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™ www.oboemn.com; is an music copyist/engraver and arranger/editor/publisher - Chamber Ensemble of Minnesota, Inc. Publishing www.oboemn.com/ensemble, member of the American Federation of Musicians, International Double Reed Society, IMSLP. He studied with Rhadames Angelucci, Principal Oboe, Minnesota Orchestra; Ita Loe-Vellek, Chicago Symphony; Ruben Haugen, MacPhail Center for Music; and is a graduate of the University of Minnesota. Performances as principal oboe include the North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra, Mesabi Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Ensemble of Minnesota, Woodland Chamber and the Northern Lights Festival Orchestra. Prior to moving to northeastern Minnesota he performed in the Twin Cities with the Minnetonka Symphony, Bloomington Symphony and the Metropolitan Wind Ensemble. He is a retired financial institution CEO, former FDIC/RTC Assistant Director, First Federal Minneapolis management and past U.S. Army Band Director & commissioned officer. Don and his amazing wife Donna (d. 10/2019), Author (pseudonym J. D. Wellander, jdwellander-books.com) reside on several wooded acres in their northern Minnesota home.
