Larsson • Little Serenade op.12

Du Puy • Quintet in A minor

Bianca Chambul • bassoon

Karłowicz • Serenade op.2

Soloist

Born in Toronto, Bianca Chambul was appointed Principal Bassoon of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in June 2019.

During her time as a freelance bassoonist and contrabassoonist, Bianca performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Hamilton Philharmonic, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, and Toronto’s Tapestry Opera. She has appeared as a concerto competition winner with the Rice University Chamber Orchestra, the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. Upcoming solo performances include a Vivaldi bassoon concerto with the Alberta Baroque Ensemble, and the Mozart Bassoon Concerto with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. The arrangement of Édouard Dupuy’s original quintet for bassoon and strings will mark her debut solo performance with the Edmonton Chamber Orchestra.

Bianca has participated in several summer music festivals, including Le Domaine Forget (2009), the National Youth Orchestra of Canada (2012, 2013), and the National Academy Orchestra (2015, 2016). While attending the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara in 2019, she was awarded a residency fellowship with the London Symphony Orchestra and had the opportunity to perform with the LSO in England’s historic St. Paul’s Cathedral under the direction of Simon Rattle in June 2022.

In 2019, Bianca completed one year of her Master’s degree at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in Houston, Texas under the tutelage of Professor Benjamin Kamins. She obtained her performance undergraduate degree in 2016 at the University of Toronto, studying with Eric Hall, Principal Bassoon of Chicago’s Grant Park Orchestra and the Canadian Opera Company. Bianca received the William and Phyllis Waters Graduating Award, and was on the University of Toronto music faculty as a sessional bassoon instructor for the 2017 winter term.