George Rydlinski
Fine Arts 131
474.5852
ffgr@uaf.edu
Born and educated in Chicago, Illinois, George holds a Bachelor
of Music Performance degree from Northern Illinois University. He has studied
bassoon with James Berkenstock and Norbert Nielubowski of the Lyric Opera
Orchestra of Chicago, and with David Muller of Los Angeles California. In
1983, he joined the Army and has served as bassoonist with the 76th Army Band,
in Kaiserslautern, West Germany. He has also played with the Fourth US Army
Band at Ft. Sheridan, Illinois, the US Continental Army Band at Ft. Monroe,
Virginia and with the 9th Army Band at Ft. Wainwright, Alaska, where he currently
serves as the First Sergeant of the Band. In 1990 Mr. Rydlinski performed
as auxilliary Bassoonist with the Anchorage Symphony.
In 1996 he became the principal Bassoonist of the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra and the Arctic Chamber Orchestra. Additionally, he has been an adjunct faculty member of the University
of Alaska Fairbanks since 2001, and is a founding member of the Chinook Winds.
Mr. Rydlinski is active throughout Alaska as a woodwind coach and guest performer.
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