Solo oboe repertoire spanning nearly 300 years of musical evolution

This program shares works by prolific baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann and 20th-century polymath Vincent Persichetti (Conducting ’39), and music inspired by French impressionism and American female painters including Mary Cassatt and Georgia O’Keeffe.

Program:

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN	Fantasy No. 8 in E minor, TWV 40:9
	Fantasy No. 12 in G minor, TWV 40:13
	Mekhi Gladden, oboe

HENRI TOMASI	Evocations
	Jamison Hillian, oboe

VINCENT PERSICHETTI	Parable III, Op. 109
ERNST KRENEK	Sonatina
	Christopher Correa, oboe

GILLES SILVESTRINI	Selections, Six Études
	Cameron Slaton, oboe

ALYSSA MORRIS	Selections, Collision Etudes
	Oliver Talukder, oboe

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Meet Our Faculty

Richard Woodhams served as principal oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1977 until his retirement in 2018. Mr. Woodhams is a 1968 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with John de Lancie, and joined the faculty in 1985.