Asha Kline

Asha Kline, from Ellicott City, Md., entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2020 and studies bassoon with Daniel Matsukawa. All students at Curtis receive merit-based, full-tuition scholarships, and Ms. Kline is the David H. Springman Memorial Fellow.

She has won first prize in the Boston Woodwind Society’s 2022 Matthew Ruggiero International Bassoon Competition and in the 2023 Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition. Ms. Kline has appeared as soloist with orchestra as a two-time winner of the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition (2020, 2018) and the 2017 Columbia Orchestra Young Artist Competition. She currently serves as assistant principal bassoon in the New Haven Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Kline has been a bassoon fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center for the past two summers and has also participated in festivals, including the National Orchestral Institute at the University of Maryland (2022), Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra (2020, 2021), and Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute (2018, 2019).

Ms. Kline started her bassoon studies at age ten, and she studied previously with Fei Xie, Harrison Miller, Schuyler Jackson, and Monica Schwartz. In her free time, she enjoys doing jigsaw puzzles and exploring Philadelphia.