An oboist is a musician

Musician

A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

 who plays the oboe

Oboe

The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" , "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca...

 or any oboe family instrument, including the cor anglais

Cor anglais

The cor anglais , or English horn , is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family....

, 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 of the oboe family, between the oboe itself and the cor...

, shawm

Shawm

The shawm was a medieval and Renaissance musical instrument of the woodwind family made in Europe from the 12th century until the 17th century. It was developed from the oriental zurna and is the predecessor of the modern oboe. The body of the shawm was usually turned from a single piece of wood,...

 and 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

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 Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, it is the largest single reference work on Western music. The dictionary has gone through several editions since the 19th century...

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Baroque period 1600-1760

• Johann Jacob Bach
  Johann Jacob Bach
  Johann Jacob Bach was a German musician, composer and an older brother of Johann Sebastian Bach....
  
   (1682–1722), German (Bach’s brother)
• Francesco Barsanti
  Francesco Barsanti
  Francesco Barsanti was an Italian flautist, oboist and composer. He was born in the Tuscan city of Lucca but spent most of his career in London.- Biography :...
  
   (1690–1772), Italian * (composer)
• Alessandro Besozzi (1702–1793), Italian *
• Antonio Besozzi (1707–1781), Italian *
• Christoforo Besozzi (1661–1725), Italian *
• Giuseppe Besozzi (1686–1760), Italian * :de:Giuseppe Besozzi
• Paolo Girolamo Besozzi (1704–1778), Italian *
• Mateo Bissoli (Bisioli) (c.1711-1780), Italian
• Esprit Philippe Chédeville (1696–1762), French *
• Nicolas Chédeville
  Nicolas Chédeville
  Nicolas Chédeville was a French composer, musette player and musette maker.-Biography:He was born in Serez, Eure; musicians Pierre Chédeville and Esprit Philippe Chédeville were his brothers. Louis Hotteterre was his great uncle and godfather, and may have given him instruction in music and...
  
   (1705–1782), French *
• Pierre Chédeville (1694–1725), French *
• Michel Danican dit Philidor (1580–1651), French
• André Danican Philidor (c.1652-1730), French * (music librarian)
• Anne Danican Philidor
  Anne Danican Philidor
  Anne Danican Philidor is best remembered today for having founded the Concert Spirituel, an important series of public concerts held in the palace of the Tuileries from 1725 to 1791....
  
   (1681–1728), French
• Jean Danican Philidor
  Jean Danican Philidor
  Jean Danican Philidor was a court musician at Versailles during the reign of Louis XIII, and a member of the prestigious Philidor family...
  
   (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 http://www.idrs.org/publications/Journal/JNL15/JNL15.Hayn.html
• Jean Hotteterre
  Jean Hotteterre
  Jean Hotteterre was a composer and musician of the Hotteterre family in the court of Louis XIV of France. He and his brothers Jacques-Martin and Nicolas made many enhancements to the hautbois, creating an "indoor" version similar to the shawm. Jean and Michel Philidore created the oboe.-References:...
  
   (c.1610-1691), French * (instrument maker) (one of several oboists in the family)
• Martin Hotteterre (1635–1712), French * (instrument maker)
• Nicolas Hotteterre (1637–1694), French *
• Jean Christian Kytch
  Jean Christian Kytch
  Jean Christian Kytch 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....
  
   (died c.1738), Dutch ("Handel's oboist")
• Johann François La Riche (1662-after 1733), Flemish * http://www.idrs.org/publications/Journal/JNL15/JNL15.Hayn.html
• 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. He composed works for oboe, violin and for string ensembles....
  
   (1685–1748), Flemish *
• Jean-Baptiste Loeillet
  Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London
  Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London , was a Flemish baroque composer as well as a performer on the recorder, flute, oboe, and harpsichord...
  
   (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 (oboist in Robert Cambert
  Robert Cambert
  Robert Cambert was a French composer principally of opera. His opera Pomone was the first actual opera in French.Born in Paris in 1628, he studied music under Chambonnières, His first position was as organist at the church of St. Honor in Paris...
  
   orchestra which moved to London in 1673)
• 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.-Life:...
  
   (1697–1763), Italian * http://www.caro-mitis.com/eng/catalogue/booklets/cm0052006.html
• Johann Christian Richter (1689–1744), German http://www.idrs.org/publications/Journal/JNL15/JNL15.Hayn.html
• 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. He had started playing the oboe in Milan and in London took up the post of oboist in the Opera orchestra in 1727...
  
   (1695–1750), Italian * (son of French oboist Alexis Saint-Martin)
• 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 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 Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually...
  
   (1681–1767), German composer (Oboe was one of over 10 instruments he played)
• Roberto Valentine (1674-c.1740), English * (composer) http://www.hoasm.org/VIIIA/Valentine.html

Classical period 1730-1820

• Sante Aguilar (c.1734-1808), Italian http://em.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/XX/1/43.pdf
• Christian Frederik Barth
  Christian Frederik Barth
  Christian Frederik Barth was a Danish virtuoso oboist and composer.Barth was an oboist in the Royal Chapel from 1802 to 1841. He was the son of oboist Christian Samuel Barth and brother of oboist and composer Frederik Philip Carl August Barth...
  
   (1787–1861), Danish
• Christian Samuel Barth (1735–1809), German *
• Philip Barth
  Frederik Philip Carl August Barth
  Frederik Philip Carl August Barth was a German- Danish virtuoso oboist and composer.He was son of oboist Christian Samuel Barth and brother of oboist and composer Christian Frederik Barth....
  
   (1774–1804), Danish *
• Georg Benda
  Georg Benda
  Jiří Antonín Benda, also Georg Anton Benda or J.A. Benda was a Czech kapellmeister, violinist and composer of the classical period.-Biography:...
  
   (1722–1795), Czech * (composer)
• Carlo Besozzi
  Carlo Besozzi
  -Biography:Besozzi was born in Naples, the son of the oboist and composer Antonio Besozzi . Carlo Besozzi joined his father in the Dresden court orchestra from 1754. However, the Dresden opera house was destroyed by the Prussians in the Seven Years' War , breaking up the remarkable group of...
  
   (1738–1791), Italian *
• Gaetano Besozzi (1725–1794), Italian * http://www.hoasm.org/VIIIB/BesozziGaet.html :de:Gaetano Besozzi
• Friedrich Braun (1759–1824), German *
• Josef Czerwenka (1759–1835), Czech-Austrian ("Beethoven's oboist")
• Georg Druschetzky
  Georg Druschetzky
  Jiří Družecký was a Bohemian composer, oboist, and timpanist.He studied oboe with the noted oboist and composer Carlo Besozzi in Dresden. He then joined the band of an infantry regiment in Eger, with which he was later stationed in Vienna, Enns, Linz, and Branau. In 1777 he was certified as a...
  
   (1745–1819), Czech *
• Giuseppe Ferlendis
  Giuseppe Ferlendis
  Giuseppe Ferlendis was an Italian oboist and composer. In 1777, he was appointed oboist at the Court Chapel of Salzburg, with a yearly stipend of 540 florins . He died in Lisbon...
  
   (1755–1810), Italian * http://www.hoasm.org/XIIC/FerlendisGiuseppe.html
• 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. In 1777 he moved to Munich to serve in the court orchestra of Elector Maximilian Joseph...
  
   (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...
  
   (1733–1800), German * http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/g/gainsbor/09fische.html
• Joseph François Garnier (1755–1825), French *
• Michel Joseph Gebauer (1763–1812), French *
• Gottlieb Graupner
  Gottlieb Graupner
  Johann Christian Gottlieb Graupner was a musician, composer, educator and publisher. Born in Hanover, Germany, he played oboe in Joseph Haydn's orchestra in London...
  
   (1767–1836), German-American
• William Herschel
  William Herschel
  Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS, German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer. Born in Hanover, Wilhelm first followed his father into the Military Band of Hanover, but emigrated to Britain at age 19...
  
   (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
  Ludwig August Lebrun was a German oboist and composer.-Life:Lebrun was born in Mannheim. The well-known and celebrated oboe virtuoso played with the orchestra at the court of the Prince-Elector Carl Theodor in Mannheim...
  
