Thalia Thunander, bassoon
Anna Buchenhorst, piano
Seglora kyrka, Skansen, Stockholm Sweden
May 2013

Live unedited recording

Thalia plays Elgar's Romance for bassoon and piano

Greek-American Thalia Thunander is a self-employed musician and media engineer with over 20 years experience performing with most of the professional orchestras and ensembles in Sweden.

She has been employed as guest principal bassoon with the Västerås Sinfonietta, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, and NorrlandsOperan. In 2012 she was the first bassoonist since 1837 to play bassoon in the changing of the guards at the Stockholm Royal Palace. Since 2003 she has been principal bassoon of the Opera på Skäret Orchestra and works frequently as principal of the Stockholm Concert Orchestra. In 2009 she was a finalist on the contrabassoon in YouTube’s competition for orchestral musicians. She can be seen in YouTube’s ”mashup” video of Tan Dun’s YouTube Symphony No 1 ‘Eroica’ – the world’s first online orchestra. She has also performed several times as a soloist.

 Born in San Rafael, California, she has a masters degree in bassoon from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a degree in media engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. She plays on Heckel bassoon 13017 and Fox contrabassoon 642.