Lee Romm is Full Professor of Bassoon at Ithaca College. She performs with the Ithaca Wind Quintet and holds the John S. and Marybeth Ostrom Chair in the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, where she is principal bassoon and serves on the Board of Directors. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Michigan State University, having received her M.M. from Southern Methodist University and B.M. from the University on North Texas where she was the recipient of the Presser Award. Her major teachers include Edgar Kirk, Will Roberts, Louis Skinner, Maestro Charles Bruck, and Maestro Anshel Brusilow.
Active as a performer and clinician, she can regularly be heard in solo, chamber and orchestral venues. She has appeared in performance with the Syracuse Symphony, Skaneateles Festival, Fontana Chamber Music Festival, Dallas Symphony, Dallas Ballet, University of North Texas Faculty Wind Quintet, Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, and has performed several times at the Conference of the International Double Reed Society. during the summer of 1999, she was in residence at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. During the summer of 2000, she appeared as guest artist at the Chamber Music in the Pines Festival in East Texas. Dr. Goodhew has recorded for the Open Loop and Mark Records labels. Formerly, she served as Assistant Professor at Western Michigan University and on the faculties of the University of North Texas and University of Texas at Arlington.
