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The
Australasian Double Reed Society Inc. (adrs)
is a non-profit organisation which promotes and enhances
knowledge of double reed instruments (oboe and bassoon
family). The adrs encourages performance, education
and interaction between double reed players of all
standards, and maintains close links with similar
societies throughout the world.
Membership
of the adrs consists of a large cross
range of the Double Reed community, including professional
players in major Symphony Orchestras, freelance professional
players, woodwind educators and students in the Secondary
and Tertiary sectors, enthusiasts and amateur players. |
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travelled from as far a-field as Bega, Wagga Wagga,
Orange and Bathurst ...
-Megan Billing, ACT Representative
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Popular
events are held in each represented state and include
Recitals, Masterclasses, Activities Days, Reedmaking
Demonstrations and Workshops, Examination Workshops, Lectures
and Teachers Forums
The
adrs is proud to have been host for two
major double reed events - the first ever held in the
Australasian region. This is significant not only for
the expansion in interest
of double reed practise in the region, but also as an
indication of the advancement and achievement of the adrs,
Australasian music and of double reed performance.
IDRS
33rd Annual Conference 2004 in Melbourne
Oboe
and Bassoon 2000 |
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The
adrs achieves its aims with a team of
enthusiastic committee members who generously give thier
time and talents voluntarily to further the cause of the
adrs objectives. Our Society is priviledged
to have active representatives located in major cities
throughout Australia including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane,
Adelaide, Perth and Canberra.
Success has been achieved through the promotion of events,
the publication of Reeding Matter, support from
music trade and service organisations and an ever increasing
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Reeding
Matter is the only newsletter
in the South Pacific region for double reed players.
It provides the double reed community with a comprehensive
and entertaining newsletter with information specifically
tailored to their art.
Reeding Matter plays a vital role in the Society’s
activities, keeping everyone in touch with current news
and events, and providing information on all aspects
of double reed playing and musicianship. It contains
regular articles such as interviews, player profiles,
product and services information, CD Reviews, adrs
event reviews, problem solving columns and articles
of interest about general music issues.
Click
here to read online articles. |
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The
adrs actively supports music organisations
and business in both the Australasian region and internationally
by providing exposure to the niche market of double reed
players and to the wider musical community.
Opportunities include sponsorship of events, advertising
in Reeding Matter and adrs event programmes.
Tailor made opportunities are also available by negotiation
with your state representative |
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Celia Craig
President
Celia is the new president as of 2007. Celia left her position as principal cor anglais with the BBCSO to immigrate to Australia in 2006. She lives in the Blue Mountains with her husband, the respected woodwind technician Richard Craig, and their two children, Arthur and Lucy. Celia travels back to the UK regularly to make guest appearances with the London Symphony, BBC Symphony and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras.
Described as “marvellous” and “a wonderful player” in the national press, Celia Craig has been one of the UK’s leading oboists, winning the Oboe Prize of the National Festival of Music for Youth in 1988, a student of Nicholas Daniel. In the same year she went on to represent Britain at the European Music for Youth oboe competition. With a degree in Music from York University, she won a postgraduate exhibition to the Royal Academy of Music in 1989. From 1989 to 1992 she was a “Sponsored Artist” of East Midlands Arts, busy with oboe recitals and concerti.
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Celia
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Stephen
Moschner
Vice - President & Webmaster
Stephen is known to most of the adrs as the manager
of the IDRS 2004 Conference. As an administrator
he has worked with Orchestra Victoria, Opera Australia,
AYO, Willoughby Symphony, Local Councils, Major Events
and even the Opening of the Sydney Olympics and was on contract as the Orchestra Manager of the Tasmanian
Symphony Orchestra.
He
studied Oboe at the VCA and at the Sydney Conservatorium
and has had lessons with many players around Australia.
In 2003 he went to the IDRS Conference in reensborough,
North Carolina, USA and participated in classes on oboe
pedagogy and even a class on Hecklephone playing !
Between
playing the occasional concert and making reeds for
a "select" number of clients, he works as
an Arts Manager. Over the past few years he has run regular
reed making sessions for the Melbourne adrs and is willing
to bore you to death on the topic of dimensions of staples,
shape, gouge and reeds in general .. to the dismay of
his non oboe playing friends...
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Stephen
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Bernard
Girard
Treasurer
Bernard
has been playing the oboe since the age of 12. After
completing his Bachelor of Music in Performance with
Second Class Honours, he continued is studies under
John Anderson and Michael Winfield at the prestigious
Royal College of Music in London.
