Janet Underhill
Janet Underhill, bassoon, a native of British Columbia, Canada, is the Chamber Music Manager for the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra (GBYSO), Director of Instrumental Music at St. Mark's School, as well as bassoon instructor at Boston College. She is the recipient of the 2001 Kay Logan Award, a national award for excellence in chamber music teaching, for her development of the chamber music program at GBYSO. Janet is also the bassoon instructor at South Shore Conservatory and the Community Music Center.
As a freelancer Ms. Underhill has performed with The Moody Blues, Placido Domingo, Tony Bennett and The Panamanian National Symphony Orchestra. Solo performances include concertos with The Pittsburgh Symphony, Harvard University Mozart Society Orchestra, Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras and the Little Orchestra of Victoria, several concerts including Audible Visions, Boston College, Boston University, as well as performances at the International Double Reed Conference in Minneapolis, the Gaudeamus Competition in Rotterdam, Holland, The Women's Avant Festival in Chicago, The Outoftowners series in New York City and Soundwaves in St. Petersburg, Russia.
She is a member of Alea III, with whom she has been on four Greek tours and most recently St. Petersburg, Russia. Also interested in archival projects, she has developed a cataloguing system for ethnic recordings with composer Martin Bartlett, and has organized Gunther Schuller's personal collection. She is a member of the Arcadian Winds.