An oboist (formerly hautboist) is a

musician A musician is a person who composes, conducts, or performs music. According to the United States Employment Service, "musician" is a general term used to designate one who follows music as a profession. Musicians include songwriters who wr ...

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 oboe plays in the treble or soprano range. ...

or any oboe family instrument, including the

oboe d'amore The oboe d'amore (; Italian for "oboe of love"), 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 m ...

cor anglais The cor anglais (, or original ; plural: ''cors anglais''), or English horn in 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 an al ...

English horn The cor anglais (, or original ; plural: ''cors anglais''), or English horn in 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 an alt ...

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 c ...

and

piccolo oboe The piccolo oboe, also known as the piccoloboe 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 minor third or perfect ...

oboe musette The piccolo oboe, also known as the piccoloboe 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 minor third or perfect ...

. 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 ...

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Historical oboists

Baroque period 1600–1760

* Francesco Barsanti (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 (1714–1781), Italian * Cristoforo Besozzi (1661–1725), Italian * Giuseppe Besozzi (1686–1760), Italian * Paolo Girolamo Besozzi (1713–1778), Italian * Mateo Bissoli (Bisioli) (–1780), Italian * Esprit Philippe Chédeville (1696–1762), French * * Nicolas Chédeville (1705–1782), French * * Pierre Chédeville (1694–1725), French * * André Danican Philidor (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. An ...

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

John Ernest Galliard Johann Ernst Galliard (?1666/?1687–1749 ) was a German composer. Galliard was born in Celle, Germany to a French wig-maker. His first composition instruction began at age 15. Galliard studied composition under Jean-Baptiste Farinel, the dire ...

(–1747), German * * Johann Caspar Gleditsch (1684–1747), German ("Bach's oboist") * Peter Glösch (–1754), German * Jean Hotteterre (–1691), French * (instrument maker) (one of several oboists in the family) * Martin Hotteterre (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 ), 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 ...

(–1721), French (oboist in Robert Cambert orchestra which moved to London in 1673) * Joan Baptista Pla (–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, England, Germany and Russia, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles in Catalan ...

(1728–1762), Spanish * * Manuel Pla (–1766), Spanish * *

Giovanni Benedetto Platti Giovanni Benedetto Platti (born possibly 9 July 1697 (according to other sources 1690, 1692, 1700) in Padua, belonging to Venice at the time; died 11 January 1763 in Würzburg) was an Italian Baroque composer and oboist. Life Platti studied musi ...

(1697–1763), Italian * * Johann Christian Richter (1689–1744), German * Jacob Riehman (–1729), Dutch * * Giuseppe Sammartini (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. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hild ...

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

Classical period 1730–1820

* Sante Aguilar (–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 ( cz, Jiří Antonín Benda, italic=no, link=no; 30 June 17226 November 1795) was a composer, violinist and Kapellmeister of the classical period from the Kingdom of Bohemia. Biography Born into a family of notable musicia ...

(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 ...

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

(1733–1800), German * * Joseph François Garnier (1755–1825), French * * Michel Joseph Gebauer (1763–1812), French * *

Gottlieb Graupner __NOTOC__ Johann Christian Gottlieb Graupner (6 October 1767 – 16 April 1836) was a musician, composer, conductor, educator and publisher. Born in Hanover, Germany, he played oboe in Joseph Haydn's orchestra in London. After moving to the Unite ...

(1767–1836), German-American *

William Herschel Frederick William Herschel (; german: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-born British astronomer and composer. He frequently collaborated with his younger sister and fellow astronomer Caroline ...

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

(1746–1790), German * * Ignace Malzat (1757–1804), Austrian (probably wrote the "Haydn" oboe concerto) * * (–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 chi ...

(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 (1744–1813), German ("Mozart's oboist 2") * François Alexandre Antoine Sallantin (1755 – ), French * * Johann Friedrich Schröter (1724–1811), German * * Charles J. Suck (–), English * * Philipp Teimer (Filip Matyas Tajmar) (1767–1817), Bohemian (English horn) * Georg Triebensee (1746–1813), Bohemian * * Josef Triebensee (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 (1788–1835), German * *

Wilhelm Braun Wilhelm Braun (13 July 1897 – 15 November 1969) was a German cross-country skier. He competed in the men's 18 kilometre event at the 1928 Winter Olympics The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games (french ...

(1796–1867), German * * Henri Brod (1799–1839), French * * Baldassare Centroni (–1860), Italian ("Rossini's oboist") * (1832–1881), French * Franz Wilhelm Ferling (1796–1874), German * (1909–1971), German * Georges Gillet (1854–1920), French * * Joseph Gungl (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 remembe ...

