bassoonist

American  

[buh-soon-ist] / bəˈsun ɪst /

noun

plural

bassoonists

1. a person who plays the bassoon, especially one who plays skillfully or professionally.

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Example Sentences

The bakery owner is actually a musician, a bassoonist with a performance degree from Pacific Lutheran University.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2024

He also happens to be a busy studio conductor and bassoonist who has worked over the last two decades on some 1,000 movie, television and video game scores.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2023

Rebekah Heller, the ensemble’s bassoonist, responded to the upward-swooping graphic notation of “Red Hills” with a peppery excitement that rivaled earlier interpretations of it.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2023

But two years later, after a standard probationary period, a seven-man committee of the orchestra’s musicians denied tenure to Ms. Jones and a Japanese-born bassoonist, Ryohei Nakagawa.

From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2022

The bassoonist, a man of sallow and heavy cast, said, “You carry tales.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson