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Historical oboists

Baroque period 1600-1760

• Francesco Barsanti
  Francesco Barsanti
  
  Francesco Barsanti was an Italy flautist, oboist and composer.Barsanti was born in the Tuscan city of Lucca in 1690; a city vastly venerated for its prominence in musical culture; boasting notable denizens such as Francesco Geminiani, Gioseffo Guami, Luigi Boccherini, Giacomo Puccini and Alfredo Catalani....
   (1690-1772), Italian * (composer)
• Alessandro Besozzi (1702-1793), Italian *
• Antonio Besozzi (1707-1781), Italian *
• Christoforo Besozzi (1661-1725), Italian *
• Giuseppe Besozzi (1686-1760), Italian *
• Paolo Girolamo Besozzi (1704-1778), Italian *
• Mateo Bissoli (Bisioli) (c.1711-1780), Italian
• Esprit Philippe Chédeville (1696-1762), French *
• Nicolas Chédeville
  Nicolas Chédeville
  
  Nicolas Ch?deville was a France composer, musette de cour player and musette maker....
   (1705-1782), French *
• Pierre Chédeville (1694-1725), French *
• Michel Danican dit Philidor (1580-1651), French
• André Danican Philidor (c.1652-1730), French * (music librarian)
• Jean Danican Philidor (ca.1620-1679), French
• John Ernest Galliard (c. 1675-1747), German *
• Johann Caspar Gleditsch (1684-1747), German ("Bach's oboist")
• Peter Glösch (c.1685-1754), German
• Jean Hotteterre (c.1610-1691), French * (instrument maker)
• Martin Hotteterre (1635-1712), French * (instrument maker)
• Nicolas Hotteterre (1637-1694), French *
• Jean Christian Kytch (died c.1738), Dutch ("Handel's oboist")
• Johann François La Riche (1662-after 1733), Flemish *
• Jacques Loeillet
  Jacques Loeillet
  
  Jacques Loeillet was a Baroque-era composer and oboist. He was born in Ghent, Belgium, which was then part of Spanish Netherlands. He was the younger brother of Jean-Baptiste Loeillet ....
   (1685-1748), Flemish *
• Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (1680-1730), Flemish *
• Jacques Paisible
  Jacques Paisible
  
  Jacques Paisible , 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....
   (c.1656-1721), French
• José Pla (1728-1762), Spanish *
• Juan Bautista Pla (c.1720-after 1773), Spanish *
• Manuel Pla (c.1725-1766), Spanish *
• Giovanni Benedetto Platti
  Giovanni Benedetto Platti
  
  Giovanni Benedetto Platti was an Italian composer....
   (1697-1763), Italian *
• Johann Christian Richter (1689-1744), German
• Jacob Riehman (c.1680-1729), Dutch *
• Giuseppe Sammartini
  Giuseppe Sammartini
  
  Giuseppe Baldassare Sammartini was an Italian composer and an oboist.A native of Milan, he moved to London together with his brother Giovanni Battista Sammartini....
   (1695-1750), Italian *
• Ignatz Sieber (Ignazio Siber) (c.1680-c.1760), German-Italian ("Vivaldi's oboist")
• Georg Philipp Telemann
  Georg Philipp Telemann
  
  Georg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque music composer, born in Magdeburg. Self-taught in music, he studied law at the University of Leipzig....
   (1681-1767), German composer
• Roberto Valentine (1674-c.1740), English * (composer)

Classical period 1730-1820

• Sante Aguilar (c.1734-1808), Italian
• Christian Samuel Barth (1735-1809), German *
• Philip Barth (1774-1804), Danish *
• Georg Benda
  Georg Benda
  
  Jir? Anton?n Benda, also Georg Benda was a Czechs kapellmeister, violinist and composer.Born in Ben?tky nad Jizerou, Bohemia, he studied at Piarists Gymnasium in Kosmonosy and at Society of Jesus Gymnasium in Jic?n in 1735?1742....
   (1722-1795), Czech * (composer)
• Carlo Besozzi
  Carlo Besozzi
  
  Carlo Besozzi was an Italian oboist and composer....
   (1738-1791), Italian *
• Gaetano Besozzi (1725-1794), Italian *
• Friedrich Braun (1759-1824), German *
• Josef Czerwenka (1759-1835), Czech-Austrian ("Beethoven's oboist")
• Georg Druschetzky
  Georg Druschetzky
  
  Georg Druschetzky Austrian people composer and timpani of Bohemia birth.Born Jir? Dru?eck? in Jemn?ky, he studied oboe in Dresden and after that joined the band of an infantry regiment which was stationed in Vienna and later in Linz....
   (1745-1819), Czech *
• Giuseppe Ferlendis (1755-1810), Italian *
• Pietro Ferlendis (1748-1836), Italian
• Josef Fiala
  Josef Fiala
  
  Josef Fiala , was a composer, oboist, viola da gamba virtuoso, cellist, and pedagogue.He was born in Lochovice in Bohemia and began his professional career as an oboist in the service of Countess Netolicka....
   (1749-1816), Czech * ("Mozart's oboist 1")
• Johann Christian Fischer
  Johann Christian Fischer
  
