Spring 2027

Advanced Bassoon

Advanced individual bassoon instruction for majors covering musicianship, reed-making, technique, pedagogy, and professional portfolio development.

offering recorded2–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Eleni Katz

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=2 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate developing musicianship, technical fluency and artistic voice on the bassoon.

  • Build strong reed-making and adjusting skills, enabling students to make reeds that respond reliably, play in tune, and support expressive performance.

  • Address specific physical, mental, and technical challenges that may limit musical growth, with an emphasis on sustainable playing and healthy habits.

  • Refine ability to listen critically, evaluate their playing, and set clear goals for improvement.

  • Strengthen core musical skills, including tone production, intonation, rhythmic precision, and stylistic interpretation.

  • Exhibit deepened understanding of the historical and analytical context of the music you study and perform.

  • Demonstrate familiarity with the principles of music pedagogy and develop your ability to communicate effectively about the bassoon and the broader art of music.

  • Practice leadership, collaboration, and responsibility as artists both within the studio and the wider musical community.

  • Set entrepreneurial goals and develop a professionally viable portfolio of musical projects, recordings, programs, and repertoire.

  • Demonstrate broad expertise in bassoon fundamentals and reed-making skills and create a professional portfolio that reflects the Wisconsin Idea.

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

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Prerequisites

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MUS PERF 415

  • MUS PERF 415
MUSPERF 415 used by

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  • MUS PERF 415

Professors

Spring 2027
Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ELENI KATZ is recorded teaching in Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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IND 032Classroom Instruction0 / 100
IND 132Classroom Instruction0 / 50

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=2 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

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Topics

  • Musicianship, technical fluency, and artistic voice on the bassoon
  • Reed-making and adjusting for reliable response and expressive performance
  • Sustainable playing, healthy habits, and addressing physical/mental/technical challenges
  • Tone production, intonation, rhythmic precision, and stylistic interpretation
  • Historical and analytical context of studied and performed music
  • Music pedagogy and communication about the bassoon and music
  • Leadership, collaboration, and responsibility as artists in studio and community
  • Entrepreneurial goals and professional portfolio development

Skills

  • Developing musicianship, technical fluency, artistic voice, tone production, intonation, rhythmic precision, and stylistic interpretation on the bassoon
  • Reed-making and adjusting skills for reliable response, tuning, and expressive performance
  • Addressing physical, mental, and technical challenges with sustainable playing and healthy habits
  • Critical listening, self-evaluation, and goal-setting for musical improvement
  • Music pedagogy principles and effective communication about the bassoon and music
  • Entrepreneurial goal-setting and developing a professional portfolio of projects, recordings, programs, and repertoire

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2022— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Selected offering source records
MUSPERF 415 · Spring 2027

Advanced Bassoon

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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