NEW YORK -- Lynn Gaubatz, of Falls Church, VA, considered to be one of the world's
greatest
concert bassoonists and currently the guest principal bassoonist in Barry Tuckwell's Maryland
Symphony Orchestra,
has been named one of GLAMOUR's Outstanding Young Working Women
for 1988.
She is one of ten winners featured in the current (February) issue of
GLAMOUR.
By age 26 Gaubatz had performed as virtuoso soloist on four continents - Europe, North and
South America, and Africa - and had been awarded the Leonard Bernstein
Fellowship to
Tanglewood, the Henry Cabot Award for Musicianship given by the Boston
Symphony
Orchestra, and the Lara B. Hoggard Award for Young Artists.
Gaubatz has been principal bassoonist in orchestras conducted by Leonard Bernstein, Sir Georg
Solti, and Seiji Ozawa, among others, in Austria, Germany, Spain, Venezuela, and the U.S.
During her tours of Spain and Africa as soloist, she was featured on Radio Nacional de
España, and her critically-acclaimed performances of Mozart's Bassoon
Concerto have been broadcast on three continents by PBS, Radio Nacional de
España, and Radio Nacional de Venezuela.
In addition to her work as concerto soloist and chamber musician, she has given three recitals
devoted entirely to works for unaccompanied bassoon at the Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts in Washington, DC. Gaubatz received her B.M. in music from Boston
University in 1978 and an M.M. in music from Northwestern University in 1980. She was the
Bassoon Professor from 1982 to 1984 at the prestigious Mozarteum
Conservatory in Salzburg, Austria and is currently on the faculty of the Washington
Conservatory of Music.
Biography enclosed. For further information, please go to http://www.LynnGaubatz.com.
Lynn Gaubatz
Named
"Outstanding Young Working Woman"
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