The program kicks off with music from The Lord of the Rings films by Howard Shore, followed by a movement from Ralph Vaughan ...

Musicians curating a Sheffield classical music festival in the Crucible Theatre have compiled their ‘Desert Island’ works - ...

Salieri’s Concerto for Flute and Oboe feels like opening the windows on the first warm day of spring. It breezes in gently, ...

Each year, Smith offers a Concerto Competition for its music students. This year’s winners include Ava Jensen ’26, oboe, performing Mozart’s Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314 (1777); Tomoko Hida ’26, ...

The oboe is a double-reed instrument and member of the woodwind family. Oboes are usually made of wood, but there are also oboes made of synthetic materials. The oboe is commonly used in concert bands ...

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When I was 17, my grandparents bought me some tickets to go and see the oboist Nicholas Daniel at the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool and he performed concertos including the Cimarosa oboe concerto.