Marcel Tabuteau First-Hand

MT era oboe

Renaissance Man: An Interview with Matthew Ruggiero

Dale Clark. The Double Reed. Vol. 22, No. 3 (1999): pp. 103-110. Tabuteau cited on p. 105, 110. https://www.idrs.org/publications/72-the-double-reed-1999-22-3/#page=104.

Dale Clark is principal bassoon of the Delta Symphony, former member of the North Arkansas Symphony, and has appeared as guest principal bassoon with the Memphis Symphony and Arkansas Symphony Orchestras. He is Adjunct Instructor of Bassoon at Arkansas State University and was instructor and principal bassoon at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival of the Sewanee Festival. He is a former member of the Memphis Woodwind Quintet and has appeared at conferences of the International Double Reed Society as performer, composer, panel member, reed class instructor and exhibitor. His principal teachers were Ed Knob, Keith McClelland, Gary Echols and Matthew Ruggiero. As owner and reed maker of Clark Bassoon Reeds, he provides professional quality bassoon reeds to over 1500 customers across the U.S and abroad.

Interview Excerpts

Matthew Ruggiero interviewed by Dale Clark
This photo appeared in the original article.

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An audio interview with Joan Browne (Champie), a private Tabuteau student in the early 1950s.

A photograph of the music stand that was in Tabuteau’s private studio in Philadelphia.

An autographed photo of Marcel Tabuteau inscribed to Vladimir Sokoloff.

An autographed photo of Marcel Tabuteau inscribed to Joan Browne Champie.

With the passing of Wilbur Isaac Hilles in August 2023 and now Martha Scherer-Alfee in February 2024, no oboe students of Marcel Tabuteau at the Curtis Institute are still living.

A letter sent to the Curtis Institute by Laila Storch’s mother about Tabuteau not teaching at Curtis—and the reply.