Our closing banquet will include live music by the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music Bassoon Studio and Alumni, led by Marissa Olegario, and the Garrett Jones Quartet, and the announcement of the winners of the 2023 Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition!

Watch the live stream here: https://youtu.be/3EACoojMP5E

Our five finalists will display their artistry in this round featuring works by Noelia Escalzo, Antonio Vivaldi, and Jacqueline Wilson.

For this special topic presentation, Dr. Anna Marsh and student Rylie Patching will introduce the Baroque bassoon and Baroque playing style to pre-college students. Students should come with their instrument as they will get a chance to play articulations and ornamentations on their modern bassoon. (Adults are welcome too!) Topics to be covered would include:

What is the Baroque Bassoon?

What is Baroque Playing Style?

Baroque Style on a Modern Bassoon

Trials and Rewards of Baroque Style and Why It Matters

How to Get Started and Where to Find Support

This session will outline strategies for success in the three primary stages of the university application process: the paper round, the phone round, and the on-campus round. Topics covered will include:

Cover letters and CVs

Written statements (Artistic, Teaching, DEI)

Selecting recordings

Selecting repertoire

Interviewing online and in person

Join us for a performance class with Ivy Ringel, Principal Bassoon of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra on orchestral excerpts for first bassoon.

Note: As an organization, Meg Quigley has made the decision to move away from the term “Masterclass.”

This presentation will examine early references to women who played the bassoon. Many of these references are found in newspaper clippings and concert programs. We will also discuss the challenges of researching the histories of women bassoonists.

This lecture/demonstration makes the case that multiphonics are acoustic phenomena that occur at the intersection of fingerings, embouchure placement, lip pressure, and air speed. They can be manipulated through any of these factors to change pitch, timbre, and beating quality, sometimes subtly, other times drastically. Using examples from pieces by Liza Lim, Luis Fernando Amaya, Yi-Ting Lu, and Pierluigi Billone, Ben will examine a number of methods that composers have used to successfully harness these characteristics. Audience members will participate in a series of short exercises that will demonstrate the malleable characteristics of multiphonics and give them tools to approach these techniques in any repertoire they encounter.

Our exhibit hall features a variety of vendors who specialize in all areas of bassoon playing- cane, reeds, instruments, bocals, sheet music, reed-making tools, and more!

Join us for a performance class with Nanci Belmont, Assistant Professor of Bassoon at Louisiana State University on contemporary repertoire for solo bassoon.

Note: As an organization, Meg Quigley has made the decision to move away from the term “Masterclass.”

Licensed Body Mapping Educator and bassoonist, Kristin Wolfe Jensen will lead participants through awareness activities and long tone exercises that optimize the breathing process to allow maximum resonance, endurance and ease in bassoon playing. The information and activities will provide a sneak preview of Jensen's The Bassoon Breathing Book, which will be released at the symposium. The session will be highly experiential, so bring your bassoon and a bassoon stand.