Maria Wildhaber Excecutive Director

John AylwardMaria Maria K. Wildhaber holds a Bachelor of Music from The University of Arizona, Master of Music from Yale University and a Doctor of Musical Arts in bassoon performance from State University of New York at Stony Brook where she studied with Frank Morelli.

She has collaborated with the Macao Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Philharmonia of Russia, UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in Switzerland. She has worked with world famous conductors including Pierre Boulez, James Levine, Michael Tilson Thomas, Christoph von Dohnanyi and Gerard Schwartz. Her performances have been broadcasted on TV stations in the US, Europe, South America and Asia as well as on New York’s WQXR, Washington’s WGMS and Hong Kong’s RTHK radio stations.

She is currently on the faculty at 92nd Street Y School of Music in New York City, Bergen Academy of Music and Art in New Jersey, Kinhaven Summer Music School in Vermont and the bassoonist of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland. In 2009 Maria will finish recording her first solo CD, featuring Bulgarian Folk Songs and Dances that she had arranged for Solo Bassoon and Piano.