about TUPLE
Tuple is two bassoons: Rachael Elliott and Lynn Hileman. Since 2006 they have performed new music in styles ranging from mystical to funk-inspired, absurdist to minimalist, and electronic to static. The duo has staged concerts and master classes at venues across the United States, including The Stone (NYC), A|V Space (Rochester), Catamount Arts Center (Vermont), [SCENE] MetroSpace (East Lansing), Eyedrum (Atlanta), Flood Fine Art Center (Asheville), University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Northwestern University, the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan, among others. Other appearances include recitals at the 2008 International Double Reed Society and College Music Society Conventions, as well as numerous outreach programs for high school and college students.
Tuple has premiered new works by Australian composer Padma Newsome and American Max Grafe, as well as the first bassoon duo version of Marc Mellits' "Black," originally for two bass clarinets. New pieces underway for the 2011-2012 season include music by Tawnie Olson and Beth Wiemann.
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.
