Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra’s Spring Fever is coming to TCU Place on Saturday night at 7:30.

One of the performances at the concert will be a solo bassoon piece by Stephanie Unverricht. She will be playing Mozart’s Basson Concerto.

Unverricht says that having a solo performance gives the instrument a chance to shine when it typically does not get the spotlight.

“So, the bassoon spends a lot of time at the back of the orchestra. We’re usually part of the bassline or part of the middle voices. It’s not an instrument that you get to hear on its own very often. It has a very unique, low, dark sound. It’s a lot of fun to be out front for this show as the soloist and you get to showcase all the cool sounds that the bassoon can make.”

She adds that the bassoon is usually seen as the clown of the orchestra.

“It’s because we can kind of bop around and be really silly with some of the lines that we play. In Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto, I think the third movement is a really good example of that. The bassoon kind of dances around the rest of the orchestra, and I don’t play the melody, the main line, until halfway through that movement.”

Tickets for Spring Fever are available at saskatoonsymphony.org.