Libby Garrett, bassoon Libby Garrett is an active teacher and performer in the Milwaukee area. She has undergraduate degrees in bassoon performance and gender studies from Indiana University as well as a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music. Her teachers include Shawn Mouser, Theodore Soluri, William Ludwig, Kathleen McLean and Frank Morelli. A Wisconsin native, she frequently plays with the Milwaukee Symphony, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Oshkosh Symphony and many others. She also coaches with the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra ensembles. Prior to moving back to Wisconsin, she taught in the New Haven public schools as a Yale Music in Schools Teaching Artist. She currently works at St. Ann Center for Intergenerational Care, as a teacher in the four-year-old classroom, where she brings her love of music into every lesson. When she is not teaching, coaching, or performing, she is running or baking. She has completed ten half marathons and is currently training for the Cleveland Marathon. She balances that out with dozens and dozens of her famous chocolate chip cookies.