Rémy Taghavi, bassoon

Rémy Taghavi is a highly sought-after bassoonist based in the Northeast, and has performed, toured and recorded with numerous groups across North America, South America, and Asia. Praised for his “precise fingerwork…and impeccable breath support” (Washington Classical Review), Rémy is principal bassoon with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra New England, and has performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, the Las Vegas Philharmonic, and the Cape and Princeton Symphonies, among others. He has previously been an associate member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and a substitute member of Symphony in C (NJ). Rémy has performed as a soloist with the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra and the New York Symphonic Ensemble at Fukuoka Symphony Hall (Japan) and the United Nations (NY). 

As a chamber musician, Rémy has given performances at series and venues including the Library of Congress, Chamber Music Northwest (OR), the Detroit Institute of Arts, Luzerne Music Center (NY), the Banff Centre, Domaine Forget (QC), Bravo! Vail, the White Mountains Chamber Music Festival (NH), the Atlantic Music Festival (ME), Montréal/New Musics Festival, the Bermuda Festival, and the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival, of which he is co-director and founder. Mr. Taghavi is the bassoonist in Frisson, the prolific New York-based chamber ensemble whose performances have been called “musical perfection” (Royal Gazette, Bermuda). Rémy is an alumnus of Ensemble Connect, a chamber music, teaching, and career-development fellowship of Carnegie Hall and The Juilliard School. He is a member and co-founder of Bandwidth, the wind faculty ensemble of UMass Amherst at the forefront of commissioning for their unique instrumentation.

Mr. Taghavi is Assistant Professor of Bassoon at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and faculty at the Rocky Ridge Music’s College Intensive (Colorado) and the Charles Ives Music Festival (Connecticut). From 2014 to 2019 he was an instructor of music technology in the Evening Division at The Juilliard School. In addition to his faculty positions, he has given masterclasses at numerous colleges and universities across the country. He is a frequent performer and lecturer at the annual International Double Reed Society conference. Rémy holds degrees from the University of Southern California, The Juilliard School, and Stony Brook University. His primary teachers include Dr. Frank Morelli, Judith Farmer, and Norbert Nielubowski. His playing can be heard on recent releases by the NAXOS and Neuma record labels. For more information visit www.remytaghavi.com