Don Werdick is a professional Oboe, Oboe d’amore & English horn artist. Owns and operates the international double reed cane processing business Supérieure Cane Processing, Inc., oboemn.com, since 1960’s; music copyist/engraver, arranger/editor and Publisher-Chamber Ensemble of Minnesota, Inc. Publishing donwerdick.musicaneo.com. Member of the American Federation of Musicians-Duluth Musicians Association, Board/Executive Committee Local 18, Twin Cities Musicians Union-Local 30-73, International Double Reed Society, Associated Chamber Music Players, International Music Score Library Project; Studied with: Rhadames Angelucci, Principal Oboe, Minnesota Orchestra; Ita Loe-Vellek, Chicago Symphony and Ruben Haugen, MacPhail Center for Music; and a graduate of the University of Minnesota. Symphony and chamber orchestra performances include the St. Croix Valley Symphony Orchestra and SCVSO Woodwind Quintet, North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra, Mesabi Symphony Orchestra, Mesabi Musical Theatre Orchestra, Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra-DSSYO guest performer, Chamber Ensemble of Minnesota, Woodland Chamber Ensemble, Northern Lights Music Festival Orchestra-chamber and opera orchestra, Minnesota Opera-community residency initiative guest performer, and Liturgical music oboe accompanist & arranger. Prior to 2000, performances in the Twin Cities included: Minnetonka Symphony Orchestra, Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Wind Ensemble, University of Minnesota Orchestra, and Augsburg University Orchestra, Having had a dual career/vocation, he is also a retired financial institution Director & CEO, former FDIC Assistant Director, First Federal Minneapolis management and past U.S. Army Band Director & commissioned officer. Both business and home are located on several wooded acres overlooking the St. Croix River in southwestern Wisconsin, and in northern Minnesota.