  Johann Carl Christian Fischer was a German composer. Employed as a music copyist and theatre director for the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at Ludwigslust, Fischer is now credited with the unique Symphony with Eight Obbligato Timpani, formerly attributed to Johann Wilhelm Hertel, court composer at Schwerin....
   (1733-1800), German *
• Joseph François Garnier (1755-1825), French *
• Michel Joseph Gebauer (1763-1812), French *
• William Herschel
  William Herschel
  
  Sir Frederick William Herschel, Fellow of the Royal Society Royal Guelphic Order was a German-born British astronomer and composer who became famous for discovering Uranus....
   (1738-1822), German (astronomer)
• François Jadin (1731-1790), French *
• Carl Khym (1770-after 1819), Czech *
• Ludwig August Lebrun (1746-1790), German *
• Ignace Malzat (1757-1804), Austrian *
• Domenico Mancinelli (c.1723-1804), Italian *
• John Parke (1745-1829), English *
• William Thomas Parke (1762-1847), English *
• Giuseppe Prota (1737-1807), Italian *
• Friedrich Ramm (1744-1813), German ("Mozart's oboist 2")
• François Alexandre Antoine Sallantin (1755-1830?), French *
• Johann Friedrich Schröter (1724-1811), German *
• Charles J. Suck
  Charles J. Suck
  
  Charles J. Suck was an English composer and oboist, pupil of Johann Christian Fischer . His best known piece is entitled 'Trio no.1 in C major'....
   (c. 1760-c.1808), English *
• Philipp Teimer (1767-c.1817), Bohemian (English horn)
• Georg Triebensee (1746-1813), Bohemian *
• Joseph Triebensee (1772-1846), Bohemian * (composer)
• Thomas Vincent (musician) (1720-1783), English *
• Johann Went (1745-1801), Bohemian *

Romantic period 1815-1910

• Apollon Barret
  Apollon Barret
  
  Apollon Marie-Rose Barret was born in France and was Professor of oboe at the Royal Academy of Music in London.He published his "Complete Method for the Oboe" that has been widely used by oboe teachers around the world ever since....
   (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 (1796-1867), German *
• Henri Brod (1799-1839), French *
• Baldassare Centroni (c.1784-1860), Italian ("Rossini's oboist")
• Charles Colin (1832-1881), French
• Grattan Cooke (1808-1889), English
• Giovanni Daelli (c.1800?-1860), Italian
• Franz Wilhelm Ferling (1796-1874), German
• Anton Flad (1775-1850), German
• Hiromasa Furuya (1854-1923) ????, Japanese (military band director, composer)
• Georges Gillet (1854-1920), French *
• Joseph Gungl
  Joseph Gungl
  
  Joseph Gungl , was a Hungary composer, bandmaster, and conductor .He was born in Zs?mb?k, Hungary. After working as a school-teacher in Buda, and learning the elements of music from the school-choirmaster, he became first oboe at Graz, and, at twenty-five, bandmaster of the 4th Regiment of Austrian Artillery....
   (1810-1889), Hungarian * (conductor)
• Johann Peter Heuschkel
  Johann Peter Heuschkel
  
  Johann Peter Heuschkel , was a Germany oboist, organist, music teacher and composer.From 1792 Heuschkel was oboist and later also organist in Hildburghausen....
   (1773-1853), German *
• Desiré Alfred Lalande (1866-1904), French *
• Antoine Joseph Lavigne (1816-1886), French
• Johann Heinrich Luft (1813-1877), German
• William Malsch (1855-1924), English *
• Carlo Paessler (1774-1865), Italian
• Giovanni Paggi (1806-1887), Italian *
• Antonio Pasculli
  Antonio Pasculli
  
  Antonio Pasculli was an Italian oboe and composer, known as "the Paganini of the oboe".Pasculli was born and lived his whole life in Palermo, Sicily, but travelled widely in Italy, Germany and Austria, giving oboe concerts....
   (1842-1924), Italian * (the "Paganini of the oboe")
• Charles Reynolds (1843-1916), English
• Friedrich Ruthardt
  Friedrich Ruthardt
  
  Friedrich Ruthardt was a Germany oboist and composer. He played in the Stuttgart court orchestra, and composed chorales as well as pieces for the oboe and the zither....
   (1800-1862), German
• Adolf Rzepko
  Adolf Rzepko
  
  Adolf Rzepko was a Poland composer, oboist, choral and orchestral conductor and pianist.He was a disciple of V?clav Tom?ek. He was mainly active as a performer , a choral conductor and a pedagogue....
   (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-c.1894), French *
• Louis-Auguste Vény (1801-after 1848), French
• Stanislas Verroust (1814-1863), French
• Gustave Vogt (1781-1870), French *
• Friedrich Westenholz (1778-1840), German *
• Carlo Yvon (1798-1854), Italian

20th Century (born before 1910 or died before 1990)

• Manjiro Abe (1895-1954) ????? , Japanese
• Jiichi Aoyama(aka Haruichi Aoyama) (1901-1981)????, Japanese
• Alfred Barthel (1871-1957), French
• Itsuro Ban (1911-1993) ???, Japanese
• Louis Bas (1863-1944), French
• Etienne Baudo (1903-2001), French
• Louis Bleuzet (1871-1941), French
• Robert Bloom (1908-1994), American *
• Joy Boughton
  Joy Boughton
  
