founding artists of the prestigious Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center where he performed for twenty years. He has performed at the Whitehouse, at the United Nations and on many tours throughout the continental United States and Alaska. He has been a guest artist with the Juilliard, he Guarneri, the Lenox and the Alexander SchneiderString Quartets and has recorded chamber music o​n Columbia Records, Angel Records,  ​Vanguard, MGM, Kapp​ and Counterpoint Records.  Mr. Glickman has composed music for many films and has ​published over 100 pieces for the bassoon, solo and ensemble.   Mr. Glickman has written three books including the ​definitive  book on reed making, which he co-authoried with Mark Popkin.  He is the co-director ​of the Glickman-Popkin Bassoon Camp, in operation for 35 years and has been on the faculties of the Juilliard School, Queens College, Montclair State University and ​the Canadian National Youth Orchestra.

In addition, beginning in 2002, Loren began doing transcriptions for various combinations of bassoons, with and without piano, averaging about 12 pieces per year.  To date he has completed over 103 transcriptions .  All are published by Trevco Music Publishing (Purveyor and Publisher of Fine Music for Double Reeds since 1983) www.trevcomusicpublishing.com.  There is more than one distributor of the music but Trevco-Varner Music has all the transcriptions available www.trevco-varnermusic.com.

Members Include:

​Lisa Alexander, bassoonist, is a solo recitalist and chamber musician in the New York metropolitan area and currently holds positions with The Ridgefield Symphony and The Little Orchestra Society and has performed with the New York City Ballet Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, New York Choral Society and many others.  She is a founding member of the Loren Glickman Ensemble.  Ms Alexander is an adjunct professor of bassoon at Hofstra University.

​Jill Dispenza, is a freelance bassoonist in the Chicago metropolitan area.  She holds a Master of Music Degree from The Juilliard School where she studied with Loren Glickman and a Bachelors of Music from North Carolina School of Arts where she studied with Mark Popkin. Jill plays principal bassoon with the South Bend symphony in Indiana and with the Central City Opera Festival in Colorado. Jill has performed with Tulsa Opera, Chicago Light Opera Works, Elgin Symphony, the Chicago Ensemble, the Memphis Symphony, Key West Symphony, Texas Opera Theater, Virginia Symphony and Opera and the National Symphony in Washington DC, and Wolftrap at the Barns Opera Orchestra. She has worked with conductors Leonard Bernstein, Jorge Mester, Sixten Ehrling and David Zinman. Noted performances include the American Premiere of Benjamin Britten’s Glorianna and the World Premiere of the opera Gabriel’s Daughter by Mollicone. Jill has recorded for Newport Classics and can often be heard on National Public Radio broadcasts of the Central City Opera 

​Edwin Cabrera,  Eddie Cabrera has been a freelance Bassoonist in the New York City area for 30 years. He studied at the Manhattan School of Music, and the Aaron Copland School of Music. He has performed with numerous orchestras and ensembles such as the Mostly Mozart Festival Winds, the Dance Theater of Harlem, the Queens Symphony, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Brooklyn Symphony, and the Little Orchestra Society. He is a founding member of the Glickman Ensemble. Eddie has also led a diverse career in Technology. He began his career at Morgan Stanley where he was the Vice President in charge of Global Network Operations, an AVP at Deutsche Bank, Associate Director at Skadden Arps and a VP at Computer Network Solutions. Eddie currently works for Northrop Grumman as the Program Manager of the ECTP1 program, supporting the City’s 911 system. Eddie continues to be a motivational speaker at SHPE and HDI events in NYC, as well as other major universities. 

Catherine Marcheseis a solo and chamber bassoonist. She earned her BM and MM degrees at the Juilliard School where she studied with both William Polisi and Loren Glickman. She earned a DMA from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, and a certificate of advanced bassoon studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg where she studied with Milan Turkovic and played under the baton of Nikolaus Harnoncourt. An active solo and chamber musician, she is the first woman soloist to have performed on the Vienna Opera stage, and has performed as a soloist throughout the US and Europe. Her performance of the Mozart Bassoon Concerto was recorded “live” from the Salle Pleyel in Paris, as was her performance with the RAI in Naples. In Paris, Jean Francaix chose her as the soloist for his Bassoon Concerto and subsequently wrote a piece for her. Other composers who have written for her include Emile Naoumoff, Francoise Choveaux, David Canfield, and Adrian Williams. She premiered the Glenn Gould Bassoon Sonata both on French radio and for Sony Classical. Other recordings can be found on the Sony, Sude, Saphir, and Gega labels. She is presently principal bassoon with the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra and enjoys frequent freelance engagements in the Indianapolis area 

Pej Reitz, pianist, is a native of the Binghamton Area. She received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in piano performance with accompanying emphasis. She attended Boston University, New England Conservatory and Binghamton University. She has studied piano with Jean Casadesus, Victor Rosenbaum, Seymour Fink and Walter Ponce and accompanying with Allen Rogers. She has accompanied throughout the United States, in England, South America, Spain and at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. She was a winner of the Artistic Ambassadors Program by the United States Information Agency in partnership with the John F. Kennedy Center for the performing arts.   She is currently on the faculty at Binghamton University since 1991 and Ithaca College School of Music since 1999. She is Treasurer of the local District VII Music Teachers Association and is an active adjudicator for the National Piano Guild Organization. 

Harold Wevers plays principal bassoon with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra in Thunder Bay, Ontario since 1975.  He is also a composer with a catalogue that consists of over seventy original works for voice, mixed chamber ensemble, solo concerti and orchestra.  Harold's first meeting with Loren was in 1967, at Canada's National Youth Orchestra and they have become life-long friends. He is a founding member of the Glickman Ensemble and for the past twelve years has set all of Loren's hand-written arrangements into the Finale program before they are sent off to be published.