Quincey Trojanowski is a fourth-year undergraduate bassoon performance major at the University of Texas at Austin studying with Kristin Wolfe Jensen. Originally from the Chicago area, she studied with Drew Pattison of the Oberlin Conservatory and Miles Maner of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra throughout high school. Quincey is an alumna of the Merit School of Music's Alice S. Pfaelzer Tuition-free Conservatory of Music, the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, the 2018 National Youth Orchestra of the USA, the 2020 Brevard College Summer Music Festival, 2021 Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition Finalists, as well as the 2021 and 2022 Round Top Texas Festival Orchestras. Quincey also has an extensive background in chamber music, having won top wind prizes in the 2016 and 2017 junior-division Fischoff Chamber Competitions, as well as the 2016 and 2017 International M-Prize Chamber Competitions. Quincey has played bassoon since she was nine years old, and has always been in love with the instrument's comforting, earthy sound. Quincey also sells her own bassoon reeds on a couple different websites including her own site, Q Reeds. Quincey has a deep passion for traveling and appreciating as much of the world as possible. Outside the United States, she has played at venues in Taiwan, South Korea, China, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, and Russia. In the future, she aspires to travel the world through music, sharing musical experiences with as many people as possible. Aside from music, Quincey enjoys cooking, painting, drawing, meditation, and journaling. She also has a deep love for cats, especially her own two cats at home!