  Christina Joyance Boughton was the daughter of English composer Rutland Boughton and artist Christina Walshe. She died in 1963 in tragic circumstances....
   (1913-1963), English
• Leonard Brain (1915-1975), English *
• Henri de Busscher (1880-1975), Belgian *
• Jacques Chambon (1932-1984), French
• Janet Craxton (1929-1981), English *
• William Criss (1921-1984), American
• Albert Debondue (1895-1984), French
• Antonio Estévez
  Antonio Estévez
  
  Antonio Est?vez Aponte , was a Venezuelan musician, composer and director, founder of the Central University of Venezuela Choral.They were his parents Mariano Est?vez and Carmen Aponte....
   (1916-1988), Venezuelan * (composer)
• Alvin Etler
  Alvin Etler
  
  Alvin Derald Etler was an American composer and oboe.A student of Paul Hindemith, Etler is noted for his highly rhythmic, harmonically and texturally complex compositional style, taking inspiration from the works of B?la Bart?k and Aaron Copland as well as the Consonance and dissonance and accented styles of jazz....
   (1913-1973), American * (composer)
• Svend Christian Felumb (1898-1972), Danish
• Fritz Flemming (1872/3-1947), German
• Fernand Gillet (1882-1980), French
• Harold Gomberg
  Harold Gomberg
  
  Harold Gomberg was the principal oboe of the New York Philharmonic from 1943 through 1977.Born in Malden, Massachusetts, Harold and his brother Ralph studied with Marcel Tabuteau, considered the father of American oboe playing, at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia....
   (1916-1985), American *
• Leon Goossens
  Léon Goossens
  
  L?on Jean Goossens Commander of the Order of the British Empire, FRCM was a United Kingdom oboe. He was born in Liverpool and studied at the Royal College of Music....
   (1897-1988), English *
• František Hanták (1910-1990), Czech *
• Hans Kamesch (1901-1975), Austrian
• Rudolf Kempe
  Rudolf Kempe
  
  Rudolf Kempe was a Germany conducting....
   (1910-1976), German * (conductor)
• Bruno Labate (1883-1968), Italian
• Roland Lamorlette (1894-1960), French
• Alfred Läubin (1906-1976), American (instrumentmaker)
• Georges Longy (1868-1930), French *
• Terence MacDonagh (1908-1986), British
• Josef Marx (1913-1978), German-American *
• Karl Mayrhofer (1927-1976), Austrian
• Myrtile Morel (1889-1979), French
• Florian Mueller (1904-1983), American
• Giuseppe Prestini (1875-1955), Italian
• David Reichenberg
  David Reichenberg
  
  David Reichenberg was an American oboist and a highly respected specialist on the baroque oboe. He was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa and learnt the flute, violin and piano as a child....
   (1950-1987), American
• Jürg Schaeftlein (1929-1986), Austrian *
• Riccardo Scozzi (1878-1955), Italian
• Harry Shulman (1916-1971), American
• William Grant Still
  William Grant Still
  
  William Grant Still was an African-American classical composer who wrote more than 150 compositions. He was the first African-American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra, the first to have a symphony of his own performed by a leading orchestra, the first to have an opera performed by a major opera company, and the first to hav...
   (1895-1978), American * (composer)
• Václav Smetácek
  Václav Smetácek
  
  V?clav Smet?cek was a Czech people Conducting, composer, and oboist.He studied in Prague among others with Jaroslav Kricka, conducting with Metod Dole?il and Pavel Dedecek, musicology, aesthetics, and philosophy at Charles University....
   (1906-1986), Czech * (conductor)
• Robert Sprenkle (1914-1988), American
• Haakon Stotijn (1915-1964), Dutch *
• Jaap Stotijn (1891-1970), Dutch *
• František Suchý (1902-1977), Czech
• Marcel Tabuteau
  Marcel Tabuteau
  
  Marcel Tabuteau was a French oboist who is generally considered the founder of the American school of oboe playing....
   (1887-1966), French/American *
• Alexander Wunderer (1877-1955), Austrian

Contemporary classical oboists

A-B

• David Abosch (born 1928), American
• Maddy Aldis-Evans, English, Oboe / Cor Anglais Anhaltisches Phiharmonie, Dessau, Germany 2005 --
• John Anderson (born 1954), English
• Per Andersson, Swedish
• Rhadames Angelucci (1915-1991), American
• Satoki Aoyama(also known as Kim)????, Japanese
• Eriko Ara (born 1981) ????, Japanese
• Marios Argiros (born 1960) Greek
• Max Artved (born 1965), Danish
• Robert Atherholt (born c.1955), American
• Evelyn Barbirolli
  Evelyn Barbirolli
  
  Evelyn, Lady Barbirolli Order of the British Empire was an England oboe, and wife of the Conductor Sir John Barbirolli.She was born Evelyn Rothwell, and was known professionally by that name until after she was widowed, when she became known as Evelyn Barbirolli....
   (born Evelyn Rothwell), (1911-2008), English *
• Theodore Baskin
  Theodore Baskin
  
