Hailstork's piece Lento e teneramente features on the Grade 5 Bassoon Syllabus from 2025.

Rebecca Roberts is a bassoon player and teacher at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Juniors and St Andrews University. Rebecca coaches for many youth orchestras, including National Youth Orchestras of Scotland and for many years was a tutor for National Children's Orchestra and Sistema Scotland's "Big Noise" music education programme. She studied at Chetham's, Guildhall and Conservatoire de Genève with Roger Birnstingl, Charles Cracknell and Martin Gatt. In this film, Rebecca name shares her approach to teaching this piece.

Rebecca has created a summary document that you can download and keep, which outlines the key points from the film.

Last modified: Monday, 3 November 2025, 10:04 AM