taught bassoon and clarinet and performed with the Potsdam Wind Quintet. He has also served as principal bassoonist with the Orchestra of Northern New York and appeared as soloist on several occasions. In 2004 he and his wife, Kim Wangler founded the Bel Canto Bassoon Reed Company which is currently supplying reeds for bassoonists across the country. . |
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