Catherine Lee

Considered a “new breed of instrumental specialist,” (New Music Buff) Dr. Catherine Lee offers “immaculate, masterful oboe playing” (The Double Reed) in combination with inspired and discerning musicality across an impressive range of genres and styles. In addition to her classical, contemporary, interdisciplinary collaborations, and free improvisation performance, Lee regularly commissions evocative new music that showcases her “deep understanding of the expressive possibilities of her instruments in both traditional and extended techniques.” (New Music Buff) Lee also creates music, textile, video and photography pieces inspired by, and in collaboration with Bombyx mori, the domesticated silkmoth, creatively illuminating the life stages and silk cocoons of these amazing creatures.

Makanda Ken McIntyre

Born: September 7, 1931

World-renowned multi-instrumentalist, composer, orchestrator and educator Makanda Ken McIntyre was a tireless musical innovator for nearly half a century, with 12 albums and more than 600 compositions and arrangements to his credit. His works include compositions for woodwind quartets, chamber ensembles, jazz bands, and full orchestra, as well as hundreds of lead sheets. He composed ballads, calypsos, bebop, avant-garde and the blues. Makanda was known primarily for leading his own ensembles �� performing on alto saxophone, flute, bass clarinet, oboe and bassoon �� and being proficient on more than 16 instruments, including bass, drums and piano

Matt Renzi

Multi-reedist Matt Renzi has been performing professionally for the past 20 years at international jazz festivals and music venues worldwide. For the past decade, he has been recognized multiple times by jazz organizations in Italy, Spain, Belgium, India and Israel as well as in the United States for his advanced concepts in spontaneous group composition and collective improvisation with The Matt Renzi Trio. He holds a Bachelor��s in Music (Performance) from the Berklee College of Music and Master��s in Arts (Classical Composition) from San Francisco State University. Some of his teachers include Joe Henderson and South Indian Vocalist R.A

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Gail Ford

Born: October 15, 1958

Happened on playing jazz oboe by accident, and now play & write original music, and arrange covers; everything from Yusuf Lateef to Diana Krall, Greg Lake and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Play in concert & wind bands, and in solo gigs. Extending the oboe's sound and language to add new colours to other styles - a new market for new audiences. On the hunt for a compatible/ sympathetic and generally on my wavelength piano/keys player, drummer & string bass player to form a jazz oboe quartet. After all, the market's not exactly saturated with them.......

Gaston Urioste

Born: January 10, 1974

Edward Rollin

Eddy Rollin

Born: March 28, 1950

Edward Rollin Oboist multi-instrumentalist instrument inventor has been performing improvisational music since the 1960��s. Although Mr. Rollin is classically trained, having studied with some of the greatest oboists of this era, Lucarelli, Mack, Lifschey, Douvas, Gomberg, Gillet etc. Mr. Rollin��s calling has been improvisation. For many years he has performed playing Oboe, English horn, Oboe d��Amore, ethnic double reeds (Shennai, Mizmah) invented instruments (Twanger, Angel Harp, Goofy Horn, Giraffe Horn etc.), saxophone, electric bass, and vocals around town since 1980. In the 1980��s to the present Mr

Esther Viola

Born: April 20, 1976

As a teenager, oboist Esther Viola (Boston, 1976) toured Europe and South America with youth orchestras, playing in Vienna, Budapest, Chile and Brazil. After receiving her Bachelor of Music with Distinction from the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, New York) in 1998, studying with Richard Kilmer, she went to Holland to study with Ernest Rombout at the Utrecht Conservatory. She received a Fulbright Full Grant in support of her studies there. As a student she joined the street-performance group Ricciotti Ensemble and toured with the Dutch Student Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra. In 2003 she graduated cum laude with a Master of Music focused on contemporary solo and chamber music repertoire and performance. In the Netherlands Esther specialized in playing newly composed music, working closely with composers and commissioning works from them