Bassoonist Corinne Crowley is a passionate orchestral and chamber musician who loves to perform everything from Baroque to Contemporary music. Her orchestral engagements have taken her to venues throughout the U.S. as well as Europe. As a chamber musician, she has travelled to summer music festivals from Charleston to Colorado, sharing traditional chamber works with audiences, as well as advocating for contemporary and world music.

As an orchestral musician, Corinne has appeared professionally with the BBC Philharmonic, the Scottish Opera, the Sarasota Opera, the North Carolina Symphony, the Charlotte Symphony, the Richmond Symphony, the Annapolis Symphony, the Toledo Symphony, the Eastern Festival Orchestra and the Colorado Springs Philharmonic. Her engagements have taken her to venues such as Severance Hall and Chicago Symphony Center, playing works such as the Rite of Spring, and Amsterdam’s Bernard Haitinkzaal and Sweelinckzaal Halls, performing works such as Brahms’ Symphony 4 and Till Eulenspiegel. She has participated in multiple world premieres, including the first performance of Vijay Iyer’s violin concerto, Trouble, at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, OH. This performance featured Jennifer Koh with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music Players. She also performed in the UK Premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s Opera, Ainadamar.

Corinne has participated in the Verbier Festival, the Spoleto USA Festival, the Colorado College Music Festival, the Roundtop Music Festival and the Texas Music Festival, playing the music of Strauss, Beethoven, Dvorak, Shostakovich and many others. She has performed under the baton of notable conductors such as Gianandrea Noseda, Klaus Mäkelä, Charles Dutoit, Gerard Schwarz, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Thomas Wilkins, Omer Meir Wellber, Steven Sloane, Evan Rogister, Larry Rachleff, Jerry Hou and Tim Weiss.

Corinne has participated in both solo and orchestral recording projects. She has performed on multiple recorded and live broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 with the BBC Philharmonic. From 2016-2018 Corinne participated in multiple orchestral recordings on the Naxos label. These include Ginastera: 100 by Jason Vieaux, Bernard Rands at Oberlin and works by Oberlin faculty composers Jesse Jones and Stephen Hartke. She is also featured on the soundtrack for the 2017 Toni Morrison documentary, A Foreigner’s Home.

As a chamber musician, Corinne enjoys a diverse range of repertoire. Notable concerts include performances of the Poulenc Sextet on Houston’s Music in Context series with renowned pianist and music director Brian Connelly, an all French program for the Verraux Collective in the Woodlands, Texas, and a performance of Stravinsky’s Octet and A Soldier’s Tale for the Hear and Now Collective at Rice University. In July and August of 2013 Corinne toured the US and France with her woodwind quintet playing a program of American music featuring an arrangement of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.

Corinne has performed in masterclasses for nationally and internationally renowned bassoonists including Gustavo Núñez, Judith LeClair, Richard Beene, Kristin Wolfe Jensen, Helma van den Brink, Dennis Michel, Stephen Paulson and David McGill. Corinne was a semi-finalist in the 2016 and 2019 Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competitions held at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, CA.

Heading up a performance and improvisation ensemble at Oberlin, Corinne performed a variety of music that combined elements of different styles of music from all over the globe. This ensemble featured instruments such as guitar, saxophone, oud, percussion and piano. She has performed with artists such as Snarky Puppy, the Punch Brothers, Banda Magda, Simon Shaheen, André Mehmari, Jamey Haddad, Billy Drewes and many others. In 2016 she worked with the renowned Brazilian pianist André Mehmari and performed his Concerto for Bassoon, Harp and Strings.

In 2020 Corinne completed her Masters’ degree at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music as a recipient of the John Guida Full Tuition Scholarship and the Larry Slezak Prize, studying with Benjamin Kamins. She received her Bachelor of Music from Oberlin Conservatory as the recipient of a Conservatory Dean Talent Scholarship, studying with George Sakakeeny and Drew Pattison. Corinne also worked toward her Bachelors’ degree while at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in The Netherlands, where she studied with Simon Van Holen and other members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

In her free time, Corinne enjoys cooking, meditating, spending time with friends and family, and drinking bubble tea.