Paul Hanson

Paul has recorded and/or performed with Jon Batiste, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Billy Cobham, Taylor Eigsti, Wayne Shorter, Peter Erskine, Michael Manring, Cirque Du Soleil and countless other jazz and fusion artists as an improvising jazz fusion bassoonist. In 2008 Paul was invited to create his own role as electric improvising bassoonist in Cirque Du Soleilʼs ZED in Tokyo, Japan between 2008 and 2012. Paul has been featured with the Paul Dresher Ensemble, Napa Symphony Orchestra, Oakland Symphony Orchestra, St Joseph Ballet Company. In January 2024-Paul premiered his self-composed electric bassoon concerto “Transitions-Electric Bassoon Concerto” with San Francisco’s Symphony Parnassus conducted by Stephen Paulson.

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