  Theodore Baskin has been Principal Oboe of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montr?al 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 Institute of Music....
   (born 1950), American
• Rachel Bastien (born 1989), American
• Perry Bauman (born 1918), American-Canadian
• William Bennett (born 1956), American
• León Biriotti (born 1929), Uruguayan *
• Neil Black
  Neil Black
  
  Neil Black OBE is an internationally known oboist and a professor at London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Starting on the oboe at age 11, Black did not initially consider music as a career....
   (born 1932), English
• Jonathan Blumenfeld, American
• Gianfranco Bortolato (born 1964), Italian
• Robert Botti, (born 1956), American
• Maurice Bourgue (born 1939), French *
• Christopher Bouwman (born 1981), Dutch
• Peter Bowman, American
• Douglas Boyd
  Douglas Boyd
  
  Douglas Boyd is a British oboist and conductor. He 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....
   (born 1960), Scottish
• Neil Boyer, American
• Peter Bree (born 1949), Dutch
• Kim Bryden, American
• Lon Bussell (born 1958), American

C-E

• Germán Cáceres (born 1954), Salvadoran *
• Sandro Caldini
  Sandro Caldini
  
  Sandro Caldini is an Italy oboe and the brother of the Italian composer Fulvio Caldini, whose works he frequently performs.In addition to the oboe, Caldini also plays the oboe d'amore and cor anglais....
   (born 1958), Italian
• George Caird, English
• James Caldwell (1938-2006), American
• Anthony Camden (1938-2006), English
• Robin Canter, English
• Elizabeth Camus, American
• Jean-Louis Capezzali (born 1959), French
• Stephen Caplan, American
• Robert Casier (born 1924), French
• Juan Castillo (born 1960), Panamanian
• Joseph Celli
  Joseph Celli
  
  Joseph Celli is an United States musician and composer specializing in contemporary and improvised music for oboe and Cor anglais. In addition, he plays the Yamaha WX7 MIDI breath controller, as well as double reed instruments from several Asian cultures, including the Korean hojok and piri, and the Indian mukha vina....
   (born 1944), American *
• Brian Charles (born c. 1956), American (reedmaker)
• Manfred Clement (1934-2001), German
• Fredric T. Cohen (born 1948), American
• Roger Cole
  Roger cole
  
  Roger Cole is the principal oboe in the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. He also plays in the CBC Orchestra. He studied at Yale University and Juilliard. He studied under the well known oboist Robert Bloom....
  , American
• Amy Collins
  Amy Collins
  
  Amy Collins, born Jennifer Amy Pegg in England in 1987, is a minor character in the CHERUB series by British author Robert Muchamore. She eventually retires from CHERUB to live with her brother in Cairns, Australia....
   (born c. 1961), American
• Peter Cooper, American
• Christopher Cowie, Welsh
• Jeffrey Crellin, Australian
• Christopher Crosby, English
• Jill Crowther, English
• Nicholas Daniel
  Nicholas Daniel
  
  Nicholas Daniel is a British oboe and conductor. He won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition at eighteen and has since become one of the United Kingdom's most distinguished soloists....
   (born 1962), English
• Barry Davis (born 1948, English
• Jan De Maeyer (born 1949), Belgian (composer)
• John Dee, American
• Simon Dent (born c.1950), English-born German
• Clara Dent, German (daughter of Simon Dent)
• Paolo Di Cioccio
  Paolo Di Cioccio
  
  Paolo Di Cioccio is an oboist and composer. He plays with several orchestras and recorded many CDs. He is professor at the Conservatorium "F. Torrefranca" and the "International Polytechnic Scientia et Ars" in Vibo Valentia....
   (1963), Italian
• Francesco Di Rosa (born 1967), Italian
• Diego Dini Ciacci, Italian
• Jonathan Dlouhy, American
• Diana Doherty
  Diana Doherty
  
  Diana Doherty is an Australian List of oboists, currently Principal Oboe with the Sydney Symphony Diana was born in Brisbane, where she began her education....
   (born 1966), Australian
• Elaine Douvas
  Elaine Douvas
  
  Elaine Douvas, has been Principal Oboe of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York City since 1977, James Levine, Music Director. She is also Instructor of Oboe and Chairman of the Woodwind Department at The Juilliard School....
   (born c. 1952), American
• Leo Driehuys, Dutch
• Stuart Edward Dunkel, American
• Kevin England (born 1959), English
• Kimberly Everett,(born 1988) American
• Niels Eje
  Niels Eje
  
  Niels Eje is a Danish composer and oboist.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....
   (born 1954), Danish

F-H

• Lothar Faber (born 1922), German
• Peter Fischer (1924-2004), German
• John Ferrillo
  John Ferrillo
  
  John Ferrillo has been the Principal Oboe of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2001. He also teaches at the New England Conservatory and Boston University....
  , American
• Sarah Francis (born 1938), English *
• Simon Fuchs (born 1961), Swiss
• Ken-ichi Furube (born 1968) ???? , Japanese
• Martin Gabriel (born 1956), Austrian
• Thomas Gallant
  Thomas Gallant
  