   (1746–1790), German *
• Ignace Malzat (1757–1804), Austrian (probably wrote the "Haydn" oboe concerto) *
• 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") http://em.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/XX/1/43.pdf
• François Alexandre Antoine Sallantin (1755-1830?), French *
• Johann Friedrich Schröter (1724–1811), German *
• Charles J. Suck
  Charles J. Suck
  Charles J. Suck was an 18th century composer, oboist, and flutist who was active in London during the 1780s. European Magazine described him as "proficient on both the oboe and the German flute." He is particularly remembered for his Trio no.1 in C major.-Biography:Not much is known about Suck's...
  
   (c. 1760-c.1808), English *
• Philipp Teimer (1767-c.1817), Bohemian (English horn)
• Georg Triebensee (1746–1813), Bohemian *
• Josef Triebensee
  Josef Triebensee
  Josef Triebensee was a Bohemian composer and oboist.He studied composition with Albrechtsberger and oboe with his father, Georg Triebensee . He served in the private orchestra of Prince Schwarzenberg, and from 1782-1806 as first oboist of the Austrian Emperor's Harmonie...
  
   (1772–1846), Bohemian * (composer)
• Thomas Vincent (musician) (1720–1783), English *
• Johann Nepomuk Went (1745–1801), Bohemian * :nl:Jan Nepomuk Vent

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 * http://www.idrs.org/scores/barret/Introduction.html
• Christian Frederik Barth
  Christian Frederik Barth
  Christian Frederik Barth was a Danish virtuoso oboist and composer.Barth was an oboist in the Royal Chapel from 1802 to 1841. He was the son of oboist Christian Samuel Barth and brother of oboist and composer Frederik Philip Carl August 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
  Wilhelm Braun was a highly decorated Oberstleutnant in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership...
  
   (1796–1867), German *
• Henri Brod
  Henri Brod
  Henri Brod 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 design and playing style that are still in use today....
  
   (1799–1839), French * http://www.idrs.org/scores/brod/Commentary/Introduction.html :fr:Henri Brod
• Baldassare Centroni (c.1784-1860), Italian ("Rossini's oboist")
• Charles Colin (1832–1881), French http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr6.3/concours.html :de:Charles Colin
• Grattan Cooke (1808–1889), English http://www.yorkgate.ram.ac.uk/emuweb/pages/ram/PartyDisplay.php?irn=6495&QueryPage=%2Femuweb%2Fpages%2Fram%2FQuery.php
• Giovanni Daelli (c.1800?-1860), Italian
• Franz Wilhelm Ferling (1796–1874), German http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr24.2.pdf/Franz%20Wilhelm%20Ferling.pdf
• Anton Flad (1775–1850), German http://personen.digitale-sammlungen.de/pnd/bsb00000279_00171-00.pdf
• Georges Gillet (1854–1920), French * http://www.idrs.org/publications/Journal/JNL5/gillet.html :fr:Georges Gillet
• Joseph Gungl
  Joseph Gungl
  Joseph Gungl , was a Hungarian composer, bandmaster, and conductor.He was born in Zsámbék, Hungary. After working as a school-teacher in Buda, and learning the elements of music from the school-choirmaster, he became first oboist at Graz, and, at twenty-five, bandmaster of the 4th Regiment of...
  
   (1810–1889), Hungarian * (conductor)
• Johann Peter Heuschkel
  Johann Peter Heuschkel
  Johann Peter Heuschkel , was a German oboist, organist, music teacher and composer....
  
   (1773–1853), German *
• Ernst Krähmer (1795–1857), German *
• Desiré Alfred Lalande (1866–1904), French *
• Antoine Joseph Lavigne (1816–1886), French
• Johann Heinrich Luft (1813–1877), German http://www.idrs.org/publications/Journal/JNL17/JNL17.Lehrer.Luft.html
• William Malsch (1855–1924), English *
• Carlo Paessler (1774–1865), Italian
• Giovanni Paggi (1806–1887), Italian *
• Antonio Pasculli
  Antonio Pasculli
  Antonio Pasculli was an Italian oboist 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. He directed symphonic and wind orchestra concerts, which were popular in...
  
   (1842–1924), Italian * (the "Paganini of the oboe")
• Charles Reynolds (1843–1916), English
• Friedrich Ruthardt
  Friedrich Ruthardt
  Friedrich Ruthardt was a German 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 Polish composer, oboist, choral and orchestral conductor, and pianist.He was a disciple of Václav Tomášek. He was mainly active as a performer , a choral conductor and a pedagogue...
  
   (1825–1892), Polish *
• Joseph Sellner (1787–1843), Austrian http://www.musiklexikon.net/komponisten/b_komponisten.php?id=3827&PHPSESSID=3mp7q2gunvb5ka5ph7qdjor8c5
• Pedro Soler (1810–1850), Spanish
• Friedrich-Eugen Thurner (1785–1827), German http://www.mjcerri.com/Thurner/thurner.htm
• Charles Triébert (1810–1867), French *
• Frédéric Triébert (1813–1878), French * (instrument maker) http://www.idrs.org/publications/Journal/JNL9/loree.html
• Raoul Triébert (1845-c.1894), French *
• Louis-Auguste Vény (1801-after 1848), French
• Stanislas Verroust (1814–1863), French http://www.idrs.org/publications/Journal/JNL18/JNL18.Lehrer.Verroust.html
• Gustave Vogt (1781–1870), French * :fr:Gustave Vogt
• Friedrich Westenholz (1778–1840), German *
• Carlo Yvon
  Carlo Yvon
  Carlo Yvon 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 school. For many years he served as principal oboist at La Scala...
  
   (1798–1854), Italian http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr8.1/DR8_1Alb.htm

A-L

• Rhadames Angelucci (1915–1991), American http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr15.1/DR15.1.Baron.html
• Alfred Barthel (1871–1957), French http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr6.4/barthel.html
• André Lardrot (1932-), French
• Evelyn Barbirolli
  Evelyn Barbirolli
  Evelyn, Lady Barbirolli OBE was an English oboist, 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 * http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/26/db2601.xml
• Louis Bas (1863–1944), French
• Etienne Baudo (1903–2001), French http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr25.1.pdf/Obituaries.pdf
• Louis Bleuzet (1871–1941), French :fr:Louis Bleuzet
• Robert Bloom (1908–1994), American * http://www.cranberryisles.com/photos/robert_bloom.html
• 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 http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr17.3.pdf/63.Boughton.pdf
• Leonard Brain (1915–1975), English *
• Henri de Busscher (1880–1975), Belgian * http://www.idrs.org/publications/TWOboist/TWO.V3.3/debusscher.html
• Natalie Caine
  Natalie Caine
  Natalie Caine, 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....
  
   (1909–2008), English
• Jacques Chambon (1932–1984), French
• Janet Craxton
  Janet Craxton
  Janet Helen Rosemary Craxton was an English oboe player and teacher. She was the youngest of the six children and the only daughter of the pianist and teacher Harold Craxton. Her older brothers included the artist John Craxton...
  
   (1929–1981), English * http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr4.2/craxton.html (Sister of the painter John Craxton
  John Craxton
  John Leith Craxton, RA, was an English painter. He was sometimes called a neo-Romantic artist but he preferred to be known as a "kind of Arcadian".-Career:...
  
  ).
• William Criss (1921–1984), American http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr8.2/DR8_2Cris.html
• Albert Debondue (1895–1984), French
• Antonio Estévez
  Antonio Estévez
  Antonio Estévez Aponte , was a Venezuelan musician, composer, and conductor, and founder of the Central University of Venezuela Chorus.Estévez was born to Mariano Estévez and Carmen Aponte...
  
   (1916–1988), Venezuelan * (composer)
• Alvin Etler
  Alvin Etler
  Alvin Derald Etler 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 inspiration from the works of Bartók and Copland as well as the dissonant and accented styles of...
  
   (1913–1973), American * (composer)
• Svend Christian Felumb (1898–1972), Danish
• Fritz Flemming (1872/3-1947), German
• Bert Gassman (1911–2004), American http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr23.3.pdf/Honorary
• Fernand Gillet (1882–1980), French http://www.idrs.org/publications/Journal/JNL8/gillet2.html
• Albert Goltzer (1918–2007), American http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr16.3/DR16.3.Emert.html http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02EED8163AF931A25752C1A9619C8B63
• Harold Gomberg
  Harold Gomberg
  Harold Gomberg was the principal oboist of the New York Philharmonic from 1943 through 1977....
  
   (1916–1985), American *
• Ralph Gomberg
  Ralph Gomberg
  Ralph Gomberg was the principal oboist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 37 years . His brother Harold held the same chair with the New York Philharmonic for much of the same period ....
  
