The Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition and Bassoon Symposium – JANUARY 5-8, 2023
The Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition and Bassoon Symposium is a three-day event dedicated to bassoon master classes, presentations, performances, and the live semifinal and final rounds of a competition for young womxn bassoonists from the Americas. The event, founded by Nicolasa Kuster and Kristin Wolfe Jensen, has been held previously at the Colburn School, the Round Top Festival Institute, the University of the Pacific, Oberlin College, the University of Texas at Austin, and Ithaca College.
The events of the symposium are open to all. The competition itself is for womxn bassoon players who are citizens of the Americas (North America, Central America, South America), or who are enrolled in school in the Americas during the year prior to the competition.