Talent Drills for Orchestral Excerpts
Talent Drills and Rhythmic Displacement (with transpositions!) Ravel Piano Concerto in G, third...
Stemless Exercises from Solitary Refinement
Chromatic Up-Down (Stemless) Chromatic UpUp-DownDown (Stemless) If you have studied with me or own...
Musica Franca Sonates No 1, 3 & 6
More Corette with Musica Franca
Musica Franca
Musica Franca was wonderful group of bassoonists, lutenists and keyboardists, including me,...
Berceuse & Concertino
David Swan is one of Canada's most gloriously fluent and musical pianists. I was fortunate to...
COUNCIL OF CANADIAN BASSOONISTS – now that’s a good idea!
COUNCIL OF CANADIAN BASSOONISTS now that's a good idea! The short story As we hurtle forward...
BIRDS by NADINA
BIRDS by NADINA ACCEPTING NEW COMMISSIONS - click here to put your name on the list. $480.00...
Live Concerts, Concerto Recording, Airplanes
The good stuff! It’s both familiar and exciting to return to travelling and performing, connecting...
BASSOON OUT LOUD Bumper Stickers!
I’ve re-printed the essential Bassoon Out Loud bumper stickers… if you don’t have one yet, now’s...
Oh, in case you’re wondering and are afraid to ask…
Oh, in case you’re wondering and are afraid to ask… I will never retire. First of all, I don’t...
Uncomfortable nagging thoughts…
It was sobering to witness the extreme poverty and homelessness in the towns and cities to which I...
Favourite Restaurants from my recent travels
Excellent affordable restaurants during my travels… superb Indian menu at Windjammer Restaurant in...
BASSOOONS!
Blue Bell takes over from Big Red My new blue Bell bassoon, aka Blue Bell, is a total joy and came...
Letter from Mary Mackie, May, 1960
If you have time, more wild west stories from the Mackie family, this time from a letter that Mary...
Building the Wall – improvising a garden fence
Today, I loaded up my German axe, Canadian pry bar (pictured later), Swede saw and Japanese pull...
Hugelkultur Garden – building on the past
When I decided to sell my one-of-a-kind church/concert hall in 2018 and move up north to the last...
Drawn
This time of restricted contact and cancelled concerts feels very familiar to me, accustomed as I...
Body of Work
There has been a slight hitch in my plans and I am forced to cancel my upcoming March 8 appearance...
Ophelia Gets Mad in Toronto
Yesterday afternoon, I presented the first version of my new show, Ophelia Gets Mad. It is part...
Nadina Mackie is represented by Robert Baird of Baird Artists Management.
Contact: robert@bairdartists.com