STONY BROOK WOODWIND DAY
November 9, 2025

Calling all flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and saxophonists!

Join us for an exciting day of woodwind festivities at Stony Brook University on Sunday, November 9th! Activities will include: classes and workshops with renown SBU woodwind faculty, SBU student/faculty performances, shopping for instruments/accessories from local vendors, a Q&A student panel, and a Final performance featuring all participants in SBU’s beautiful Recital Hall.

Attend the Q&A panel to learn about Stony Brook’s undergraduate and graduate programs  

All HS and College students, and woodwind amateurs/enthusiasts/professionals of all levels are invited! Families are welcome to attend!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

$25 participation fee includes all Woodwind Day events, lunch and swag
$15 guest fee includes lunch and access to all events

Registration closes on November 6th

Please register at the link below (forthcoming soon)

PARKING: Free parking in the Administration garage and metered lot on Sundays

Schedule

9:00 - 9:30 am: Check - in
9:30 - 10:15 am: Welcome and Opening performance
10:15 - 11:15 am: Ensemble Rehearsals -
Flute Choir, Double Reed Choir, Clarinet Choir, Saxophone Ensemble
11:30 am - 12:30 pm: Faculty Classes/Lectures/Workshops (Instrument Specific)
12:30 - 2:00 pm: Lunch, Vendors/Exhibits open
2:00 - 3:15 pm: Faculty Classes (Instrument Specific)
3:20 - 3:50 pm: Student Q&A Session
4:00 - 5:00 pm: Final Concert featuring all participants

Faculty

 

Bassoonist Gina Cuffari is a dynamic and versatile musician who performs a variety of roles in the New York City area as an orchestral musician, chamber musician, new music advocate, artistic director and educator. Gina is the Bassoonist of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and Principal Bassoonist of the American Symphony Orchestra and Riverside Symphony. As a member of Orpheus, Gina has performed and recorded throughout the USA, Europe, and Asia for almost 20 years, and recently completed her tenure as one of the ensemble’s Artistic Directors. She also performs with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, American Composers Orchestra, the Knights, and has played on many recent Broadway productions.

Gina is a frequent guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and is a member of Sylvan Winds and the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players. A new music advocate, Gina enjoys commissioning and premiering works that combine her two passions – singing and playing the bassoon – into one performing experience. New works have been composed for her by Jenni Brandon, Sunny Knable, Gregg August, and Allison Loggins-Hull. 

As an educator, Gina currently holds positions at Stony Brook University and New York University. She teaches masterclasses and “Singing Through Your Instrument” workshops throughout the country, and  spends her summers teaching and performing at the Mostly Modern Festival at Skidmore College and the Bard Music Festival.

 

GRAMMY Award-winning Saxophonist Roxy Coss has been a celebrated figure on the New York scene for over fifteen years. She is the recipient of a Downbeat Critics’ Poll "Rising Star" Award, an ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, Local 802’s Emerging Artist Project, Jazziz Magazine’s “Artist to Watch", and Hothouse Magazine’s “Tenor Saxophone” Award. Coss is a prolific composer and established bandleader, having released six albums, including her latest, Disparate Parts (OiM 2022), to critical acclaim. Her newest release, a digital and vinyl-exclusive EP, Never Meet Your Heroes, will release on November 14th (OiM).

Roxy is also an in-demand side musician, and has performed with Clark Terry, Louis Hayes, Rufus Reid, Billy Kaye, Houston Person, Bill Charlap, Claudio Roditi, Jeremy Pelt, Willie Jones III, Geoffrey Keezer, Maurice Hines, Darcy James Argue, the Mingus Big Band, the Diva Jazz Orchestra, and the Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra.

As of September 2025, Coss is the newly-appointed Director of Jazz Studies at Stony Brook University. She is also the Founder and President of Women In Jazz Organization (WIJO), and Co-Artistic Director of the Brubeck Jazz Summit. 

 

Alan R. Kay is Principal Clarinetist and a former Artistic Director of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and serves as Principal Clarinet with New York’s Riverside Symphony and Little Orchestra Society.  Mr. Kay is the recipient of the Classical Recording Foundation’s Samuel Sanders Award, the C.D. Jackson Award at Tanglewood, a Presidential Scholars Teacher Award, and the 1989 Young Concert Artists Award with the sextet Hexagon, featured in the prizewinning film, “Debut.”  A founding member of the Windscape Quintet, he is a regular guest in chamber music venues throughout the world, including the Yellow Barn, Colorado College, Orlando (Holland), Bowdoin, Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society Festivals, and the Cape May Music Festival, where he curated a concert series for 25 years. Mr. Kay taught at the Summer Music Academy in Leipzig, Germany in 2004 and currently teaches at Stony Brook University and The Juilliard School, where an anonymous donor established the “Alan R. Kay Music Scholarship” in perpetuity. He has served on the juries of international chamber music competitions in Trapani, Italy and Rolduc, Holland, and for Young Concert Artists, Concert Artist Guild, and the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.