about TUPLE
Bassoon duo Tuple was formed in 2006 by longtime collaborators and new music advocates Rachael Elliott and Lynn Hileman. Tuple has presented lectures, recitals, and master classes at venues across the United States, including The Stone (NYC), Eyedrum (Atlanta), Flood Gallery (Asheville NC), Catamount Arts Center (VT), A|V Space (Rochester NY), University of Vermont, West Virginia University, the Eastman School of Music, and at the 2008 International Double Reed Society and College Music Society Conventions.
They have premiered new works for two bassoons by Australian composer Padma Newsome and American composer Max Grafe, and are commissioning Canadian composer Tawnie Olson to write a new work for two bassoons and marimba, to be premiered in Fall 2010.
Rachael Elliott
Rachael Elliott is the bassoonist/improviser with Clogs, Heliand Trio, Tuple, and the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. She has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, and Australia, and has premiered a number of new works for bassoon. With Clogs, she has performed at the Sydney Festival, London Jazz Festival, Warhol Museum, Wexner Center for the Arts, Cincinnati’s MusicNOW Festival and Bang on a Can Marathon. Rachael holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music and Yale University, where she studied with Frank Morelli, and teaches bassoon at the University of Vermont, Middlebury College and Kinhaven Music School.
Lynn Hileman
Bassoonist Lynn Hileman is in demand throughout the US as a recitalist specializing in contemporary music, appearing most recently at the Washington State University Festival of Contemporary Art Music and the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival. She is Assistant Professor of Bassoon at West Virginia University, principal bassoonist of the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra and a member of the Laureate Quintet. Lynn is also co-founder and former president of A|V Space, a gallery and performance space in Rochester, NY specializing in interdisciplinary and multimedia works. She holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Yale University, and the University of Michigan, where her teachers included John Hunt, K. David Van Hoesen, Frank Morelli, Christopher Millard, and Richard Beene.
