Dana Brink

Bassoonist Dana Brink enjoys a diverse musical life of freelance performing and teaching in southwestern Pennsylvania and beyond. Dana is the Adjunct Instructor of Bassoon at West Virginia University and West Liberty University. She is a co-founder of the Bridge Bassoon Duo, specializing in contemporary classical music for two bassoons, and also regularly performs with orchestras in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. She is passionate about expanding the repertoire for bassoon chamber ensembles, especially by composers historically underrepresented in the Western art music canon.

Dana earned her master’s degree in bassoon performance from the Yale School of Music as a student of Frank Morelli and dual bachelor’s degrees in bassoon performance and political science from the Eastman School of Music/University of Rochester, where she studied with George Sakakeeny and John Hunt.