MEET THE ORCHESTRA

Inspired by the opening notes in Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Fletcher Forehand has been playing bassoon since the age of 13. He currently serves as principal bassoon of the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs and occasionally plays bassoon or contrabassoon with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic. Fletcher holds degrees in bassoon performance from Oberlin Conservatory and Carnegie Mellon University, where his principal teachers were George Sakakeeny and Nancy Goeres. He is grateful to the Colorado Springs community for having such an active interest in the new, underrepresented, and unknown works presented by the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs. We grow musically together.