Buffalo Wind Symphony

Mr. Paul M. Furlong, a Western New York native, holds BFA and MFA degrees in Music Education from SUNY at Buffalo. He taught instrumental music in the Kenmore-Tonawanda schools and the Lewiston-Porter schools prior to moving to a position as director of the Junior High and Symphonic Bands at Eden Central Schools. He retired from Eden as department chair and as director of the Junior High Band and High School Wind Ensemble. He has studied oboe with Ronald Richards, Rodney Pierce, and Nora Post and bassoon with Darlene Jussila. Mr. Furlong is principal bassoonist of the Cheektowaga Community Symphony Orchestra, the Orchard Park Symphony, and the Erie County Wind Ensemble. As a bassoonist, he is a founding member of the Metropolitan Woodwind Quintet, the Reed My Lips Double Reed Ensemble, BSNQ (a bassoon quartet/quintet), and is a free-lance bassoonist and contrabassoonist.