The Members of the 2013 Young Artist Competition for Bassoon Committee are pleased to announce the finalists of this year’s competition:

Finalists:

• Thomas English, USA
  Teachers include Kara M. Stolle, Douglas Spaniol, George Sakakeeny
• Ben Roidl-Ward, GERMANY/USA
  Teachers include Francine Peterson, George Sakakeeny
• Mingyuan Yang, CHINA/USA
  Teachers include Wendy Rose, Te Xu, Jianzhong Zhao

Alternate:

• Jonathon Pearson Altizer, USA
  Teachers include Sharon Kuster, Kristin Wolfe Jensen

The finalists will compete at the IDRS Conference on June 27 at University of Redlands in California, USA. The winner will perform a recital on June 28 and receive a cash prize of $3,000 US.

The Members of the YAC Committee and the Officers of the Executive Committee are deeply appreciative of the time, effort and expertise expended by the judging panel. Members of the panel were:

• Jeffrey Lyman: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
• Marion Reinhard: Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, La Scala Theater Orchestra, formerly of Berlin Philharmonic
• Rodion Tolmachev: Principal Bassoon Mariinsky Theatre; Winner 2008 Gillet-Fox Competition

The final round of the 2012 IDRS Young Artist Oboe Competition was held at the conference on Monday, July 9th at 9am in the lovely Kumler Chapel at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. All three finalists performed at a very high level.

The final judges were John Dee (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, USA), Geralyn Giovannetti (Brigham Young University, USA) and Christopher Redgate (Soloist, England). The results were announced on the evening of the competition.

The first prize winner was Juri Schmahl, a student of Clara Dent-Bogányi at the Hochschule fuer Musik Nuernberg,Germany. He won $3000 and a recital at the IDRS Conference.

Chi Yuen “Bobby” Cheng (a student of Song-Lam Yiu in Hong Kong) was awarded second prize of $2000.

Gretchen Myers, a student of Frank Rosenwein at the Cleveland Institute of Music, USA, was awarded the third prize of $1000.

The IDRS would also like to acknowledge Julia DeRosa (a student of Elaine Douvas at the Juilliard School, USA) who was initially selected as a finalist but was unable to attend due to a tour with the Juilliard Orchestra.

We thank enthusiast Al Markel for posting his photos from the conference last week in Oxford, Ohio.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52402611@N00

Congratulations to all the finalists in today’s Gillet-Fox Bassoon Competition!

First Prize: Katarzyna Zdybel
Second Prize: Amanda Swain
Honorable Mentions: Bogdan Dumitriu, Ingrid Hagan, Laura Miller

Excerpt: Emily Pailthorpe, oboe – Phoenix Concerto for oboe and strings, op. 102 (2009) – Paul Patterson (b. 1947)

Excerpt: Martin Kuuskman, bassoon – Ciranda Das Sete Notas for bassoon ans string orchestra – Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)

Excerpt: Nicolas Daniel – Concerto in c minor, George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

The 2013 Young Artist Competition for Bassoon will take place at the IDRS Conference being held at the University of Redlands, in Redlands, California, US. The competition repertoire is as follows:

Gordon Jacob: Partita for Solo Bassoon. Movements I, II, III, and IV
Oxford University Press

Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for bassoon and continuo in e minor, RV 484. Entire work
Edition of entrant’s choice

Gabriel Pierné: Solo de Concert, Op. 35. Entire Work
Edition of entrant’s choice

For Finals Only
Alexandre Tansman: Suite pour basson et piano. Entire Work
Eschig

Download the competition brochure in English, Spanish, German, French, and Japanese

Please contact Saxton Rose, Competition Chair at roses@uncsa.edu with any questions.

The 2013 Gillet Competition will take place at the IDRS Conference being held at the University of Redlands, in Redlands, California, US. The competition repertoire is as follows:

J.S. Bach: Partita in G Minor, BWV 1013, (originally for flute), movements 1 & 4, no repeats – edition of entrant’s choice

Robert Schumann: Adagio and Allegro – edition of entrant’s choice

Makoto Shinohara: Obsession – Leduc

Ludwig August Lebrun Concerto in D Minor – Schott (for final round only)

Download the competition brochure in English, Spanish, German, French, and Japanese

Please contact Margaret Marco, Competition Chair at mmarco@ku.edu with any questions.

The following bassoonists will serve as judges for the final round of the 2012 Gillet-Fox Competition for Bassoon this July in Miami, Ohio.

Carolyn Beck (US), University of Redlands

Leonardo Dean (Venezuela), Principal, Simon Bolivar Orchestra

Anders Engström (Sweden), Royal Opera of Stockholm

Leonard Hindell (US), former member of the New York Philharmonic

Karen Pierson (US), Ohio State University

The following bassoonists have been named as finalists (with one alternate) for the 2012 Fernand Gillet-Hugo Fox Bassoon Competition. They will compete in the Final Stage of the Competition in an open concert at the IDRS meeting in Oxford, Ohio, U.S.A. on July 10, 2012.

Finalists:

Bogdan Dumitriu, Principal Bassoon of LaGrange Symphony Orchestra
Student of Ronald Wirt, Constantin Barcov

Ingrid Hagan, Principal Bassoon of the Auckland Symphony Orchestra
Student of Whitney Crockett

Laura Miller, Master of Music Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
Student of Kristin Wolfe Jensen and Michael Ellert

Amanda Swain, Civic Orchestra of Chicago
Student of Christopher Millard, Bill Buchman, Kristin Wolfe Jensen, and J. Jeff Robinson

Katarzyna Zdybel, Principal Bassoon of the Wroclaw Symphony (Poland)
Student of Marc Engelhardt, Zbigniew Pluzek, and Czeslaw
Klonowski

Alternate:

Meryl Summers, Master of Music Candidate, Yale School of Music
Student of Frank Morelli, Gustavo Nuñez, Lewis Kirk, Christopher
Millard, David Seidel, and Bill Buchman

We are sincerely grateful to our panel of distinguished judges whose time and expertise helped make the 2012 competition possible:

Christian Davidsson
Principal Bassoon, Royal Opera, Stockholm

Steven Dibner
Associate Principal, San Francisco Symphony

Wendy Holdaway
Principal, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, Mexico City

Julia Lockhart
Principal, Vancouver Symphony

Adrian Morejon
Faculty, Boston Conservatory; Sospiro Winds

We are pleased to announce the finalists for the 2012 Young Artist Competition for Oboe, in alphabetical order: Chi Yuen Cheng (Hong Kong), Julia DeRosa (USA), and Juri Schmahl (Germany), with Gretchen Myers (USA) selected as an alternate. These finalists were chosen from a strong field of 22 applicants representing six countries. The IDRS is grateful for the assistance of the preliminary round judges Joseph Salvalaggio (Canada/USA), Aryn Day Sweeney (USA) and David Walter (France). The final competition will be held on Monday, July 9th at the conference at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The judges will be John Dee (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, USA), Geralyn Giovannetti (Brigham Young University, USA) and Christopher Redgate (Soloist, England).
Michele Fiala
Chair, IDRS Young Artist Oboe Competition