(1773–1853), German * * Ernst Krähmer (1795–1857), German * * Olivo Krause (1857–1927), Danish * Desiré Alfred Lalande (1866–1904), French * * Antoine Joseph Lavigne (1816–1886), French * Johann Heinrich Luft (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 trav ...

(1842–1924), Italian * (the "Paganini of the oboe") * Charles Reynolds (1843–1916), English * Friedrich Ruthardt (1800–1862), German *

Adolf Rzepko Adolf Rzepko (1825 – 1892) was a Polish composer, oboist, choral and orchestral conductor, and pianist. He was a disciple of Václav Tomášek. He was mainly active as a performer (he served for many years as the Wielki Theatre orchestra's pri ...

(1825–1892), Polish * * Joseph Sellner (1787–1843), Austrian * Pedro Soler (1810–1850), Spanish * Friedrich-Eugen Thurner (1785–1827), German * Charles Triébert (1810–1867), French * * Frédéric Triébert (1813–1878), French * (instrument maker) * Raoul Triébert (1845–), French * * Stanislas Verroust (1814–1863), French * Gustave Vogt (1781–1870), French * * Friedrich Westenholz (1778–1840), German * *

Carlo Yvon Carlo Yvon (29 April 1798 in Milan – 23 December 1854 in Milan) was an Italian composer, virtuoso oboist and English horn player, and music educator. He studied at the Milan Conservatory in his native city and later was a teacher at that s ...

(1798–1854), Italian

20th-century oboists

The orchestra and its instruments (1917) (14595821579)

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* Albert J. Andraud (1884–1975), French-American * Rhadames Angelucci (1915–1991), American * Alfred Barthel (1871–1957), French * Evelyn Barbirolli (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 repertory, and a teacher of several successful oboists. Bloom is considered seminal in the development ...

(1908–1994), American * *

Joy Boughton Christina Joyance Boughton (known as Joy) (14 June 1913 – 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 Léon Goossens ...

(1913–1963), English * 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 Cai ...

(1909–2008), English * (1932–1984), French * Janet Craxton (1929–1981), English * (Sister of the painter John Craxton) * William Criss (1921–1984), American * John de Lancie (1921–2002), American * * Albert Debondue (1895–1984), FrenchBurgess, p. 202 *

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(1916–1988), Venezuelan * (composer) * Alvin Etler (1913–1973), American * (composer) * Svend Christian Felumb (1898–1972), Danish * Peter Fischer (1924–2004), German *

Fritz Flemming Fritz originated as a German nickname for 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 as for similar names including Fridolin ...

(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 (20 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 n ...

(1921–1999), British (composer) * Albert Goltzer (1918–2007), American * Harold Gomberg (1916–1985), American * * Ralph Gomberg (1921–2006), American * * Leon Goossens (1897–1988), English * * Peter Graeme (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 lived in the United States from 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. In the course of a long an ...

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

(1868–1930), French *

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Terence MacDonagh John Alfred Terence MacDonagh (3 February 1908 – 12 September 1986) was an English Oboe, 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 pla ...

(1908–1986), British *

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(1911–1993), German-born American * Josef Marx (1913–1978), German-American * * Robert Mayer (1910–1994), American * Karl Mayrhofer (1927–1976), Austrian * Mitch Miller (1911–2010), American (choir conductor, recording director) * Myrtile Morel (1889–1979), French * (1904–1983), American * Pierre Pierlot (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 (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 (1906–1986), Czech * (conductor) * Robert Sprenkle (1914–1988), American * Warren Stannard (1923–1995), American * William Grant Still (1895–1978), American * (composer) * (1915–1964), Dutch * * Jaap Stotijn (1891–1970), Dutch * * František Suchý (1902–1977), Czech * *

Sidney Sutcliffe Sidney Clement Sutcliffe (6 October 1918 – 1 July 2001) was a British oboist. He played in the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia and BBC Symphony orchestras, and was professor of oboe at the Royal College of Music in London. Life and career S ...

(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 ...

(1877–1955), Austrian

20th-century players of the English horn

* Engelbert Brenner (1904–1986), Austrian- born American * Harry Freedman (1922–2005), Polish-born Canadian (composer) * Hans Hadamowsky (1906–1986), Austrian * Peter Henkelman (1882–1949), Dutch * Leo van der Lek (1908–1999), Dutch * John Minsker (1912–2007), American * Louis Speyer (1890–1980), French-born American

Contemporary classical oboists

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* Janice Applegate (born 1948), American * Aurel Marc, Romanian * Max Artved (born 1965), Danish *

Theodore Baskin Theodore Baskin (born June 14, 1950) has been Principal Oboe of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal 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 ...

