Richard Svoboda

Richard Svoboda has been principal bassoonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players since 1989. Currently on the faculties of the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston University, and the Tanglewood Music Center, he has also taught at the Grand Teton Orchestral Seminar and the Popkin-Glickman Bassoon Camp, and has given master classes in the United States, Japan, and Brazil. Prior to his Boston Symphony appointment he performed as principal bassoon of the Jacksonville Symphony and studied with William Winstead, George Berry, and Gary Echols. He is a graduate with high distinction of the University of Nebraska, where he received a degree in music education. Mr. Svoboda made his first BSO appearances in a solo concerto with performances of the Weber Bassoon Concerto in October 1995, BSO audiences having previously heard him in Haydn's Concertante in B-flat for violin, cello, oboe, and bassoon at Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood.