An oboist (formerly hautboist) is a

musician A musician is someone who Composer, composes, Conducting, conducts, or Performing arts#Performers, performs music. According to the United States Employment Service, "musician" is a general Terminology, term used to designate a person who fol ...

who plays the

oboe The oboe ( ) is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common type of oboe, the soprano oboe pitched in C, ...

or any oboe family instrument, including the

oboe d'amore The ; (), less commonly (), is a double reed woodwind musical instrument in the oboe family. Slightly larger than the oboe, it has a less assertive and a more tranquil and serene tone, and is considered the mezzo-soprano of the oboe family, betw ...

cor anglais The cor anglais (, or original ; plural: ''cors anglais''), or English horn (mainly North America), is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length of an oboe, making it essentially ...

English horn The cor anglais (, or original ; plural: ''cors anglais''), or English horn (mainly North America), is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length of an oboe, making it essentially ...

bass oboe The bass oboe or baritone oboe is a double reed instrument in the woodwind family. It is essentially twice the size of a regular (soprano) oboe so it sounds an octave lower; it has a deep, full tone somewhat akin to that of its higher-pitched cou ...

and

piccolo oboe The piccolo oboe, also known as the piccoloboe or sopranino oboe and historically called an oboe musette (or just musette), is the smallest and highest pitched member of the oboe family. Pitched in E♭ or F above the regular oboe (i.e. notated a ...

or oboe musette. The following is a list of notable past and present professional oboists, with indications when they were/are known better for other professions in their own time. Oboists with an asterisk (*) have biographies in the online version of the ''

Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language '' Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and th ...

''.

Historical oboists

Baroque period 1600–1760

Francesco Barsanti Francesco Barsanti (1690–1775) was an Italian flautist, oboist and composer. He was born in 1690 in the Tuscan city of Lucca, but spent most of his life in London and Edinburgh. Biography Very little is known about Barsanti's background. His fa ...

(1690–1772), Italian * (composer) *

Alessandro Besozzi Alessandro Besozzi (born 22 July 1702 in Parma – died 26 July 1793 in Turin) was an Italian composer and virtuoso oboist.From a letter dated 30 July 1777 written by Quirino Gasparini, maestro di cappella of the cathedral of Turin, sent to Fathe ...

(1702–1773), Italian *

Antonio Besozzi Antonio Besozzi (1714–1781) was an Italian oboist and composer and also member of an extensive family of musicians from the eighteenth-century Naples. He composed several concertos for oboe and a few quintets, which he called "sonatas", for ...

(1714–1781), Italian *

Cristoforo Besozzi Cristoforo Besozzi (1661 in Milan – 22 October 1725, in Piacenza) was an Italian oboist, bassoonist and founder of a large family of wind players very influential around Parma, Naples and Turin for more than 200 years. In 1700, he settled in Par ...

(1661–1725), Italian *

Giuseppe Besozzi Giuseppe Besozzi (born 1686 in Milan – died 2 December 1760 in Naples) was an Italian oboist. In the eighteenth century the Besozzi family produced several important oboists who worked in Turin, Naples, London, Paris and Dresden. Giuseppe's ...

(1686–1760), Italian *

Paolo Girolamo Besozzi Paolo Girolamo Besozzi (17 April 1704 – 1778) was an Italian oboe virtuoso and bassoonist who devoted his life to the study of the bassoon and oboe. He was born in Parma. Together with his brothers Giuseppe and Alessandro Besozzi, he took p ...

(1713–1778), Italian * Mateo Bissoli (Bisioli) ( 1711 – 1780), Italian *

Esprit Philippe Chédeville Esprit or L'Esprit may refer to: * the French word for spirit; as a loanword: ** Enthusiasm, intense interest or motivation ** Morale, motivation and readiness ** Geist "mind/spirit; intellect" * Esprit (name), a given name and surname * ''Espri ...

(1696–1762), French * *

Nicolas Chédeville Nicolas Chédeville (20 February 1705 – 6 August 1782) was a French composer, musette player and musette maker. Biography Nicolas Chédeville was born in Serez, Normandy; musicians Pierre Chédeville (1694–1725) and Esprit Philippe Chéde ...

(1705–1782), French * *

Pierre Chédeville Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

(1694–1725), French * *

André Danican Philidor André Danican Philidor may refer to: * François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795), chess master and composer * André Danican Philidor the elder André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the nam ...

(c. 1652–1730), French * (music librarian) *

Anne Danican Philidor Anne Danican Philidor (11 April 1681 – 8 October 1728) was a French woodwind player and composer of the Philidor family. Born in Paris on 11 April 1681, his grandfather and father were also professional woodwind players in the king's service. ...

(1681–1728), French * Jean Danican Philidor ( 1620 – 1679), French * (1580–1651), French * (1681–1731), French *

John Ernest Galliard Johann Ernst Galliard (?1666/?1687–1747 ) was a composer from the Holy Roman Empire. Galliard was born in Celle, Holy Roman Empire to a French wig-maker. His first composition instruction began at age 15. Galliard studied composition under Je ...

( 1675 – 1747), German * * Johann Caspar Gleditsch (1684–1747), German ("Bach's oboist") *

Peter Glösch Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a sur ...

( 1685 – 1754), German *

Jean Hotteterre Jean Hotteterre (1677–1720) was a French composer and musician of the Hotteterre family. Hotteterre worked at the family workshop on the Rue de Harlay, Paris until his death at the court of Louis XIV of France. He and his brothers Jacques-Mart ...

( 1610 – 1691), French * (instrument maker) (one of several oboists in the family) *

Martin Hotteterre Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (29 September 167416 July 1763), also known as Jacques Martin or Jacques Hotteterre, was a French composer and flautist who was the most celebrated of a family of wind instrument makers and wind performers. Biography ...

(1635–1712), French * (instrument maker) * Nicolas Hotteterre (1637–1694), French * * Johann Christian Jacobi (1719–1784), German (oboist at Janitsch's "Freitags-Akademien") *

Jean Christian Kytch Jean Christian Kytch (died 1738) was a Dutch Baroque-era oboist. Based on works he is known to have performed, it is thought that he possessed considerable technical ability on the oboe. He was known as "Handel's oboist" and Handel's use of a solo ...

(died 1738), Dutch ("Handel's oboist") * François La Riche (1662 – after 1733), Flemish *"The Trio Sonatas of Jan Dismas Zelenka"
. ''www.idrs.org''. * Jacques Loeillet (1685–1748), Flemish * * Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (1680–1730), Flemish * *

Jacques Paisible Jacques Paisible (ca. 16561721), also known as James Peasable or James Paisible, was a French baroque composer and recorder virtuoso who lived and worked in London for about forty years. Paisible arrived in London from France in September 1673, on ...

( 1656 – 1721), French (oboist in

Robert Cambert Robert Cambert (c. 1628–1677) was a French composer principally of opera. His opera '' Pomone'' was the first actual opera in French. Biography Under Mazarin Born in Paris c. 1628, he studied music under Chambonnières. His first position was ...

orchestra which moved to London in 1673) *

Joan Baptista Pla Joan Baptista Pla i Agustí (–1773) was a Spanish composer and oboist. Pla was born in Catalonia, Spain, into a Catalan family of musicians. In the years after 1751, he worked in many of the principal cities of Europe including Padua, Stuttgart ...

( 1720 – 1773), Spanish * *

Josep Pla Josep Pla i Casadevall (; 8 March 1897 – 23 April 1981) was a Spanish journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles i ...

(1728–1762), Spanish * *

Manuel Pla Manuel Pla i Agustí (c. 1725-1766) was a Spanish (from Catalonia) composer, oboist, and harpsichordist at the court of Madrid. He was the middle of three composer-brothers: his older brother Joan Baptista Pla (1720-1773), settled as an oboist in ...

( 1725 – 1766), Spanish * *

Giovanni Benedetto Platti Giovanni Benedetto Platti was born possibly 9 July 1697 (according to other sources 1690, 1692, 1700) in Padua, then belonging to Venice. He was an Italian Baroque composer and oboist. He died 11 January 1763 in Würzburg Würzburg (; Main-F ...

(1697–1763), Italian * *

Johann Christian Richter Johann, typically a male given name, is the German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin form of the Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew name '' Yochanan'' () in turn from its extended form (), meaning "Yahweh is Gracious" ...

(1689–1744), German * Jacob Riehman ( 1680 – 1729), Dutch * *

Giuseppe Sammartini Giuseppe Francesco Gaspare Melchiorre Baldassare Sammartini (also Gioseffo, S Martini, St Martini, San Martini, San Martino, Martini, Martino; 6 January 1695 – between 17 and 23 November 1750) was an Italian composer and oboist during the late B ...

(1695–1750), Italian * (son of French oboist Alexis Saint-Martin) *

Georg Philipp Telemann Georg Philipp Telemann (; – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the most prolific composers in history, at least in terms of surviving works. Telemann was considered by his contemporaries to b ...

(1681–1767), German composer (Oboe was one of over 10 instruments he played) * Roberto Valentine (1674 – ), English * (composer)

Classical period 1730–1820

* Sante Aguilar ( 1734 – 1808), ItalianBruce, Haynes, (1 February 1992)
"Mozart and the oboe"
* Christian Frederik Barth (1787–1861), Danish * Christian Samuel Barth (1735–1809), German * * Frederik Philip Carl August Barth (1774–1804), Danish * *

Georg Benda Georg Anton Benda (; 30 June 17226 November 1795) was a Kingdom of Bohemia, Bohemian composer, violinist and ''Kapellmeister'' of the Classical period (music), classical period. Biography Born into a Benda family, family of notable musicians in ...

(1722–1795), Czech * (composer) *

Carlo Besozzi Carlo Besozzi (1738 – 22 March 1791) was an Italian oboist composer and member of an extensive family of oboists from the eighteenth-century Naples. Nephew of Gaetano Besozzi, he was employed in the orchestra of the Elector of Dresden and t ...

(1738–1791), Italian * Francesco Besozzi (1766–1816), Italian * Gaetano Besozzi (1725–1794), Italian * Girolamo Besozzi ( 1745 – 1788), Italian * Friedrich Braun (1759–1824), German * * Franz Joseph Czerwenka (1759–1835), Czech-Austrian ("Beethoven's oboist") *

Georg Druschetzky Georg Druschetzky (born Jiří Družecký; 7 April 1745 – 21 June 1819) was a Czech composer, oboist and timpanist. Biography Druschetzky was born Jiří Družecký in Jemníky on 7 April 1945. He studied oboe with the noted oboist and composer ...

(1745–1819), Czech * * Giuseppe Ferlendis (1755–1810), Italian * *

Josef Fiala Josef Fiala (''Joseph Fiala'') (3 February 1748 – 31 July 1816), was a Czech composer, oboist, viola da gamba virtuoso, cellist, and pedagogue of the Classical period. Life He was born in Lochovice in Bohemia and began his musical career t ...

(1748–1816), Czech * ("Mozart's oboist 1") *

Johann Christian Fischer Johann Christian Fischer (c. 1733 – 29 April 1800) was a German composer and oboist, one of the best-known oboe soloists in Europe during the 1770s. Employed as a music copyist and theatre director for the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at Ludwi ...

(1733–1800), German * * Joseph François Garnier (1755–1825), French * * Michel Joseph Gebauer (1763–1812), French * * Gottlieb Graupner (1767–1836), German-American *

William Herschel Frederick William Herschel ( ; ; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-British astronomer and composer. He frequently collaborated with his younger sister and fellow astronomer Caroline Herschel. Born in the Electorate of Hanover ...

(1738–1822), German (astronomer) (before 1765 primarily oboist, only later an astronomer) *

François Jadin François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter * François-Marie Arouet (better known as Voltaire; 1 ...

(1731–1790), French * * Carl Khym (1770–after 1819), Czech * *

Ludwig August Lebrun Ludwig August Lebrun (baptized 2 May 1752 – 16 December 1790) was a German oboist and composer. Life Lebrun was born in Mannheim. The well-known and celebrated oboe virtuoso (a contemporary described being "charmed by his divine oboe") pla ...

(1746–1790), German * * Ignace Malzat (1757–1804), Austrian (probably wrote the "Haydn" oboe concerto) * * ( 1723 – 1804), Italian * * Carl Ludwig Matthes (1751–?), German *

John Parke John Grubb Parke (September 22, 1827 – December 16, 1900) was a United States Army engineer and a Union general in the American Civil War. Parke's Civil War service was closely associated with Ambrose E. Burnside, often serving him as c ...

(1745–1829), English * *

William Thomas Parke William Thomas Parke (15 February 1761 – 26 August 1847) was an English oboist and composer. He played in notable concerts of the day; in retirement he published ''Musical Memoirs''. Life Parke began his musical studies in 1770 under his elder ...

(1762–1847), English * * Giuseppe Prota (1737–1807), Italian * *

Friedrich Ramm Friedrich Ramm (1744–1813) was a German oboist for whom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote several works. Ramm was principal oboist in the orchestra of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria in Munich and in Mannheim, where Mozart first met him in 1777 ...

(1744–1813), German ("Mozart's oboist 2") *

François Alexandre Antoine Sallantin François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter * François-Marie Arouet (better known as Voltaire; 1 ...

(1755 – ), French * *

Johann Friedrich Schröter Johann, typically a male given name, is the German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin form of the Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew name '' Yochanan'' () in turn from its extended form (), meaning "Yahweh is Gracious" ...

(1724–1811), German * * Charles J. Suck ( – ), English * * Philipp Teimer (Filip Matyas Tajmar) (1767–1817), Bohemian (English horn) * Georg Triebensee (1746–1813), Bohemian * *

Josef Triebensee Josef Triebensee (Trübensee) (November 21, 1772 Třeboň - April 22, 1846 Prague) was a Bohemian composer and oboist.Hellyer, Roger. "Triebensee rübensee Josef." Grove Music Online. 2001. Oxford University Press. Date of access 15 Feb. 2024. He ...

