Caryl Lambourn - SA
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Caryl started the bassoon with Thomas Wightman at the Elder Conservatorium in the early 70s and has been playing ever since.
Caryl is a founder member of the Unley Symphony Orchestra and has also played with many other community groups throughout Adelaide. After teaching English and French at various State Secondary Schools she is now happily retired and plays regularly withthe Arbor Wind Quintet, Flinders University Chamber Ensemble, AdelaideSummer Orchestra and Notos Nonet.
She has been an active committee member of the SA Branch of ADRS for the last 10 years and is the sub-editor of Reeding Matter.
Mark Bruwel - President & NSW Rep
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Mark held the position of Tutti Oboe/Cor Anglais with the Opera Australia Orchestra for the last 30 years, or so, finishing there in September of 2020. He also has a keen interest in teaching the Oboe and music education more broadly. He was on Opera Australia’s Education Committee supporting mentorship programmes for both NSW Regional Conservatoria and the Sydney Conservatorium for 10 years.
He has a strong interest in how Orchestras work and, reflecting that, has put together a presentation, ‘The Art of Playing Second Oboe’. Mark has presented this at ADRS Conferences in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane and, in 2018, the IDRS Conference in Granada, Spain. He has also long held a keen interest in the industrial side of being a musician and has advocated for improvements to Musician’s wages and conditions for most of his career. He was the President of the Symphony Orchestra Musicians’ Association (SOMA), the Union that covers Australian orchestras for 10 years. In that role Mark presented at the 2017 Federation of International Musicians Conference (FIM) in Montreal and the 2016 ICSOM Conference in Washington DC.
Mark also has a fascination with gardens, particularly Japanese, and runs a small Landscape Design business ‘Garden Symphony’ which draws on Japanese design principles and combines them with Australian elements. Lastly, he has more than a passing interest in cars that go perhaps unnecessarily fast
Annual General Meetings
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The Australasian Double Reed Society 2020 AGM was held on Saturday 17th October 2020 at 3pm via Zoom.
Draft Minutes are available under the 2020 folder below.
The folders below contain information pertinent to the latest AGM as well as past AGM's

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ADRS Honorary Member - John Cran
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With great sadness we announce the passing of ADRS Honorary Member John Cran at 92 years of age. As the Principal Bassoon of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and teacher he had a very large influence on double reed playing in Australia. Our thoughts are with Lucinda Cran and family.
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Repertoire for rare double reeds
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The ADRS has been blessed with the generous gift of access to a repertoire of downloadable music for the rarer instruments of the double reed family by Jennifer Paull, whom you can read about here on Wikipedia.