Tuple
Bassoon
Duo.

Rachael Elliott ↗

BASSOON / FOUNDING MEMBER

Rachael Elliott has played bassoon in places most bassoonists never go — on boats on the North Sea, in off-grid Vermont churches, at CBGB's, and at the Sydney Festival — and somehow made it feel like it belongs.

A founding member of the improvisatory quartet Clogs, she has toured throughout the US, Europe, and Australia and shared stages with Sufjan Stevens, The National, Laurie Anderson, Bang on a Can, Terry Riley, and Bell Orchestre across five acclaimed albums. Her solo CD Polka the Elk features world premiere recordings by David Lang, Padma Newsome, and Tawnie Olson — two of them commissioned for her. She holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music and Yale School of Music, and has received support from the American Composers Forum, Chamber Music America, and the Vermont Arts Council.

Lynn Hileman ↗

BASSOON / FOUNDING MEMBER

Lynn Hileman has built a career that refuses to stay in one lane — from contemporary bassoon collectives to major symphony orchestras, from sixteen years in academia to founding a consultancy that applies neuroscience to musical performance.

A founding member of Tuple, Dark in the Song, and The Rushes Ensemble, and founding faculty of the NewBassoon Institute, she has performed across the US, Europe, Latin America, and Asia at venues including National Sawdust, Park Avenue Armory, the November Music and GLOW Festivals (Netherlands), and the Festival Internacional de Sopros (Brazil). Principal Bassoon of the Binghamton Philharmonic, she teaches at UC Davis and the San Francisco Conservatory Pre-College Division, and is the founder of The Performance Practice, a consultancy applying neuroscience and flow research to classical performance.