   (1921–2006), American *
• Leon Goossens
  Léon Goossens
  Léon Jean Goossens CBE, FRCM was a British oboist.He was born in Liverpool and studied at the Royal College of Music...
  
   (1897–1988), English *
• František Hanták (1910–1990), Czech * :cs:František Hanták
• Earnest Harrison (1918–2005), American http://www.idrs.org/publications/DR/DR21.2/honorary1.pdf
• Kurt Kalmus, German
• Hans Kamesch (1901–1975), Austrian
• Rudolf Kempe
  Rudolf Kempe
  Rudolf Kempe 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 then in the Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestra, from 1929...
  
   (1910–1976), German * (conductor)
• Bruno Labate (1883–1968), Italian http://www.jeffreysward.com/tributes/bruno.htm
• Roland Lamorlette (1894–1960), French
• John de Lancie
  John de Lancie (oboist)
  For his son, the actor, please see John de LancieJohn de Lancie was an American musician who served as the principal oboist of the Philadelphia Orchestra for many years.-Career:...
  
   (1921–2002), American *
• Alfred Läubin
  Alfred Laubin
  Alfred Laubin was an American oboist and founder of A. Laubin.Alfred Laubin was born in 1906 in Detroit, where his father Carl was a charter member of that city's orchestra, playing the oboe and the clarinet...
  
   (1906–1976), American (instrumentmaker)
• Marc Lifschey (1926–2000), American http://www.cleveland.com/news/index.ssf?/news/pd/cc11obit.html
• Leland Lincoln (1921–1991), American
• Georges Longy (1868–1930), French * http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr13.2/DR13.2.Jeskalian.Longy.html

M-Z

• Terence MacDonagh (1908–1986), British http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr10.1/DR10.1.MacD.html
• Arno Mariotti (1911–1993), German-born American http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nzeisler/History/Mariotti.htm
• Josef Marx (1913–1978), German-American * http://www.idrs.org/publications/journal2/jnl12/marx.html
• Robert Mayer (1910–1994), American http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr10.1/DR10.1.Rigg.Mayer.html
• Karl Mayrhofer (1927–1976), Austrian http://www.wieneroboe.at/WienerOboe/Archiv/Journalsammlung/Journale/Nr15.pdf
• Mitch Miller
  Mitch Miller
  Mitchell William "Mitch" Miller was an American musician, singer, conductor, record producer, A&R man and record company executive...
  
   (1911–2010), American (choir conductor, recording director)
• Myrtile Morel (1889–1979), French http://www.idrs.org/publications/TWOboist/TWO.V4.3/morel.html
• Florian Mueller (1904–1983), American http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr4.2/florian.html
• Pierre Pierlot (1921–2007), French http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr23.1.pdf/A%20Living%20Legend :fr:Pierre Pierlot
• Giuseppe Prestini (1875–1955), Italian http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr5.2/italy.html
• 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. He began his oboe studies with Dr Myron E. Russell of the University of Northern Iowa...
  
   (1950–1987), American (also listed under period instrumentalists below)
• Jürg Schaeftlein (1929–1986), Austrian * http://www.wieneroboe.at/wieneroboe/Archiv/Journalsammlung/Journale/Nr5.pdf
• Riccardo Scozzi (1878–1955), Italian http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr5.2/italy.html
• Edgar Shann (1919–1984), Swiss
• Harry Shulman
  Harry Shulman
  Harry A. Shulman was a professor at Yale Law School from 1930–1954, the Dean of Yale Law School from 1954–1955, and a prominent labor arbitrator.- Early life :...
  
   (1916–1971), American http://www.stuart-dunkel.com/shulman/bio.html
• Jerry Sirucek (1922–1996), American http://www.idrs.org/publications/journal/jnl24/sirucek.html
• Koen van Slogteren (1922–1995), Dutch http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr19.1.pdf/33.Obituaries.pdf :nl:Koen van Slogteren
• Václav Smetáček
  Václav Smetácek
  Václav Smetáček was a Czech conductor, composer, and oboist.He studied in Prague among others with Jaroslav Křička, conducting with Metod Doležil and Pavel Dědeček, musicology, aesthetics, and philosophy at Charles University...
  
   (1906–1986), Czech * (conductor)
• Robert Sprenkle (1914–1988), American
• Karl Steins (1919–2009), German http://www.dasorchester.de/de_DE/news/archiv/show,3235.html
• 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 performed by a leading orchestra, the first to have an opera performed by a major...
  
   (1895–1978), American * (composer)
• Haakon Stotijn (1915–1964), Dutch * :nl:Haakon Stotijn
• Jaap Stotijn (1891–1970), Dutch * http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn6/stotijn :nl:Jaap Stotijn
• František Suchý (1902–1977), Czech
• Sidney Sutcliffe (1918–2001), Scottish http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr25.1.pdf/Obituaries.pdf
• Seizo Suzuki (1922–2008)鈴木清三, Japanese :ja:鈴木清三http://spysee.jp/鈴木清三
• Marcel Tabuteau
  Marcel Tabuteau
  Marcel Tabuteau was a French oboist who is generally considered the founder of the American school of oboe playing.-Life:...
  
   (1887–1966), French/American *
• Jiří Tancibudek
  Jiří Tancibudek
  Jiří Tancibudek AM 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 playing:-Biography:...
  
   (1921–2004), Czech-Australian http://www.adelaidereview.com.au/archives/2004_08/music_story3.shtml
• Giuseppe Tomassini (1915–1987), Italian
• Whitney Tustin (1912–2002), American, http://www.local802afm.org/publication_entry.cfm?xEntry=88953197#5
• Lois Wann (1912–1999), American
• Alexander Wunderer (1877–1955), Austrian

20th century English horn players

• 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....
  
   (1904–1986), Austrian- born American http://oboerista.wordpress.com/2006/07/04/hello-world/
• Harry Freedman
  Harry Freedman
  Harry Freedman , was a Canadian composer, english hornist, and music educator of Polish birth. He wrote a significant amount of symphonic works, including several film scores, and also composed a substantial amount of chamber music...
  
   (1922–2005), Polish-born Canadian (composer)
• Hans Hadamowsky (1906–1996), Austrian http://www.idrs.org/publications/Journal/JNL6/hans.html
• Peter Henkelman (1882–1949), Dutch http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr24.3.pdf/Philadelphia%20Story
• Leo van der Lek (1908–1999), Dutch http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr14.3/DR14.3.Finkelman.Lek.html
• John Minsker (1912–2007), American http://idrs2.colorado.edu:16080/PUBIDRS2/DR26.4/58.pdf
• Louis Speyer (1890–1980), French

A-B

• Emanuel Abbuhl, Swiss ) http://www.ram.ac.uk/study/selectadepartment/biogs/Pages/Emanuel%20Abbuhl.aspx
• Alain Girard, Swiss
• David Abosch (born 1928), American
• Laura Ahlbeck, American http://chamberbos.squarespace.com/ahlbeck/
• John Anderson (born 1954), English http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/bio/0,,593136,00.html#bio
• Per Andersson, Swedish
• Satoki Aoyama(also known as Kim)青山聖樹, Japanese http://www.satokiaoyama.com/
• Eriko Ara (born 1981)　荒絵理子, Japanese
• Marios Argiros (born 1960) Greek
• Max Artved (born 1965), Danish
• Robert Atherholt (born c.1955), American http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~musi/facultybios/atherholt.html
• Washington Barella (born 1964), Brazilian :de: Washington Barella
• Theodore Baskin
  Theodore Baskin
  Theodore Baskin 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 Institute of Music...
  
   (born 1950), American
• Perry Bauman (born 1918), American-Canadian http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000223
• William Bennett (born 1956), American http://www.sfsymphony.org/templates/artist.asp?nodeid=259&callid=87&roleid=1
• José Coutinho (born 1956), Portugal
• 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. He attended Oxford University and earned a degree in History. Three years after finishing at Oxford,...
  
