A taste of the winning pieces for our 2010 Composition Competition. Works include:

Jonathan Bartz - Concertino for Bassoon, Piano and Three Strings (Violin, Viola, Cello)
Stefan Cwik - 8 Minatures for Chamber Ensemble for Flute, Violin, Bassoon and Piano
Arthur Gottschalk - American Nights for Violin, Bassoon and Piano
Leis Nielson - What about you? for Violin, Cello and Bassoon

2010 Mashup of Winning Pieces

Performance by Susan Nelson

Colored Stones for solo bassoon is now published by Imagine Music Publishing! This work is the winner of the 2014 Bassoon Chamber Music Composition Competition and will be featured as a competition piece during the 2016 Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition and Bassoon Symposium.

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Preview of Jenni Brandon's "Colored Stones"

Based on the poem by Robert Frost. Winner of the 2012 Bassoon Chamber Music Composition Competition.

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Preview of Devin Farney's "Fire And Ice"

Performance by Susan Nelson, bassoon

For Oboe, Bassoon, Marimba & Piano

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Preview of David Ciancaglini's "Seiklos Quartet"

Performance by Susan Nelson, bassoon
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The composer has long wanted to use this poem as a basis for a composition; its form also guides the form of the piece that is in five general sections of varying tempi. It is dedicated to the memory of the victims and to the hopes of the survivors of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

SUSPENDED

      The sky is afire--
Flames leap upward
From horizon to horizon.
The roar seems beyond bearing
As the holocaust hangs suspended.

The snow covers the red earth
With searing embers flying
Before the ferocious winds.

Flames like the purple
Mountains encased in black shadows.

Like those shadows
Which lie between
The spoken word
And silence.



Preview of Greg Steinke's "Suspended"

The Bassoon Chamber Music Composition Competition (BCMCC) is a non-profit organization whose goal is to is to foster the creation of new chamber music works that include the bassoon. The organization's premiere event is a competition for new compositions featuring the bassoon in a chamber setting.

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