Pre-College Session Schedule

All sessions are interactive masterclasses, with specific themes chosen by our artist faculty, and all students will have the opportunity to play pieces they have prepared and get valuable feedback. This schedule may change closer to the Symposium, but provides a basic outline of how the Pre-College Session will be structured:

Saturday January 2, 2021

11:30am EST/8:30am PST: Pre-College Session Welcome

12:00pm EST/9:00am PST: “Build a Better Warm-up” with Jacqui Wilson

1:30pm EST/10:30am PST: “Learning Excerpts from the Ground Up” with Darrel Hale

2:30pm EST/11:30am PST: “Tone Production” with Kristin Wolfe Jensen

4:00pm EST/1:00pm PST: “Expanding Your High Range” with David A. Wells

5:00pm EST/2:00pm PST: “College Applications and Auditions” with Ann Shoemaker

6:00pm EST/3:00pm PST: Pre-College Session College Fair

6:30pm EST/3:30pm PST: “Performance Anxiety Sensations” with Nicolasa Kuster

8:00pm EST/5:00pm PST: “How is my Reed Today?” with Leigh Muñoz

Sunday January 3, 2021

11:00am EST/8:00am PST: “Tonguing and Double Tonguing” with Amy Pollard

12:00pm EST/9:00am PST: “Fundamental Tools to Expand Our Expressive Voice” with Maya Stone

1:30pm EST/10:30am PST: “You and Your Community: How to Engage and Move Change as a Bassoonist/Citizen/Artist” with Lia Uribe

3:00pm EST/12:00am PST: Special Session with the Quiggle Finalists hosted by Staci Spring

Monday January 4, 2021

6:30pm EST/3:30pm PST: “Preparing for Auditions” with Jessica Findley Yang

Wednesday January 6, 2021

6:30pm EST/3:30pm PST: Mock Audition

Sunday January 10, 2021

1:00pm EST/10:00am PST: College Fair