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oboe • bassoon • English horn • contrabassoon • oboe • bassoon • English horn • contrabassoon • reeds
Welcome to the Midwest Double Reed Society.
The MDRS is an organization dedicated to supporting the needs of oboists and bassoonists throughout the Midwest.
Announcements:
Twenty-Second MDRS Young Artist Competition
Details are online now for our Twenty-Second Young Artist Competition for high school and undergraduate oboe and bassoon students in Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. The event this year is hosted by Marita Abner and Barbara Bishop on April 18, 2009 at the University of Missouri—Kansas City Conservatory of Music. Applications are due on April 3, 2009.
The seventh annual MDRS Double Reed Festival featuring guest artists Linda Strommen, professor of oboe at Indiana University, and Jeffrey Lyman, professor of bassoon at the University of Michigan, was a great success. For more details, please visit our double reed festival page.
The MDRS 25th Anniversary Commissioning Project Concert also took place at the annual meeting, featuring works by Stacey Berk, Stuart Brezinski, R. Douglas Helvering, and Stephen McCardell. Information on the project, composers, and the works themselves is located on the commissioning page. Please consider attending one of the following performances of the works.
Univeristy of Wisconsin, Stevens Point Michelsen Hall, Noel Fine Arts Center, April 1, 2009 4:00 PM "Grants, Commissioning, and the Midwest Double Reed Society 25th Anniversary Commissioning Project"
Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence Kansas April 16, 2009, 7:30 PM "Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Reeds!" General admission is $5.00, Free for double reed players with a note from their instructor.
International Double Reed Society Convention in Birmingham, England Arena Foyer, Friday, July 24, 2009 at 1:30 PM
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