Oboe
Margaret Marco is the Professor of Oboe at the University of Kansas and the principal oboist of the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. Her career began as the principal oboist of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Maracaibo. She has performed and taught master classes at Central and China Conservatories in Beijing; the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan; the Festival of New American Music in Sacramento, California; and many others. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and is recorded on the Naxos, Parma, and Navona labels. She released “Hidden Gems: Oboe Sonatas of the French Baroque” in 2009. Volume II will be available in 2022. She performed the world premiere of “A Siege of Herons” for oboe d’amore and strings by Forest Pierce with the KC Chamber Orchestra in 2016. Her CD entitled “Still Life” features new music for the oboe family by Kansas composers. She served as Chair of the Gillet-Fox Oboe Competition from 2008-2019.
Open to the public – Purchase Tickets (Ticket included with conference registration.) Yoshi Ishikawa, bassoon; Peter Cooper, oboe; Carpe Diem String Quartet Out of the Depths, Sextet for Oboe, Bassoon and String Quartet (2021) – Korine Fujiwara 1. De Profundis 2. Sway 3. Among the Winds at Play 4. Passacaglia (for J) IDRS 50 for […]