Paul Hanson

Paul Hanson is an American bassoonist, saxophonist, duduk player, and composer with roots in jazz and classical music.

[1] His parents were both musicians: his mother a classical pianist and his father a music teacher in the Berkeley Unified School District.

He won the competition in the woodwinds division, receiving the Pepsi Young Musician Award.

At the young age of seventeen, Hanson recorded alto saxophone on the album Pillars[3] by Peter Apfelbaum & the Hieroglyphics Ensemble.

He has performed with Cirque du Soleil,[4] who had created a role specifically for him in the show ZED.