An active freelancer, Boston-based bassoonist Ali Eaton is a uniquely diverse performer. She has performed with the New Bedford Symphony, the Glen Falls Symphony, Goriae Dei Cantores, Coro-dante, the Reading Symphony, the Brockton Symphony,  and at the Outside the Box Festival, among others.

In addition to performing with local orchestras, Ali is an avid doubler, playing the clarinets and saxophones. She has performed with Theatre A La Carte, Moonbox Productions, and spent a season performing on the tenor sax, clarinet, and bassoon with the Ohio Light Opera in Wooseter, OH. Ali performs in many varying capacities throughout the region: she serves as the contrabassoonist for the chamber orchestra Kammerwerke, in 2014 she was principal bassoonist and clarinetist in the pit orchestra for the world premiere of the opera The Weaver of Raveloe at the Oberon Theatre in Harvard Square, and in 2013 she performed with the Berklee Contemporary Orchestra in Symphony Hall in the highly acclaimed Distant Worlds Final Fantasy Concert. She has performed in multiple productions with several local opera companies including MetroWest Opera, Illumination Opera Orchestra, Lowell House Opera, and the North End Music and Performing Arts Center. In 2015 she joined the Boston Chamber Orchestra in their tour of Fukuoka, Japan; playing in halls across the southern island of Japan and performing in concert with members of the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra. As a founding member of the woodwind quintet Calliope Winds, she has performed throughout the Boston area in various artistic and educational capacities, as well as in masterclass with members of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet.

Originally from a tiny. beach town on the east coast of Florida, Ali received dual undergraduate degrees in Bassoon Performance and Theatre at The Florida State University. She then ventured north and received a master’s degree from The New England Conservatory. Her primary teachers include Jeffrey Keesecker and Gregg Henegar.