(1772–1846), Bohemian * (composer) * (1745–1801), Bohemian * * Thomas Vincent (1720–1783), English *

Romantic period 1815–1910

* Apollon Barret (1804–1879), French * * Christian Frederik Barth (1787–1861), Danish * * Richard Baumgärtel (1858–1941), German * Félix-Charles Berthélemy (1829–1868), French *

Carl A.P. Braun Carl may refer to: *Carl, Georgia, city in USA *Carl, West Virginia, an unincorporated community *Carl (name), includes info about the name, variations of the name, and a list of people with the name *Carl², a TV series * "Carl", an episode of tel ...

(1788–1835), German * * Wilhelm Braun (1796–1867), German * *

Henri Brod Henri Brod (June 13, 1799 - April 6, 1839) was a French oboist, instrument builder and composer of the early Romantic Era. Brod was considered a virtuoso and introduced his own innovations in both oboe The oboe ( ) is a type of double-reed wo ...

(1799–1839), French * *

Baldassare Centroni Baldassare is a masculine Italian given name. It is the Italian spelling of Balthazar. Notable people with the name include: * Baldassare Aloisi (1578–1638), Italian history and portrait painter and engraver * Baldassare Amato (born 1958), Sicil ...

( 1784 – 1860), Italian ("Rossini's oboist") * (1832–1881), French * Franz Wilhelm Ferling (1796–1874), German * (1909–1971), German *

Georges Gillet Georges-Vital-Victor Gillet (May 17, 1854 – February 8, 1920) was a French oboist, teacher and composer. In addition to premiering oboe works by prominent French composers of the 19th century, including Émile Paladilhe, Charles-Édouard Lefeb ...

(1854–1920), French * *

Joseph Gungl Joseph Gungl, correct: ''Josef Gung'l'' (1 December 1809 – 1 February 1889), was a Hungarian composer, bandmaster, and conductor. He was soprano Virginia Naumann-Gungl's father. Biography Gungl was born in Schambeck, Austrian-Hungarian mo ...

(1810–1889), Hungarian * (conductor) *

Johann Peter Heuschkel Johann Peter Heuschkel (4 January 1773 – 5 December 1853) was a German oboist, organist, music teacher and composer. Heuschkel was born in Harras near Eisfeld. From 1792 he was oboist and later also organist in Hildburghausen. He is best rememb ...

(1773–1853), German * * Ernst Krähmer (1795–1857), German * *

Olivo Krause Olivo Vilhelm Eduard Oscar Krause (2 July 1857 Copenhagen, Denmark – 20 July 1927) was a Danish oboist and composer who had studied under Edmund Neupert and Agnes Adler. A member of the Royal Danish Orchestra from 1882, he became first soloist i ...

(1857–1927), Danish * Desiré Alfred Lalande (1866–1904), French * * Antoine Joseph Lavigne (1816–1886), French *

Johann Heinrich Luft Johann, typically a male given name, is the German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin form of the Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew name '' Yochanan'' () in turn from its extended form (), meaning "Yahweh is Gracious" ...

(1813–1877), German * William Malsch (1855–1924), English * * Giovanni Paggi (1806–1887), Italian * *

Antonio Pasculli Antonio Pasculli (13 October 1842 – 23 February 1924) was an Italian oboist and composer, known as "the Paganini of the oboe". Biography Pasculli was born in Palermo, Sicily on 13 October 1842. He lived there his whole life but travel ...

(1842–1924), Italian * (the "Paganini of the oboe") * Charles Reynolds (1843–1916), English * Friedrich Ruthardt (1800–1862), German * Adolf Rzepko (1825–1892), Polish * * Joseph Sellner (1787–1843), Austrian * Pedro Soler (1810–1850), Spanish * Friedrich-Eugen Thurner (1785–1827), German *

Charles Triébert Charles Louis Triébert (31 October 1810 – 18 July 1867) was a French oboe, oboist and instrument-maker. Life Triébert was born in Paris in 1810; his father (1770–1847) and brother Frédéric Triébert (1813–1878) were woodwind instrument ...

(1810–1867), French * * Frédéric Triébert (1813–1878), French * (instrument maker) * Raoul Triébert (1845 – ), French * *

Stanislas Verroust Louis Stanislas Xavier Verroust (10 May 1814 – 9 or 11 April 1863) was a French composer and oboist. Biographical sketch Verroust was born in Hazebrouck. He received a second prize in Gustave Vogt's class in oboe in 1833,Gustave Vogt (1781–1870), French * * Friedrich Westenholz (1778–1840), German * * Carlo Yvon (1798–1854), Italian

20th-century oboists

A–L

* Albert J. Andraud (1884–1975), French-American * Rhadames Angelucci (1915–1991), American *

Alfred Barthel Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series * ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne * ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák *"Alfred (Interlu ...

(1871–1957), French *

Evelyn Barbirolli Evelyn, Lady Barbirolli OBE (24 January 191125 January 2008) was an English oboist, and the wife of the eminent conductor Sir John Barbirolli. She was born Evelyn Rothwell, and was known professionally by that name until after she was widowed, ...

(born Evelyn Rothwell), (1911–2008), English * * Louis Bas (1863–1944), French * Etienne Baudo (1903–2001), French * (1871–1941), French *

Robert Bloom Robert Bloom (May 3, 1908February 13, 1994) was an oboist with an orchestral and solo career, a composer and arranger contributing to the oboe musical repertoire, repertory, and a teacher of several successful oboists. Bloom is considered seminal i ...

(1908–1994), American * *

Joy Boughton Christina Joyance Boughton A.R.C.M. (known as Joy) (14 June 1913 – 9 March 1963) was an English oboist and the daughter of composer Rutland Boughton and artist Christina Walshe. She died in 1963 in tragic circumstances. She was taught oboe by ...

(1913–1963), English *

Maurice Bourgue Maurice Bourgue () (6 November 1939 – 6 October 2023) was a French oboist, composer, conductor, and academic teacher who made an international career. He was principal oboist with the Orchestre de Paris from its foundation in 1967 until 1979. ...

(1939–2023), French * Leonard Brain (1915–1975), English * * Henri de Busscher (1880–1975), Belgian * *

Natalie Caine Natalie Caine (6 June 1909 – 28 December 2008) was one of the first female woodwind players to establish themselves in leading British orchestras. She is frequently referred to by her married name Natalie James. She was born Evelyn Natalie Ca ...

(1909–2008), English * (1932–1984), French * Janet Craxton (1929–1981), English * (Sister of the painter

John Craxton John Leith Craxton RA, (3 October 1922 – 17 November 2009) was an English painter. He was sometimes called a neo-Romantic artist but he preferred to be known as a "kind of Arcadian". Biography Career John was the son of musician Harold ...

) * William Criss (1921–1984), American *

John de Lancie John Sherwood de Lancie, Jr. (born March 20, 1948) is an American actor, best known for his role as Q in various ''Star Trek'' series, beginning with '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' in 1987 and leading up to the third season of '' Star Tre ...

(1921–2002), American * * Albert Debondue (1895–1984), FrenchBurgess, p. 202 *

Antonio Estévez Antonio José Estévez Aponte (January 3, 1916 – November 26, 1988), was a Venezuelan musician, composer and conductor who was born in Calabozo and died in Caracas. He founded the Central University of Venezuela Central is an adjective usua ...

