Judith Bedford holds the Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Artist’s Diploma from the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Sherman Walt, Matthew Ruggiero, and Stephan Maxym. As a free-lance bassoonist in Boston, she has played with the Handel and Haydn Society (on modern bassoon and period instruments); Boston Baroque (formerly Banchetto Musicale) (period bassoon); Mostly Mozart Festival (New York) period orchestra; the orchestras of Worcester, MA, and New Hampshire; the Harvard Chamber Orchestra; the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra; and numerous other orchestra and chamber groups in the New England area. Ms. Bedford has been a substitute player for the Boston Symphony and the Boston Pops and has recorded for Golden Crest records (with the New England Ragtime Ensemble); CRI (with the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra); L´Oiseau Lyre (with Handel and Haydn Society); and Titanic records (music for baroque bassoon). She has been a recitalist at Jordan Hall, the Gardner Museum and the Fogg Museum and a three-time fellowship recipient to the Tanglewood Institute. In addition to ANMS, Ms. Bedford is a member of the faculties of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and the Longy School of Music, as well as the Powers School. She has taught the woodwind methods courses at New England Conservatory and bassoon at Brown University.