Marvin Feinsmith, bassoonist, is a native New Yorker, a graduate of the Mozarteum of Salzburg, The Juilliard School, and the Manhattan School of Music as first bassoonist with a master’s degree. Marvin has studied bassoon with Simon Kovar for five years and Elias Carmen one year. He studied reed making with Harold Goltzer and Norman Hertzberg and chamber music at Juilliard with Julius Baker and privately with Harold Gomberg.
Marvin has played principal bassoon with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Mozarteum of Salzburg, the Brooklyn Philharmonia, co-principal with the Symphony of the Air, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, under Leonard Bernstein and Zubin Mehta, solo bassoon for the Bernstein “Mass” and assistant principal bassoon with the Denver Symphony Orchestra.
Click to read a letter of recommendation from Leonard Bernstein
Click to read a letter of recommendation from Zubin Mehta
| Member: | International Double Reed Society, Local 802 Musicians Union, New York and member of ASCAP |
In respect to his esteemed teacher Simon Kovar, he would like to pass on the Kovar system of bassoon technique, control and artistic performance. In order to teach this method, Marvin Feinsmith will utilize Simon Kovar’s 24 daily exercises and Mr. Kovar’s system of teaching orchestral and solo repertoire, with focus on extreme control of dynamics, tone quality, phrasing, style, intonation, and pinpoint intervallic accuracy.
Please feel free to contact Marvin Feinsmith for further information.