(1916–1988), Venezuelan * (composer) *

Alvin Etler Alvin Derald Etler (February 19, 1913 – June 13, 1973) was an American composer and oboist. Career A student of Paul Hindemith, Etler is noted for his highly rhythmic, harmonically and texturally complex compositional style, taking inspi ...

(1913–1973), American * (composer) *

Svend Christian Felumb Svend is a Danish and Norwegian male given name. Notable people with the given name include: * Svend or Sven Aggesen (c.1145–?), Danish historian * Svend Asmussen (1916–2017), Danish jazz violinist known as "The Fiddling Viking" * Svend Auke ...

(1898–1972), Danish * Peter Fischer (1924–2004), German *

Fritz Flemming Fritz is a common German male name. The name originated as a German diminutive of Friedrich or Frederick (''Der Alte Fritz'', and ''Stary Fryc'' were common nicknames for King Frederick II of Prussia and Frederick III, German Emperor), as well a ...

(born 1872 or 1873; died 1947), German * (1905–1984), Canadian * Bert Gassman (1911–2004), American *

Fernand Gillet Fernand Gillet (15 October 1882 Paris, France – 8 March 1980 Boston) was a French and naturalized American oboist who is chiefly remembered for serving as the principal oboist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1925 to 1946. He is also known f ...

(1882–1980), French *

Ruth Gipps Ruth Dorothy Louisa ("Wid") Gipps (21 February 1921 – 23 February 1999) was an English composer, oboist, pianist, conductor and educator. She composed music in a wide range of genres, including five symphonies, seven concertos and ma ...

(1921–1999), British (composer) * Albert Goltzer (1918–2007), American * Harold Gomberg (1916–1985), American * * Ralph Gomberg (1921–2006), American * *

Leon Goossens Leon, Léon (French) or León (Spanish) may refer to: Places Europe * León, Spain, capital city of the Province of León * Province of León, Spain * Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again fro ...

(1897–1988), English * *

Peter Graeme Graeme Peter Crump (1921 – 1 March 2012), known professionally as Peter Graeme and as 'Timmy' Crump to friends and family, was an English oboist and academic teacher. He was best known as the principal oboist of the Melos Ensemble. Career ...

(1921–2012), English *

Percy Grainger Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who moved to the United States in 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. In the course of a long and ...

(1882–1961), Australian-American * (1910–1990), Czech * * Earnest Harrison (1918–2005), American * Hans Kamesch (1901–1975), Austrian *

Rudolf Kempe Rudolf Kempe (14 June 1910 – 12 May 1976) was a German conductor. Biography Kempe was born in Dresden, where from the age of fourteen he studied at the Dresden State Opera School. He played oboe in the opera orchestra of Dortmund and ...

(1910–1976), German * (conductor) * Bruno Labate (1883–1968), Italian * Roland Lamorlette (1894–1960), French * Alfred Läubin (1906–1976), American (instrument maker) * Marc Lifschey (1926–2000), American *

Georges Longy Georges Longy (1868 – 1930) was a French-born oboist, conductor and composer. He is the founder of Longy School of Music. Personal life Longy was born in Abbeville, France on August 29, 1868.Jeskalian, Barbar"Georges Longy" retrieved on 24 Octob ...

(1868–1930), French *

M–Z

Terence MacDonagh John Alfred Terence MacDonagh (3 February 1908 – 12 September 1986) was an English oboist and cor anglais player, particularly known as one of the four members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's so-called "Royal Family" of woodwind players. ...

(1908–1986), British * Arno Mariotti (1911–1993), German-born American *

Josef Marx Josef Marx (20 November 1934 – 24 August 2008) was a German international footballer who played as a midfielder for SV Sodingen and Karlsruher SC Karlsruher Sport-Club Mühlburg-Phönix e. V., better known as Karlsruher SC, is a Football ...

(1913–1978), German-American * * Robert Mayer (1910–1994), American * Karl Mayrhofer (1927–1976), Austrian *

Mitch Miller Mitchell William Miller (July 4, 1911 – July 31, 2010) was an American choral conductor, record producer, record-industry executive, and professional oboist. He was involved in almost all aspects of the industry, particularly as a conductor ...

(1911–2010), American (choir conductor, recording director) * Myrtile Morel (1889–1979), French * (1904–1983), American *

Pierre Pierlot Pierre Pierlot (26 April 1921 – 9 January 2007) was a French oboist An oboist (formerly hautboist) is a musician who plays the oboe or any oboe family instrument, including the oboe d'amore, cor anglais or English horn, bass oboe and piccolo ...

(1921–2007), French * Giuseppe Prestini (1877–1930), Italian * David Reichenberg (1950–1987), American * (also listed under period instrumentalists below) *

A. Clyde Roller Archibald Clyde Roller (October 13, 1914 – October 16, 2005) was an American music professor, conductor, and oboist. Roller, a native of Rogersville, Missouri, received his musical education at the Eastman School of Music, graduating in 1941. ...

(1914–2005), American *

Marcel Saillet Marcel may refer to: People * Marcel (given name), people with the given name Marcel * Marcel (footballer, born August 1981), Marcel Silva Andrade, Brazilian midfielder * Marcel (footballer, born November 1981), Marcel Augusto Ortolan, Brazilian ...

(1898–1983), Swiss * Jürg Schaeftlein (1929–1986), Austrian * * Riccardo Scozzi (1878–1955), Italian * Edgar Shann (1919–1984), Swiss * Harry Shulman (1916–1971), American * Jerry Sirucek (1922–1996), American * (1922–1995), Dutch *

Václav Smetáček Václav Smetáček (30 September 1906 in Brno – 18 February 1986 in Prague) was a Czech conductor, composer, and oboist. He studied in Prague among others with Jaroslav Křička, conducting with Metod Doležil and Pavel Dědeček, musicology ...

(1906–1986), Czech * (conductor) * Robert Sprenkle (1914–1988), American * Warren Stannard (1923–1995), American *

William Grant Still William Grant Still Jr. (May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978) was an American composer of nearly two hundred works, including five symphonies, four ballets, nine operas, and more than thirty choral works, art songs, chamber music, and solo works ...

(1895–1978), American * (composer) * (1915–1964), Dutch * * Jaap Stotijn (1891–1970), Dutch * * František Suchý (1902–1977), Czech * * Sidney Sutcliffe (1918–2001), Scottish * (1922–2008), Japanese *

Marcel Tabuteau Marcel Tabuteau (2 July 18874 January 1966) was a French-American oboist who is considered the founder of the American school of oboe playing. Life Tabuteau was born in Compiègne, Oise, France, and given a post in the city's municipal wind band ...

(1887–1966), French/American * *

Jiří Tancibudek Jiří Tancibudek AM (5 March 19211 May 2004) was a Czech-born Australian oboist, conductor and teacher of great renown in his adopted country and elsewhere. His obituary in the ''Adelaide Review'', titled "Prince of the oboe", said of his play ...

(1921–2004), Czech-Australian * Giuseppe Tomassini (1915–1987), Italian * Lois Wann (1912–1999), American *

Alexander Wunderer Alexander Wunderer (11 April 1877 – 29 December 1955) was an Austrian oboist, orchestra leader and composer. He served as a professor at the State Music Academy in Vienna, where he taught students including Frida Kern, Ľudovít Rajter and Herb ...

