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Double Reed Day

This daylong workshop is designed for all double reed players and will be a wonderful opportunity for students to meet, learn from and perform with other talented players from throughout the region.

Participants will have the opportunity to learn from guest clinicians though masterclasses, workshops and Q&A sessions. The day culminates in a guest artist recital in the beautiful Florence Kopleff Recital Hall.

All events will take place on the campus of Georgia State University in downtown Atlanta.

All participants are invited to join us the following day, Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 3:00 PM for a free concert featuring the University Symphony Orchestra and McKenzie Allen, winner of the Brumby Concerto Competition, as he performs the Goossens Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra.

Schedule:

8:00 - 9:00	Information Session for Prospective GSU Students and Parents
	Registration
9:00-9:30	Welcome
9:30-9:45	Double Reed Day Picture, Recital Hall
9:45-12:00	OBOE - Oboe masterclass with Mark Ostoich
	BASSOON - Bassoon masterclass with William Ludwig
12:00-1:00	Lunch (provided)
1:00-1:45	OBOE – “Is it Me, my Reed, or my Oboe?” by Sarah Thelen, Fox Products, Recital Hall
	BASSOON – “A Common Sense Discussion About the Basics, Featuring  Broken Bassoons and Funny Stories” by Barry Trent, Fox Products, Green Room
1:45-2:15	Exhibits in Lobby
2:15-3:00	Recital

Guest Artists:

Mark Ostoich, associate professor of oboe at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music since 1996, also serves as artist-faculty of the Music Festival and Opera Theatre of Lucca where he conducts ensembles, coordinates the chamber music program, and performs as solo oboist. He also serves as artist-faculty of the Grandin Festival, a chamber music festival featuring music with voice.

Ostoich performs with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Cincinnati Ballet, Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, and the Dayton Philharmonic. During the 2001-2 season, Ostoich served as co-principal oboist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performing with conductors, Andre Previn and Mariss Jansons. In 1992, Ostoich performed in the New York Philharmonic during the orchestra's summer season with music director, Kurt Masur, including a tour to South America.

From 1986-1996, Dr. Ostoich was professor of oboe at Louisiana State University, principal oboist of the Baton Rouge Symphony, and was a member of the Timm Wind Quintet based at LSU. In 1994, Ostoich was appointed principal oboist of the Santa Fe Opera in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he performed for 3 seasons prior to moving to Cincinnati.

In addition to performing at the 18th, 28th, and 29th annual conference of the International Double Reed Society in Manchester, England, he served as co-host of the 19th IDRS conference in 1990, which attracted oboists and bassoonists from around the world to the LSU campus. In August 2001, Ostoich was a featured soloist at the 30th Conference of the International Double Reed Society, premiering a new edition of the Concerto for 2 oboes by Franz Ferling. Ostoich also performed at the 1985 convention of the National Flute Association held in Denver and its 1993 convention in Boston.

From 1974-1986, Ostoich was associate professor of music at the University of Florida, and a member of the Florida Woodwind Quintet and Florida Baroque Ensemble. He was a founding member of the Gainesville Chamber Orchestra, conductor of the Alachua County Youth Orchestra, and for nine seasons principal oboist of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. For 14 seasons, Ostoich served as artist-teacher of oboe at the Sewanee Summer Music Center in Tennessee.

Ostoich studied oboe with several distinguished teachers, including DeVere and Bruill Moore of the Chicago Symphony.

William Ludwig, Bassoon

William Ludwig joined the faculty of the IU Jacobs School of Music in August of 2007. Previous to this appointment he had been Professor of Bassoon at Louisiana State University since 1985. For the last seven summers he has been in residence at the Brevard Music Center as principal bassoon and artist faculty. His orchestral experience includes principal bassoon with the Baton Rouge Symphony (1986-2007) and the Florida Orchestra (1980-1985).

A noted chamber musician he has performed in a wide variety of settings in the United States and Europe, including at the Prague Spring International Music Festival and Highlands (NC) Chamber Music Festival and with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Timm Wind Quintet and Ars Nova Wind Quintet. He was artist-in-residence at the State University of New York-Stony Brook Department of Music from 1989 to 1994 concurrently with his LSU appointment and taught at the University of South Florida from 1979 to 1985. He holds degrees from Louisiana State University and Yale School of Music and studied with John Patterson, Sol Schoenbach, Leonard Sharrow, Bernard Garfield and Arthur Weisberg.