Philip Gottling
Bassoon
Philip Gottling has had a varied career as an orchestral
musician, early music performer and teacher. After receiving
his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Juilliard,
Phil joined the Hong Kong Philharmonic. He then lived for
three years in Paris where he studied the French bassoon
with the legendary Maurice Allard and performed all over
Europe with the Orchestre de Paris and Pierre Boulez's Ensemble
InterContemporain.
After a year teaching at the University of Texas and Aspen
Music Festival, Phil joined the Honolulu Symphony in 1986
and has appeared several times with the orchestra as recorder
soloist. He maintains a busy schedule of concerts in Hawai'i
and elsewhere, performing on modern and period instruments
with ensembles from Scandinavia to Taiwan. He spent eleven
summers at the Spoleto Festival in Italy and has toured
China three times to give master classes and recitals.
With the Honolulu Symphony since 1986,
Phil also plays principal bassoon at the Cascade Festival in Bend, Oregon, recorder, baroque bassoon and baroque contrabassoon with La Bande des Hautbois du Roy in Padua, Italy, dizi and xiao with the University of Hawaii Chinese Ensemble and hichiriki with the Hawaii Gagaku Kenkyukai. In 2003 he performed as guest principal bassoon with the Daejeon Philharmonic in South Korea.
Phil's daughter Ann Suzu is majoring in forensic
psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.
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