  Thomas Gallant Thomas Gallant is a professional oboist who often performs with the Adaskin String Trio as well as a variety of other chamber music groups....
  , American
• Bert Gassman (1911-2004), American
• Martin Gebhardt, Swiss
• Alfred Genovese, American
• Ariana Ghez
  Ariana Ghez
  
  Ariana Ghez is an American classical music oboist. She pursued her undergraduate studies at Columbia University where she majored in English literature, and at the Juilliard School, where she studied with John Mack and John Ferrillo....
   (born 1979), American
• Anne Gilby, Australian
• Burkhard Glaetzner (born 1943), German
• Albert Goltzer (born c.1920), American
• Ralph Gomberg
  Ralph Gomberg
  
  Ralph Gomberg was the principal oboist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 37 years . His brother Harold Gomberg held the same chair with the New York Philharmonic for much of the same period ....
   (1921-2006), American *
• Paul Goodey, English
• Paul Goodwin
  Paul Goodwin
  
  Paul Goodwin is an English Conductor , and former oboist.As an oboist he studied oboe with Janet Craxton and, following his graduation from Nottingham University with a degree in musical composition, specialized in contemporary oboe techniques and the baroque oboe at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London....
  ,England,U.K.
• Ingo Goritzki
  Ingo Goritzki
  
  Ingo Goritzki is a German oboe, piano, and flute. He began his flute and piano studies in Freiburg, and switched to oboe as his primary instrument at age 20....
   (born 1939), German
• Peter Graeme (born 1921), English
• Kathryn Greenbank, American
• Klaus-Peter Guetz (born 1938?), German
• Laszlo Hadady (born 1956), Hungarian
• Charles Hamann (born 1971), Canadian
• Steinar Hannevold (born 1952), Norwegian
• Erin Hannigan, American
• Earnest Harrison (1918-2005), American
• Jesper Harrysson (born 1967, Swedish
• Jared Hauser (born 1971), American *
• Kurt Hausmann, German
• Werner Herbers (born 1940), Dutch
• Tomoyuki Hirota (born 1963) ????, Japanese
• Brynjar Hoff (born 1940), Norwegian
• Heinz Holliger
  Heinz Holliger
  
  Heinz Holliger is a Switzerland oboe, composer and conducting.He was born in Langenthal, Switzerland and began his musical education at the College or university school of music of Bern and Basel....
   (born 1939), Swiss *
• Bernd Holz, German
• Christian Hommel (born 1963), German
• Masashi Honma (born 1947)????, Japanese (also known for period instruments)
• Helmut Hucke (born 1929), German
• Gordon Hunt
  Gordon Hunt
  
  Gordon Hunt is a United Kingdom oboe....
   (born 1950), English

I-L

• Althea Ifeka, Nigerian-English
• Shoko Ikeda (born 1974) ????, Japanese
• Thomas Indermühle (born 1951), Swiss
• Jennet Ingle, American
• Keiko Inoue
  Keiko Inoue
  
  Keiko Inoue may refer to:*For the actress, see Keiko Toda*For the Battle Royale character, see Keiko Onuki*For the oboe player, see the members list of Paris National Opera...
   ????, Japanese
• Isamu Iwasaki (1933-2008) ???, Japanese
• Eugene Izotov
  Eugene Izotov
  
  Eugene Izotov is a noted American oboist and recording artist. He is currently the Principal Oboist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra appointed by Daniel Barenboim in 2005....
   (born 1973), Russian-American
• Jean-Claude Jaboulay, French
• Helen Jahren (born 1959), Swedish
• Brian James (born 1977), American/Canadian
• Arthur Jensen (born 1925), American
• Diethelm Jonas (born 1953), German
• Kozo Kakizaki ????, Japanese
• Richard Kanter
  Richard Kanter
  
  Richard Kanter was born in Chicago in 1935. He began his oboe-playing career at the age of 14 in 1949, as a student of Robert Mayer, English horn player of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra....
   (born 1934), American
• Melvin Kaplan
  Melvin Kaplan
  
  Melvin Kaplan is a renowned American oboist, concert manager, and formerly a teacher at the Juilliard School for 25 years. He was for many years a featured performer and lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art....
   (born 1929), American
• Takahiro Kase (born 1973) ????, Japanese
• Manfred Kautzky, Austrian
• Morito Kawamoto (born 1922) ????, Japanese
• Jonathan Kelly
  Jonathan Kelly (oboist)
  
  Jonathan Kelly is an English oboist. He is currently Principal Oboe in the Berliner Philharmoniker.Jonathan Kelly was born in 1969 and was educated at Magdalen College School, Brackley, Northants, UK, where he began the oboe....
   (born 1969), British
• Richard Killmer, American
• Nancy Ambrose King, American
• Akira Kitajima (born 1950) ???, Japanese
• Dimitris Kitsos (born 1971), Greek
• Alex Klein
  Alex Klein
  
  Alex Klein 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....
   (born 1964), Brazilian
• Merilee Klemp, American
• Yu Kobayashi
  Yu Kobayashi
  
  is a female Seiyu from Tokyo, Japan. She plays guitar as a hobby.NOTE:As for another Yu Kobayashi no article shown in Wikipedia....
   ???, Japanese
• Elizabeth Koch
  Elizabeth Koch
  
