Daryl Durran
- Professor Emeritus, Pedagogy and Performance (Bassoon)
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Bassoon Performance and Pedagogy
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Woodwind Chamber Music
- Email dwd3@psu.edu
Biography
Daryl Durran retired in 2022 after serving 39 years on the School of Music faculty. He taught bassoon, coached wind chamber music, and was bassoonist with the Pennsylvania Quintet.
He was a founder of the Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra, performing as its principal bassoonist for 32 seasons. Prior to his Penn State retirement, he also served as principal bassoonist for Penn’s Woods Music Festival Orchestra. Additionally, he has been a member of the Festival of Two Worlds Orchestra in Spoleto, Italy, and the Britt Festival Orchestra in Jacksonville, Oregon. As a chamber music player, he has appeared in concert halls throughout the United States and Europe.
Prior to his appointment at Penn State, he was a performer with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and was principal bassoonist of the Milwaukee Ballet and the Waukesha Symphony Orchestras. He has taught at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan, and the American Band College in Ashland, Oregon.
Durran has been an active member of the International Double Reed Society, offering presentations at the society's conferences and writing articles for its journal, The Double Reed. His editions and arrangements of music for bassoon and woodwinds are published by TrevCo Music.
He is a recipient Penn State’s university-wide “Undergraduate Program Leadership Award” and the College of Arts and Architecture’s award for “Excellence in Advising and Mentoring.” From 2007 to 2018 Durran served as the School’s Assistant Director for Undergraduate Studies and Advising.