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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:

Double Reed Festival

MDRS has scheduled our next double reed festival for October 4-5, 2008. Click on the above link for more information and a review of our last festival, which took place in February 2008.

Twenty-First MDRS Young Artist Competition

Our thanks go out to Celeste Johnson of Oklahoma State University for making our Twenty-First Young Artist Competition a great success. For a list of winners, please visit our competition page. The next MDRS Young Artist competition will be held April 18, 2009 at the University of Missouri—Kansas City, hosted by Marita Abner and Barb Bishop. For more details on this event, check our site in February 2009.

The MDRS Celebrates its Twenty-Fifth Year!!

Please participate in the MDRS Retrospective to be published in our September 2008 newsletter. If you have memories to share or pictures of past events, please submit them to so that they may be included in a compiled article covering the history of the MDRS.

Also in celebration of our twenty-fifth anniversary, the society has launched a commissioning project of four pieces to be performed at the twenty-fifth annual meeting. Please see the commissioning project page for details on the composers, works, and how you may contribute.

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