(1877–1955), Austrian

20th-century players of the English horn

* Engelbert Brenner (1904–1986), Austrian- born American *

Harry Freedman Harry Freedman (''Henryk Frydmann''), (April 5, 1922 – September 16, 2005) was a Canadian composer, English hornist, and music educator of Polish birth. He wrote a significant amount of symphonic works, including the scores to films such as '' ...

(1922–2005), Polish-born Canadian (composer) * Hans Hadamowsky (1906–1986), Austrian *

Peter Henkelman Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a sur ...

(1882–1949), Dutch * Leo van der Lek (1908–1999), Dutch * John Minsker (1912–2007), American *

Louis Speyer Louis-Marius Speyer (2 May 1890, Paris - 8 January 1980, Boston) was a French-born American oboist best known for playing solo English horn in the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1918 to 1964. Speyer studied oboe at the Paris Conservatoire under Geo ...

(1890–1980), French-born American

Contemporary classical oboists

A–B

Janice Applegate Janice may refer to: * Janice (given name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name) * Processor codename of the Samsung Galaxy S Advance Android smartphone * Janice, Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland) * Janice, Lower Siles ...

(born 1948), American * Max Artved (born 1965), Danish * Franck Avril (born 1953), French-American *

Theodore Baskin Theodore Baskin (born June 14, 1950) has been Principal Oboe of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra since 1980. Born in Detroit, MI, he studied oboe with Arno Mariotti while at Cass Technical High School and John de Lancie while at the Curtis Insti ...

(born 1950), American * Perry Bauman (1918–2004), American-Canadian *

William Bennett William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is an American conservative politician and political commentator who served as the third United States secretary of education from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan. He also held the post of d ...

(1956–2013), American * Melvin Berman (1929–2008), American-Canadian * (1929–2020), Uruguayan * *

Neil Black Neil Cathcart Black OBE (28 May 1932 – 14 August 2016) was an English oboist. He held the post of principal oboe in four London orchestras, and taught at the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Early life an ...

(1932–2016), English * Peter Bowman, American *

Douglas Boyd Douglas Boyd (born 1959, Glasgow, Scotland) is a British oboist and conductor. Biography Boyd studied oboe at the Royal Academy of Music, London, as a pupil of Janet Craxton. He later was a student with Maurice Bourgue in Paris. In 1984 he w ...

(born 1960), Scottish * Peter Bree (born 1949), Dutch * Riccardo Bricchi (born 1959), Italian

C–E

* Evgeni Dimitrov (born 1942), Bulgarian * *

German Cáceres German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ger ...

(born 1954), Salvadoran * (composer) * George Caird (born c. 1950), English *

Anthony Camden Anthony Camden (26 April 1938 – 7 March 2006) was the principal oboe and chairman of the board at the London Symphony Orchestra. He was also a founding member of the ensemble London Virtuosi and went on to become the provost and director of th ...

(1938–2006), English * Roy Carter (born 1949), English *

Joseph Celli Joseph Celli (born March 19, 1944) is an American musician and composer specializing in contemporary and improvised music for oboe and Cor anglais, English horn. In addition, he plays the Yamaha WX5, Yamaha WX7 MIDI breath controller, as well as do ...

(born 1944), American * *

Nicholas Daniel Nicholas Daniel (born 9 January 1962) is a British oboist and conductor. In 2003 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Leicester International Music Festival. Education He was educated at Salisbury Cathedral School and the Purcell School. ...

(born 1962), English * Clara Dent (born 1973), German (daughter of Simon Dent) * (born 1972), Australian * Paolo Di Cioccio (born 1963), Italian * Jonathan Dlouhy, American *

Diana Doherty Diana Doherty is an Australian oboist, currently Principal Oboe with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Biography Diana Doherty was born in Brisbane, where she began her education. She attended Brisbane State High School. She studied both piano and ...

(born 1966), Australian *

Elaine Douvas Elaine Douvas is an American oboist who served as Principal Oboe of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York City from 1977 until her retirement in 2024. She is also Instructor of Oboe and Chairman of the Woodwind Department at The Juilliard ...

(born 1952), American * Stuart Edward Dunkel, American *

Niels Eje Niels Eje (born Copenhagen 1954) is a Danish composer and oboist. Education Niels Eje was educated at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Denmark 1974 to 1979. Thereafter he studied with Lothar Koch of the Berlin Philharmonic. Career His ca ...

(born 1954), Danish *

Majid Entezami Majid Entezami () (born 9 March 1948) is an List of Iranian composers, Iranian composer, conductor, musician and oboist. Discography References

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(born 1947), Iranian

F–H

* John Ferrillo, American * Sarah Francis (born 1938), English * * Thomas Gallant, American * Alfred Genovese (1931–2011), American * Ariana Ghez (born 1979), American *

Burkhard Glaetzner Burkhard Glaetzner (born 29 May 1943) is a German oboe virtuoso und conducting, conductor. He is one of the leading oboe players in Germany. Life Glaetzner was born in Poznań. His grandfather was the Goethe researcher , who last taught in Le ...

(born 1943), German *

Wynne Godley Wynne Godley (26 September 192613 May 2010) was an economist famous for his pessimism about the British economy and his criticism of the British government. In 2007, he and Marc Lavoie wrote a book about the " Stock-Flow Consistent" model, an a ...

(1926–2010), English (economist) * Henrik Chaim Goldschmidt (born 1959), Danish *

Ingo Goritzki Ingo Goritzki (born 22 February 1939 in Berlin, Germany) is a German oboist, pianist, and flautist.Charles Hamann (born 1971), American-Canadian * Nicola Hands (born 1987), British-French * (born 1965), German * Jared Hauser (born 1971), American * (1940–2023), Dutch *

Brynjar Hoff Brynjar Hoff (born 1 October 1940) is a Norwegian oboist. Hoff was born in Orkdal Municipality to organists Erling Hoff and Magnhild Bergljot Bakken. He was associated with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra 1955–1958, the Norwegian Nationa ...

(born 1940), Norwegian *

Heinz Holliger Heinz Robert Holliger (born 21 May 1939) is a Swiss composer, virtuoso oboist, and conductor. Celebrated for his versatility and technique, Holliger is among the most prominent oboists of his generation. His repertoire includes Baroque and Clas ...

(born 1939), Swiss * * Bernd Holz (born 1955), German * Christian Hommel (born 1963), German * Gordon Hunt (born 1950), English

I–L

* (born 1951), Swiss * Eugene Izotov (born 1973), Russian-American * Florin Ionoaia (born 1956), Romanian * Jean-Claude Jaboulay, French * Helen Jahren (born 1959), Swedish * Kamil Jalilov (1938–2022), Azerbaijani *

Arthur Jensen Arthur Robert Jensen (August 24, 1923 – October 22, 2012) was an American psychologist and writer. He was a professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Jensen was known for his work in psychometrics an ...

