Past Symposia
2025
January 9-12, 2025
University of North Carolina School for the Arts
Winston-Salem, NC
Stephanie Patterson, host
Vendors:
Fox Products, Forrests Music, Midwest Musical Imports, ACDC Reeds, Barton Cane, Bel Canto Reeds, Bocal Majority, Chemical City Reeds, Clip and Play Reeds, Edmund Nielsen Woodwinds, Hodge Products, Inc., Jenni Brandon Music, Kassandra Bassoon, Kincaid Rabb Composer, Leitzinger, Nielsen Bocal Supply, North Carolina Double Reed Company, Raven Reeds, Reeds n Stuff, Remoy Reeds
2023
January 5-8, 2023
The University of Arizona
Tuscon, AZ
Marissa Olegario, host
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Vendors:
ACDC Reeds, Barton Cane, Beeline Reeds, Blue Moon Bassoon, Bocal Majority, Chemical City Double Reeds, Forrests, Fox Products Corporation, Jiffy Reeds, Kassandra Bassoon, Midwest Musical Imports, Miller Marketing, Mountain Peak Music, MSR Classics, Weisberg Systems
2021
January 3-10, 2021
Virtual Symposium
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Vendors:
ACDC Reeds, Aria Double Reeds, Barton Cane, Blue Moon Bassoon, Bocal Majority, Capitol Cane, Chemical City Double Reeds, Clark Bassoon Reeds, Edmund Nielsen Woodwinds, Forrests, Fox Products Corporation, GoBassoon Reeds, Happy Haley Co., JDW Sheet Music, Leitzinger, Marcus Bona, Midwest Musical Imports, Miller Marketing, MSR Classics, Ortwein Woodwinds, Otter Creek Double Reeds, RDG Woodwinds, Roger Garrett Music Products, Squirrely Stash, Tatereeds, The Reed Lab, and Trevco Varner Music
2019
January 11–13, 2019
The Colburn School
Los Angeles, California
Richard Beene, host
Photos:
Pre-Session and Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Professionals
Sponsors
Bassoon Chamber Music Composition Competition (Cindy Hsu’s Spring Fever)
Fox Products Corporation (competitor housing and opening night reception)
GoBassoon Reeds (high school ice cream social)
Leitzinger (student registration)
Sign of the Silver Birch Music (student registration)
Wilhelm Heckel Co. (final reception)
2016
January 15–17, 2016
The Colburn School
Los Angeles, California
Richard Beene, host
Photos:
Pre-Session
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Professionals
Sponsors
Fox Products • Midwest Musical Imports • Bocal Majority Double Reed Camps • Baylor University School of Music • Broken Winds, LLC • Carnegie Mellon University School of Music • GoBassoon Reeds
Paul Nordby Bassoon Repair • Sacramento State School of Music • TrevCo-Varner Music
Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music • University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music
Vendors
Barton Cane • Bocal Majority Double Reed Camps • Fox Products Corporation • GoBassoon Reeds• Imagine Music • Midwest Musical Imports • Rhodes Reeds Cane & Tools • RDG Woodwinds • Sign of the Silver Birch Music • Tonik Products • TrevCo-Varner Music
2014
January 18–20, 2014
Round Top Festival Institute
Round Top, Texas
Kristin Wolfe Jensen, Benjamin Kamins, co-hosts
Photos:
Evening Concerts
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
2012
January 6–8, 2012
University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music
Stockton, California
Nicolasa Kuster, David A. Wells, co-hosts
Professionals
Sponsors
Trevco-Varner Music — Maxwell Bassoon Products — Gail Warnaar Double Reeds
2010
January 15–17, 2010
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Oberlin, Ohio
George Sakakeeny, host
Photos:
2010 Symposium
Professionals
Vendors
Wolf Modern and Historic Bassoons, Rep. Hank Skolnick
Bell bassoons LTD, Rep. Benson Bell
Fox Products, Rep. Michael Dicker
Miller Marketing & Moosman Bassoons, Rep. Justin Miller
