Welcome to the Chamber Bassoon website, created to catalogue Polish woodwind chamber music (with bassoon). The content on this website was originally part of Doctoral of Music Degree research at the University of Minnesota School of Music. This website encompasses 50 compositions for bassoon and other instruments ranging from trios to octets. Each composition entry consists of the composer’s name, composition’s title, performance time, year composed, publisher information, instrumentation, text describing the composition, as well as its difficulty for the performers.  Each work is graded for its difficulty, gives information where the music can be purchased (if possible) and gives information on existent recordings.

Grading of the composition’s difficulty is shown in Roman numerals according to the scale: 

• I-II Middle school playing level
• III-IV High school playing level
• V-VI College and professional playing level

Recordings listed in the bibliography are only ones that are easily accessible, and do not include premiere or archival recordings. Instrumentalists and chamber music coaches can use this information to explore these interesting and delightful works.

Please get in touch on the contact page with any questions you might have. Enjoy learning
and performing Polish chamber music with the bassoon!

Sincerely,
Marta Troicki

About Marta

Bassoonist Marta Troicki has performed with New York Choral Society Orchestra and Five: a Woodwind Quintet. Troicki has performed at numerous notable venues, including Carnegie Hall, and in many settings, including chamber and orchestral. While based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she was Principal Bassoon with the Pittsburgh Live Chamber Orchestra, and has been featured as a concerto soloist with the Kenwood Symphony Orchestra and Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in Minnesota. She has also performed in venues in Europe and the Middle East. Troicki has studied the bassoon in both the United States and Europe, earning a Bachelor’s degree from Hofstra University and a Master’s degree from the Purchase Conservatory of Music in New York, and an Artist Diploma Degree from the F. Chopin Conservatory of Music in Warsaw, Poland.  Doctoral degree in bassoon performance at the University of Minnesota School of Music where she was a Berneking Fellow.