Audition Results

Ryan Yamashiro is the winner of this audition. He is currently Lecturer of Bassoon at the University of Tennessee. Ryan's teachers were Sara Goya, Paul Curtis John Steinmetz, and Barry Stees. Congratulations Ryan!!!

https://music.utk.edu/about/directory/faculty/ryan-yamashiro/

The Evergreen Symphony Orchestra in Taipei, Taiwan 🇹🇼 has announced two new hires:

Christopher Chung - Principal Bassoon

Trevor Nuckols - Principal Horn

Both were appointed by Jaap van Zweden. Congratulations to both!

Emma Fuller is the winner of this one. She went to BYU+Yale and currently is a member of the Northeastern Philharmonic Orchestra in PA.

A huge congratulations to her!!!!

Finals are today.

Not sure what happened to the original post.

Finals today.

Kenny Ford won this audition on September 16th!

Caleb Hutchings is the winner. Previously, he had a one year in the Louisiana Philharmonic. Congratulations Caleb! In October he will perform Salome five times with the Seattle Opera..

John Fulton won the position, Zachary Feingold was runner up. Congrats!

Audition was yesterday.

Has this been posted yet?.

Any leads?

Heard this was an invite only audition. Any leads?

Finished up Aug 2nd

Justin Cummings got the only trial for this position. He's currently the second bassoonist of the SFS and previously played in the Knoxville Symphony. He began his professional career in the New World Symphony. Congratulations Justin!

Audition was yesterday

Audition was May 23

Audition was today

Jürgen Hirt won this!

Nicolas Richard was the winner on May 5

Matthew Matheny won the audition today, according to a Facebook post from the "News of Bassoon" page!

Audition in New Orleans today

Auditions were today

Auditions were the 5th

Dean Woods is the winner of this audition.  He's currently in the US Army Band, "Pershing's Own" and will stay in that position!! He is also in several orchestras in the Washington, DC area..

Congratulations Dean!!!

Bio with pic HERE:

https://usarmyband.com/bios/dean-woods

Dean is also a talent bluegrass singer....See HERE:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/963234032316433

I believe the audition concluded this past weekend.

Wraps up today 3/26

Finals are today

Jensen Bocco won this, congrats to him!

This was a video audition

Finals were today I believe

Matthew Melillo won this position . Diego Peña was the other finalist

National audition was a little over a week ago, any news?

Any news?

Catherine Van Handel won, congrats!

Any word on who won or will they just keep just calling the Rice/Eastman bassoon studios?

Audition concluded September 16th

Audition was today.

Auditions were earlier this month for flute, bassoon, horn, and several string positions.

Audition was today.

Auditions were this past weekend.

Any news?

Great Falls auditioned for principal flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon this past week - any word?

I heard the Lafayette Symphony recently held auditions for their Principal Bassoon chair, and Kathleen Moniaci was the winner.

Finals were 6/14/25.

Finals are today

Finals were today

Audition was yesterday!

Audition was Monday

This was won by Julia Harguindey of the Nashville Symphony. Congrats to Julia!

Finals are today 5/13/25

Audition was 5/9

Website says audition is today. Any results or are finals later?

Audition is today.

Peter Ecklund won this position!! Congratulations to him! Kody Harrington was runner-up

Audition happened yesterday. Was there a winner? Last audition resulted in no-hire.