   (born 1932), English
• Jonathan Blumenfeld, American http://www.naxos.com/artistinfo/13067.htm
• Gianfranco Bortolato (born 1964), Italian http://www.operaroma.it/FONDAZIO/orchestra/Bortolato02.htm
• Robert Botti, (born 1956), American http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/page.php?page_id=421
• Maurice Bourgue (born 1939), French * :fr:Maurice Bourgue
• Christopher Bouwman (born 1981), Dutch :nl:Christopher Bouwman
• Peter Bowman, American http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr10.1/DR10.1.Bukal.html
• 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 http://www.sanctuaryclassics.com/index.php?page=2§ion=4&subsection=1&getArticleId=25
• Peter Bree (born 1949), Dutch http://www.idrs.org/events/conference/rotterdam/RottBio1.pdf
• Kim Bryden, American http://music.utoledo.edu/musicatutpr/index.asp?id=170
• Lon Bussell (born 1958), American

C-E

• Germán Cáceres (born 1954), Salvadoran *
• George Caird, English http://www.conservatoire.bcu.ac.uk/profiles/professor-george-caird
• Sandro Caldini
  Sandro Caldini
  Sandro Caldini is an Italian oboist 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.-External links:*...
  
   (born 1958), Italian
• James Caldwell (1938–2006), American http://oberlin.edu/con/bkstage/200601/caldwell.html
• Anthony Camden (1938–2006), English http://www.anthonycamden.com
• Robin Canter, English
• Elizabeth Camus, American Cleveland Orchestra
• Jean-Louis Capezzali (born 1959), French http://www.buffet-crampon.com/en/artists.php?mode=artistPresentation&aid=159 :fr:Jean-Louis Capezzali
• April Cap, American
• Stephen Caplan, American http://www.unlv.edu/programs/oboe/scbio.html http://www.oboemotions.com
• Dudu Carmel, Israeli http://www.bfz.hu/vendegmuveszek/egy_vendegmuvesz_en.php?id=645
• Roy Carter
  Roy Carter
  Roy Carter, an English oboist, began playing the oboe at the age of 10. He won scholarships to study with Margaret Eliot at the Royal Academy of Music and later under Terence McDonough at the Royal College of Music , where he won the Joy Boughton Memorial Prize in only his second year of study.-...
  
   (born 1949), English
• Robert Casier (born 1924), French
• Juan Castillo (born 1960), Panamanian
• Joseph Celli
  Joseph Celli
  Joseph Celli is an American musician and composer specializing in contemporary and improvised music for oboe and English horn...
  
   (born 1944), American *
• Brian Charles (born c. 1956), American (reedmaker)
• Nora Cismondi (born 1978), French (Principal oboist in the Orchestre National de France)
• Manfred Clement (1934–2001), German
• Belinda Code (born 1947) American/Canadian
• Fredric T. Cohen (born 1948), American http://www.fredrictcohen.com/Bio.html
• Roger Cole, American http://www.vancouversymphony.ca/or_member_bio.cfm?&CFMusicianCode=RCOLE
• Meredyth Coleman,American {http://www.citywindstrio.com]
• Amy Collins (born c. 1961), American http://www.oboe.net/bio.htm
• Peter Cooper, American http://www.colorado.edu/music/faculty/cooper.html
• Christopher Cowie, Welsh http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thephilharmoniaorchestra/membersoftheorchestra/oboe/chriscowie/?PHPSESSID=pfn95826jhub09bv39hdgpoid0
• Jeffrey Crellin, Australian http://www.australiaproarte.com/Artists
• Christopher Crosby, English
• Jill Crowther, English http://www.sanctuaryclassics.com/index.php?page=5§ion=4&subsection=1&getArticleId=54
• Nicholas Daniel
  Nicholas Daniel
  Nicholas Daniel is a British oboist 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
• Ian Davidson (born 1958) American http://www.wildbasinwinds.com
• Barry Davis (born 1948, English http://www.move.com.au/artist.cfm/728
• Jan De Maeyer (born 1949), Belgian (composer) http://www.cebedem.be/composers/de_maeyer_jan/en.html :de:Jan De Maeyer
• John Dee, American http://www.music.uiuc.edu/facultyBio.php?id=169
• Clara Dent, German (daughter of Simon Dent)
• Simon Dent (born c.1950), English-born German
• Paolo Di Cioccio
  Paolo Di Cioccio
  Paolo Di Cioccio is an oboist and composer. He is professor at the Conservatorium "F. Torrefranca" and the "International Polytechnic Scientia et Ars" in Vibo Valentia. He was the first oboist who recorded "Oboe Sconcerto" with the music of Albinoni, Vivaldi, Marcello for the oboe and analog...
  
   (1963), Italian
• Francesco Di Rosa (born 1967), Italian http://www.francescodirosa.com/
• Diego Dini Ciacci, Italian http://www.arena.it/eng/front/documentiING/bio/diniciacci.html
• Jonathan Dlouhy, American http://www.idrs.org/events/conference/florida/FlorBio1.pdf
• Diana Doherty
  Diana Doherty
  Diana Doherty is an Australian oboist, currently Principal Oboe with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.-Life:Diana Doherty was born in Brisbane, where she began her education. She attended Brisbane State High School...
  
   (born 1966), Australian
• Elaine Douvas
  Elaine Douvas
  Elaine Douvas has been Principal Oboe of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York City since 1977. She is also Instructor of Oboe and Chairman of the Woodwind Department at The Juilliard School...
  
   (born c. 1952), American
• Leo Driehuys, Dutch
• Robert Driscoll, (1959) American http://www.opus1gouger.com
• Stuart Edward Dunkel, 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...
  
   (born 1954), Danish http://www.musicure.com/info.asp?text=14

F-H

• Lothar Faber (born 1922), German
• Roger Fedelleck (born 1946), American
• 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. Prior to these posts, he was Co-Principal Oboe of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York and a teacher at the Juilliard School...
  
  , American http://www.bu.edu/cfa/music/faculty/ferrillo/
• Ronald L. Fox (born 1934) American
• Sarah Francis (born 1938), English *

• Simon Fuchs (born 1961), Swiss http://www.hmt.edu/common/bio-detail.php?id=2300759&dept=1
• Ken-ichi Furube (born 1968) 古部賢一 , Japanese
• Martin Gabriel (born 1956), Austrian
• Thomas Gallant
  Thomas Gallant
  Thomas Gallant is an American oboist who often performs with the Adaskin String Trio as well as a variety of other chamber music groups. Mr. Gallant is also one of the managing directors of MCM Artists, a classical and contemporary musicians agency....
  
  , American
• Martin Gebhardt, Swiss http://www.aulosquartett.ch/en/mgebhardt.html :de:Martin Gebhardt
• Alfred Genovese
  Alfred Genovese
  Alfred Genovese was principal oboe of both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.Genovese was born on April 25, 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
  
  , American
• Ariana Ghez
  Ariana Ghez
  Ariana Ghez is an American classical 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. She was enrolled in the joint program between the two schools. She...
  
   (born 1979), American http://www.laphil.com/resources/performer_detail.cfm?id=2985
• Anne Gilby, Australian http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/810254
• Burkhard Glaetzner (born 1943), German [] :de:Burkhard Glaetzner
• Wynne Godley
  Wynne Godley
  Wynne Godley was an economist famous for his pessimism toward the British economy and his criticism of the British government....
  
   (1926–2010), English (economist)
• Paul Goodey, English http://www.tcm.ac.uk/RVE9753a32860a643a2a68dbffbe2b664a6,,.aspx

• Ingo Goritzki
  Ingo Goritzki
  Ingo Goritzki is a German oboist, pianist, and flautist. He began his flute and piano studies in Freiburg, and switched to oboe as his primary instrument at age 20.-Career:...
  
   (born 1939), German http://www.ticinomusica.com/CV/CVGoritzkiIngoENG.htm
• Peter Graeme
  Peter Graeme
  Peter Graeme is an English oboist and academic teacher. He is best known as the principal oboist of the Melos Ensemble.-Professional career:Peter Graeme studied the oboe with Léon Goossens...
  
   (born 1921), English
• Kathryn Greenbank, American http://www.thespco.org/meet/musicians_bio_popup.cfm?id_artist=36
• Klaus-Peter Gütz (born 1938?), German
• Anni Haapaniemi (born 1979), Finnish
• Laszlo Hadady (born 1956), Hungarian http://www.naxos.com/artistinfo/oboe-11612.htm
• Charles Hamann (born 1971), American http://www.artsalive.ca/en/mus/nacorchestra/bios/CharlesHamann.html
• Steinar Hannevold (born 1952), Norwegian http://www.max.no/kultur/bwq/ny/profiles.html
• Erin Hannigan, American http://www.festivalhill.org/Instrumentalists.html
• Jesper Harrysson (born 1967, Swedish :sv:Jesper Harryson
• Christoph Hartmann (born 1965), German :de: Christoph Hartmann (Oboist)
• Jared Hauser
  Jared Hauser
  Jared Hauser, American Oboe Professor at Vanderbilt, Blair School of Music - Nashville, TN-References:...
  