  Elizabeth Koch is an oboist and is currently principal oboe of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. She joined the ASO in the fall of 2007, and was granted tenure January 2009....
   (born 1986), American
• Lothar Koch
  Lothar Koch (oboist)
  
  Lothar Koch was the principal oboist in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra during the Herbert von Karajan era.He was born in Velbert.He is recognised as the father of the German style of oboe playing which is characterised by a very rich and round tone, often referred to as a dark tone but corrected by Lothar Koch himself as rather being...
   (1935-2003), German
• Yoko Kojima (born 1941) ????, Japanese
• Cynthia Koledo de Almeida, American
• Kalev Kuljus, Estonian
• Heikan Kureyama (born 1945) ????, Japanese
• Yeon-Hee Kwak (born c. 1969), Korean
• John de Lancie
  John de Lancie (oboist)
  
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   (1921-2002), American *
• Vladimir Lande (born 1962), Russian
• André Lardrot (born 1932), Swiss
• Mårten Larsson, Swedish
• François Leleux (born 1971), French
• Lajos Lencsés (born 1943), Hungarian
• Winfried Liebermann (born 1935), German
• Marc Lifschey (1926-2000), American
• Jay Light
  Jay Light
  
  Jay Light is an oboist and author. He is a native of Philadelphia. His teachers were John de Lancie , Cherles Morris, and Norman Wells, all of the Philadelphia Orchestra....
  , American
• Leland Lincoln (1921-1991), American
• Michael Lisicky (born 1936), American
• Sandra Gerster Lisicky (born 1938), American
• Roger Lord (born 1924), English
• Humbert Lucarelli (born 1937), American
• Anatoli Lyubimov (born 1941), Russian

M-P

• Drake Mabry,(born 1950), American (composer)
• John Mack
  John Mack (musician)
  
  John Mack was a renowned American oboe.Born in Somerville, New Jersey, Mack attended the Juilliard School of Music, studying oboe with Harold Gomberg and Bruno Labate and then at the Curtis Institute of Music with Marcel Tabuteau, the longtime principal oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra....
   (1927-2006), American
• Charles Mackerras
  Charles Mackerras
  
  Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras, Order of Australia, Companion of Honour, Order of the British Empire is an Australian conducting. He is a noted authority on the operas of Jan?cek and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan....
   (born 1925), Australian (conductor)
• Kurt Mahn (born 1923), German
• Jean-Claude Malgoire (born 1940), French
• Arno Mariotti (1911-1993), German-born American
• Seizo Maruyama(1932-2001) ???? , Japanese
• Jane Marvine, American
• James Mason (born 1952), American/Canadian
• Albrecht Mayer (born 1965), German
• Gaston Maugras, French
• Mark McEwen, Canadian

• Georg Meerwein, German
• Kurt Meier, Swiss
• Malcolm Messiter
  Malcolm Messiter
  
  Malcolm Messiter is a British Oboist, particularly well known for his recording of the virtuosic 'La Favorita' Concerto by Antonio Pasculli....
   (born 1949), English
• Mitch Miller
  Mitch Miller
  
  Mitchell William Miller is an United States musician, singer, Conductor , record producer, A&R man and record company executive. He was one of the most influential figures in American popular music during the 1950s and early 1960s, both as the head of Artists & Repertoire at Columbia Records and as a best-selling recording artist....
   (born 1911), American (choir conductor, recording director)
• Fumiaki Miyamoto
  Fumiaki Miyamoto
  
  Fumiaki Miyamoto is a world-renowned oboist....
   (born 1949)????, Japanese
• Kazuhiro Miyamura ????, Japanese
• Daisuke Mogi (born 1959) ????, Japanese
• Patricia Morehead, Canadian
• Katherine Needleman
  Katherine Needleman
  
  Katherine Needleman is the principal oboe of the Baltimore Symphony orchestra, USA. She studied under Richard Woodhams at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, graduating at age twenty....
   (born 1978), American
• Celia Nicklin, English
• Bjørn Carl Nielsen (born 1945), Danish
• Alf Nilsson (born 1940), Swedish
• Takehiko Nitori (born 1933) ????, Japanese
• Takeharu Nobuhara (born 1943) ????, Japanese (conductor)
• David Nuttall (born 1956), Australian
• Yoshiaki Obata ????, Japanese
• Christopher O'Neal (born 1953), British
• Eric Ohlsson, American
• Alexei Ogrintchouk (born 1978), Russian
• Pauline Oostenrijk (born 1967), Dutch
• Mark Ostoich, American
• Emily Pailthorpe (born c.1971), American
• Ivan Paisov (born 1973), Russian
• Didier Pateau, French
• Pamela Pecha (born 1951), American
• Louise Pellerin, Canadian
• Pierre Pierlot (1921-2007), French
• Chester Pitts
  Chester Pitts
  
  Chester Morise Pitts II is an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Houston Texans. He played college football at San Diego State University....
  , American Football player in the NFL who is known for being a very good oboist
• Carolyn Pollak
  Carolyn Pollak
  
  Principal oboe with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra since 1978....
   (born 1947), American
• Peter Pongracz, Hungarian
• Nora Post (born 1949), American
• Ivan Pushetchnikov (born 1918), Russian