(born 1950), American * Perry Bauman (1918–2004), American-Canadian * William Bennett (1956–2013), American * Melvin Berman (1929–2008), American-Canadian * (1929–2020), Uruguayan * * Neil Black (1932–2016), English *

Maurice Bourgue Maurice Bourgue (born 6 November 1939) is a French oboist, composer, and conductor. Biography Maurice Bourgue studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in the oboe class of Étienne Baudo and chamber music of Fernand Oubradous. He won a First P ...

(born 1939), French * Peter Bowman, American * Douglas Boyd (born 1960), Scottish * Peter Bree (born 1949), Dutch * Riccardo Bricchi (born 1959), Italian

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(born 1954), Salvadoran * (composer) * George Caird (born c. 1950), English * Sandro Caldini (born 1958), Italian * Anthony Camden (1938–2006), English * Roy Carter (born 1949), English * Joseph Celli (born 1944), American * * Nicholas Daniel (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 (born 1966), Australian * Elaine Douvas (born 1952), American * Stuart Edward Dunkel, American * Niels Eje (born 1954), Danish *

Majid Entezami Majid Entezami ( fa, مجید انتظامی) (born 9 March 1948) is an List of Iranian composers, Iranian composer, conductor, musician and oboist. He composed music for 9 television series, 10 suite symphonies and over 80 movies. His works inc ...

(born 1947), Iranian

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* John Ferrillo, American * (born 1938), English * * Thomas Gallant, American * Alfred Genovese (1931–2011), American * Ariana Ghez (born 1979), American * Burkhard Glaetzner (born 1943), German * Wynne Godley (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 * (born 1965), German * Jared Hauser (born 1971), American * (born 1940), Dutch * Brynjar Hoff (born 1940), Norwegian * Heinz Holliger (born 1939), Swiss * * Bernd Holz (born 1955), German * Christian Hommel (born 1963), German * Gordon Hunt (born 1950), English

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* (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, and session musician. Biography Early life Michael Arnold Kamen was bor ...

(1948–2003), American (film score composer) * Melvin Kaplan (born 1929), American * Jonathan Kelly (born 1969), British * Dimitris Kitsos (born 1971), Greek *

Alex Klein Alex Klein (born 1964, Porto Alegre) is an oboist who began his musical studies in his native Brazil at the age of nine, and made his solo orchestral debut the following year. At the age of eleven he was invited to join the Camerata Antigua, one ...

(born 1964), Brazilian * Elizabeth Koch (born 1986), American *

Lothar Koch Lothar Koch (1 July 1935 – 16 March 2003) was an oboist. He was one of the two principal oboists in the Berlin Philharmonic during the Herbert von Karajan era. He was also an active soloist and was regarded as one of the greatest oboe players ...

(1935–2003), German * * (born ), Estonian * Yeon-Hee Kwak (born ), Korean * François Leleux (born 1971), French * (born 1943), Hungarian * Jay Light (born 1940s), American * Michael Lisicky (born 1964), American

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* John Mack (1927–2006), American *

Charles Mackerras Mackerras in 2005 Sir Alan Charles MacLaurin Mackerras (; 1925 2010) was an Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. He was long associated with the Engli ...

(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 Erlange ...

(born 1965), German *

Malcolm Messiter Malcolm Messiter (born 1949) is a British oboist, particularly known for his recording of the virtuosic "La Favorita" concerto by Antonio Pasculli. He is the son of Ian Messiter, the creator of the BBC panel show '' Just a Minute'', and his wife ...

, English * Fumiaki Miyamoto (born 1949) 宮本文昭, Japanese * Lucas Macías Navarro (born 1978), Spanish * Katherine Needleman (born 1978), American * (born 1978), Russian * Christopher O'Neal (born 1953), British * (born 1967), Dutch * Ivan Podyomov, (born 1986), Russian * (1918–2010), Russian

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* 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 Eastman ...

(born 1945), Canadian * * Sally Sarah Johnston Reid (born 1948), American * * Juozas Rimas (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 acting ...

(born 1954), Italian * Joseph Robinson (born 1940), American * * Pierre Rolland (1931–2011), Canadian * Ronald Roseman (1933–2000), American *

Edwin Roxburgh Edwin Roxburgh (born 1937) is an English composer, conductor and oboist. Roxburgh was born in Liverpool. After playing oboe in the National Youth Orchestra, he won a double scholarship to study composition with Herbert Howells and oboe with T ...

(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 * Jan Spronk (born ), Dutch * Eva Steinaa (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 1953–1993. Early life He was born March 12, 1920 in Elwood, Indiana, and moved to ...