(1925–2018), American * Giorgi Kalandarishvili (born 1983) Georgian-German. Muenster Symphony, University of Music in Muenster "Musikhochschule Münster" *

Michael Kamen Michael Arnold Kamen (April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American composer (especially of film scores), orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, songwriter, record producer and musician. Early life Michael Arnold Kamen was born in ...

(1948–2003), American (film score composer) * Melvin Kaplan (born 1929), American *

Jonathan Kelly Jonathan Kelly (born Jonathan Ledingham, 8 July 1947 – 2 May 2020) was an Irish folk rock singer-songwriter, who enjoyed a varied career in music, playing with many musicians and groups, including Eric Clapton and Tim Staffell. He formed Jon ...

(born 1969), British * Dimitris Kitsos (born 1971), Greek *

Alex Klein Alex Klein (born 1964, Porto Alegre, Brazil) is an oboist. Klein joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as principal oboe at age 30 in 1995. He won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental soloist with Orchestra for his recording of Richard ...

(born 1964), Brazilian *

Elizabeth Koch Elizabeth Koch Tiscione (born 1986) is an oboist and principal oboe of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. She joined the ASO in the fall of 2007, and was granted tenure January 2009. She is a native of Buffalo, New York. Her teachers were Richard Wo ...

(born 1986), American * Lothar Koch (1935–2003), German * * (born 1975), Estonian * Yeon-Hee Kwak (born c. 1969), Korean *

François Leleux François Leleux (born July 1971 in Croix, Nord) is a French oboist, conductor, and professor. His professional career began at 18 when he became principal oboe at the Paris Opera. He went on to win a solo position at the Bavarian Radio Symphony Or ...

(born 1971), French * (born 1943), Hungarian * Jay Light (born 1940s), American * Michael Lisicky (born 1964), American

M–Q

* John Mack (1927–2006), American *

Charles Mackerras Sir Alan Charles MacLaurin Mackerras (; (17 November 1925 – 14 July 2010) was an American-born Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. He was long associ ...

(1925–2010), Australian (conductor) * *

Jean-Claude Malgoire Jean-Claude Malgoire (25 November 1940 – 14 April 2018) was a French oboist and later conductor. Early life Malgoire was born on 25 November 1940 in Avignon, France. His mother was born in Italy. Malgoire graduated from the Paris Conservatory. ...

(1940–2018), French * Joel Marangella (born 1940s), American * Eldevina Materula (born 1982), Mozambican *

Albrecht Mayer Albrecht Mayer (born 3 June 1965) is a German classical oboist and conductor. The principal oboist of the Berlin Philharmonic, he is internationally known as a soloist and chamber musician and has made many recordings. Biography Born in Erlang ...

(born 1965), German * Malcolm Messiter, English *

Fumiaki Miyamoto (born November 3, 1949) is a Japanese classical oboist and conductor. Career Miyamoto started his oboe lesson at Toho Gakuen High School with Seizo Suzuki, and began his worldwide career at the age of 18, when he moved to Germany to study with ...

(born 1949) 宮本文昭, Japanese * Lucas Macías Navarro (born 1978), Spanish *

Katherine Needleman Katherine Needleman (born May 14, 1978) is the American principal oboist of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since 2003 and a professor of oboe at the Curtis Institute of Music since 2022. Career She is a graduate of the Baltimore School for the ...

(born 1978), American * (born 1978), Russian * Christopher O'Neal (born 1953), British * (born 1967), Dutch * Ivan Podyomov, (born 1986), Russian * (1918–2010), Russian

R–S

* Wayne Rapier (1930–2005), American *

Elizabeth Raum Elizabeth Raum (born 13 January 1945) is a Canadian oboist and composer. Biography Elizabeth Raum was born in Berlin, New Hampshire in 1945, but became a Canadian citizen in 1985. She studied oboe performance with Robert Sprenkle at the Eastma ...

(born 1945), Canadian * * Sally Sarah Johnston Reid (born 1948), American * *

Juozas Rimas Juozas Rimas (born 1942) is a Lithuanian oboist and professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre who has recorded over 150 pieces and played for a number of regional orchestras. Biography Juozas Rimas graduated from the Lithuanian Aca ...

(born 1942), Lithuanian * Roger Roe (born 1968), American, assistant principal oboist/English horn player of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra *

Carlo Romano Carlo Romano (8 May 1908 – 16 October 1975) was an Italian actor, voice actor and screenwriter. Biography Born in Livorno, Romano was the son of actress Dina Romano and the younger brother of actor Felice Romano. Romano started his ac ...

(born 1954), Italian *

Joseph Robinson Joseph Robinson may refer to: * Joseph Robinson (loyalist) (c. 1742–1807), judge and politician in Prince Edward Island prior to the confederation of present-day Canada * Joseph Robinson (composer) (1815–1898), Irish composer, conductor, and te ...

(born 1940), American * * Pierre Rolland (1931–2011), Canadian *

Ronald Roseman Ronald is a masculine given name derived from the Old Norse ''Rögnvaldr'', Hanks; Hardcastle; Hodges (2006) p. 234; Hanks; Hodges (2003) § Ronald. or possibly from Old English '' Regenweald''. In some cases ''Ronald'' is an Anglicised form of ...

(1933–2000), American *

Edwin Roxburgh __NOTOC__ Edwin Roxburgh (born 6 November, 1937) is an England, English composer, Conducting, conductor and oboist. Roxburgh was born in Liverpool. After playing oboe in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, National Youth Orchestra, he ...

(born 1937), English * * Telena Ruth (born 1957), Australian * Graham Salter, English * Hansjorg Schellenberger (born 1948), German * Bernard Schenkel (born 1941), Swiss * Bart Schneemann (born 1954), Dutch * (born 1970), German * Martin Schuring (American) * Jonathan Small (born 1956), English * Peter Smith, American *

Toyin Spellman-Diaz Toyin Spellman-Diaz is an American List of oboists, oboist. She grew up in Washington, D.C. where she found a love for classical music through her parents' immense record collection. Spellman-Diaz is known for her significant solo work and orches ...

, American * Jan Spronk (born 1940), Dutch *

Eva Steinaa Eva or EVA may refer to: * Eva (name), a feminine given name Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Eva (Dynamite Entertainment), a comic book character * Eva (''Devil May Cry''), in the ''Devil May Cry'' video game series * ...

(born 1993), Danish *

Ray Still Ray Still (March 12, 1920 – March 12, 2014) was an American classical oboist. He was the principal oboe of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 40 years, from 1953 to 1993. Early life He was born March 12, 1920, in Elwood, Indiana, and moved to ...

(1920–2014), American * Cynthia Steljes (1960–2006), Canadian *

Daniel Stolper Daniel John Stolper (January 11, 1935 – June 8, 2020) was an American oboist."Daniel John Stolper," ''Who's Who in American Music: Classical,'' R.R. Bowker (1983); Early life and career Born on Friday, January 11, 1935, the future obois ...

(1935–2020), American *

Laila Storch Laila Storch (February 28, 1921 – December 2, 2022) was an American oboist. Biography She was the first woman oboist to graduate from the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, where she studied with Marcel Tabuteau. Career Storch was the principal ...

