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Keith Sweger is Professor of Bassoon in Ball State University.  In addition to teaching studio bassoon, his responsibilities include performing with the Musical Arts Quintet and the faculty reed trio ReedDefined.  Dr. Sweger is principal bassoon of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra, contrabassoon of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and performs regularly with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.  Previously, Sweger performed with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra, Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, Green Lake Festival Orchestra, Music at Penn’s Woods, and others.  He has recorded on the Arsis, Capstone, and Alicia labels and has been a recitalist at conferences of the IDRS, CMS, NACWPI, and MTNA and at colleges and universities around the country and abroad.  In these recitals, he has performed many of his own arrangements and transcriptions and has premiered works by composers such as James Chaudoir, Jody Nagel, Ernesto Pellegrini, Daron Hagen, Keith Kothman and Greg Steinke.  Active in the International Double Reed Society, he co-hosted its 2006 international conference at Ball State University, has served two terms as Secretary of its Executive Committee, and is Chair of the Gillet-Fox International Bassoon Competition.  Sweger was named the recipient of the 2007 Ball State University College of Fine Arts Dean’s Teaching Award and the 2008 IMEA Outstanding University Educator Award.