Susan Nelson
Susan Nelson, bassoonist and native Montanan, is active as an international performer and clinician. Pursuing an active career as a bassoonist, Miss Nelson has studied with Carl Rath, Alan Hawkins, Susan Wadsworth, and Forrest Cornwell. Miss Nelson received her Bachelor of Music degree in Bassoon Performance and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Kansas and her Masters degree in Bassoon Performance from the University of Oklahoma. In August 2006 she performed as principal bassoonist with the annual Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria. She has also performed with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra and the Helena Symphony. Miss Nelson teaches at the University of Arkansas Junior High and Senior Summer Music Camps. She received the top award at the Midwest Double Reed Society Young Artists Competition, was a finalist in both the University of Oklahoma Concerto Competition and the Arapahoe Philharmonic Concerto competition. Recently Miss Nelson was the principal bassoonist in the Great Falls Symphony and a member of the Chinook Winds quintet. Currently Miss Nelson is pursuing her Doctorate in Bassoon performance at the University of Michigan under the direction of Jeffrey Lyman.