(1921–2022), American * Linda Strommen (born 1957), American

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Blair Tindall Blair Alston Mercer Tindall (February 2, 1960 – April 12, 2023) was an American oboist, performer, producer, speaker, and journalist. After spending years as a classical musician, she wrote the 2005 memoir ''Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and ...

(1960–2023), American (author) *

Jacques Tys Jacques or Jacq are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over one hundred identified noble families related t ...

, French * Alexei Utkin (born 1957), Russian * (born 1963), Belgian *

Allan Vogel Allan Vogel is an American oboist and educator. He was the former Principal Oboe of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Education Vogel studied piano and voice at the New York High School for Music and Art, but eventually changed his focus to ob ...

(born 1944), American *

Han de Vries Han Samuel de Vries (born 31 August 1941, The Hague), is a Dutch oboist and is considered the doyen of the Dutch school of oboe playing. He studied oboe with Jaap Stotijn at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and with his son Haakon Stotijn at ...

(born 1941), Dutch * *

Edo de Waart Edo de Waart (born 1 June 1941, Amsterdam) is a Dutch retired conductor. He is Music Director Laureate of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. De Waart is the former music director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (2016-2019), chief conductor ...

(born 1941), Dutch * (conductor) * (born 1958), French * Liang Wang (born 1980) 王亮, Chinese Jennifer Paull

* Mark Weiger (1959–2008), American *

Judith Weir Dame Judith Weir (born 11 May 1954) is a British composer. She served as Master of the King's Music from 2014 to 2024. Appointed by Queen Elizabeth II, Weir was the first woman to hold this office. Early life Weir was born in Cambridge, Englan ...

(born 1954), Scottish (composer) * *

Helmut Winschermann Helmut Winschermann (; 22 March 1920 – 4 March 2021) was a German classical oboist, conductor and academic teacher who founded the Deutsche Bachsolisten ensemble for historically informed performances, and was their conductor from 1960 until h ...

(1920–2021), German (conductor) *

Richard Woodhams Richard Woodhams ''(né'' Richard Clarence Woodhams; born June 17, 1949, in Palo Alto, California) is an American oboist and recording artist. He was Principal Oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1977 until his retirement in August 2018. He al ...

(born 1949), American * Renato Zanfini, Italian *

Omar Zoboli Omar Zoboli (born 1953, Modena) is an Italian oboist, since 1998 till 2018 professor at the Musikhochschule Basel - Switzerland Studies and competitions He studied Oboe under Sergio Possidoni, Heinz Holliger and Paul Dombrecht. Experience and inspi ...

(born 1953), Italian

Contemporary oboists best known for playing English horn (cor anglais) or oboe d'amore

* Russ deLuna (born 1969), American * Jennifer Paull (born 1944), English (

) * Christine Pendrill, English * Louis Rosenblatt (1928–2009), American * Grover Schiltz (1931–2012), American * Thomas Stacy (born 1938), American *

Contemporary oboists best known for playing period instruments

* Katharina Arfken, German * Paul Dombrecht (born 1948), Belgian * Ku Ebbinge (born 1948), Dutch * *

Paul Goodwin Paul Goodwin may refer to: * Paul Goodwin (conductor) Paul Goodwin (born 2 September 1956) is an English conductor and former oboist. Oboist Goodwin was born in Warwick, England. He studied oboe with Janet Craxton. Following his graduat ...

(born 1956), English * * Bruce Haynes (1942–2011), American-Canadian * * (born 1943), Japanese (conductor) *

Christopher Palameta Christopher Palameta is an oboist specializing in historically informed performance. He is based in Paris. Palameta was born in 1979 in Montreal, Quebec, and took his graduate degree from McGill University in historical oboes. His main teachers we ...

(born 1979), Canadian * Michel Piguet (1932–2004), Swiss * *

Marcel Ponseele Marcel Ponseele (born 1957 in Kortrijk) is a Belgian Oboe, oboist. Ponseele studied at Bruges and other conservatories in Belgium. He has specialised in the baroque oboe and is involved in making his own instruments in 18th-century style. He is kn ...

(born 1957), Belgian * Susanne Regel (born 1974), German * David Reichenberg (1950–1987), American * *

Hugo Reyne Hugo Reyne (born in 1961) is a contemporary French recorder player, oboist and conductor. He is the founder and music director of La Simphonie du Marais. Biography Born in Paris, Hugo Reyne began learning the flute and oboe at a very young age ...

(born 1961), French *

Anthony Robson Anthony, also spelled Antony, is a masculine given name derived from the ''Antonii'', a ''gens'' ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants ...

(born 1955), English * Marc Schachman, AmericanDavid Wright
"Philharmonia Baroque’s “Teseo” teeters between broad comedy, deeper emotions"
''Boston Classical Review'', August 15, 2014

Jason Hicks Jason Thomas Hicks is a footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for NRFL Division 1 side Albany United. Club career Hicks signed with Wellington Phoenix on a short-term injury replacement contract. However, his performances in the 2 le ...

(born 2013) Primary ensemble: Blackburg Middle School Band

Oboists performing primarily outside classical genres

As primary instrument

Kyle Bruckmann Kyle Bruckmann (born 1971) is an American composer and oboist based in San Francisco, California. Getting his musical start playing in industrial and hardcore bands,Taylor, JameInterview in All About Jazz. Bruckmann then studied oboe with Robe ...

(born 1971), American – free improvisation *

Lindsay Cooper Lindsay Cooper (3 March 1951 – 18 September 2013) was an English bassoon and oboe player and composer. Best known for her work with the band Henry Cow, she was also a member of Comus, National Health, News from Babel and David Thomas and th ...

(1951–2013), English –

art rock Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements. Art rock aspires to elevate rock from entertainment to an ar ...

* Jean-Luc Fillon (born 1960s), French – jazz *

Karl Jenkins Sir Karl William Pamp Jenkins, , Honorary Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, HonFLSW (born 17 February 1944) is a Welsh multi-instrumentalist and composer. His best known works include the song "Adiemus (song), Adiemus" (1995, from the Adi ...

(born 1944), Welsh * – jazz *

Colin Maier Colin Maier is a Canadian oboist and multi-instrumentalist and also works as an actor, dancer, and acrobat, often blending these disciplines into one performance. He has also worked as a stuntman and martial artist. He is currently a member of t ...

(born 1976), Canadian – new classical, celtic *

Paul McCandless Paul Brownlee McCandless Jr. (born March 24, 1947) is an American multi-instrumentalist and founding member of the American jazz group Oregon. He is one of the few jazz oboists. He also plays bass clarinet, English horn, flute, penny whistle, ...

(born 1947), American * – jazz *

Nancy Rumbel Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel are musicians who have performed, recorded and traveled together since 1985, and are responsible for 19 albums. Eric Tingstad is a composer who plays fingerstyle guitar. Nancy Rumbel plays oboe, English horn and ...

(born 1951), American – new age *

Sonny Simmons Huey "Sonny" Simmons (August 4, 1933 – April 6, 2021) was an American jazz musician. Biography Simmons was born on August 4, 1933, in Sicily Island, Louisiana. He grew up in Oakland, California, where he began playing the English horn. (Along ...