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

T-Z

Blair Tindall Blair Tindall (born February 2, 1960) is an American oboe, oboist, performer, producer, speaker, and journalist. Early life and education Tindall was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to historian George Tindall, George Brown Tindall and Bloss ...

(born 1960), American (author) * Jacques Tys, 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 (born 1941), Dutch * (conductor) * (born 1958), French * Liang Wang (born 1980) 王亮, Chinese Jennifer Paull

* Mark Weiger (1959–2008), American * Judith Weir (born 1954), Scottish (composer) * *

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

(1920–2021), German (conductor) * Richard Woodhams (born 1949), American * Renato Zanfini, Italian *

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

(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 Paul Dombrecht (born 1948, Ostend) is a Belgian oboist performing on period instruments as well as the modern oboe. He appears frequently with other prominent musicians and baroque orchestras. He is the son of Stefaan Dombrecht, who was organist ...

(born 1948), Belgian * Ku Ebbinge (born 1948), Dutch * *

Paul Goodwin Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) * Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...

(born 1956), English * * Bruce Haynes (1942–2011), American-Canadian * * (born 1943), Japanese (conductor) * Christopher Palameta (born 1979), Canadian *

Michel Piguet Michel may refer to: * Michel (name), a given name or surname of French origin (and list of people with the name) * Míchel (nickname), a nickname (a list of people with the nickname, mainly Spanish footballers) * Míchel (footballer, born 1963), ...

(1932–2004), Swiss * *

Marcel Ponseele Marcel Ponseele (Kortrijk, 1957) is a Belgian 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 known for his ...

(born 1957), Belgian * Susanne Regel (born 1974), German * David Reichenberg (1950–1987), American * * Hugo Reyne (born 1961), French * Anthony Robson (born 1955), English * Marc Schachman, American David Wright
"Philharmonia Baroque’s “Teseo” teeters between broad comedy, deeper emotions"
''Boston Classical Review'', August 15, 2014

Oboists performing primarily outside classical genres

As primary instrument

* Kyle Bruckmann (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 t ...

(1951–2013), English – art rock * Jean-Luc Fillon (born 1960s), French – jazz * Karl Jenkins (born 1944), Welsh * – jazz * Colin Maier (born 1976), Canadian – new classical, celtic * Paul McCandless (born 1947), American * – jazz * Nancy Rumbel (born 1951), American – new age * Sonny Simmons (1933–2021), American – jazz * Frank Socolow (1923–1981), American – jazz * Kate St John (born 1957), English – art rock, pop * Libby Van Cleve (born 1958), American – avant garde * Russel Walder (born 1959), American – new age

As secondary instrument

* Ahmad Alaadeen (1934–2010), American – jazz (saxophonist) * Marshall Allen (born 1924), American – jazz (saxophonist) * Derek Bell (musician), Derek Bell (1935–2002), Irish – folk (harpist) * Amanda Brown (musician), Amanda Brown (born 1965), Australian – indie rock (violinist, guitarist) * Garvin Bushell (1902–1991), American – jazz (all reeds) * Bob Cooper (musician), Bob Cooper (1925–1993), American – jazz (saxophone) * Julie Fowlis (born 1979), Scottish – Celtic (vocalist) * Vinny Golia (born 1946), American – jazz (all woodwinds) * Joseph Jarman (1937–2019), American – jazz (clarinetist, saxophonist) * Mick Karn (1958–2011), British – rock (multi-instrumentalist) * Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1936–1977), American – jazz (multi-instrumentalist) * Yusef Lateef (1920–2013), American – jazz (saxophonist, flutist) * Giuseppi Logan (1935–2020), American – jazz (multi-instrumentalist) * Andy Mackay (born 1946), English – art rock (saxophonist) * Charlie Mariano (1923–2009), American – jazz (saxophonist) * Makanda Ken McIntyre (1931–2001), American – jazz (saxophonist) * Roscoe Mitchell (born 1940), American – jazz (saxophonist) * Dewey Redman (1931–2006), American – jazz (saxophonist, suona) * Don Redman (1900–1964), American – jazz (clarinetist, saxophonist) * Sufjan Stevens (born 1975), American – indie rock (multi-instrumentalist) * Kjartan Sveinsson (born 1978), Icelandic – post-rock (keyboardist)

Shehnai players

* Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan (1939–2016), Indian * Bismillah Khan (1916–2006), Indian * S. Ballesh (born 1958), Indian

References

External links

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
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International Double Reed Society website

Exhaustive list of active double-reed musicians
at oboeinsight.com
Important people in oboe history
Lists of musicians by instrument, Oboists Oboists, Classical oboists, Cor anglais players,