Gordon Laing (born 1964) is a prominent British classical bassoonist, contrabassoonist, and pedagogue. The bassoon is a Woodwind instrument in the Double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and Tenor registers and occasionally The contrabassoon is a larger version of the Bassoon sounding an octave lower In Education, a teacher is one who helps Students or pupils often in a School, as well as in a Family, religious or ^[1] He studied bassoon at the Redbridge Music School. He later studied at the Royal College of Music with Geoffrey Gambold (bassoon) and John Burness (contra-bassoon), who were principals with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the time. The Royal College of Music is a well known conservatoire located in the South Kensington district of London, England, and one He was a member of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1995, and became Principal Contra-Bassoon with the Philharmonia Orchestra in 1997. Covent Garden (Pronunciation kɒvʌnt is a district in London, England, located on the easternmost parts of the City of Westminster and the southwest The Philharmonia is an Orchestra based in London. Since 1995 it has been based in the Royal Festival Hall. He currently teaches contra-bassoon at the Trinity College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Trinity College of Music is one of the London music conservatoires, based in Greenwich. Guildhall School of Music and Drama is an independent music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in London, England.

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