Kara LaMoure approaches the bassoon as a dynamic performer, educator and creative. Her interest in the creation and curation of music has led to premieres of works for solo bassoon by Akshaya Avril Tucker and Adeliia Faizullina, and she is a prolific arranger of chamber music for winds. LaMoure has performed as a chamber musician at Ravinia, Strathmore, Carnegie Hall and the Grand Teton and Moab Music Festivals, as a soloist with ROCO, Caroga Arts Collective and the Eastman Wind Ensemble, and has coached youth orchestras in the United States, Switzerland, Honduras, Mexico and Brazil. She is also a founding member of the viral chamber-comedy group the Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet, which has forged a special connection with thousands of young musicians and found broad appeal in venues from Beijing’s Forbidden City Concert Hall to Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture and the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island. LaMoure earned degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Northwestern University, where she studied with John Hunt and Christopher Millard, and she is an alumna of Eastman’s cutting-edge Institute for Music Leadership. Between performances, she likes to explore her New York City neighborhood on foot and feed her interests in writing and visual art.