R-S

• Wayne Rapier (1930-2005), American
• Jeffrey Rathbun (born 1959), American
• Elizabeth Raum (born 1945), Canadian *
• Christopher Redgate (born 1956), English
• Juozas Rimas
  Juozas Rimas
  
  Juozas Rimas is a Lithuanian oboeist and professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre who has recorded over 150 pieces and played for a number of regional orchestras....
   (born 1942), Lithuanian
• Joseph Robinson (born 1940), American *
• Erik Rodell, Swedish
• Bozo Rogelja, Slovenian
• Carlo Romano
  Carlo Romano
  
  Carlo Romano was a Italy film actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 94 films between 1934 in film and 1975 in film. He also wrote for 14 films between 1955 in film and 1975....
   (born 1954), Italian
• Ernest Rombout (born 1959), Dutch
• Ronald Roseman (1933-2000), American
• Bengt Rosengren, Swedish
• Edwin Roxburgh
  Edwin Roxburgh
  
  Edwin Roxburgh is an England composer and oboist.After playing oboe in the National Youth Orchestra, he won a double scholarship to study composition with Herbert Howells and oboe with Terence MacDonagh at the Royal College of Music....
   (born 1937), English *
• Andrey Rubtsov (born 1982), Russian
• Telena Ruth (born 1957), Australian
• Francisco Salanova , Spanish
• Harry Sargous (born 1948), American
• Hansjorg Schellenberger (born 1948), German
• Bernard Schenkel (born 1941), Swiss
• Bart Schneemann (born 1954), Dutch
• Stefan Schilli (born 1970), German
• Gernot Schmalfuss, German (Member of Consortium Classicum
  Consortium Classicum
  
  The Consortium Classicum is a Germany Chamber Orchestra. In the early sixties the clarinetist Dieter Kl?cker founded the Consortium Classicum, a German chambermusic ensemble to bring back to life rediscovered musical works....
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• Martin Schuring, American
• Edgar Shann (1919-1984), Swiss
• Hiroshi Shibayama (born 1947) ???, Japanese
• Takahisa Shinmatsu ????, Japanese
• Lawrence Singer (born 1940), American
• Jerry Sirucek (1922-1996), American
• Koen van Slogteren (1922-1995), Dutch
• Jonathan Small (born 1956), English
• Peter Smith
  Peter Smith (oboist)
  
  Peter Smith has been associate principal oboe of The Philadelphia Orchestra since 1991. He has spent summers participating in such festivals as the Colorado Music Festival, where he was principal oboe in 1991....
  , American
• Fredrik Söhngen, German/Swedish
• Robert Sorton (born 1952), American
• Jan Spronk, Dutch
• Karl Steins (born 1919), German
• Cynthia Steljes
  Quartetto Gelato
  
  Quartetto Gelato is a Canada new European classical music quartet currently composed of Peter DeSotto, Carina Reeves, Alexander Sevastian and Shalom Bard, and based in Toronto, Ontario....
   (1960-2006), Canadian
• Ray Still (born 1920), American
• Daniel Stolper
  Daniel Stolper
  
  Daniel J. Stolper is an oboist and is currently a visiting instructor at the Interlochen Arts Academy. His primary teacher was Robert Sprenkle at the Eastman School of Music, although he has studied with many other oboists including John Mack and Marcel Tabuteau....
   (born TBD), American
• Laila Storch (born 1921), American
• Linda Strommen (born 1957), American
• Matt Sullivan, American
• Sidney Sutcliffe (1918-2001), Scottish
• Seizo Suzuki
  Seizo Suzuki
  
  was a Japanese rose hybridizer and the director of the Keisei Rose Research Institute in Japan. He has been described as one of the leading modern Japanese rose breeders....
   (1922-2008)????, Japanese
• Tibor Szeszler, Hungarian

T-Z

• Jiri Tancibudek (1921-2004), Czech
• Stephen Taylor (born 1949), American
• Jouko Teikari (born 1938), Finnish
• David Theodore (born 1948), Welsh
• Giuseppe Tomassini (1915-1987), Italian
• Kaetsu Toratani (born 1933) ????, Japanese
• Elena Troncone, Venezuelan
• Isao Tsuji (born 1959) ??, Japanese
• Joseph Turner, American
• Jacques Tys, French
• Alexei Utkin (born 1957), Russian
• Piet Van Bockstal (born 1963), Belgian
• Joris Van den Hauwe, Belgian
• Paulus van der Merwe, South African
• Jacques Vandeville, French
• Luca Vignali (born c.1962), Italian
• Kevin Vigneau, American
• Allan Vogel
  Allan Vogel
  
  Allan Vogel is an American oboist and educator. He is currently Principal Oboe of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra....
   (born 1944), American
• Han de Vries
  Han de Vries
  
  Han Libbe Samuel de Vries , is a Netherlands oboist, considered the doyen of the Dutch school of oboe playing.De Vries studied oboe with Jaap Stotijn at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and with his son Haakon Stotijn at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in Amsterdam....
   (born 1941), Dutch *
• Edo de Waart
  Edo de Waart
  
