Chris Jewell, bassoon

Christopher Jewell is the Assistant Principal Bassoonist of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra. Additionally, he regularly performs with the Wolf Trap Opera Company and is the Adjunct Professor of Bassoon at George Mason University. He has previously served as Principal Bassoonist of the Missouri Chamber Orchestra and has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, New World Symphony, Aspen Festival and Chamber Orchestras, and at the Wintergreen Music Festival. Mr. Jewell has appeared as a soloist with the American Youth Philharmonic and with ensembles at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago and at the Missouri Music Educators Association Convention. As a clinician and adjudicator, he has presented masterclasses at schools throughout the Washington, DC metropolitan area as well as James Madison University, the University of Missouri, and the Simon Bolivar Youth Symphony in Caracas, Venezuela under Gustavo Dudamel. An avid chamber musician, he has performed at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Georgetown University’s Friday Music Series and has been featured on WETA’s Front Row Washington. Mr. Jewell earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia where he studied with Barbara Wood and continued his studies at the Manhattan School of Music with Patricia Rogers, Principal Bassoonist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.