ABOUT

Performer, Educator and Conductor Eryn Oft engages in a versatile musical career. In all of her endeavors she strives to communicate and connect with audiences of all cultures and demographics.
A bassoonist by nature Eryn gravitates towards the study and education of the double reeds. As a performer, Eryn began her solo bassoon career at the age of seventeen performing with the Oregon Symphony. In 2004, she graduated with honors from Indiana University, receiving her masters and undergraduate degrees in bassoon performance with a minor in early music. Since then Eryn has performed with orchestras and chamber music groups throughout Europe, Mexico, the US and Canada. As an artist, she believes in the importance of new music and has commissioned new works including the recent work Bassooze for bassoon and string bass by Robert Aldridge. Her principal bassoon teachers have included Kim Walker, Stéphane Lévesque and Mark Eubanks.
As an educator she has taught classes at the collegiate level in music technology, music theory, music history, music therapy, orchestral literature, pedagogy, private lessons (undergraduate and graduate), chamber ensemble coaching and conducting. Eryn began her pedagogical career at Indiana University where she served as an Assistant Instructor of Bassoon. Following several artist residencies, she then continued at Snow College in Utah where she served as an Assistant Professor of music. Currently she teaches at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama as Instructor of double reeds and music history.
In all of her ventures, Eryn strives for a broad range of musical perspective based in theoretical and historical based concepts of art and philosophy.