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Loren Glickman was recognized as one of America's foremost bassoon soloists. He was one of the founding artists of the prestigious Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center where he performed for twenty years, the principal bassoon of the NY City Opera for 20 years and a founding artist of the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. He performed at the White House, at the United Nations and on many tours throughout the continental United States and Alaska. Loren participated in the Festival Casals in Puerto Rico, the Aldeburgh Festival in England, The Spoleto Festival in Italy and the Madeira Bach Festival. He was guest artist in concerts with the Juilliard, the Guarneri, the Lenox and the Alexander Schneider String Quartets and recorded chamber music on Columbia Records, Angel Records, Vanguard, MGM, Kapp and Counterpoint Records. He has composed music for many films, commercials and has transcribed over 300 pieces for bassoon, solo and ensemble. Mr. Glickman has written three books including the definitive book on reed making, which he co-authored with Mark Popkin, “Maestro Where’s the Beat” about his illustrious career in music and ‘Don’t Sqveeze da Bow” reminiscences about his mentor Alexander Schneider He was the co-director of the Glickman-Popkin Bassoon Camp for 42 years. He was on the faculties of the Juilliard School, Queens College, Montclair State University and the Canadian National Youth Orchestra.

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Mark Popkin performed as Principal Bassoon with the New Jersey Symphony, the New York City Opera, Musica Aeterna and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. He taught a large bassoon studio at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC for 42 years.

Mark gave master classes throughout the USA as well as in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and New Zealand. His wind transcriptions were published by Musica Rara, Editions Compusic, Alry Publications, and the Theodore Presser Company. The Opus Five Woodwind Quintet was awarded a 2001 Winston-Salem Arts Council Artists Projects grant to produce a CD of his transcriptions for wind quintet of the Debussy and Ravel string quartets.

Popkin also designed and produced important bassoon and contrabassoon reed making tools, now marketed by the Music Source. His book, Bassoon Reed Making, Repair and Maintenance, third edition, co-authored with Loren Glickman and published by the Instrumentalist Company, has been characterized as “the bassoonists’ bible.”