Double Reed Day

Register to participate in the Oboe or Bassoon masterclasses with our guest artists and host faculty. Spaces are limited! Participants will be selected to represent a variety of repertoire and playing levels. You will be asked to list your masterclass repertoire on the registration page.

How to Prepare

Keep in mind a masterclass is like a private lesson open to an audience. Therefore your participation must be performance ready.

9 AM: Check in/Vendors Open

10 AM: Recital: Guest Artists and BGSU faculty and students. Bryan Recital Hall

11 AM: Oboe special session, Bryan Rehearsal Hall

11 AM: Bassoon special session, Choral Rehearsal Hall

12:30 PM: Lunch/ Visit vendors

1:30 PM: Double Reed Ensemble reading session, Bryan Recital Hall

2:45 PM: Knife sharpening class with Jende Industries, Kelly Hall

3:45-4:30PM: Visit Vendors, Double Reed Club Games, and more!

Bassoonist Gina Cuffari is a dynamic and versatile musician who performs a variety of roles in the New York City area as orchestral musician, chamber musician, soloist, new music advocate, and educator. Praised for having a "sound that is by turns sensuous, lyric and fast moving" (Palm Beach Daily News), Gina is the Bassoonist of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She is also the Principal Bassoonist of the American Symphony Orchestra, Principal Bassoonist of the Riverside Symphony, and a guest performer with Orchestra of St. Luke's, The Knights, American Composers Orchestra, and many more. An avid musical theater fan, Gina has performed in Broadway productions of Fiddler on the Roof, Sunset Boulevard, My Fair Lady, Into the Woods and Camelot as a substitute bassoonist.

Gina’s passion for chamber music has led her to collaborate with many outstanding musicians and ensembles over the years. She is a regular guest performer with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, a member of the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players and Sylvan Winds, and a member of the newly formed American Wind Soloists. Favorite guest appearances include making music with the Boston Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach (FL), Camerata Pacifica in Santa Barbara, CA, and the Portland Chamber Music Festival in Maine.

Gina has always had a keen interest in new music, and has endeavored to support composers throughout her career. She has been a longtime collaborator with Alarm Will Sound- performing as bassoonist, vocalist and keyboardist- and has worked with many composers over the years, premiering a plethora of new works with the group. In an ongoing personal project, Gina has commissioned solo works that combine her two passions- singing and playing the bassoon- into one performing experience. Composers who have written for her include Jenni Brandon, Gregg August, Sunny Knable and Allison Loggins-Hull. 

A passionate educator, Gina joined the faculty of Stony Brook University in Fall 2023 as the Bassoon Professor (Artist-in-Residence) and is an Adjunct Professor of Bassoon at New York University. She is also a frequent guest clinician at Bard College for The Orchestra Now, has taught masterclasses at universities such as Yale and Manhattan School of Music, and has coached chamber orchestras at the National Orchestral Institute + Festival. In a desire to share her unique perspective as a singing woodwind player, Gina presents “Singing Through Your Instrument” workshops/masterclasses at schools throughout the country. During the summers, she teaches and performs at the Mostly Modern Festival in Saratoga Springs, NY and the Bard Summer Festival.

Dr. Jonathan Davis has recorded on over 50 major motion pictures, including The Greatest Showman, Moana, Toy Story II, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, and the upcoming Flowervale Street.  He has toured and recorded with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Pacific Symphony and the San Diego Symphony, and has had the good fortune to play with some of the world’s greatest conductors, from Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa to Esa-Pekka Salonen and Gustavo Dudamel.  Reflecting the diversity of his career, Dr. Davis has played dozens of Broadway shows, including Wicked, Les Miserables, and Ragtime, and chamber music throughout Southern California and the world.

Dr. Davis has a B.A. cum laude from Yale University in East Asian Studies, and a MM and a DMA from The Juilliard School.  His major teachers were Elaine Douvas, John Ferrillo, and Ronald Roseman.  His students have gone on to major conservatories across the United States and careers in music management, musicology, composition, and performance.  They have played with the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra among others.  Dr. Davis has taught at UC Irvine, UCLA, and is thrilled to have recently joined the faculty of Arizona State University as the Assistant Professor of Oboe.