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The Fernand Gillet-Hugo Fox International Competition (dedicated to the memory of the late master oboist and honorary member of the IDRS, Fernand Gillet, and to the memory of master bassoonist Hugo Fox, principal bassoonist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1922-1949) is for bassoonists and oboists who have not reached their 31st birthday by the date of the final round of the competition.
Online applications open January 5, 2027
2027 Fernand Gillet-Hugo Fox International Competition for Oboe Repertoire:
Repertoire for the Preliminary Round:
Marin Marais
Les Folies D’espagne, for solo flute I, II, III, VII, VIII, IX, XII, XVIII, XIX, XXI, I without continuo (Bärenreiter)
Henri Tomasi
Èvocations (Leduc)
Hinako Tagaki
Lost in________II
Repertoire for the Final Round:
Marin Marais
Les Folies D’espagne (Bärenreiter)
Henri Tomasi
Évocations (Leduc)
Hinako Tagaki
Lost in________II
Daniel Schnyder
Sonata for Oboe and Piano (Kunzelman)
Vaughan Williams
Oboe Concerto in A minor (Oxford University Press)
Final Round Judges
- Gina Cuffari (USA), Bassoon Professor, Stony Brook University, Bassoonist of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
- Telma Diaz (Guatemala), Principal Bassoon, National Symphony Orchestra of Guatemala
- Shibin Song (China), Professor for Bassoon and Deputy Director of Orchestral Instruments Department, Sichuan Conservatory of Music Principal Bassoon, Chengdu Metropolitan Concert Hall Orchestra
- Remy Taghavi (USA), Assistant Professor of Bassoon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Principal Bassoon, New Haven Symphony Orchestra
- Quincey Trojanowski (USA), Principal Bassoon, Colorado Symphony
Preliminary Judges
- Elena Comelli (Italy), Second Bassoon, Halle Orchestra in Manchester
- Joshua Elmore (USA), Principal Bassoon, San Francisco Symphony
- Fei Xie (USA/China), Principal Bassoon, Minnesota Orchestra, Adjunct Professor of Bassoon, University of Minnesota
- Leyla Zamora (USA/Costa Rica) Bassoon and Contrabassoon, San Diego Symphony Orchestra
- Karoline Zurl (Germany) Principal Bassoon, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Adjunct Professor of Bassoon, Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media
2027 Gillet-Fox Oboe Contact:
Jung Choi, Chair
E-mail: gficoboe@idrs.org
To be considered, all application materials must be submitted on or before March 1, 2027.
All applicants and contestants shall perform from an edition of the published printed music. Performing from illegally printed copies of any form will immediately disqualify that contestant. Legal copyright for any composition shall be determined and enforced based on the copyright laws of the United States of America, regardless of place of purchase. The use of e-tablets will be allowed only when the contestant can show (by having the original music or a receipt of purchase thereof) that they have previously obtained the published printed music prior to scanning it into the tablet.