James Madison University School of Music
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Double Reed Day is a workshop which brings together oboe and bassoon players of all skill levels for a day of recitals, performance master classes with JMU Faculty and Guest Artists, reed classes, music reading sessions, and other related activities.
The event is hosted by:
Dr. Michele Kirkdorffer, Associate Professor of Oboe
Dr. Sue Barber, Associate Professor of Bassoon
The JMU Double Reed Club
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2012 Guest Artists:
Mark Ostoich - Professor of Oboe at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. In connection with CCM, Ostoich has served as faculty-artist of the CCM-Spoleto Festival in Spoleto Italy, the Lucca Festival and Opera Theatre of Lucca (Italy) and CCM’s Grandin Festival. He performs extensively in solo and chamber music settings and is in demand as a recitalist and clinician for master classes. Along with clarinetist Steve Cohen of Northwestern University, and bassoonist William Ludwig of Indiana University, Ostoich performs and tours regularly as the Trio Cayenne. Ostoich has an extensive orchestral background and is frequently called upon to perform with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Cincinnati Ballet, and Columbus Symphony, and Columbus ProMusica. He has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Santa Fe Opera (principal oboe), Dayton Philharmonic, Jacksonville Symphony, Baton Rouge Symphony, and Louisiana Philharmonic. For the last 13 years he has been the featured teacher of the Oboes at Oxford oboe camp in Georgia each July, and also makes regular appearances as artist-clinician for the Advanced Double Reed Institute of Texas.
Ostoich was formerly professor of oboe at Louisiana State University and the University of Florida, the University of Texas, and Ohio University. He was artist-teacher of oboe at the Sewanee Summer Music Center and member of the Sewanee Wind Quintet. He received the DMA degree from Louisiana State University where his primary teacher was Earnest Harrison, and major influences in his career include John Mack, Joseph Robinson, and Christopher Philpotts.
William Ludwig joined the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University as Professor of Bassoon in August of 2007. Previous to this appointment he had been Professor of Bassoon at Louisiana State University since 1985. Since the summer of 2002 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 had the privilege of studying with John Patterson, Sol Schoenbach, Leonard Sharrow, Bernard Garfield and Arthur Weisberg.
