The Norma Hooks Young Artist International Competition alternates each year between oboe and bassoon and is for players who have not reached their 22nd birthday by the date of the final round of the competition.
2025 Norma Hooks Young Artist International Competition for Bassoon Repertoire:
Repertoire for the Preliminary Round:
Maria Gstättner
Schnittmuster (available from composer)
Ludwig Milde
Concert Studies for Bassoon Op. 26 (No. 9) (any edition)
Repertoire for the Final Round:
Maria Gstättner
Schnittmuster (available from composer)
Seong Ae Kim
Fever Dream (available from composer)
Teresa Procaccini
Tre Pezzi Op.30 (Leduc)
2025 Norma Hooks Young Artist International Competition for Bassoon Preliminary Round Judges:
- Margaret Cookhorn, Principal Contrabassoon and Bassoon, City of Birmingham Symphony (UK)
- Cristian Coliver Sanchez, Principal Bassoon, State of México Symphony Orchestra, Principal Bassoon and Contrabassoon-Minería Symphony Orchestra, Bassoon Professor at Sistema Nacional de Fomento Musical and Carlos Chávez Orchestra Academy (Mexico)
- Julia Harguindey, Principal Bassoonist, Nashville Symphony and the Santa Fe Opera (USA)
- Catherine Larsen-Maguire, Music Director of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland; freelance conductor; former Principal Bassoon of Kormische Oper, Berlin (UK/Germany)
- Niels Anders Vedsten Larsen, Bassoonist, Carion Wind Quintet (Denmark)
2025 Norma Hooks Young Artist Bassoon Contact:
Lorelei Dowling, Chair
E-mail: nhyacbassoon@idrs.org
To be considered, all application materials must be submitted on or before March 15, 2025.
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.