Bassoonist Lynn Hileman’s performances as a soloist and chamber musician have taken her around the world, with appearances in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia at venues including the November Music and GLOW Festivals (the Netherlands), the Surround Festival (Belgium), Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras (Mexico), Festival Internacional de Sopros (Brazil), National Sawdust, Park Avenue Armory and the Long Play Festival (NYC), and numerous International Double Reed Society conferences. A career-long advocate of contemporary and experimental music, she is a founding member of the contemporary bassoon collectives Tuple Bassoon Duo, Dark in the Song, and The Rushes Ensemble. She is also a founding faculty member of the NewBassoon Institute, a summer program dedicated to exploring contemporary performance techniques and repertoire for bassoon.
Equally at home in traditional genres, Lynn is Principal Bassoon of the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra in New York, and has previously served as Acting Principal Bassoon of the West Virginia and Wheeling Symphony Orchestras. She has also appeared with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, among others.
Lynn was Associate Professor of Bassoon at West Virginia University for 16 years before moving to the Bay Area. She currently teaches bassoon at The University of California—Davis, and is a member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College musicianship faculty, where she teaches Music History and Analysis and The Science of Practice.
In addition to performing and teaching, Lynn also runs the performance coaching program Freedom on Stage, where she helps classical musicians get out of their own way, make music in the moment, and find the optimal performance state of flow where they perform their best with more satisfaction and less stress.
She holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Yale University, and the Eastman School of Music, where her teachers included John Hunt, K. David Van Hoesen, Frank Morelli, Christopher Millard, and Richard Beene.