   (born 1971), American
• Kurt Hausmann (born 1924), German http://karlrichtermunich.blogspot.com/2009/01/kurt-hausmann-oboe.html
• Werner Herbers (born 1940), Dutch http://www.moderecords.com/profiles/wernerherbers.html :nl:Werner Herbers
• Kyoko Hida-Battaglia, Japanese-American http://www.bostonconservatory.edu/bio/kyoko-hida-battaglia
• Tomoyuki Hirota (born 1963) 広田智之, Japanese http://www.hirota-oboe.com/
• Brynjar Hoff (born 1940), Norwegian http://www.museumsnett.no/alias/HJEMMESIDE/bhoff/bhoffcv.html :de:Brynjar Hoff
• Heinz Holliger
  Heinz Holliger
  Heinz Holliger Heinz Holliger Heinz Holliger (born 21 May 1939 is a Swiss oboist, composer and conductor.-Biography:He was born in Langenthal, Switzerland, and began his musical education at the conservatories of Bern and Basel. He studied composition with Sándor Veress and Pierre Boulez...
  
   (born 1939), Swiss *
• Bernd Holz (born 1955), German http://www.oboe-popklassik.de/bottom.htm http://www.wdr.de/radio/orchester/sinfonieorchester/portraet/musiker/holzblaeser/oboen/holz_bernd.html http://www.frankundmeyer.de/en/markenz.htm
• Christian Hommel
  Christian Hommel
  Christian Hommel is a German professional ice hockey player. He is currently playing for Iserlohn Roosters in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga .-External links:...
  
   (born 1963), German http://www.hfk-bremen.de/index.html?id=123
• Masashi Honma (born 1947)本間正史, Japanese (also known for period instruments) http://www.avanti.gr.jp/players/honma_masashi.html
• Helmut Hucke (born 1929), German
• Gordon Hunt
  Gordon Hunt
  Gordon Hunt is a British oboist.-Academic history:Gordon Hunt studied under Terence MacDonagh, and is now a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.-Musical career:...
  
   (born 1950), English http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Hunt-Gordon.htm

I-L

• Althea Ifeka, Nigerian-English http://www.altheaifeka.com
• Shoko Ikeda (born 1974) 池田昭子, Japanese http://spysee.jp/池田昭子
• Thomas Indermühle (born 1951), Swiss http://kusa2.jp/eng/e3_facul.html
• Jennet Ingle, American http://www.valpo.edu/music/JennetIngle.html
• Keiko Inoue 井上圭子, Japanese
• Eugene Izotov
  Eugene Izotov
  Eugene Izotov is a Russian-born oboist and recording artist. He is currently the Principal Oboist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra appointed by Daniel Barenboim in 2005. First Russian-born oboist in any major U.S. symphony orchestra. Faculty member of DePaul University, Roosevelt University, ...
  
   (born 1973), Russian-American
• Jean-Claude Jaboulay, French http://www.hexagone.net/music/cvprofs/jean%20claude%20jaboulay.htm
• Helen Jahren (born 1959), Swedish http://www.jahren.se/main.asp
• Kamil Jalilov
  Kamil Jalilov
  Kamil Jalilov is a musician known for his master expertise playing wind instruments and Azerbaijani folk instruments....
  
   (born 1938), Azerbaijani
• Brian James (born 1977), American/Canadian http://www.symphonynovascotia.ca/default.asp?id=190&pagesize=1&sfield=content.id&search=479&mn=1.245.270
• Arthur Jensen (born 1925), American http://www.idrs.org/publications/TWOboist/TWO.V5.3/letters.html
• Diethelm Jonas (born 1953), German
• Michael Kamen
  Michael Kamen
  Michael Arnold Kamen was an American composer , orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician.-Background:...
  
   (1948–2003), American (film score composer)
• 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. After four years, Mr. Kanter was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Marcel...
  
   (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
• Manfred Kautzky, Austrian
• Dom Kelly (born 1974), English http://www.dominickelly.com
• Jonathan Kelly
  Jonathan Kelly (oboist)
  Jonathan Kelly is an English oboist. He is currently Principal Oboe in the Berlin Philharmonic.Jonathan Kelly was born in 1969 and was educated at Magdalen College School, Brackley, Northants, UK, where he began the oboe. He won a County Music Scholarship which enabled him to study with Helen...
  
   (born 1969), British
• Richard Killmer, American http://www.esm.rochester.edu/faculty/?id=83
• Nancy Ambrose King, American http://www.blockmrecords.org/artists/NancyAmbroseKing.htm
• Dimitris Kitsos (born 1971), Greek http://www.musiciansgallery.com/start/woodwind/oboes/kitsos(dimitris).html
• 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. At the age of eleven he was invited to join the Camerata Antigua, one of Brazil's foremost chamber ensembles...
  
   (born 1964), Brazilian http://www.bruceduffie.com/klein.html
• Merilee Klemp, American http://www.augsburg.edu/music/klemp.html
• 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. She is a native of Buffalo, New York. Her teachers were Richard Woodhams and Daniel Stolper...
  
   (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....
  
   (1935–2003), German *
• Cynthia Koledo de Almeida, American
• Kalev Kuljus (born c.1975), Estonian http://www.emic.ee/interpreet/kalevkuljus?lang=eng
• Yeon-Hee Kwak (born c. 1969), Korean http://www.br-online.de/kultur-szene/klassik_e/pages/ro/besetzung/kwak.html
• Barbara LaFitte (born 1956), American
• Vladimir Lande (born 1962), Russian http://www.smcm.edu/users/msargent/music%20dept/faculty/vlande.htm
• André Lardrot (born 1932), Swiss
• Mårten Larsson, Swedish http://www.hsm.gu.se/english/About_us/teachers/teachers_a-m/marten_larsson/
• François Leleux
  François Leleux
  François Leleux 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 Orchestra and currently does some concerts with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe as...
  
   (born 1971), French http://www.rbartists.at/leleux.htm#biod :fr:François Leleux
• Suzanne Lemieux Canadian
• Lajos Lencsés (born 1943), Hungarian http://www.klassik-heute.de/4DACTION/web_a_kuenstler_suche?Page=kuenstler&Suchwort=Suche&ID=7184 :fr:Lajos Lencsés
• Winfried Liebermann (born 1935), German
• Jay Light, American
• Michael Lisicky  (born 1964), American
• Sandra Gerster Lisicky  (born 1959), American
• Marika Lombardi Italian http://www.marikalombardi.com
• Roger Lord (born 1924), English
• Andreas Lorenz (born 1952), German
• Günter Lorenz (born 1940), Austrian
• Anatoli Lubimov (born 1941), Russian
• Humbert Lucarelli (born 1937), American http://www.purchase.edu/departments/AcademicPrograms/Arts/music/faculty/lucarelli/default.aspx

M-Q

• Drake Mabry (born 1950), American (composer) http://www.drakemabrypublishing.com/3Bio/i3_mabr.html
• John Mack
  John Mack (musician)
  John Mack was a renowned American oboist.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.His...
  
   (1927–2006), American
• Charles Mackerras
  Charles Mackerras
  Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras, AC, CH, CBE was an Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan...
  
   (1925–2010), Australian (conductor)
• Kurt Mahn (born 1923), German
• Colin Maier (born 1976), Canadian
• Jean-Claude Malgoire
  Jean-Claude Malgoire
  Jean-Claude Malgoire is a French conductor.He was born in Avignon, France and studied music locally and at the Paris Conservatory. His early musical career was as an oboist....
  
   (born 1940), French
• Joel Marangella
  Joel Marangella
  Joel Marangella is an American oboist who has performed in concert with many of the world's leading orchestras. A founding member of the Speculum Musicae, he was the principal oboist for the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, and a founding member of the New Music Ensemble.-Biography:Marangella...
  
   (born 1940s), American
• Jane Marvine, American http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/marvine
• James Mason (born 1952), American/Canadian http://www.kwsymphony.on.ca/2006-07/musicians_winds.htm
• James Matheson, http://www.avedisconcerts.org/HTML/MathesonBio.html
• Albrecht Mayer
  Albrecht Mayer
  Albrecht Mayer is a German classical oboist.-Biography:Mayer sang as a child in the Cathedral Choir in Bamberg. He was a student of Gerhard Scheuer, Georg Meerwein, Maurice Bourgue and Ingo Goritzki, and began his professional career as principal oboist for the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in 1990...
  
