Emory has a tradition of bringing world-class bassoonists to campus for a day of masterclasses, performances, and chamber music to enrich the musical life of the university and region. Guest artists have included: Sue Heineman (principal bassoon, National Symphony Orchestra), Richard Svoboda (principal bassoon, Boston Symphony Orchestra), Grammy Award winning bassoonist Frank Morelli (Yale/SUNY Stony Brook), Bill Ludwig (Indiana University), internationally acclaimed soloist Martin Kuuskmann, Kristin Wolfe-Jensen (University of Texas) and others.

Bassoon Day, November 3, 2024

Bassoon Day will be held in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts on the Emory University Campus. The event will conclude around 7pm. Emory Bassoon Day offers special thanks to Emory Friends of Music as well as Miller Double Reed for their partial sponsorship of this event.

To Register:

Please sign up here to register for Bassoon Day.
Register by October 26th for t-shirts orders. Walk-ins are welcome.

Please pay the $65 registration fee HERE:

For More Information:

Dr. Shelly Unger, Artist Affiliate in Bassoon, Emory University

770-861-6062

rsunger@emory.edu

2024 Faculty:

We are pleased to have Daryn Zubke as our guest artist for Emory Bassoon Day, 2024

Dr. Daryn Zubke

Daryn Zubke joined the faculty at the University of Memphis in 2017 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2023. He performs with the Memphis Woodwind Quintet, Trio Étoiles, the Tennessee Bassoon Trio, the Memphis Reed Trio, and the Ricercata Winds. Dr. Zubke has been featured as a guest on the Double Reed Dish Podcast and also created his own interview series on YouTube highlighting stories of Maurice Allard and Judith LeClair from their students.

Dr. Zubke proudly played alongside his teachers and mentors, Judith LeClair, Roger Nye, and Kim Laskowski in the New York Philharmonic for ten subscription weeks. Ms. LeClair and Mr. Nye were his primary teachers and Ms. Laskowski continues to mentor his interest in the French bassoon. He has also performed with the Memphis Symphony, the Huntsville Symphony, the Jacksonville Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony, and the Topeka Symphony.

He participated in the 2024 College Music Society conference, the 2023 Music by Women Festival, the 2023 and 2019 International Clarinet Association conference, the 2019 Association Bassons convention in France, and the 2019 and 2018 International Double Reed Society conventions. His academic research is greatly inspired by a passion for the French bassoon and its history. He has performed recitals and masterclasses on the French bassoon in Spain, France, Mexico, and at universities across the United States.

Dr. Zubke attended the University of Kansas for his doctoral degree. There he studied with Dr. Eric Stomberg, who was also his teacher at the Interlochen Arts Academy. Dr. Zubke went on to study at The Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music. As an undergraduate, he attended the National Repertory Orchestra Festival and the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado.

Daryn enjoys skiing and hiking in Montana where his family lives, travelling internationally, and cooking, especially French and Korean cuisine.

Dr. Shelly Unger

Founding director of Summer Bassoon Extravaganza, Shelly Unger is an active bassoonist and contrabassoonist as well as an artist affiliate bassoon instructor at Emory University. Dr. Unger has played throughout metro Atlanta, with the Augusta Symphony Orchestra, in regional orchestras throughout the Southeast, and as a substitute with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. She has given numerous solo and collaborative recitals, including a performance of Bernard Garfield’s second quartet at the International Double Reed Society Conference shortly after its 2006 world premiere in Philadelphia. In 2004-05, she was visiting professor of bassoon at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she played with the Missouri Quintet and gave multiple solo performances. She maintains a large private studio and has taught for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Talent Development Program as well.

Dr. Unger’s students have won numerous awards and scholarships, including the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award, the Atlanta Federation of Musicians Scholarship Competition and numerous awards in the Music Teachers National Association Competition. Each year more then a dozen of the bassoonists at All-State in Georgia are her private students. Her major teachers include: Sidney Rosenberg, Bernard Garfield, Ben Kamins, Eric Arbiter, and Carl Nitchie. She earned a BM from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, a MM from Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, and a DMA from the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia. In addition she did post-graduate work at Temple University. She has performed in Seoul, Republic of South Korea, Lithuania, Taiwan and Israel. In 2006 she established Emory Bassoon Day, an annual event that continues a tradition of bringing world class bassoonists and some of the most sought after bassoon pedagogues to Atlanta. Guest artists have included: Sue Heineman, Richard Svoboda, Robert Williams, Marc Goldberg, Kristin Wofe Jensen, Jeff Keesecker, John Hunt and others. She also served as bassoon faculty and director of the IDRS Teen Camp: Double Reeds Rock! at its 2016 Conference.

Anthony Georgeson

Anthony Georgeson joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as Associate Principal Bassoonist in the fall of 2017. Prior to that, he was principal bassoonist of The Florida Orchestra from 2007-17, a member of the New World Symphony and acting principal bassoonist of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra.
He has also performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, Sarasota Orchestra, Classical Tahoe, Mainly Mozart Music Festival, Strings Music Festival, and both as guest assistant principal and second bassoonist with The Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall, Carnegie Hall, Blossom Music Festival, and throughout Europe. As part of The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2014 Brahms Cycle recording project he, as guest second bassoonist, recorded Brahms’s Symphonies 1-3 to DVD/BluRay from the BBC PROMS and the Musikverein in Vienna.
Georgeson earned his Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, studying with Whitney Crockett, and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin – Madison as a student of Kenneth Moses. He began studying the bassoon with Cynthia Cameron-Fix, has had further studies with John Clouser in performance and reed-making, and counts Bernard Garfield as a strong musical influence. Mr. Georgeson plays on pre-war Heckel Bassoon #7507 made in Biebrich (Wiesbaden), Germany in 1934.
Georgeson made his solo debut at the age of 17 performing Weber’s Bassoon Concerto with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and has been a soloist with The Florida Orchestra, the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the UW Symphony Orchestra, and the Concord Chamber Orchestra performing the bassoon concerti of Mozart, Zwilich, and Weber. With a strong family background and commitment to education, he also maintains a private teaching studio and is on faculty as Artist Affiliate in Bassoon at Emory University.

Information below for our 2024 schedule

EMORY BASSOON DAY 2024 SCHEDULE

9AM Welcome & Warm up, North Entrance Lobby

9:30 AM Bassoon Choir Rehearsal, Tharp Rehearsal Hall

10:30AM TBA

10:45AM Guest Artist Performance by Daryn Zubke

Associate Professor of Bassoon, University of Memphis

11:30AM Master Class with Daryn Zubke

1PM Lunch

2 PM French Bassoons & more

3:30 PM All State Preparation

5 PM Bassoon Choir Rehearsal & Photo

6 PM Bassoon Choir Mini-Concert for Parents

Event sponsored by Miller Double Reed and The Emory Friends of Music. Special thanks to Publix.

*Schedule Subject to Change