Matthew
Ruggiero
Born in Philadelphia, Dr. Matthew Ruggiero pursued his professional training
at the Curtis Institute of Music and was graduated in 1957. He spent five
summers at the Marlboro Music Festival studying and performing chamber music
in collaboration with Rudolf Serkin and Marcel Moyse. After playing three
years as second bassoonist of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington
D.C., Dr. Ruggiero moved to Boston in 1961 to assume his duties as Assistant
Bassoonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops. In 1974, Seji
Ozawa and Arthur Fiedler named him the Pop's Principal Bassoonist.
Dr. Ruggiero holds several degrees from Harvard University, a Bachelor of
Arts, cum laude, Master of Liberal Arts, and a Master of Arts in Italian literature.
In 1989, he retired from the Boston Symphony and entered an interdisciplinary
doctoral program at Boston University, where he had been designated University
Scholar and Fellow. He now teaches interdisciplinary courses at Clark University
and Harvard. He is on the faculty at Boston University's School of Music and
New England Conservatory. In May of 1994, he served on the jury of the 19th
International Competition for Wind Instruments in Toulon, France, and every
summer since 1991, has traveled to Asia to help train members of the Asian
Youth Orchestra.