   (born 1965), German
• Gaston Maugras, French
• Agnieszka Mazur, (born 1983), Polish
• Mark McEwen, Canadian http://www.bostonclassicalorchestra.org/guest-artists/mcewen.html
• Georg Meerwein (born 1932), German
• Kurt Meier, Swiss http://www.kirchenkonzerte.ch/neu/oboe.html
• 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 http://www.messiter.com
• Fumiaki Miyamoto
  Fumiaki Miyamoto
  is a 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 under Helmut Winschermann....
  
   (born 1949) 宮本文昭, Japanese
• Daisuke Mogi (born 1959) 茂木大輔, Japanese http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/mogidaisuke
• Patricia Morehead, Canadian http://www.patphil.com/spmbio.html
• Donald Muggeridge, American http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/philpedia/artist-detail.cfm?id=343
• Lucas Macías Navarro
  Lucas Macías Navarro
  Lucas Macías Navarro is a Spanish oboist. He is a member of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, where he serves as co-principal oboe together with Alexei Ogrintchouk.-References:...
  
   (born 1978), Spanish
• Katherine Needleman
  Katherine Needleman
  Katherine Needleman is the principal oboist of the Baltimore Symphony orchestra, USA. She studied under Richard Woodhams at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, graduating at age twenty. She was the first prize winner of the Gillet-Fox International Oboe competition in 2003. Ms...
  
   (born 1978), American
• Celia Nicklin, English http://www.lmp.org/LMPmore/Musicians/celianicklin.htm
• Bjørn Carl Nielsen (born 1945), Danish
• Alf Nilsson (born 1940), Swedish
• David Nuttall (born 1956), Australian http://www.usq.edu.au/mcgregor/summer/classes/musthea/oboe.htm
• Christopher O'Neal (born 1953), British http://www.musiciansgallery.com/start/woodwind/oboes/oneal(chris).htm
• Eric Ohlsson, American http://www.music.fsu.edu/ohlsson.htm
• Alexei Ogrintchouk (born 1978), Russian (Concertgebouw Orchestra) http://www.ogrintchouk.com/ :de:Alexei Ogrintchouk
• Pauline Oostenrijk (born 1967), Dutch http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Oostenrijk-Pauline.htm :nl:Pauline Oostenrijk
• Mark Ostoich, American http://www.hoboemusic.com/Instructors-Mark.html
• Emily Pailthorpe (born c.1971), American http://emilypailthorpe.co.uk/
• Ivan Paisov (born 1973), Russian
• Didier Pateau, French http://www.ensembleinter.com/soloists.php?soloist=96&lang_id=2
• Pamela Pecha (born 1951), American
• Louise Pellerin, Canadian http://www3.sympatico.ca/arts.orford/CAOa/CAOeco/maitres/maibois.html
• Ivan Podyomov
  Ivan Podyomov
  Ivan Podyomov is a Russian oboist.He is laureate of the second prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich 2007 and 2011, the first prize at the Prague Spring International Music Competition 2008, the first prize of the renowned , Japan 2009, as well as the special prizes from the...
  
  , (born 1986), Russian
• Carolyn Pollak (born 1947), American
• Peter Pongracz, Hungarian
• Nora Post (born 1949), American http://www.norapost.com/norabio.html
• Ivan Pushetchnikov (born 1918), Russian https://idrs.org/resources/whoswho/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=13105
• Ramón Ortego Quero (born 1988), Spanish

R-S

• Stéphane Rancourt (born 1967), Canadian
• Wayne Rapier (1930–2005), American http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/10/15/wayne_rapier_bso_oboist_founded_record_company_75/
• Jeffrey Rathbun (born 1959), American
• Elizabeth Raum
  Elizabeth Raum
  Elizabeth Raum is a Canadian composer. She earned her Bachelor of Music in oboe performance from the Eastman School of Music, her Master of Music in composition from the University of Regina, and in May 2004, she was awarded an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Mount St. Vincent University...
  
   (born 1945), Canadian * http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002927
• Christopher Redgate (born 1956), English http://www.redgate.ukf.net/
• Juozas Rimas
  Juozas Rimas
  Juozas Rimas 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:...
  
   (born 1942), Lithuanian
• Andrea Jayne Ridilla (born 1956), American
• Joseph Robinson (born 1940), American *
• Erik Rodell, Swedish
• Božo Rogelja (born 1946), Slovenian
• Carlo Romano (born 1954), Italian http://www.carloromano.com
• Ernest Rombout (born 1959), Dutch http://www.valeriusensemble.nl/rombout.htm
• Ronald Roseman (1933–2000), American http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr20.2.pdf.code1/Roseman.html

• Bengt Rosengren, Swedish
• Frank Rosenwein, American http://frankrosenwein.com/bio.html
• Edwin Roxburgh
  Edwin Roxburgh
  Edwin Roxburgh is an English composer, conductor 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. He also studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in...
  
   (born 1937), English *
• Andrey Rubtsov (born 1982), Russian http://andreyrubtsov.com/index-eng.html
• Telena Ruth (born 1957), Australian http://web.archive.org/web/20091026233424/http://geocities.com/amabile_players/
• Francisco Salanova Alfonso, Spanish
• Graham Salter, English http://www.maslink.co.uk/cvs/oboes/salter(graham).pdf
• Harry Sargous (born 1948), American http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nzeisler/History/Sargous.htm
• Hansjorg Schellenberger
  Hansjörg Schellenberger
  Hansjörg Schellenberger is a German oboist and conductor born in 1948.He won the first prize at the German Jugend musiziert Competition with seventeen, which led to a scholarship enabling him to further his education at Interlochen . He continued his studies in Munich with Manfred Clement and he...
  
   (born 1948), German http://www.campanella-musica.com/artists/schellenberger.htm
• Bernard Schenkel (born 1941), Swiss http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr2.1/personalities.html
• Bart Schneemann (born 1954), Dutch http://www.bartschneemann.com/ :nl:Bart Schneemann
• Stefan Schilli (born 1970), German http://www.musicmasters.ch/main/mainpages/soloists/schilli/en/bio.php :ca:Stefan Schilli
• Gernot Schmalfuss, German (Member of Consortium Classicum
  Consortium Classicum
  The Consortium Classicum is a German Chamber Orchestra. In the early sixties the clarinetist Dieter Klöcker founded the Consortium Classicum, a German chamber-music ensemble to bring back to life rediscovered musical works. These works use only wind instruments as well as the combination of...
  
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• Christian Schmitt (born 1965), French http://www.christianschmitt.fr/biography.html

• Claire Seale (born 1988), Scottish, http://www.claireseale.co.uk
• Martin Schuring, American

• Hiroshi Shibayama (born 1947) 柴山洋, Japanese
• Nigel Shore (born 1961), English
• Lawrence Singer (born 1940), American :nl:Lawrence Singer
• Jonathan Small (born 1956), English http://www.naxos.com/artistinfo/17218.htm
• 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 http://www.royalwindquintet.com/biography.html
• Robert Sorton (born 1952), American http://arts.osu.edu/2faculty/a_faculty_profiles/music_fac_profiles/sorton_robert.html
• Jan Spronk, Dutch
• Cynthia Steljes
  Quartetto Gelato
  Quartetto Gelato is a Canadian new classical quartet currently composed of Peter DeSotto, Liza McLellan, Alexander Sevastian and Colin Maier, and based in Toronto, Ontario...
  
   (1960–2006), Canadian http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2007/01/03/steljes-cynthia-obit.html
• Ray Still (born 1920), American http://raystill.com/bio.html
• Daniel Stolper
  Daniel Stolper
  Daniel J. Stolper is an American oboist. Stolper is currently visiting instructor of oboe at the Interlochen Arts Academy, a position he has held since 1972. His primary teacher was Robert Sprenkle at the Eastman School of Music, although he has studied with many other oboists including John Mack...
  
   (born TBD), American
• Veit Stolzenberger , German :de:Veit Stolzenberger
• Laila Storch (born 1921), American http://www.idrs.org/publications/DR/DR21.2/honorary3.pdf http://knol.google.com/k/will-johnson/juanita-storch-1895-1987/4hmquk6fx4gu/11#
• Linda Strommen
  Linda Strommen
  Linda Strommen is an American oboist. She is Professor of Oboe at Indiana University and has been a regular visiting Oboe Instructor at the Juilliard School of Music for more than ten years...
  
