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Debbie Torp

Bassoonist

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Music Education University of Northern Colorado
  • Master Classes on bassoon and contrabassoon with Sol Schoenbach,Jim Rodgers, John Miller,Nancy Goeres,Roger Birnstingl, Mark Popkin, Loren Glickman, and David van Hoesen

Performance Experience

  • Central City Opera orchestra -- 1999-2005
  • Delaware Symphony -- a recent wonderful opportunity to perform with this orchestra and with bassoonist/composer Chuck Holdeman,whom I have collaborated with on several premieres of his new compositions, and played a performance of Poetry and Music at the Arvada Center.
  • Organizer and performer of the free concert series sponsored by Olinger Crown Hill including the Mozart Gran Partita for 13 winds and Serenade for wind octet
  • Mercury Ensemble -- performed Vivaldi Concerto in E minor
  • Santa Fe Symphony -- for two years traveling to New Mexico, I enjoyed performing with one of my teachers, Artemus Edwards
  • Colorado Springs Philharmonic
  • Boulder Philharmonic
  • Junior Symphony Guild children's programs Inside the Orchestra and Tiny Tots -- since 1985
  • Bassooner the Better quartet -- you should hear us bassooner or later!
  • Opus 5 Wind Quintet
  • Boulder Philharmonic Wind Quintet
  • Colorado Ballet orchestra -- for 12 years
  • Phantom of the Opera -- Garner Attractions 1994

Professional affiliations

Contact Debbie Torp at 303-936-0790

DebTorp@aol.com

 




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