(1933–2021), American – jazz *

Frank Socolow Frank Socolow (September 18, 1923 – April 30, 1981), born in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and oboist, noted for his tenor playing. Socolow began his career in the early 1940s playing in swing bands led by Jack Nelson, Georgie Auld ...

(1923–1981), American – jazz *

Kate St John Kate St John (born 2 October 1957) is an English composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist. She was a member of bands Ravishing Beauties, The Dream Academy, and Channel Light Vessel, and of Van Morrison's live band, in which she pl ...

(born 1957), English – art rock, pop *

Libby Van Cleve Libby Van Cleve (born August 22, 1958) is an American oboist and Director of Yale University's Oral History of American Music. Education and personal life Van Cleve has received the following degrees: *Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and Relig ...

(born 1958), American – avant garde *

Russel Walder Russel Walder (born February 9, 1959) is an American jazz oboist and the founder of Nomad Soul Records. Biography Russel Walder was born and raised in Deerfield, Illinois. Following his graduation from Deerfield High School, he briefly attended ...

(born 1959), American – new age

As secondary instrument

* Ahmad Alaadeen (1934–2010), American – jazz (saxophonist) *

Marshall Allen Marshall Belford Allen (born May 25, 1924) is an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz alto saxophone player. He also performs on flute, oboe, piccolo, and the EWI. Allen is best known for his work with Sun Ra, having recorded and performed ...

(born 1924), American – jazz (saxophonist) * Derek Bell (1935–2002), Irish – folk (harpist) * Amanda Brown (born 1965), Australian – indie rock (violinist, guitarist) *

Garvin Bushell Garvin Bushell ''(né'' Garvin Lamont Payne; September 25, 1902 – October 31, 1991) was an American clarinetist, saxophonist, and bassoonist. He performed with many prominent 20th-century jazz musicians, including Jelly Roll Morton and John Co ...

(1902–1991), American – jazz (all reeds) * Bob Cooper (1925–1993), American – jazz (saxophone) *

Julie Fowlis Julie Fowlis (born 20 June 1979) is a Scottish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist who sings primarily in Scottish Gaelic. Early life Fowlis was born and grew up on North Uist, an island in the Outer Hebrides, in a Gàidhealtachd, Gaelic-s ...

(born 1979), Scottish – Celtic (vocalist) *

Vinny Golia Vinny Golia (born March 1, 1946) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist specializing in woodwind instruments. He performs in the genres of contemporary music, jazz, free jazz, and free improvisation. Career As a composer, Golia fuses ...

(born 1946), American – jazz (all woodwinds) *

Joseph Jarman Joseph Jarman (September 14, 1937 – January 9, 2019) was an American jazz musician, composer, poet, and Shinshu Buddhist priest. He was one of the first members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and a member of the ...

(1937–2019), American – jazz (clarinetist, saxophonist) *

Mick Karn Andonis Michaelides (Greek: Αντώνης Μιχαηλίδης; 24 July 1958 – 4 January 2011), better known as Mick Karn, was a British musician who rose to fame as the bassist for the art rock/ new wave band Japan. His distinctive fretles ...

(1958–2011), British – rock (multi-instrumentalist) *

Rahsaan Roland Kirk Rahsaan Roland Kirk (born Ronald Theodore Kirk; August 7, 1935Kernfeld, Barry.Kirk, Roland" ''The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz'', 2nd ed. Ed. Barry Kernfeld. ''Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Grove Music Online''. ''Grove Dictionary of M ...

(1936–1977), American – jazz (multi-instrumentalist) *

Yusef Lateef Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston; October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in the United States. Although Lateef's main i ...

(1920–2013), American – jazz (saxophonist, flutist) *

Giuseppi Logan Giuseppi Logan (May 22, 1935 – April 17, 2020) was a jazz musician, originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who taught himself to play piano and drums before switching to Reed (instrument), reeds at the age of 12. At the age of 15 he began p ...

(1935–2020), American – jazz (multi-instrumentalist) *

Andy Mackay Andrew Mackay (born 23 July 1946) is an English musician, best known as a founding member (playing oboe and saxophone) of the art rock group Roxy Music. In addition, he has taught music and provided scores for television, while his work as a se ...

(born 1946), English – art rock (saxophonist) *

Charlie Mariano Carmine Ugo Mariano (November 12, 1923 – June 16, 2009) was an American jazz saxophone, saxophonist who focused on the alto saxophone, alto and soprano saxophone. He occasionally performed and recorded on flute and nadaswaram as well. Biogra ...

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Makanda Ken McIntyre Makanda Ken McIntyre (born Kenneth Arthur McIntyre; also known as Ken McIntyre) (September 7, 1931 – June 13, 2001) was an American jazz musician, composer and educator. In addition to his primary instrument, the alto saxophone, he played flu ...

(1931–2001), American – jazz (saxophonist) *

Roscoe Mitchell Roscoe Mitchell (born August 3, 1940) is an American composer, jazz instrumentalist, and educator, known for being "a technically superb – if idiosyncratic – saxophonist". ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' described him as "one of the key figure ...

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Dewey Redman Walter Dewey Redman (May 17, 1931 – September 2, 2006) was an American saxophonist who performed free jazz as a bandleader with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett. Redman mainly played tenor saxophone, though he occasionally also played alto s ...

(1931–2006), American – jazz (saxophonist,

suona The ''suona,'' also called ''dida,'' laba or ''haidi'', is a traditional double-reeded Chinese musical instrument. The ''suona's'' basic design originated in ancient Iran, then called " Sorna". It appeared in China around the 3rd century and ...

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Don Redman Donald Matthew Redman (July 29, 1900 – November 30, 1964) was an American jazz musician, arranger, bandleader, and composer. Biography Redman was born in Piedmont, Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. His father was a music teacher ...

(1900–1964), American – jazz (clarinetist, saxophonist) *

Sufjan Stevens Sufjan Stevens ( ; born July 1, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has released ten solo studio albums and multiple collaborative albums with other artists. Stevens has received Grammy and Academy Award nomina ...

(born 1975), American –

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(multi-instrumentalist) *

Kjartan Sveinsson Kjartan Sveinsson (; born 2 January 1978) is an Icelandic musician who is the keyboardist for the post-rock band Sigur Rós. He joined the band in 1998. A multi-instrumentalist, he has also played such instruments as the flute, tin whistle, oboe ...

(born 1978), Icelandic – post-rock (keyboardist)

Shehnai players

Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan (21 March 1939 – 16 March 2016) was a shehnai specialist from India.Bismillah Khan Ustad Bismillah Khan (born Qamaruddin Khan, 21 March 1916 – 21 August 2006), often referred to by the title ''Ustad'', was an Indian musician credited with popularizing the shehnai, a reeded woodwind instrument. His virtuosity made him a le ...

(1916–2006), Indian *

S. Ballesh Pandit S. Ballesh Bhajantri (born Ballappa Sanna Bharamappa Bhajantri) is a popular Indian classical Hindustani shehnai player. He is a disciple of shehnai player Ustad Bismillah Khan, he is benares gharana shehnai player and a patiala ghara ...

(born 1958), Indian

References

External links

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

International Double Reed Society website

Exhaustive list of active double-reed musicians
at oboeinsight.com
Important people in oboe history
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