  Edo de Waart is a Netherlands conducting of Orchestra and opera . He is the chief conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Santa Fe Opera and music director designate of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra....
   (born 1941), Dutch * (conductor)
• Keisuke Wakao????, Japanese
• Hitoshi Wakui ????, Japanese
• David Walter (born 1958), French
• Liang Wang
  Liang Wang
  
  Liang Wang is a Chinese people classical oboist who studied at the Beijing Central Conservatory and with Richard Woodhams at the Curtis Institute of Music....
   (born 1980)??, Chinese
• Lois Wann (1912-1999), American
• Katsuya Watanabe (born 1966) ????, Japanese
• Richard Weigall, English
• Mark Weiger (1959-2008), American [https://www.idrs.org/events/conference/2001.conf/WV.Bio.We_Z.pdf]
• David Weiss (born 1947), American
• Derek Wickens (born 1937), British
• Michael Winfield, British
• Roger Winfield, British
• Helmut Winschermann (born 1920), German (conductor)
• Otto Winter (born 1937), German
• Barbara Winters, American
• Andreas Wittmann (born 1961), German
• Tytus Wojnowicz (born 1965), Polish
• Richard Woodhams
  Richard Woodhams
  
  Richard Woodhams is an American oboist and recording artist. He is best known for his current positions as Principal Oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Professor of Oboe at the Curtis Institute of Music....
   (born 1949), American
• Yasuhiro Yamamoto ????, Japanese
• Riki Yasuhara (born 1947) ????, Japanese
• Mizuho Yoshii ????, Japanese
• Kozo Yoshinari (born 1922) ????, Japanese
• Renato Zanfini, Italian
• Omar Zoboli (born c. 1951), Italian
• Marilyn Zupnik, American

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

• Engelbert Brenner
  Engelbert Brenner
  
  Engelbert Brenner , was a soloist on oboe and then English horn who played for 41 years with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.Brenner was born in Vienna....
   (1904-1986), Austrian- born American
• Geoffrey Browne, English
• Russ deLuna (born 1969), American
• Bo Eriksson, Swedish
• Harry Freedman
  Harry Freedman
  
  Harry Freedman was a Canada composer, musician and educator. In 1984, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.External links*...
   (1922-2005), Canadian (composer)
• Julie Ann Giacobassi (born 1949), American
• Marc Gordon, American
• Hans Hadamowsky (1906-1996), Austrian
• Peter Henkelman (1882-1949), Dutch
• Carolyn Hove, American
• Felix Kraus (1930-2006), Austrian-born American
• Leo van der Lek (1908-1999), Dutch
• John Minsker (1912-2007), American
• Jennifer Paull (born 1944), English (oboe d'amore
  Oboe d'amore
  
  The oboe d'amore , less commonly oboe d'amour, is a double reed woodwind musical instrument in the oboe family. Slightly larger than the oboe, it has a less assertive and more tranquil and serene tone, and is considered the mezzo-soprano or alto of the oboe family....
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• Christine Pendrill, English
• Michel Rosset (born 1956), Swiss
• Louis Rosenblatt (born 1928), American
• Robert Sheena, (born 1961), American
• Louis Speyer (1890-1970), French
• Thomas Stacy (born 1938), American *
• Paul Taillefer (born 1912), French
• Seiji Tsunemitu (born 1942) ????, Japanese
• Yoichi Yamamoto ????, Japanese
• Dominik Wollenweber (born 1967), German

Oboists best known for playing period instruments

• John Abberger (born 1957), American
• Katharina Arfken, German
• Alfredo Bernardini (born 1961), Italian
• Ulf Bjurenhed (born 1956), Swedish
• Frank de Bruine, Dutch
• Geoffrey Burgess (born 1960s), Australian (
• Paul Dombrecht
  Paul Dombrecht
  
  Paul Dombrecht is a Belgian oboist performing on period instruments as well as the modern oboe. He appears frequently with other prominent musicians and baroque orchestras....
   (born 1948), Belgian
• Ku Ebbinge (born 1948), Dutch *
• Koji Ezaki (born 1971) ????, Japanese
• Paul Goodwin
  Paul Goodwin
  
  Paul Goodwin is an English Conductor , and former oboist.As an oboist he studied oboe with Janet Craxton and, following his graduation from Nottingham University with a degree in musical composition, specialized in contemporary oboe techniques and the baroque oboe at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London....
   (born 1956), English *
• Stephen Hammer (born 1951), American
• Bruce Haynes (born 1942), American *
• Masashi Honma ..... see "contemporary classical" page
• Washington McClain, American
• Sophia McKenna, English?
• Giuseppe Nalin (born 1950s), Italian
• Michel Piguet (1932-2004), Swiss *
• Marcel Ponseele (born 1957), Belgian
• David Reichenberg
  David Reichenberg
  
  David Reichenberg was an American oboist and a highly respected specialist on the baroque oboe. He was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa and learnt the flute, violin and piano as a child....
   (1950-1987), American *
• Hugo Reyne (born 1961), French
• Anthony Robson (born 1955), English
• Gonzalo Xavier Ruiz (born 1964), Argentine
• Masamitsu San'nomiya (born 1971) ????, Japanese
• Marc Schachman, American
• Martin Stadler (born c.1961), Swiss

Oboists performing primarily outside classical genres

As primary instrument

As secondary instrument

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