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Rachel Gough
Rachel Gough
British classical bassoonist
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Radovan Vlatković
Radovan Vlatković
Croatian musician
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Klaus Thunemann
Klaus Thunemann
German bassoonist
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Julius Baker
Julius Baker
American musician
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Canadian conductor and pianist
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Paavo Järvi
Paavo Järvi
Estonian conductor
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Lorenza Borrani
Lorenza Borrani
Italian violinist
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Claudio Abbado
Claudio Abbado
Italian conductor (1933-2014)
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
American composer
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Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
American orchestra based in Pittsburgh
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Austrian conductor
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Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Finnish conductor and composer
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Camargo Guarnieri
Camargo Guarnieri
Brazilian composer
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Charles Mackerras
Charles Mackerras
Australian conductor
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John Harbison
John Harbison
American composer
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José Serebrier
José Serebrier
Uruguayan conductor and composer
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Ruth Gipps
Ruth Gipps
English composer, oboist, pianist and impresario
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Vladimir Ashkenazy
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Icelandic pianist and conductor from Russia
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Margaret Cookhorn
Margaret Cookhorn
English contrabassoonist
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Graham Waterhouse
Graham Waterhouse
English composer
Matthew Wilkie
Australian classical bassoonist

Matthew Wilkie

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Matthew Wilkie is an Australian classical bassoonist. He is Principal Bassoon with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) and Principal Emeritus Bassoon with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He has made a substantial number of recordings, notably with the COE, in both a full orchestra and as a member of the Wind Soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

Wilkie studied with Klaus Thunemann at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover.

James Ledger wrote Outposts, a bassoon concerto, for Wilkie, which Wilkie premiered with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 2011.