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First Place
Stephanie Corwin, USA |
Second Place
Lou Pacquin, CANADA |
Third Place
Katherine Evans, USA |
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Honorable Mention (in alphabetical
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Stephanie Patterson and Sara Scurry |
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Stephanie Corwin • USA
(b. 1981) received her Master
of Music degree in May 2005 from Yale School of Music where
she studied with Frank Morelli. She is a native of Marietta,
Georgia and received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Davidson
College, where she was the winner of the Davidson College Concerto
Competition. From 2001 to 2002, Stephanie spent a year in Würzburg,
Germany, where she studied with Albrecht Holder at the Hochschule
für Musik Würzburg while also attending the Julius-Maximilians
Universität. Her summer festivals include Aspen, Banff
Centre for the Arts, and National Repertory Orchestra (summer
2005.) She is a member of the Intrada Winds, winners of the
2004 Coleman Chamber Music Competition. Stephanie’s principal
teachers include Mary Beth Griglak, Albrecht Holder and Ruth
Shelly Unger. In the fall, Stephanie will begin pursuing the
Doctorate of Musical Arts degree at SUNY Stony Brook, where
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Katherine Evans • USA
(b. 1982) is
from Towanda, KS. At 17 she was the winner of the Wichita Youth
Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, performing the Hummel
Concerto in F, and as an 18 year old was an Honorable Mention
in the Garrison Keilor Prarie Home Companion Talent from Towns
under 2001 Show. She won First Prize in the 2005 MidWest Double
Reed Society Solo Competition, and was recently was one of
four prize winners in the Williams-Reck Competition, as well
as being a finalist in the WSU’s Concerto-Aria Competition
in 2001 and 2004. She has attended the Madeleine Island Chamber
Music Festival. In 2006 she will graduate from Wichita State
University, where she studies with Nicolasa Kuster, having
taken two years off to pursue a degree in nursing. Her teachers
include Steve Vacchi and Merilee Tuinstra, and in high school
she attended the Interlochen Arts Camp where she studied with
Doug Spaniol. |
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Lou Paquin • Canada
(b. 1982) is a native
of Montreal (Quebec, Canada.) She received a BM in Performance
at McGill University where she studied with Stéphane
Lévesque. In October 2004, she won the CBC Prize of
the Classical Concerto Competition at McGill University and
performed the Mozart Bassoon Concerto in Bb Major, K.191 with
the McGill Symphony Orchestra in December of 2004. She also
won three prizes in February 2005 at the 21st Annual Contest
of the Trois-Rivières Symphony Orchestra: Radio-Canada’s
First Prize Étoiles Galaxie (wind category), the Grand
Prize of the Jury of the City of Trois-Rivières (all
categories) and the Radio-Canada Prize (all categories). She
is on the substitute list of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
Lou has played in master classes at McGill University with
Suzanne Nelson, Carlo Colombo and Richard Beene, and attended
summer festivals such as Centre d’Arts Orford, Domaine
Forget, and the Banff Centre for the Arts. |
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Stephanie Patterson • USA
(b. 1984)
is a bassoon performance major at Oberlin Conservatory where
she studies with George Sakakeeny. She is from Lafayette, California
where she began playing bassoon with Cyrle Perry. She attended
Brevard Summer Music Festival last summer where she took lessons
with William Ludwig. At Oberlin she has also studied with Nicolasa
Kuster and Carlo Columbo, and is planning to study next fall
with Professor Sokolov at the St. Petersburg Conservatory while
she is taking a semester abroad at Smolny College. |
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Sara Scurry • USA
(B. 1982) from
Dallas, TX, is Principal Bassoon of the Mexico State Symphony
Orchestra in Toluca, Mexico. Since joining the orchestra in
February of 2004, Sara has performed the Mozart Sinfonie Concertante
with the orchestra as well as touring to Paris, France. She
began studying at the Interlochen Arts Academy with Barrick
Stees when she was 14. Upon graduation Sara pursued her studies
at The Juilliard School with Judith LeClair and Oberlin Conservatory
where she received a Bachelor of Music degree in February 2004
and was a student of George Sakakeeny. As a founding member
of The Black Sheep Bassoon Quartet, Sara performed quartet
recitals and taught lessons at the Beijing Central Conservatory
of Music in Beijing, China. She has attended music festivals
as Music Academy of the West, Brevard Music Center and Interlochen
Arts Camp. |
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Wendeline
Everett • USA
21, from
Eugene, Oregon currently studies Bassoon Performance with George
Sakakeeny at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Previous teachers
have included Nicolasa Kuster, Carlo Colombo, Steve Vacchi,
and Wendell Hanna. At Oberlin she has performed with the Oberlin
Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, and Contemporary Music Ensemble
as well as various chamber ensembles. She has attended Interlochen
Arts Camp (2001), Brevard Music Festival (2002), and this summer
will study at Music Academy of the West. In addition to studying
bassoon, she is also a physics major in the Double Degree program
at Oberlin and was recently named a Goldwater Scholar. |
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Sofía
Almanza-Saavedra • Panama
is from Panama City, Panama. She began her bassoon studies
at the age of 12 at the Conservatorio Nacional de Panama, where
she studied with James Hansen for 7 years. She continued her
studies with Nicolasa Kuster at Wichita State University in
2003. Sofia activly participates in the school ensembles as
well as many competitions. She attended the Aspen Music Festival
and School (2004), where she studied with Nancy Goeres, Steve
Dibner and Per Hannevold and has been selected for the 2005-2006
Youth Orchestra of the Americas. Besides studying the bassoon,
Sofia is an accomplished saxophone player. She first traveled
to the USA to participate in the 13th World Saxophone Congress,
where she played for a master class given by Eugene Rousseau.
Her proferssinal performance experience includes the Panama
National Symphony Orchestra and Opera Kansas. |
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