   (born 1957), American http://info.music.indiana.edu/sb/page/normal/841.html
• Matt Sullivan, American http://www.oboematt.com/

T-Z

• Stephen Taylor (born 1949), American http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/music.nsf/pages/taylor#cv
• Jouko Teikari (born 1938), Finnish
• David Theodore (born 1948), Welsh http://www.rcm.ac.uk/prof.asp?display=professors&link=695
• Carmen Thierry (born 1962), Mexican
• Blair Tindall
  Blair Tindall
  Blair Alston Mercer Tindall is an American oboist, performer, producer, speaker, and journalist.-Early life and education:Tindall was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina to American historian George Brown Tindall and Carliss Blossom McGarrity Tindall...
  
  , American http://www.mozartinthejungle.com/bio.htm (author)
• Olga Tomilova, Russian http://www.russianarts.org/rno/musicbio.cfm?ID=116
• Elena Troncone, Venezuelan http://www.elenatroncone.tk
• Joseph Turner, American
• Jacques Tys, French http://www.idrs.org/tango3.acgi$/www.idrs/registration/WWAll6T.taf?_function=detail&Layout_0_uid1=34354
• Alexei Utkin (born 1957), Russian http://www.classicalarchives.com/artists/utkin.html
• Piet Van Bockstal (born 1963), Belgian http://www.ictus.be/BiosPeople/Bockstal.html :nl:Piet Van Bockstal
• Joris Van den Hauwe, Belgian
• Jacques Vandeville, French
• Luca Vignali (born c.1962), Italian http://www.lucavignali.com/contentseng.htm
• Kevin Vigneau, American http://music.unm.edu/faculty_staff/fac_profiles/vigneau.htm
• Allan Vogel
  Allan Vogel
  Allan Vogel is an American oboist and educator. He is currently Principal Oboe of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.-Education:Vogel originally studied piano and voice at the New York High School for Music and Art, but eventually changed his focus to oboe. "From the moment I heard it, I fell in...
  
   (born 1944), American http://music.calarts.edu/faculty/avogel.html
• Han de Vries
  Han de Vries
  Han Samuel de Vries , is a Dutch oboist and is 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 Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. He won many prizes in his youth,...
  
   (born 1941), Dutch * http://www.oboeclassics.com/HandeVriesInt.htm
• Edo de Waart
  Edo de Waart
  Edo de Waart is a Dutch conductor, and the Music Director of both the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra....
  
   (born 1941), Dutch * (conductor)
• Keisuke Wakao若尾圭介, Japanese http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/faculty/wakaoK.html
• Hitoshi Wakui 和久井仁, Japanese
• David Walter (born 1958), French http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/music/people/undergraduate_music_staff/department_of_wind_brass_and_percussion/visiting_professor/david_walter.html :fr:David Walter
• Liang Wang
  Liang Wang
  Liang Wang is the current principal oboist of the New York Philharmonic. He was born in Qing Dao, China, and studied at the Beijing Central Conservatory and at California’s Idyllwild Arts Academy. He received his bachelor’s degree from Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied...
  
   (born 1980)王亮, Chinese
• Katsuya Watanabe (born 1966) 渡辺克也, Japanese
• Hans-Werner Wätzig, German
• Richard Weigall, English http://www.maslink.co.uk/cvs/oboes/weigall(richard).html
• Mark Weiger (1959–2008), American https://www.idrs.org/events/conference/2001.conf/WV.Bio.We_Z.pdf
• Judith Weir
  Judith Weir
  Judith Weir CBE, is a British composer.-Biography:Her music has been appreciated by audiences and critics alike. She trained with John Tavener while still at school and subsequently with Robin Holloway at King's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1976...
  
   (born 1954), Scotissh (composer)
• David Weiss (born 1947), American http://www.usc.edu/schools/music/private/faculty/deweiss.php
• Derek Wickens (born 1937), British
• Michael Winfield, British
• Roger Winfield, British
• Helmut Winschermann (born 1920), German (conductor) http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Winschermann-Helmut.htm :de:Helmut Winschermann
• Otto Winter (born 1937), German
• Barbara Winters, American
• Andreas Wittmann (born 1961), German :de:Andreas Wittmann
• Tytus Wojnowicz (born 1965), Polish :de:Tytus Wojnowicz
• Richard Woodhams
  Richard Woodhams
  Richard Woodhams is an American oboist and recording artist. He is currently Principal Oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Professor of Oboe at the Curtis Institute of Music....
  
   (born 1949), American
• Mizuho Yoshii (born 1973) 吉井瑞穂, Japanese http://mizuhoyoshii.jugem.jp/
• Renato Zanfini, Italian http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr5.2/italy.html
• Omar Zoboli (born c. 1951), Italian http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr10.3/DR10.3.Carli.html
• Günther Zorn, German
• Marilyn Zupnik, American

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

• Geoffrey Browne, English http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~gbrowne/index.htm
• Russ deLuna (born 1969), American http://www.huliq.com/3210/san-francisco-symphony-selects-the-atlanta-opera-s-russ-deluna-as-new-solo-english-horn
• Bo Eriksson, Swedish
• Martin Frutiger (born 1977), Swiss http://www.martinfrutiger.ch
• Julie Ann Giacobassi (born 1949), American http://www.sfsymphony.org/templates/artist.asp?nodeid=291&callid65&ropleid=7
• Marc Gordon, American http://www.aamrecordings.com/gordon.html
• Jean-Louis Hommes, French (Capitole Toulouse Orchestra Unknown-2009)
• Carolyn Hove, American http://www.laphil.org/resources/performer_detail.cfm?id=344
• Miriam Jakes-Fournet, American - Dutch - French
• Felix Kraus (1930–2006), Austrian-born American (Cleveland Orchestra 1963-2004)
• Barbara LaFitte [born 1956], American http://www.berklee.edu/faculty/detail/barbara-lafitte
• Pat McFarland, 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 of the oboe family, between the oboe itself and the cor...
  
  ) http://www.amoris.com/jennifer_paull/index.html
• Christine Pendrill, English http://www.naxos.com/artistinfo/3231.htm
• Michel Rosset (born 1956), Swiss
• Louis Rosenblatt (1928–2009), American http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/artswatch/54828422.html http://www.allbusiness.com/humanities-social-science/visual-performing-arts/12743944-1.html
• Grover Schiltz (born 1931), American http://etd.ohiolink.edu/send-pdf.cgi/Costa%20Robyn%20Dixon.pdf?osu1243886001
• Robert Sheena (born 1961), American
• Harold Smoliar (born 1957), American
• Thomas Stacy (born 1938), American * http://www.thomasstacy.com/
• Paul Taillefer (born 1912), French
• Dominik Wollenweber (born 1967), German

Contemporary oboists best known for playing period instruments

• John Abberger (born 1957), American http://www.americanbach.org/Artists/AbbergerJohn.htm
• Katharina Arfken, German http://www.famb.ch/index/111640
• Alfredo Bernardini (born 1961), Italian http://www.goldbergweb.com/en/interpreters/instrumentals/8125.php
• Ulf Bjurenhed (born 1956), Swedish
• Frank de Bruine, Dutch http://www.goldbergweb.com/en/interpreters/instrumentals/20738.php
• Geoffrey Burgess (born 1960s), Australian (http://www.americanbach.org/Artists/BurgessGeoffrey.htm
• 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.He is the son of Stefaan Dombrecht, who was organist at Oostende...
  
   (born 1948), Belgian http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Dombrecht-Paul.htm
• Ku Ebbinge (born 1948), Dutch *
• 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 the University of Nottingham with a degree in composition, specialized in contemporary oboe techniques and the baroque oboe at the Guildhall School of Music...
  
   (born 1956), English * []
• Stephen Hammer (born 1951), American http://www.americanbach.org/Artists/HammerStephen.htm
• Bruce Haynes
  Bruce Haynes
  Bruce Haynes was an American and Canadian oboist, recorder player, musicologist and specialist in historical performance practice.- Biography :...
  
