EDIC-PDC Workshop Series 2024: “Community-Engaged Research”
About the event
EDIC-PDC Workshop Series 2024: “Community-Engaged Research”
The Equity Diversity and Inclusion Committee (EDIC) and the Professional Development in Composition Committee (PDC) of the English Department at WSU invite you to the first workshop of the EDIC-PDC Workshop Series 2024. This year, we are organizing workshops to provide training on “Community-Engaged Research” through an interdisciplinary lens. We have invited speakers from various disciplines at WSU who have been actively engaging with the communities in Pullman and beyond through their research and creative activities. This workshop series is open to undergraduate and graduate students and faculty and staff members at WSU irrespective of their disciplines.
The first workshop of this series will be held on Zoom on Wednesday, September 4 from 12:10-1:30 PM. Please use this Zoom link to connect. The details of the workshop are given below.
Also, mark your calendar for the upcoming workshops on September 25, October 9, and November 6. We will share the details of those workshops in the future.
If you have any questions regarding the workshops, please reach out to Nazua Idris (PhD Candidate in Literary Studies) at nazua.idris@wsu.edu.
We eagerly look forward to seeing you at the EDIC-PDC workshops this year.
Title: “The Answer is Relationships”
Abstract: School of Music Faculty Member Dr. Jacqueline Wilson will walk participants through her relational approach to collaboration, creative activity, and community engagement efforts as a Yakama bassoonist.
Biography:
Bassoonist Dr. Jacqueline Wilson is an active performer, pedagogue, collaborator, and advocate. She currently serves as Principal Bassoonist of the Washington Idaho Symphony and Assistant Professor of Bassoon at Washington State University where she performs with the Solstice Faculty Wind Quintet. As an active soloist and chamber musician, she regularly presents recitals, masterclasses, and clinics including engagements at the International Double Reed Society Conference, the International Alliance for Women in Music Conference, the Meg Quigley Bassoon Symposium, the Getty Center Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. An eager contributor to the double reed community, Dr. Wilson currently serves as Vice President of the International Double Reed Society, a Co-Executive Director of the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition and Bassoon Symposium, and co-hosts the Double Reed Dish podcast with oboist Dr. Galit Kaunitz.
As an avid supporter of new music, Dr. Wilson (Yakama) frequently collaborates with composers on the creation of new works to expand the repertoire of the bassoon. She is especially passionate about embracing diversity in her performances by elevating music featuring underrepresented perspectives and lived experiences, with a special focus on collaborating with Indigenous composers. In this capacity, she has premiered, commissioned, and recorded works by composers Juantio Becenti, Connor Chee, Louis W. Ballard, and Raven Chacon, among others. These efforts can be heard on her debut album, Works for the Bassoon by Native American Composers (WSU Recordings). Expansion of this work was supported by a WSU New Faculty Seed Grant in the form of an international Indigenous artistic collaboration with Māori composers Takerei Komene, Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal, and Phil Brownlee, the results of which can be heard on her sophomore album, Works for the Bassoon by Māori Composers (WSU Recordings). In 2022, she received an Artist Trust Fellowship to fund the commissioning of Connor Chee’s Concerto for Bassoon and Strings which she premiered in June 2024 with the Ravenna String Orchestra (Seattle). She also actively composes new pieces and creates resources that facilitate the performance of works from the 20th century and beyond. Wilson’s composition Dance Suite for Solo Bassoon was awarded the 2022 PatsyLu Prize for outstanding work by a BIPOC composer in the 41st Search for New Music Competition by the International Alliance for Women in Music.