Keith Sweger was Professor of Bassoon at Ball State University, retiring in 2023. With the International Double Reed Society, he served as President, Chair of the Gillet-Fox International Bassoon Competition and Host of the 2006 conference. Sweger was principal bassoon of Orchestra Indiana and the Indianapolis Ballet Orchestra, contrabassoon of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and has performed with the St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras and others. Sweger received the 2007 BSU College of Fine Arts Teaching and 2013 Dean’s Creative Endeavor Award, Awards, the 2008 Indiana Music Educators Association Outstanding University Educator Award and was awarded a 2010 American Masterworks grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was guest artist/teacher at the 2012 Beijing International Bassoon Festival and the 2011 Asian Double Reed Association, 2014 Spanish Double Reed Society and 2017 Brazilian Double Reed Society conferences. Dr. Sweger is a Fox Artist.