   (born 1942), American *
• Washington McClain, American http://newsinfo-t.iu.edu/sb/page/normal/895.html
• Sophia McKenna, English?
• Giuseppe Nalin (born 1950s), Italian http://www.goldbergweb.com/en/interpreters/instrumentals/46550.php
• Takeharu Nobuhara (born 1943) 延原武春, Japanese (conductor) :ja:延原武春 http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Nobuhara-Takeharu.htm
• Michel Piguet (1932–2004), Swiss *
• Marcel Ponseele (born 1957), Belgian http://www.goldbergweb.com/en/interpreters/conductors/8758.php :nl:Marcel Ponseele
• 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. He began his oboe studies with Dr Myron E. Russell of the University of Northern Iowa...
  
   (1950–1987), American * http://www.idrs.org/publications/dr/dr11.1/DR11.1.Reichenberg.Memoriam
• Hugo Reyne (born 1961), French http://www.fevis.com/pages/ensembleeng.php?fiche=simphoniedumarais
• Anthony Robson (born 1955), English http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Robson-Anthony.htm
• Gonzalo Xavier Ruiz (born 1964), Argentine http://www.larichemusic.com
• Masamitsu San'nomiya (born 1971) 三宮正満, Japanese
• Marc Schachman, American http://www.naxos.com/artistinfo/5470.htm
• Martin Stadler (born c.1961), Swiss http://www.goldbergweb.com/en/interpreters/instrumentals/9784.php
• Lex Vos (born 1955), Dutch http://www.lexvos.alte-musik.net
• Hans-Peter Westermann (born c.1955) http://www.camerata-koeln.de/englisch/besetzung.php?id=6

As primary instrument

• David Agnew (born ca. 1961), Irish - Celtic
• Kyle Bruckmann (born 1971), American - free improvisation
• Lindsay Cooper
  Lindsay Cooper
  Lindsay Cooper is an English bassoon and oboe player, composer and political activist. 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 the Pedestrians...
  
   (born 1951), English - art rock
  Art rock
  Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, with influences from art, avant-garde, and classical music. The first usage of the term, according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, was in 1968. Influenced by the work of The Beatles, most notably their Sgt...
  
  
• Jean-Luc Fillon
  Jean-Luc Fillon
  Jean-Luc Fillon is a French oboist, English Horn player, double bass player, electric bass player, orchestra conductor and composer. He began in 1987 as oboe soloist in the European Symphonic Orchestra, and since 2001, Fillon has made numerous musical compositions that use the oboe and English Horn...
  
  , French - jazz
• Caroline Glass, Canadian - alternative rock
  Alternative rock
  Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
  
   http://www.carolineglass.com/
• Karl Jenkins
  Karl Jenkins
  -Other works:*Adiemus: Live — live versions of Adiemus music*Palladio *Eloise *Imagined Oceans *The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace...
  
   (born 1944), Welsh * - jazz
• Mick Karn
  Mick Karn
  Andonis Michaelides , better known as Mick Karn, was an English multi-instrumentalist musician and songwriter, who came to fame as the bassist for the art rock band Japan, from 1974 to 1982....
  
   (born 1958), British - rock
• Robbie Lynn Hunsinger, American - jazz
• Craig Matovich, (born 1955), American - jazz, world music, Oxymora
• Paul McCandless
  Paul McCandless
  Paul McCandless, Jr. is an American jazz woodwind player and composer. He is one of few expert jazz oboists, and also plays English horn, soprano saxophone, sopranino saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet, and pennywhistle, among other instruments.He has performed with the Paul Winter Consort and is...
  
   (born 1947), American * - jazz
• Ben Meiklejohn
  Ben Meiklejohn
  Ben Meiklejohn is a Maine politician and member of the Maine Green Independent Party, an affiliate of the United States Green Party. Between 2001 and 2007, he served two terms as an at-large member of the Portland School Committee, and was the first Green ever elected in the City of...
  
   (born 1971), American – rock (politician)
• Janey Miller, British – “new noise”http://www.newnoiselondon.com/about/janey.htm
• Manuel Munzlinger, German - pop/jazz
• Henry Rasof (born 1946), American--classical and improvisational, The Orkustra
• Nancy Rumbel, American - new age
• Paul Sartin, British - folk http://www.paulsartin.co.uk/
• Brenda Schuman-Post (born 1948), American - world, jazz http://www.oboesoftheworld.com/
• Minami Shimoba 下羽南, Japanese - pop/jazz/rock http://officeminami.net/
• Sonny Simmons
  Sonny Simmons
  Huey "Sonny" Simmons is an American jazz musician.He grew up in Oakland, California, where he began playing the english horn. At age 16 he took up the alto saxophone, which became his primary instrument...
  
   (born 1933), American - jazz
• Frank Socolow
  Frank Socolow
  Frank Socolow , born in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and oboist, noted for his tenor playing....
  
   (1923–1981), American - jazz
• Kate St John
  Kate St John
  Katharine Elinor Margaret St John is an English musician, vocalist, composer, record producer, and arranger. She plays the oboe, saxophone, accordion, piano and cor anglais.-1980s:...
  
   (born 1957), English – art rock, pop
• Caris Visentin Liebman, American - jazz
• Russel Walder
  Russel Walder
  Russel Walder is an American Jazz oboist. He is the founder of Nomad Soul Records and one of the top contemporary oboists in the world, composing, recording, touring and furthering the possibilities of the oboe.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1959), American - new age

As secondary instrument

• Ahmad Alaadeen
  Ahmad Alaadeen
  right|thumbnail|Ahmad AlaadeenAhmad Alaadeen was a jazz saxophonist and educator whose career spanned over six decades...
  
   (1934–2010), American - jazz (saxophonist)
• Marshall Allen
  Marshall Allen
  Marshall Belford Allen is an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz alto saxophone player. He also performs on flute, oboe, piccolo, and EVI ....
  
   (born 1924), American - jazz (saxophonist)
• Derek Bell
  Derek Bell (musician)
  George Derek Fleetwood Bell, MBE was an Northern Irish harpist, pianist, oboist, musicologist, and composer, best known for his accompaniment work on various instruments with The Chieftains....
  
   (1935–2002), Irish - folk (harpist)
• Garvin Bushell
  Garvin Bushell
  Garvin Bushell was an American woodwind multi-instrumentalist.Though never a major name in jazz, Bushell had a lengthy career from the music's early era, to the avant garde of the 1960s.-Biography:Bushell was born in Springfield, Ohio...
  
   (1902–1991), American - jazz (all reeds)
• Gene Cipriano (born 1930s), American - jazz, pop (all woodwinds)
• Bob Cooper
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• Julie Fowlis
  Julie Fowlis
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• Vinny Golia
  Vinny Golia
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• Joseph Jarman
  Joseph Jarman
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   (born 1937), American - jazz (clarinet, saxophone)
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk
  Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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   (1936–1977), American - jazz (multi-instrumentalist)
• Yusef Lateef
  Yusef Lateef
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   (born 1920), American - jazz (saxophonist, flutist)
• Giuseppi Logan
  Giuseppi Logan
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   (born 1935), American - jazz (multi-instrumentalist)
• Andy Mackay
  Andy Mackay
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   (born 1946), English - art rock (saxophonist)
• Charlie Mariano
  Charlie Mariano
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   (1923–2009), American - jazz (saxophonist)
• Makanda Ken McIntyre
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   (1931–2001), American - jazz (saxophonist)
• Roscoe Mitchell
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• Romeo Penque, American – jazz (all woodwinds)
• Dewey Redman
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• Don Redman
  Don Redman
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   (1900–1964), American - jazz (clarinet, saxophone)
• Sufjan Stevens
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   (multi-instrumentalist)
• Kjartan Sveinsson
  Kjartan Sveinsson
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• Joe Viola (1920–2001), American - jazz (saxophonist)

Shehnai

Shehnai

The shehnai, shahnai, shenai or mangal vadya, is an aerophonic instrument, a double reed conical oboe, common in North India, West India and Pakistan, made out of wood, with a metal flare bell at the end...

 players

• Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan
  Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan
  Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan is a shehnai specialist from India. He was born in Kolkata on March 21, 1939.-Background:His grand-father Wazir Ali Khan was the first to demonstrate Indian classical music on shehnai at Buckingham Palace...
  
   (born 1939), Indian
• Bismillah Khan
  Bismillah Khan
  Ustad Bismillah Khan was an Indian shehnai maestro. He was the third classical musician to be awarded the Bharat Ratna , the highest civilian honour in India and gained worldwide acclaim for playing the shehnai for more than eight decades....
  
  (1916–2006), Indian

External links

• The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
• International Double Reed Society website
• The repertory of the oboe soloist in the 19th century
• Exhaustive list of active double-reed musicians at oboeinsight.com
• Important people in oboe history