He graduated a year later with a Graduate
Diploma of Music in Orchestral Playing. During his years
of study, Bernard has been a member of many orchestras
throughout South-East Queensland including the Queensland
Youth Symphony, which toured Japan in 1996, the Brisbane
Sinfonia and the Toowoomba Sinfonia orchestras. He was
also a casual member of the Queensland Philharmonic
Orchestra for which he was a soloist on several occasions.
While in London, he performed with the Royal College
Orchestras and Chamber Ensembles, as well as several
performances with regional orchestras in the greater
London area and, as part of his studies, often played
with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
He also taught the oboe privately and was an oboe reed
maker for the Howarth Company.
Currently Bernard performs with the
Queensland Orchestra and is a professional oboe reed
maker and is a
well respected teacher of the instrument.
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Bernard
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Judy
Wood
Secretary
I
have been playing and teaching the bassoon in Brisbane
for many years. I was Principal Bassoon of the Queensland
Philharmonic Orchestra from 1985 until its merger with
the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in 2001. I now play
2nd bassoon in the Queensland Orchestra. I'm also a
part of the Union, or Management Committee of the Queensland
Orchestra.
I'm
married to flautist Patrick Nolan, and have two string-playing
children (only one set of reeds in our house, thank
goodness!)
I
enjoyed the Convention in Melbourne last year immensely,
and really see the advantages in our double reed community
getting together to share ideas and performances. Although
I won't get to the wonderful events I read about in
Melbourne and other places, I am working with Anna Fowke
the qdrs President in order to keep the Double Reed
scene alive and happening in Queensland.
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Judy
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Ronda Jones
Advertising Manager & Committee Member
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Ronda
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Clare
Payne
New South Wales Representative
A kiwi at heart, I moved to Brisbane in 1982
to study the bassoon with Peter Musson. After a year in
the ABC Sinfoia and a couple of years with the Victorian
Wind Quintet in Bendigo I returned to Sydney where I am
kept busy teaching and playing the occasional concert.
I
am married ( to a yacht designer, not a musician ) and
have two boys aged 14 and 16 - a cellist and, you guessed
it, a bassoonist!
I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of the Melbourne Conference
and feel strongly about fostering an enthusiastic and
supportive double reed community in NSW.
I am green with envy as I read about all that's happening
in the other states so have gathered a like -minded bunch
of colleagues together to help put Sydney on the double
reed map.
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Megan
Billing
ACT Representative
Born in Korumburra, Victoria, Megan studied music from
an early age, first with the flute, later taking the oboe
at age 14. In 1998, with the help of the Australian National
Academy of Music, she began lessons with oboist Eve Newsome.
Megan completed a bachelor of music at the Victorian College
of the Arts in Melbourne, after which she undertook 2
years of study in Zurich, Switzerland, in the class of
Professor Thomas Indermuhle.
Megan
has played for many Australian ensembles including the
Melbourne Symphony orchestra and Orchestra Victoria.
She has appeared as guest principal oboist with the
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Megan has also been a
principal player of the Australian Youth Orchestra and
a recipient of the Willem Van Otterloo travelling scholarship,
the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artists
Award and an Australian Youth Orchestra opportunity
grant. Megan has a passion for education, and enjoys
seeing the development of young up and coming oboe players.
In 2006 Megan joins the teaching staff of the ANU.
Megan has been a School of Music faculty member since
2006.
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Anna
Fowke
President - qdrs
Bassoonist
Anna Fowke completed undergraduate studies at the Queensland
Conservatorium of Music in 1991 before travelling to Europe
to undertake postgraduate performance studies. Following
master classes in Germany and the United Kingdom she was
invited to study with Kim Walker. She later ontinued her
studies with Roger Birnstingl at the Conservatoire de
Musique, Geneva, Switzerland.
Whilst in Europe Anna developed an interest in early music
which later led to baroque bassoon studies with Lorenzo
Alpert (solo bassoon- Musica Antiqua Koln) as well as
academic studies in early music at the Ecole de Musique
Ancienne in Switzerland.
Anna freelanced orchestrally in Switzerland, France and
Holland for nine years. She performed in chamber ensembles
as well as solo recitals. During this time she held a
teaching post at the Ecole Internationale in Geneva and
founded the highly successful Summer Music Program. She
maintains her links with Switzerland and returns on occasion
to perform and teach. Coinciding with the birth of their
first child, she and her husband returned to Australia
in late 2001 and are now settled in Brisbane where she
juggles motherhood with teaching and playing.
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