GABRIEL BEAVERS is the Associate Professor of Bassoon at the University of Miami Frost School of Music. His performance activities in South Florida include engagements with the Nu-Deco Ensemble, Florida Grand Opera, and the Palm Beach Symphony. Beavers also serves on the faculty of the Eastern Music Festival.
Prior to his appointment at the Frost School of Music, Beavers held a faculty position at the Louisiana State University School of Music and served as principal bassoon with the Baton Rouge Symphony. He has also been on the faculty of the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. Formerly a bassoon fellow with the New World Symphony, his orchestral experience includes positions as principal bassoon with the Virginia Symphony, acting principal bassoon with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Jacksonville Symphony, and second bassoonist with the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra in Durango, Colorado. He began his orchestral career as acting second bassoon with the Milwaukee Symphony. Earlier faculty appointments include the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Music and the Tennessee Valley Music Festival.
In addition to his orchestral and teaching activities, Beavers maintains an active schedule of solo and chamber performances. He has appeared as a soloist with The Symphonia (Boca Raton, FL), Virginia Symphony, Baton Rouge Symphony, Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra, Frost Wind Ensemble, Ensemble Ibis, Chesapeake Bay Wind Ensemble, Greater Miami Symphonic Band, LSU Symphonic Winds, and the Louisiana Sinfonietta. His recitals have taken him throughout the United States and to international festivals in England, Brazil, and Japan. In 2022, Beavers received the American Prize Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music for his recording of Charles Norman Mason’s Swagger for amplified bassoon, brass quintet, and two percussion (available on Beauport Classical). He has also released two well-received solo albums on Mark Records: A Quirky Dream and Gordon Jacob: Music for Bassoon. Beavers received his BM from Boston University School of the Arts where he studied with Matthew Ruggiero and his MM from Southern Methodist University School of the Arts studying with Wilfred Roberts.
