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Matthew Ruggiero, Ph.D., Bassoon

Born in Philadelphia, Dr. Matthew Ruggiero pursued his professional training at the Curtis Institute of Music and was graduated in 1957. He spent five summers at the Marlboro Music Festival studying and performing chamber music in collaboration with Rudolf Serkin and Marcel Moyse. After playing three years as second bassoonist of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C., Dr. Ruggiero moved to Boston in 1961 to assume his duties as Assistant Bassoonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops. In 1974, Seji Ozawa and Arthur Fiedler named him the Pop's Principal Bassoonist.

Dr. Ruggiero holds several degrees from Harvard University, a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, Master of Liberal Arts, and a Master of Arts in Italian literature. In 1989, he retired from the Boston Symphony and entered an interdisciplinary doctoral program at Boston University, where he had been designated University Scholar and Fellow. He now teaches interdisciplinary courses at Clark University and Harvard. He is on the faculty at Boston University's School of Music and New England Conservatory. In May of 1994, he served on the jury of the 19th International Competition for Wind Instruments in Toulon, France, and every summer since 1991, has traveled to Asia to help train members of the Asian Youth Orchestra.